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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Barbados	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	273	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	274	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	275	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	276	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	278	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	279	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	280	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	281	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	282	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	283	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	285	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	286	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	287	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	288	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	289	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	290	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	291	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	291	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	292	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	293	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	294	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	294	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	295	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	295	26,771

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.