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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Uganda	Romania	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	23,408	22,414	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	24,195	22,262	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	24,992	22,106	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	25,846	21,931	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	26,661	21,828	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	27,414	21,704	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	28,200	21,571	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	29,021	21,443	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	29,846	21,129	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	30,647	20,779	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	31,469	20,607	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	32,343	20,485	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	33,257	20,385	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	34,234	20,296	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	35,271	20,224	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	36,419	20,151	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	37,673	20,055	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	39,157	19,938	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	40,879	19,823	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	42,329	19,713	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	43,639	19,622	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	45,120	19,496	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	46,645	19,351	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	48,065	19,266	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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.