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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Barbados	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	273	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	274	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	275	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	276	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	278	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	279	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	280	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	281	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	282	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	283	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	285	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	286	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	287	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	288	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	289	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	290	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	291	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	291	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	292	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	293	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	294	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	294	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	295	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	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

Zambia

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.

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.