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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Portugal	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	10,144	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	10,215	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	10,288	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	10,344	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	10,383	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	10,408	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	10,427	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	10,446	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	10,467	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	10,482	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	10,492	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	10,497	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	10,481	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	10,439	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	10,382	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	10,326	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	10,283	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	10,251	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	10,226	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	10,209	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	10,212	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	10,223	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	10,214	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	10,200	46,498

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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