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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	138
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	141
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	144
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	147
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	151
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	154
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	158
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	161
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	165
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	168
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	172
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	176
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	180
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	183
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	187
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	190
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	194
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	198
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	201
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	204
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	208
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	212
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	216
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	220

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.