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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Burkina Faso	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	422	11,075	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	430	11,405	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	438	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	447	12,380	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	455	12,829	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	463	13,178	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	471	13,540	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	478	13,917	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	486	14,309	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	494	14,722	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	501	15,152	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	509	15,600	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	516	16,064	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	524	16,563	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	531	17,072	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	539	17,575	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	546	18,094	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	553	18,621	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	562	19,157	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	568	19,698	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	574	20,242	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	580	20,788	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	585	21,336	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	590	21,889	10,200

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

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 Cape Verde, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.