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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	422	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	430	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	438	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	447	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	455	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	463	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	471	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	478	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	486	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	494	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	501	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	516	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	524	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	531	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	539	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	546	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	553	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	562	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	568	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	574	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	580	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	585	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	590	19,266

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

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.

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