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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Romania	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	422	22,414	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	430	22,262	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	438	22,106	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	447	21,931	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	455	21,828	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	463	21,704	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	471	21,571	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	478	21,443	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	486	21,129	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	494	20,779	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	501	20,607	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	509	20,485	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	516	20,385	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	524	20,296	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	531	20,224	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	539	20,151	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	546	20,055	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	553	19,938	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	562	19,823	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	568	19,713	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	574	19,622	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	580	19,496	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	585	19,351	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	590	19,266	13,087

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, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.