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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Sudan	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	422	26,168	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	430	26,771	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	438	27,387	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	447	28,017	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	455	28,662	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	463	29,321	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	471	29,996	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	478	30,686	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	486	31,393	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	494	32,137	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	501	33,078	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	509	33,891	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	516	34,568	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	524	35,293	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	531	36,093	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	539	37,058	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	546	38,165	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	553	39,294	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	562	40,512	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	568	41,764	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	574	42,952	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	580	44,121	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	585	45,290	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	590	46,498	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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