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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	South Korea	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	46,617	422
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	47,008	430
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	47,370	438
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	47,645	447
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	47,892	455
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	48,083	463
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	48,185	471
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	48,438	478
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	48,684	486
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	49,055	494
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	49,308	501
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	49,554	509
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	49,937	516
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	50,200	524
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	50,429	531
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	50,747	539
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	51,015	546
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	51,218	553
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	51,362	562
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	51,585	568
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	51,765	574
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	51,836	580
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	51,745	585
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	51,731	590

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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