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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Romania	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	22,414	422
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	22,262	430
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	22,106	438
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,931	447
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	21,828	455
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	21,704	463
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	21,571	471
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	21,443	478
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	21,129	486
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	20,779	494
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	20,607	501
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	20,385	516
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	20,296	524
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	20,224	531
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	20,151	539
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	20,055	546
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	19,938	553
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,823	562
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,713	568
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	19,622	574
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	19,496	580
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	19,351	585
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	19,266	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.

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.