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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	10,200

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,