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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaEcuadorPhilippines
3,81112,26879,346
3,90112,44681,131
3,91912,62983,023
3,92312,82784,876
3,94013,07486,697
3,97513,36888,568
3,99113,66190,418
3,99313,91592,253
3,99014,13394,098
3,98714,35295,923
3,98514,56997,627
3,98314,78699,317
3,98015,002100,999
3,97715,218102,618
3,97315,433104,299
3,96815,647106,076
3,96315,860107,868
3,95716,072109,493
3,95116,282111,094
3,94416,489112,843
3,93716,693114,636
3,92916,894117,026
3,92117,093119,473
3,87617,288121,234

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.