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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 BarbadosSão Tomé & PríncipePhilippines
27313879,346
27414181,131
27514483,023
27614784,876
27815186,697
27915488,568
28015890,418
28116192,253
28216594,098
28316895,923
28517297,627
28617699,317
287180100,999
288183102,618
289187104,299
290190106,076
291194107,868
291198109,493
292201111,094
293204112,843
294208114,636
294212117,026
295216119,473
295220121,234

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

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.

No separate list is published for Barbados, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.