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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Sierra Leone	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,736	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,809	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,043	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,287	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,466	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,602	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,708	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,818	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,918	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	5,023	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	5,132	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	5,246	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	5,364	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,486	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,613	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,744	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,879	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	6,019	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	6,163	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	6,312	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	6,461	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	6,611	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	6,761	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	6,910	121,234

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.