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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SpainCongo - KinshasaPhilippines
40,37851,18179,346
40,56352,78281,131
40,77554,45383,023
41,43356,17084,876
42,20557,86086,697
42,86959,59988,568
43,67261,47490,418
44,37063,47992,253
45,24665,59094,098
45,99367,80095,923
46,37870,11497,627
46,57372,55099,317
46,74675,138100,999
46,77777,792102,618
46,60380,534104,299
46,46583,368106,076
46,42086,229107,868
46,46089,193109,493
46,54392,209111,094
46,73995,232112,843
47,11698,320114,636
47,366101,499117,026
47,342104,767119,473
47,625108,171121,234

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

Spain

  • 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
  • 1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
  • 1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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; the database as a whole is cited above.