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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Burkina Faso	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	11,075	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	11,405	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	11,828	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	12,380	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	12,829	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	13,178	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	13,540	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	13,917	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	14,309	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	14,722	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	15,152	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	15,600	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	16,064	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	16,563	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	17,072	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	17,575	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	18,094	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	18,621	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	19,157	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	19,698	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	20,242	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	20,788	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	21,336	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	21,889	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.

All data sources

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

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.