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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Philippines	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	433	79,346	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	438	81,131	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	443	83,023	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	448	84,876	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	454	86,697	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	460	88,568	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	467	90,418	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	474	92,253	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	482	94,098	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	491	95,923	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	500	97,627	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	509	99,317	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	521	100,999	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	533	102,618	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	547	104,299	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	560	106,076	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	571	107,868	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	586	109,493	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	599	111,094	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	610	112,843	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	623	114,636	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	633	117,026	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	643	119,473	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	651	121,234	8,834

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.