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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Latvia	Congo - Kinshasa	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	2,386	51,181	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	2,363	52,782	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	2,333	54,453	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	2,306	56,170	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	2,284	57,860	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	2,259	59,599	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	2,235	61,474	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	2,215	63,479	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	2,197	65,590	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	2,174	67,800	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	2,138	70,114	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	2,093	72,550	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	2,055	75,138	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	2,030	77,792	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	2,009	80,534	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	1,991	83,368	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	1,974	86,229	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	1,956	89,193	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	1,938	92,209	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	1,923	95,232	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	1,910	98,320	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	1,897	101,499	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	1,880	104,767	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	1,883	108,171	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 Latvia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.