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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PhilippinesArgentinaCongo - Kinshasa
79,34636,92451,181
81,13137,33652,782
83,02337,71454,453
84,87638,07956,170
86,69738,43857,860
88,56838,80059,599
90,41839,17161,474
92,25339,55663,479
94,09839,94765,590
95,92340,34367,800
97,62740,73670,114
99,31741,40172,550
100,99941,88175,138
102,61842,36077,792
104,29942,83680,534
106,07643,31083,368
107,86843,77986,229
109,49344,24589,193
111,09444,70692,209
112,84345,16295,232
114,63645,61398,320
117,02646,058101,499
119,47346,496104,767
121,23446,736108,171

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

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.

Argentina

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
  • 1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.