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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Belgium	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	10,227	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	10,252	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	10,288	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	10,334	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	10,377	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	10,422	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	10,480	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	10,549	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	10,627	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	10,711	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	10,797	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	10,897	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	11,039	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	11,108	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	11,160	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	11,210	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	11,275	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	11,332	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	11,376	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	11,429	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	11,491	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	11,546	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	11,594	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	11,695	39,252

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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