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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Belgium	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	10,227	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	10,252	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	10,288	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	10,334	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	10,377	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	10,422	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	10,480	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	10,549	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	10,627	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	10,711	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	10,797	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	10,897	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	11,039	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	11,108	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	11,160	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	11,210	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	11,275	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	11,332	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	11,376	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	11,429	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	11,491	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	11,546	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	11,594	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	11,695	1,883

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 Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.