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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Burkina Faso	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	11,075	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	11,405	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	11,828	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	12,380	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	12,829	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	13,178	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	13,540	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	13,917	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	14,309	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	14,722	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	15,152	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	15,600	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	16,064	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	16,563	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	17,072	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	17,575	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	18,094	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	18,621	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	19,157	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	19,698	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	20,242	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	20,788	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	21,336	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	21,889	68,093

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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