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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Congo - Kinshasa	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	51,181	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	52,782	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	54,453	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	56,170	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	57,860	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	59,599	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	61,474	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	63,479	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	65,590	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	67,800	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	70,114	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	72,550	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	75,138	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	77,792	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	80,534	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	83,368	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	86,229	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	89,193	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	92,209	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	95,232	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	98,320	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	101,499	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	104,767	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	108,171	38,685

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.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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