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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 PhilippinesCongo - KinshasaJapan
79,34651,181126,512
81,13152,782126,755
83,02354,453127,056
84,87656,170127,324
86,69757,860127,558
88,56859,599127,658
90,41861,474127,679
92,25363,479127,762
94,09865,590127,904
95,92367,800127,969
97,62770,114127,958
99,31772,550127,967
100,99975,138127,755
102,61877,792127,476
104,29980,534127,257
106,07683,368127,186
107,86886,229127,034
109,49389,193126,857
111,09492,209126,631
112,84395,232126,368
114,63698,320126,092
117,026101,499125,634
119,473104,767125,427
121,234108,171124,762

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.

Japan

  • 724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
  • 1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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