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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Congo - Kinshasa	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	51,181	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	52,782	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	54,453	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	56,170	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	57,860	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	59,599	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	61,474	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	63,479	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	65,590	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	67,800	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	70,114	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	72,550	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	75,138	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	77,792	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	80,534	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	83,368	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	86,229	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	89,193	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	92,209	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	95,232	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	98,320	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	101,499	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	104,767	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	108,171	5,750

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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