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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Switzerland	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	7,258	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	7,296	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	7,332	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	7,384	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	7,438	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	7,488	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	7,532	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	7,579	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	7,647	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	7,738	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	7,825	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	7,884	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	7,959	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	8,044	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	8,137	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	8,237	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	8,332	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	8,423	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	8,502	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	8,565	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	8,626	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	8,689	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	8,756	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	8,834	3,876

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project