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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	29,417

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.

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