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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Ecuador	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	12,268	78
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	12,446	79
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	12,629	80
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	12,827	81
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	13,074	82
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	13,368	83
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	13,661	84
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	13,915	85
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	14,133	86
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	14,352	87
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	14,569	87
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	14,786	88
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	15,002	89
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	15,218	90
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	15,433	91
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	15,647	92
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	15,860	92
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	16,072	93
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	16,282	94
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	16,489	95
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	16,693	96
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	16,894	97
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	17,093	98
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	17,288	98

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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