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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Indonesia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	208,105	387
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	211,408	390
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	214,475	393
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	217,516	396
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	220,549	398
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	224,473	401
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	227,534	404
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	230,739	405
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	233,918	406
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	237,056	409
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	240,140	412
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	243,171	414
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	246,150	416
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	249,086	420
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	251,947	426
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	254,702	435
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	257,351	445
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	259,906	455
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	262,379	468
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	264,789	485
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	267,142	504
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	269,437	516
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	271,674	518
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	273,409	530

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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