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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PhilippinesJordanQatar
79,3464,591627
81,1314,700659
83,0234,811691
84,8764,923724
86,6975,037757
88,5685,161850
90,4185,2951,001
92,2535,7651,153
94,0986,2431,306
95,9236,3971,460
97,6276,5381,615
99,3176,6801,770
100,9996,8401,904
102,6186,9522,010
104,2997,7062,103
106,0768,8392,187
107,8689,5062,261
109,4939,8632,326
111,09410,0662,384
112,84310,2732,435
114,63610,4802,480
117,02610,6282,519
119,47310,7162,553
121,23410,8492,559

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.

Jordan

  • 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
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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