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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	2,059

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 Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.