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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	7,169

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 Libya; the database as a whole is cited above.