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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	4,259

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 Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.