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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 PhilippinesOmanColombia
79,3462,34838,365
81,1312,40338,911
83,0232,45739,411
84,8762,51039,918
86,6972,56240,416
88,5682,61340,899
90,4182,66341,374
92,2532,71341,862
94,0982,76442,324
95,9232,81642,781
97,6272,87143,264
99,3172,92843,771
100,9992,98644,225
102,6183,04744,660
104,2993,11045,081
106,0763,17445,846
107,8683,24046,290
109,4933,30746,796
111,0943,37547,385
112,8433,44448,222
114,6363,51249,326
117,0263,58250,283
119,4733,65150,978
121,2343,69651,332

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.

Colombia

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
  • 1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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