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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 PhilippinesOmanIndonesia
79,3462,348208,105
81,1312,403211,408
83,0232,457214,475
84,8762,510217,516
86,6972,562220,549
88,5682,613224,473
90,4182,663227,534
92,2532,713230,739
94,0982,764233,918
95,9232,816237,056
97,6272,871240,140
99,3172,928243,171
100,9992,986246,150
102,6183,047249,086
104,2993,110251,947
106,0763,174254,702
107,8683,240257,351
109,4933,307259,906
111,0943,375262,379
112,8433,444264,789
114,6363,512267,142
117,0263,582269,437
119,4733,651271,674
121,2343,696273,409

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.

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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