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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 PhilippinesOmanIndia
79,3462,3481,000,965
81,1312,4031,018,667
83,0232,4571,036,256
84,8762,5101,053,663
86,6972,5621,070,882
88,5682,6131,087,941
90,4182,6631,104,803
92,2532,7131,121,354
94,0982,7641,137,576
95,9232,8161,153,547
97,6272,8711,169,239
99,3172,9281,184,638
100,9992,9861,199,810
102,6183,0471,214,839
104,2993,1101,229,765
106,0763,1741,244,577
107,8683,2401,259,236
109,4933,3071,273,693
111,0943,3751,287,902
112,8433,4441,301,821
114,6363,5121,315,530
117,0263,5821,329,062
119,4733,6511,339,912
121,2343,6961,349,060

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.

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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