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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Philippines	Türkiye	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	79,346	65,020	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	81,131	65,949	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	83,023	66,869	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	84,876	67,728	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	86,697	68,541	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	88,568	69,366	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	90,418	70,224	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	92,253	71,106	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	94,098	71,992	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	95,923	72,909	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	97,627	73,922	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	99,317	75,054	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	100,999	76,164	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	102,618	77,141	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	104,299	78,138	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	106,076	79,199	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	107,868	80,262	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	109,493	81,350	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	111,094	82,412	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	112,843	83,535	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	114,636	84,737	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	117,026	85,564	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	119,473	86,346	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	121,234	87,201	108,171

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.

All data sources

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.

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.