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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Belgium	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	10,227	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	10,252	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	10,288	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	10,334	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	10,377	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	10,422	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	10,480	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	10,549	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	10,627	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	10,711	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	10,797	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	10,897	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	11,039	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	11,108	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	11,160	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	11,210	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	11,275	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	11,332	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	11,376	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	11,429	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	11,491	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	11,546	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	11,594	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	11,695	121,234

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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 Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.