In 1870, the average person born in the Philippines could expect to live to just under the age of 31 years old. This figure would remain unchanged until the early 1900s, when life expectancy would fall to just over 25 years in the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, as disruptions in food supply and healthcare would result in the loss of several hundred thousand Filipinos to famine and disease. This drop would be accompanied by another drop in the 1920s as the Spanish Flu would ravage the country. However, life expectancy would quickly recover and begin to rise under the United States military administration of the island, as investment by the American government would result in significant expansion in access to nutrition and healthcare. As a result, life expectancy would rise to over 41 years by 1940.

Life expectancy in the Philippines would decline once more in the 1940s, however, in the 1941 invasion and subsequent occupation of the island nation by the Empire of Japan in the Second World War, in which famine and causalities of war would result in the death of an estimated 500,000 Filipinos. Despite significant destruction in the Second World War, and an ending to the bulk of American investment in the country following its independence from the U.S. in 1946, life expectancy in the Philippines would quickly rise in the post-war years as the country would modernize; almost doubling in the two decades between 1945 and 1965 alone. It then plateaued throughout the 1970s and 1980s, during the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos, before the People Power Revolution in 1986 returned democracy to the country, and living standards began to improve once more. Life expectancy has also increased since this time, and in 2020, it is estimated that the average person born in the Philippines can expect to live to just over the age of 71 years old.

The study deals with the reconstruction of German secular economic trends associated with a data-compilation of historical time series concerning the economic development. Index of tables in HISTAT (On-line Database ´Historical Statistics´): - Population Development in Germany (1200-2002) - Emigration from Germany (1820-2002) - Live Birth and deceased per 1000 Inhabitants in Germany (1820-2000) - Life expectancy of men and women in Germany (1871- 2001) - Expansion rate of real GDP per capita of the population - Real GDP per capita of population in Germany (1850-2002) - Expansion rate of real GDP per capita of population in Germany (1851-2002) - Hectare-output of wheat and rye in Germany (1850-2000) - Gross-Value-Added of Primary Sector in comparison to the entire national economy (1850-2002) - Percental share of Gross-Value-Added of Primary Sector in the entire Gross-Value-Added of national economy (1850 -2002) - Price index of living costs and actual earnings in England (1264-1953) - Employees in Germany (1800-2003) - Average hours of work on a weekly basis in mining, industry and handcraft (1850-2002) - Overall fulfilled hours of work in Germany (1850-2003) - GDP per Capita, volume of work and average hours of work per week(1850-2002) - Index of real wages in Germany (1810-2002) - Unemployment rate in Germany (1887-2002) - Percentage of employees in primary, secondary and tertiary sector of total employment (1800-2003) - Capital stock in Germany (1850-2000) - Netinvestment in Germany (1850-2002) - Netinvestment rate in Germany (1850-2003) - Index of capital intensity and of labour productivity (GDP per capita) in Germany (1850-2001) - Return on capital in Germany (1850-1998) - Capital ratio in Germany (1850-2000) - Total Factorproductivity in Germany (1870-1999) - Education rates in Germany and in USA (1870-1992) - Number of grants in Germany (1812-2003) and in USA (1791-2000)