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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,811	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,901	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,919	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,923	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,940	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,975	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,991	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,993	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,990	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,987	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,985	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,983	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,980	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,977	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,973	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,968	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,963	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,957	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,951	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,944	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,937	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,929	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,921	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,876	56,210

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

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