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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	Ecuador	Oman	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	2,348	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	2,403	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	2,457	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	2,510	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	2,562	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	2,613	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	2,663	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	2,713	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	2,764	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	2,816	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	2,871	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	2,928	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	2,986	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	3,047	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	3,110	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	3,174	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	3,240	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	3,307	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	3,375	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	3,444	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	3,512	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	3,582	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	3,651	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	3,696	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.

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.