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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	Egypt	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	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

Egypt

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 – 1500: 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.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.