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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosEthiopiaMyanmar (Burma)
27363,57545,018
27465,21345,616
27566,88946,171
27668,64946,690
27870,49147,201
27972,38947,699
28074,32748,196
28176,32648,674
28278,41149,151
28380,56449,505
28582,78749,896
28685,09650,285
28787,53050,813
28890,06651,369
28992,63251,878
29095,33752,374
29198,11452,900
291100,85853,416
292103,65453,914
293106,46654,403
294109,26754,884
294112,10055,355
295114,96455,815
295117,92456,210

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

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