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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	France	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	273	60,396	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,811	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	275	61,255	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,703	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	278	62,141	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,600	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	280	63,073	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,513	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,906	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,264	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,594	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	286	64,913	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,231	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,552	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	289	65,891	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,212	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,480	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	291	66,730	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,015	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,347	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,660	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,901	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,114	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,387	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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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.