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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	Myanmar (Burma)	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	110,593

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,

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

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