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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)	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	10,437

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,

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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