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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)	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	9,690

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,

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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