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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)	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	37,914

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,

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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