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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)	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	19,266	7,666

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.

All data sources

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,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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