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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)	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	273	45,018	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	274	45,616	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	275	46,171	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	276	46,690	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,201	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	279	47,699	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,196	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,674	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	282	49,151	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,505	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,896	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	286	50,285	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	287	50,813	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	288	51,369	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	289	51,878	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	290	52,374	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	291	52,900	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	291	53,416	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	292	53,914	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	54,403	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	294	54,884	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	294	55,355	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	295	55,815	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	56,210	5,750

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,

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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