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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Netherlands	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,817	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,932	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,052	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,155	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	278	16,231	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,288	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,326	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,352	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,388	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,452	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,536	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,621	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,699	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,761	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	289	16,810	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	290	16,871	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,946	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,036	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,137	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,238	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	17,351	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,448	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,539	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,709	56,210

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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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,

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