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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Denmark	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,322	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,339	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,358	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,377	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,391	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,404	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,420	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,438	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	5,461	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	5,494	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	5,524	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	5,548	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	5,571	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,592	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,614	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,644	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,683	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,730	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,766	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,795	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,818	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,831	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,855	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,907	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

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.