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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Puerto Rico	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,800	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,811	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,819	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,824	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	3,826	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,827	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,822	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,805	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,783	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,761	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,741	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,722	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,679	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	3,636	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	3,589	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	3,534	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	3,473	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,411	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,352	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,295	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,268	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	3,247	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	3,232	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	3,228	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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.