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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Austria	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	8,039	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	8,059	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	8,090	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	8,130	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	8,166	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	8,217	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	8,274	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	8,317	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	8,344	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	8,370	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	8,390	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	8,410	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	8,438	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	8,476	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	8,527	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	8,594	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	8,680	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	8,791	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	8,847	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	8,890	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	8,930	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	8,969	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	9,004	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	9,107	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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,