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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Belgium	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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,