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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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,