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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Myanmar (Burma)	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	277	45,018	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	281	45,616	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	285	46,171	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	288	46,690	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	289	47,201	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	293	47,699	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	296	48,196	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	304	48,674	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	311	49,151	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	319	49,505	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	319	49,896	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	318	50,285	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	319	50,813	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	321	51,369	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	324	51,878	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	327	52,374	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	331	52,900	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	335	53,416	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	343	53,914	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	353	54,403	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	361	54,884	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	366	55,355	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	372	55,815	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	380	56,210	19,266

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.

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,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.