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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Myanmar (Burma)BarbadosCongo - Kinshasa
45,01827351,181
45,61627452,782
46,17127554,453
46,69027656,170
47,20127857,860
47,69927959,599
48,19628061,474
48,67428163,479
49,15128265,590
49,50528367,800
49,89628570,114
50,28528672,550
50,81328775,138
51,36928877,792
51,87828980,534
52,37429083,368
52,90029186,229
53,41629189,193
53,91429292,209
54,40329395,232
54,88429498,320
55,355294101,499
55,815295104,767
56,210295108,171

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 Barbados, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.