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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Myanmar (Burma)	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	45,018	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	45,616	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	46,171	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	46,690	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	47,201	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	47,699	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	48,196	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	48,674	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	49,151	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	49,505	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	49,896	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	50,285	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	50,813	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	51,369	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	51,878	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	52,374	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	52,900	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	53,416	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	53,914	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	54,403	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	54,884	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	55,355	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	55,815	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	56,210	11,695

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,

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.