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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)Congo - Kinshasa
45,01851,181
45,61652,782
46,17154,453
46,69056,170
47,20157,860
47,69959,599
48,19661,474
48,67463,479
49,15165,590
49,50567,800
49,89670,114
50,28572,550
50,81375,138
51,36977,792
51,87880,534
52,37483,368
52,90086,229
53,41689,193
53,91492,209
54,40395,232
54,88498,320
55,355101,499
55,815104,767
56,210108,171

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