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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Myanmar (Burma)	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	45,018	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	45,616	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	46,171	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	46,690	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	47,201	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	47,699	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	48,196	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	48,674	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	49,151	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	49,505	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	49,896	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	50,285	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	50,813	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	51,369	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	51,878	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	52,374	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	52,900	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	53,416	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	53,914	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	54,403	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	54,884	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	55,355	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	55,815	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	56,210	108,171	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

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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.