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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Myanmar (Burma)	Oman	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	45,018	2,348	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	45,616	2,403	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	46,171	2,457	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	46,690	2,510	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	47,201	2,562	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	47,699	2,613	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	48,196	2,663	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	48,674	2,713	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	49,151	2,764	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	49,505	2,816	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	49,896	2,871	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	50,285	2,928	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	50,813	2,986	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	51,369	3,047	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	51,878	3,110	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	52,374	3,174	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	52,900	3,240	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	53,416	3,307	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	53,914	3,375	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	54,403	3,444	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	54,884	3,512	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	55,355	3,582	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	55,815	3,651	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	56,210	3,696	8,834

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,

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.