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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Myanmar (Burma)OmanPoland
45,0182,34838,358
45,6162,40338,344
46,1712,45738,339
46,6902,51038,320
47,2012,56238,283
47,6992,61338,268
48,1962,66338,249
48,6742,71338,220
49,1512,76438,204
49,5052,81638,204
49,8962,87138,572
50,2852,92838,606
50,8132,98638,615
51,3693,04738,623
51,8783,11038,591
52,3743,17438,573
52,9003,24038,544
53,4163,30738,516
53,9143,37538,511
54,4033,44438,502
54,8843,51238,475
55,3553,58238,443
55,8153,65138,250
56,2103,69637,914

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,

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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