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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Myanmar (Burma)	Oman	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	45,018	2,348	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	45,616	2,403	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	46,171	2,457	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	46,690	2,510	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	47,201	2,562	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	47,699	2,613	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	48,196	2,663	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	48,674	2,713	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	49,151	2,764	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	49,505	2,816	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	49,896	2,871	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	50,285	2,928	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	50,813	2,986	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	51,369	3,047	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	51,878	3,110	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	52,374	3,174	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	52,900	3,240	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	53,416	3,307	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	53,914	3,375	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	54,403	3,444	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	54,884	3,512	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	55,355	3,582	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	55,815	3,651	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	56,210	3,696	68,457

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,

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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