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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Myanmar (Burma)	Romania	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	45,018	22,414	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	45,616	22,262	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	46,171	22,106	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	46,690	21,931	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	47,201	21,828	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	47,699	21,704	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	48,196	21,571	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	48,674	21,443	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	49,151	21,129	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	49,505	20,779	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	49,896	20,607	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	50,285	20,485	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	50,813	20,385	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	51,369	20,296	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	51,878	20,224	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	52,374	20,151	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	52,900	20,055	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	53,416	19,938	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	53,914	19,823	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	54,403	19,713	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	54,884	19,622	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	55,355	19,496	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	55,815	19,351	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	56,210	19,266	6,291

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.