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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Myanmar (Burma)	Romania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	45,018	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	45,616	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	46,171	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	46,690	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	47,201	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	47,699	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	48,196	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	48,674	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	49,151	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	49,505	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	49,896	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	50,285	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	50,813	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	51,369	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	51,878	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	52,374	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	52,900	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	53,416	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	53,914	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	54,403	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	54,884	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	55,355	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	55,815	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	56,210	19,266	530

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.