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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Myanmar (Burma)RomaniaQatar
45,01822,414627
45,61622,262659
46,17122,106691
46,69021,931724
47,20121,828757
47,69921,704850
48,19621,5711,001
48,67421,4431,153
49,15121,1291,306
49,50520,7791,460
49,89620,6071,615
50,28520,4851,770
50,81320,3851,904
51,36920,2962,010
51,87820,2242,103
52,37420,1512,187
52,90020,0552,261
53,41619,9382,326
53,91419,8232,384
54,40319,7132,435
54,88419,6222,480
55,35519,4962,519
55,81519,3512,553
56,21019,2662,559

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.