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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	108,171	56,210

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,

No separate list is published for Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.