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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Laos	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	5,286	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	5,397	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	5,499	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	5,578	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	5,654	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	5,746	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	5,836	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	5,931	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	6,035	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	6,145	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	6,257	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	6,368	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	6,477	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	6,586	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	6,695	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	6,804	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	6,912	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	7,019	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	7,127	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	7,234	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	7,343	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	7,452	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	7,560	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	7,666	3,876

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.

All data sources

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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