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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Brazil	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	174,320	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	176,902	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	179,389	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	181,721	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	183,970	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	186,165	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	188,330	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	190,438	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	192,450	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	194,458	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	196,464	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	198,408	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	200,152	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	201,894	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	203,614	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	205,358	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	207,148	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	208,859	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	210,537	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	212,258	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	213,940	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	215,577	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	216,720	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	217,718	7,666

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

Brazil

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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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