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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Greece	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	10,618	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	10,662	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	10,718	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	10,757	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	10,783	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	10,809	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	10,841	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	10,874	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	10,901	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	10,930	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	10,959	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	10,973	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	10,957	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	10,898	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	10,819	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	10,747	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	10,677	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	10,633	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	10,612	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	10,590	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	10,579	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	10,556	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	10,499	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	10,437	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.

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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