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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	South Korea	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	46,617	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	47,008	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	47,370	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	47,645	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	47,892	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	48,083	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	48,185	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	48,438	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	48,684	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	49,055	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	49,308	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	49,554	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	49,937	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	50,200	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	50,429	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	50,747	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	51,015	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	51,218	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	51,362	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	51,585	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	51,765	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	51,836	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	51,745	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	51,731	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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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