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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.