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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Laos	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	5,286	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	5,397	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	5,499	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	5,578	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	5,654	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	5,746	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	5,836	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	5,931	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	6,035	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	6,145	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	6,257	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	6,368	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	6,477	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	6,586	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	6,695	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	6,804	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	6,912	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	7,019	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	7,127	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	7,234	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	7,343	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	7,452	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	7,560	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	7,666	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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