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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Philippines	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	79,346	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,131	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	83,023	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	84,876	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	86,697	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	88,568	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	90,418	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	92,253	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	94,098	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	95,923	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	97,627	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	99,317	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	100,999	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	102,618	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	104,299	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	106,076	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	107,868	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	109,493	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	111,094	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	112,843	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	114,636	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	117,026	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	119,473	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	121,234	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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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