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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Puerto Rico	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,800	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,811	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,819	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,824	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,826	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,827	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,822	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,805	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,783	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	3,761	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	3,741	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	3,722	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	3,679	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,636	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,589	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,534	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,473	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,411	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,352	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,295	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,268	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,247	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,232	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,228	68,457

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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