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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	United States	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	279,040	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	282,162	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	284,969	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	287,625	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	290,108	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	292,805	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	295,517	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	298,380	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	301,231	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	304,094	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	306,772	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	309,327	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	311,583	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	313,878	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	316,060	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	318,386	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	320,739	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	323,072	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	325,122	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	326,838	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	328,330	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	331,512	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	332,032	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	333,288	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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