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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	1,883

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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