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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Spain	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	40,378	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	40,563	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	40,775	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	41,433	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	42,205	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	42,869	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	43,672	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	44,370	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	45,246	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	45,993	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	46,378	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	46,573	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	46,746	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	46,777	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	46,603	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	46,465	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	46,420	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	46,460	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	46,543	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	46,739	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	47,116	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	47,366	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	47,342	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	47,625	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.

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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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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