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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lesotho	Thailand	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	59,748	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	60,165	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	60,746	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	61,323	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	61,884	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	62,425	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	62,956	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,467	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	63,937	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	64,381	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	64,804	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	65,208	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	65,599	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	65,970	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	66,332	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	66,673	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	66,975	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	67,250	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	67,506	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	67,750	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	67,975	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	68,180	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	68,366	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	68,457	3,876

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

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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