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Laos: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
7.75 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+1.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.8%a year

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
20318.32Forecast
20308.23Forecast
20298.13Forecast
20288.04Forecast
20277.94Forecast
20267.84Forecast
20257.75
20247.65
20237.55
20227.44
20217.34
20207.23
20197.12
20187.01
20176.90
20166.79

Sources

  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Penn World Table1970–2019
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2022–2031
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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