Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division[1]

This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2023 revision of World Population Prospects.[2][3] These figures refer to the de facto population in a country or area as shown in the "estimates" section.

List

Data are mid-year[4] estimates from the United Nations and are for 2022-2023.[5]

List of countries and inhabited territories by total population. United Nations
Location UN Continental Region[6] UN Statistical Subregion[6] Population
(1 July 2022) 		Population
(5 March 2024) 		Change
 World 7,975,105,156 8,095,041,585 +1.50%
 India Asia Southern Asia 1,417,173,173 1,428,627,663 +0.81%
 China[a] Asia Eastern Asia 1,425,887,337 1,425,671,352 −0.02%
 United States Americas Northern America 338,289,857 339,996,564 +0.50%
 Indonesia Asia South-eastern Asia 275,501,339 277,534,123 +0.74%
 Pakistan Asia Southern Asia 235,824,862 240,485,658 +1.98%
 Nigeria Africa Western Africa 218,541,212 223,804,632 +2.41%
 Brazil Americas South America 215,313,498 216,422,446 +0.52%
 Bangladesh Asia Southern Asia 171,186,373 172,954,319 +1.03%
 Russia Europe Eastern Europe 144,713,314 144,444,359 −0.19%
 Mexico Americas Central America 127,504,126 128,455,567 +0.75%
 Ethiopia Africa Eastern Africa 123,379,925 126,527,060 +2.55%
 Japan Asia Eastern Asia 123,951,692 123,294,513 −0.53%
 Philippines Asia South-eastern Asia 115,559,009 117,337,368 +1.54%
 Egypt Africa Northern Africa 110,990,103 112,716,599 +1.56%
 DR Congo Africa Middle Africa 99,010,212 102,262,809 +3.29%
 Vietnam Asia South-eastern Asia 98,186,856 98,858,950 +0.68%
 Iran Asia Southern Asia 88,550,570 89,172,767 +0.70%
 Turkey Asia Western Asia 85,341,241 85,816,199 +0.56%
 Germany Europe Western Europe 83,369,843 83,294,633 −0.09%
 Thailand Asia South-eastern Asia 71,697,030 71,801,279 +0.15%
 United Kingdom Europe Northern Europe 67,508,936 67,736,802 +0.34%
 Tanzania[b] Africa Eastern Africa 65,497,748 67,438,106 +2.96%
 France[c] Europe Western Europe 64,626,628 64,756,584 +0.20%
 South Africa Africa Southern Africa 59,893,886 60,414,495 +0.87%
 Italy Europe Southern Europe 59,037,474 58,870,763 −0.28%
 Kenya Africa Eastern Africa 54,027,487 55,100,587 +1.99%
 Myanmar Asia South-eastern Asia 54,179,306 54,577,997 +0.74%
 Colombia Americas South America 51,874,024 52,085,168 +0.41%
 South Korea Asia Eastern Asia 51,815,810 51,784,059 −0.06%
 Uganda Africa Eastern Africa 47,249,585 48,582,334 +2.82%
 Sudan Africa Northern Africa 46,874,204 48,109,006 +2.63%
 Spain[d] Europe Southern Europe 47,558,630 47,519,628 −0.08%
 Argentina Americas South America 45,510,318 45,773,884 +0.58%
 Algeria Africa Northern Africa 44,903,225 45,606,481 +1.57%
 Iraq Asia Western Asia 44,496,122 45,504,560 +2.27%
 Afghanistan Asia Southern Asia 41,128,771 42,239,854 +2.70%
 Poland Europe Eastern Europe 39,857,146 41,026,068 +2.93%
 Canada Americas Northern America 38,454,327 38,781,292 +0.85%
 Morocco Africa Northern Africa 37,457,971 37,840,044 +1.02%
 Saudi Arabia Asia Western Asia 36,408,820 36,947,025 +1.48%
 Ukraine[e] Europe Eastern Europe 39,701,739 36,744,634 −7.45%
 Angola Africa Middle Africa 35,588,987 36,684,203 +3.08%
 Uzbekistan Asia Central Asia 34,627,653 35,163,944 +1.55%
 Yemen Asia Western Asia 33,696,614 34,449,825 +2.24%
 Peru Americas South America 34,049,589 34,352,719 +0.89%
 Malaysia Asia South-eastern Asia 33,938,222 34,308,525 +1.09%
 Ghana Africa Western Africa 33,475,870 34,121,985 +1.93%
 Mozambique Africa Eastern Africa 32,969,519 33,897,354 +2.81%
   Nepal Asia Southern Asia 30,547,580 30,896,590 +1.14%
 Madagascar Africa Eastern Africa 29,611,714 30,325,732 +2.41%
 Ivory Coast Africa Western Africa 28,160,543 28,873,034 +2.53%
 Venezuela Americas South America 28,301,696 28,838,499 +1.90%
 Cameroon Africa Middle Africa 27,914,537 28,647,293 +2.62%
 Niger Africa Western Africa 26,207,977 27,202,843 +3.80%
 Australia[f] Oceania Australia and New Zealand 26,177,414 26,439,112 +1.00%
 North Korea Asia Eastern Asia 26,069,417 26,160,822 +0.35%
 Taiwan[g] Asia Eastern Asia 23,893,395 23,923,277 +0.13%
 Mali Africa Western Africa 22,593,591 23,293,699 +3.10%
 Burkina Faso Africa Western Africa 22,673,762 23,251,485 +2.55%
 Syria Asia Western Asia 22,125,249 23,227,014 +4.98%
 Sri Lanka Asia Southern Asia 21,832,143 21,893,579 +0.28%
 Malawi Africa Eastern Africa 20,405,317 20,931,751 +2.58%
 Zambia Africa Eastern Africa 20,017,675 20,569,738 +2.76%
 Romania Europe Eastern Europe 19,659,267 19,892,812 +1.19%
 Chile Americas South America 19,603,733 19,629,590 +0.13%
 Kazakhstan Asia Central Asia 19,397,998 19,606,634 +1.08%
 Chad Africa Middle Africa 17,723,315 18,278,568 +3.13%
 Ecuador Americas South America 18,001,000 18,190,484 +1.05%
 Somalia[h] Africa Eastern Africa 17,597,511 18,143,379 +3.10%
 Guatemala Americas Central America 17,843,908 18,092,026 +1.39%
 Senegal Africa Western Africa 17,316,449 17,763,163 +2.58%
 Netherlands[i] Europe Western Europe 17,564,014 17,618,299 +0.31%
 Cambodia Asia South-eastern Asia 16,767,842 16,944,826 +1.06%
 Zimbabwe Africa Eastern Africa 16,320,537 16,665,409 +2.11%
 Guinea Africa Western Africa 13,859,341 14,190,612 +2.39%
 Rwanda Africa Eastern Africa 13,776,698 14,094,683 +2.31%
 Benin Africa Western Africa 13,352,864 13,712,828 +2.70%
 Burundi Africa Eastern Africa 12,889,577 13,238,559 +2.71%
 Tunisia Africa Northern Africa 12,356,117 12,458,223 +0.83%
 Bolivia Americas South America 12,224,110 12,388,571 +1.35%
 Haiti Americas Caribbean 11,584,996 11,724,764 +1.21%
 Belgium Europe Western Europe 11,655,930 11,686,140 +0.26%
 Jordan Asia Western Asia 11,285,869 11,337,053 +0.45%
 Dominican Republic Americas Caribbean 11,228,821 11,332,973 +0.93%
 Cuba Americas Caribbean 11,212,191 11,194,449 −0.16%
 South Sudan Africa Eastern Africa 10,913,164 11,088,796 +1.61%
 Sweden Europe Northern Europe 10,549,347 10,612,086 +0.59%
 Honduras Americas Central America 10,432,860 10,593,798 +1.54%
 Czechia Europe Eastern Europe 10,493,986 10,495,295 +0.01%
 Azerbaijan Asia Western Asia 10,358,074 10,412,652 +0.53%
 Greece Europe Southern Europe 10,384,971 10,341,277 −0.42%
 Papua New Guinea Oceania Melanesia 10,142,619 10,329,931 +1.85%
 Portugal[j] Europe Southern Europe 10,270,865 10,247,605 −0.23%
 Tajikistan Asia Central Asia 9,952,787 10,143,543 +1.92%
 Hungary Europe Eastern Europe 9,967,308 9,604,000 −3.64%
 United Arab Emirates Asia Western Asia 9,441,129 9,516,871 +0.80%
 Belarus Europe Eastern Europe 9,534,955 9,498,238 −0.39%
 Israel Asia Western Asia 9,038,309 9,174,520 +1.51%
 Togo Africa Western Africa 8,848,699 9,053,799 +2.32%
 Austria Europe Western Europe 8,939,617 8,958,961 +0.22%
  Switzerland Europe Western Europe 8,740,472 8,796,669 +0.64%
 Sierra Leone Africa Western Africa 8,605,718 8,791,092 +2.15%
 Laos Asia South-eastern Asia 7,529,475 7,633,779 +1.39%
 Hong Kong (China)[k] Asia Eastern Asia 7,488,865 7,491,609 +0.04%
 Serbia[l] Europe Southern Europe 7,221,366 7,149,077 −1.00%
 Nicaragua Americas Central America 6,948,392 7,046,311 +1.41%
 Libya Africa Northern Africa 6,812,341 6,888,388 +1.12%
 Paraguay Americas South America 6,780,744 6,861,524 +1.19%
 Kyrgyzstan Asia Central Asia 6,630,623 6,735,348 +1.58%
 Bulgaria Europe Eastern Europe 6,781,953 6,687,717 −1.39%
 Turkmenistan Asia Central Asia 6,430,771 6,516,100 +1.33%
 El Salvador Americas Central America 6,336,392 6,364,943 +0.45%
 Congo Africa Middle Africa 5,970,424 6,106,869 +2.29%
 Singapore Asia South-eastern Asia 5,975,689 6,014,723 +0.65%
 Denmark Europe Northern Europe 5,882,262 5,910,913 +0.49%
 Slovakia Europe Eastern Europe 5,643,453 5,795,199 +2.69%
 Central African Republic Africa Middle Africa 5,579,144 5,742,316 +2.92%
 Finland[m] Europe Northern Europe 5,540,746 5,545,475 +0.09%
 Norway[n] Europe Northern Europe 5,434,319 5,474,360 +0.74%
 Liberia Africa Western Africa 5,302,681 5,418,377 +2.18%
 Palestine[o] Asia Western Asia 5,250,072 5,371,230 +2.31%
 Lebanon Asia Western Asia 5,489,740 5,353,930 −2.47%
 New Zealand Oceania Australia and New Zealand 5,185,289 5,228,100 +0.83%
 Costa Rica Americas Central America 5,180,829 5,212,173 +0.60%
 Ireland Europe Northern Europe 5,023,109 5,056,935 +0.67%
 Mauritania Africa Western Africa 4,736,139 4,862,989 +2.68%
 Oman Asia Western Asia 4,576,298 4,644,384 +1.49%
 Panama Americas Central America 4,408,581 4,468,087 +1.35%
 Kuwait Asia Western Asia 4,268,873 4,310,108 +0.97%
 Croatia Europe Southern Europe 4,030,358 4,008,617 −0.54%
 Eritrea Africa Eastern Africa 3,684,032 3,748,902 +1.76%
 Georgia[p] Asia Western Asia 3,744,386 3,728,282 −0.43%
 Mongolia Asia Eastern Asia 3,398,366 3,447,157 +1.44%
 Moldova[q] Europe Eastern Europe 3,272,996 3,435,931 +4.98%
 Uruguay Americas South America 3,422,794 3,423,109 +0.01%
 Puerto Rico (United States) Americas Caribbean 3,252,407 3,260,314 +0.24%
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Europe Southern Europe 3,233,527 3,210,848 −0.70%
 Albania Europe Southern Europe 2,842,321 2,832,439 −0.35%
 Jamaica Americas Caribbean 2,827,377 2,825,544 −0.06%
 Armenia Asia Western Asia 2,780,469 2,777,971 −0.09%
 Gambia Africa Western Africa 2,705,992 2,773,168 +2.48%
 Lithuania Europe Northern Europe 2,750,055 2,718,352 −1.15%
 Qatar Asia Western Asia 2,695,122 2,716,391 +0.79%
 Botswana Africa Southern Africa 2,630,296 2,675,353 +1.71%
 Namibia Africa Southern Africa 2,567,013 2,604,172 +1.45%
 Gabon Africa Middle Africa 2,388,993 2,436,567 +1.99%
 Lesotho Africa Southern Africa 2,305,826 2,330,318 +1.06%
 Guinea-Bissau Africa Western Africa 2,105,566 2,150,842 +2.15%
 Slovenia Europe Southern Europe 2,119,844 2,119,675 −0.01%
 North Macedonia Europe Southern Europe 2,093,599 2,085,679 −0.38%
 Latvia Europe Northern Europe 1,850,651 1,830,212 −1.10%
 Equatorial Guinea Africa Middle Africa 1,674,908 1,714,672 +2.37%
 Kosovo[r] Europe Southern Europe 1,659,714 1,663,595 +0.23%
 Trinidad and Tobago Americas Caribbean 1,531,045 1,534,937 +0.25%
 Bahrain Asia Western Asia 1,472,233 1,485,510 +0.90%
 East Timor Asia South-eastern Asia 1,341,296 1,360,596 +1.44%
 Estonia Europe Northern Europe 1,326,062 1,322,766 −0.25%
 Mauritius Africa Eastern Africa 1,299,469 1,300,557 +0.08%
 Cyprus[s] Asia Western Asia 1,251,489 1,260,138 +0.69%
 Eswatini Africa Southern Africa 1,201,671 1,210,822 +0.76%
 Djibouti Africa Eastern Africa 1,120,849 1,136,455 +1.39%
 Réunion (France) Africa Eastern Africa 974,052 981,796 +0.80%
 Fiji Oceania Melanesia 929,766 936,376 +0.71%
 Comoros Africa Eastern Africa 836,774 852,075 +1.83%
 Guyana Americas South America 808,726 813,834 +0.63%
 Bhutan Asia Southern Asia 782,455 787,425 +0.64%
 Solomon Islands Oceania Melanesia 724,273 740,425 +2.23%
 Macao (China)[t] Asia Eastern Asia 695,169 704,150 +1.29%
 Luxembourg Europe Western Europe 647,599 654,768 +1.11%
 Montenegro Europe Southern Europe 627,083 626,485 −0.10%
 Suriname Americas South America 618,041 623,237 +0.84%
 Cape Verde Africa Western Africa 593,150 598,682 +0.93%
Western Sahara (disputed)[u] Africa Northern Africa 575,986 587,259 +1.96%
 Malta Europe Southern Europe 533,286 535,065 +0.33%
 Maldives Asia Southern Asia 521,021 523,787 +0.53%
 Brunei Asia South-eastern Asia 449,002 452,524 +0.78%
 Bahamas Americas Caribbean 409,984 412,624 +0.64%
 Belize Americas Central America 405,273 410,825 +1.37%
 Guadeloupe (France) Americas Caribbean 395,753 395,839 +0.02%
 Iceland Europe Northern Europe 372,899 375,319 +0.65%
 Martinique (France) Americas Caribbean 367,507 366,981 −0.14%
 Mayotte (France) Africa Eastern Africa 326,101 335,995 +3.03%
 Vanuatu Oceania Melanesia 326,741 334,506 +2.38%
 French Guiana (France) Americas South America 304,557 312,155 +2.49%
 French Polynesia (France) Oceania Polynesia 306,279 308,872 +0.85%
 New Caledonia (France) Oceania Melanesia 289,951 292,991 +1.05%
 Barbados Americas Caribbean 281,635 281,996 +0.13%
 São Tomé and Príncipe Africa Middle Africa 227,380 231,856 +1.97%
 Samoa Oceania Polynesia 222,382 225,681 +1.48%
 Curaçao (Netherlands) Americas Caribbean 191,164 192,077 +0.48%
 Saint Lucia Americas Caribbean 179,858 180,251 +0.22%
 Guam (United States) Oceania Micronesia 171,775 172,952 +0.69%
 Kiribati Oceania Micronesia 131,232 133,515 +1.74%
 Grenada Americas Caribbean 125,438 126,184 +0.59%
 Micronesia Oceania Micronesia 114,164 115,224 +0.93%
 Jersey (United Kingdom) Europe Northern Europe 110,779 111,803 +0.92%
 Tonga Oceania Polynesia 106,858 107,773 +0.86%
 Seychelles Africa Eastern Africa 107,119 107,660 +0.51%
 Aruba (Netherlands) Americas Caribbean 106,445 106,277 −0.16%
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Americas Caribbean 103,948 103,699 −0.24%
 U.S. Virgin Islands (United States) Americas Caribbean 99,465 98,750 −0.72%
 Antigua and Barbuda Americas Caribbean 93,763 94,298 +0.57%
 Isle of Man (United Kingdom) Europe Northern Europe 84,520 84,710 +0.22%
 Andorra Europe Southern Europe 79,824 80,088 +0.33%
 Dominica Americas Caribbean 72,738 73,040 +0.42%
 Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) Americas Caribbean 68,706 69,310 +0.88%
 Bermuda (United Kingdom) Americas Northern America 64,184 64,069 −0.18%
 Guernsey (United Kingdom) Europe Northern Europe 63,302 63,544 +0.38%
 Greenland (Denmark) Americas Northern America 56,466 56,643 +0.31%
 Faroe Islands (Denmark) Europe Northern Europe 53,090 53,270 +0.34%
 Northern Mariana Islands (United States) Oceania Micronesia 49,551 49,796 +0.49%
 Saint Kitts and Nevis Americas Caribbean 47,658 47,755 +0.20%
 Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom) Americas Caribbean 45,703 46,062 +0.79%
 Sint Maarten (Netherlands) Americas Caribbean 44,175 44,222 +0.11%
 American Samoa (United States) Oceania Polynesia 44,273 43,915 −0.81%
 Marshall Islands Oceania Micronesia 41,569 41,996 +1.03%
 Liechtenstein Europe Western Europe 39,327 39,585 +0.66%
 Monaco Europe Western Europe 36,469 36,298 −0.47%
 San Marino Europe Southern Europe 33,661 33,642 −0.06%
 Gibraltar (United Kingdom) Europe Southern Europe 32,649 32,688 +0.12%
Saint Martin (France) Americas Caribbean 31,791 32,077 +0.90%
 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) Americas Caribbean 31,305 31,538 +0.74%
 Caribbean Netherlands (Netherlands)[v] Americas Caribbean 27,027 27,148 +0.45%
 Palau Oceania Micronesia 18,055 18,058 +0.02%
 Cook Islands Oceania Polynesia 17,011 17,044 +0.19%
 Anguilla (United Kingdom) Americas Caribbean 15,857 15,900 +0.27%
 Nauru Oceania Micronesia 12,668 12,780 +0.88%
 Wallis and Futuna (France) Oceania Polynesia 11,573 11,502 −0.61%
 Tuvalu Oceania Polynesia 11,312 11,396 +0.74%
 Saint Barthélemy (France) Americas Caribbean 10,967 10,994 +0.25%
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) Americas Northern America 5,862 5,840 −0.38%
 Saint Helena (United Kingdom)[w] Africa Western Africa 5,374 5,314 −1.12%
 Montserrat (United Kingdom) Americas Caribbean 4,390 4,387 −0.07%
 Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) Americas South America 3,780 3,791 +0.29%
 Niue Oceania Polynesia 1,934 1,935 +0.05%
 Tokelau (New Zealand) Oceania Polynesia 1,871 1,893 +1.18%
 Vatican City[x] Europe Southern Europe 510 518 N/A
 Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) Oceania Polynesia N/A N/A N/A

See also

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Transcontinental

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Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Refers to Mainland China only. The UN source document states: "For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China (Hong Kong and Macau) and Taiwan."
  2. ^ Including  Zanzibar.
  3. ^ Refers to Metropolitan France only.
  4. ^ Including the  Canary Islands,  Ceuta, and  Melilla.
  5. ^ Including  Crimea, the  Donetsk People's Republic, the  Luhansk People's Republic, and  Sevastopol.
  6. ^ Including  Christmas Island, the  Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and  Norfolk Island.
  7. ^ Listed as China, Taiwan Province of China.
  8. ^ Including  Somaliland.
  9. ^ Refers to the European Netherlands only.
  10. ^ Including the  Azores and  Madeira.
  11. ^ Listed as China, Hong Kong SAR.
  12. ^ Excluding  Kosovo.
  13. ^ Including  Åland.
  14. ^ Including  Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
  15. ^ Including State of Palestine East Jerusalem.
  16. ^ Including  Abkhazia and  South Ossetia.
  17. ^ Including  Transnistria.
  18. ^ Listed as Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244).
  19. ^ Including  Northern Cyprus.
  20. ^ Listed as China, Macao SAR.
  21. ^ A disputed territory with undetermined political status.[7] Formerly Spanish Sahara up to 1976, administration is currently split between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, both of which claim the entire territory. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's administrative control is limited to approximately 20% of the territory, with the remaining 80% of the territory occupied by Morocco. The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara is the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the territory (see Western Sahara conflict).
  22. ^ Listed as  Bonaire,  Sint Eustatius and  Saba.
  23. ^ Including  Saint Helena,  Ascension, and  Tristan da Cunha.
  24. ^ Listed as Holy See.

References

  1. ^ "UNSD — Methodology". unstats.un.org.
  2. ^ "World Population Prospects, 2023 Revision". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Total population, both sexes combined (thousands)". UNdata. United Nations Statistics Division. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Years given refer to 1 July." "Methodology Report" (PDF). un.org. 2022. pg6. Retrieved 22 Feb 2024.
  5. ^ United Nations Population Division Data Portal. Scroll down to "Search data by indicator and location". Just below that there are 2 main menus. Left menu > Alphabetical tab > Total population by sex > Apply. Center menu > Alphabetical menu > "All" menu > Choose "Countries" > Apply. Date menus > Choose the range from 2022 to 2023. Click "Get Started and Search". Click the export button on the left to open the export sidebar > Excel tab > Excel 2007 and up. Missing data: Blank. Include thousand separator?: Yes. Include Metadata?: No. Click "Download" button at bottom to get .xlsx file. Close the export sidebar to see the wide 2022-23 table online.
  6. ^ a b "Definition of Regions". World Population Prospects, the 2019 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. June 2019. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  7. ^ BBC News: Western Sahara profile

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