List of countries by population (United Nations) explained

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 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.^[1]

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List

Data are mid-year estimates from the United Nations and are for 2022 and 2023.^[1]

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UN Statistical Subregion
	8,021,407,192	8,091,734,930		–	–
	1,425,423,212	1,438,069,596
[2]	1,425,179,569	1,422,584,933
	341,534,046	343,477,335
	278,830,529	281,190,067
	243,700,667	247,504,495
	223,150,896	227,882,945
	210,306,415	211,140,729
	169,384,897	171,466,990
	145,579,899	145,440,500
	128,613,117	129,739,759
	125,384,287	128,691,692
	124,997,578	124,370,947
	113,964,338	114,891,199
	112,618,250	114,535,772
	102,396,968	105,789,731
	99,680,655	100,352,192
	89,524,246	90,608,707
	87,058,473	87,270,501
	84,086,227	84,548,231
	71,735,329	71,702,435
	68,179,315	68,682,962
[3]	64,711,821	66,617,606
[4]	66,277,409	66,438,822
	62,378,410	63,212,384
	59,619,115	59,499,453
	54,252,461	55,339,003
	53,756,787	54,133,798
	51,737,944	52,321,152
	51,782,512	51,748,739
	49,383,346	50,042,791
	47,312,719	48,656,601
[5]	47,828,382	47,911,579
	45,477,389	46,164,219
	45,407,904	45,538,401
	44,070,551	45,074,049
	40,578,842	41,454,761
	38,222,876	39,390,799
	38,821,259	39,299,105
	38,385,739	38,762,844
[6]	41,048,766	37,732,836
	37,329,064	37,712,505
	35,635,029	36,749,906
	34,938,955	35,652,307
	34,695,493	35,126,298
	33,475,438	33,845,617
	33,149,152	33,787,914
	32,656,246	33,635,160
	32,175,352	32,264,292
	30,437,261	31,195,932
	30,395,002	31,165,654
	29,715,436	29,964,614
	27,632,771	28,372,687
	28,213,017	28,300,854
[7]	26,200,984	26,451,124
	26,329,845	26,418,204
	25,311,973	26,159,867
	23,072,640	23,769,127
	22,462,173	23,594,623
[8]	23,420,111	23,317,145
	22,509,038	23,025,776
	22,834,965	22,971,617
	20,568,728	21,104,482
	20,152,938	20,723,965
	20,034,609	20,330,104
	19,553,036	19,658,835
	18,455,316	19,319,064
	19,166,772	19,118,479
[9]	17,801,897	18,358,615
	17,847,877	18,124,838
	17,651,103	18,077,573
[10]	17,904,421	18,092,524
	17,823,897	17,980,083
	17,201,724	17,423,880
	16,069,056	16,340,822
	14,055,137	14,405,465
	13,759,501	14,111,034
	13,651,030	13,954,471
	13,321,097	13,689,450
	12,077,154	12,244,159
	12,119,334	12,200,431
	11,641,820	11,712,893
	11,503,606	11,637,398			Caribbean
	11,021,177	11,483,374			Eastern Africa
	11,256,263	11,439,213
	11,230,734	11,331,265
	11,059,820	11,019,931
	10,673,213	10,809,716
	10,463,872	10,644,851
	10,242,086	10,642,081
	10,487,338	10,551,494
[11]	10,417,073	10,430,738
	10,182,222	10,389,799
	10,203,169	10,389,635
	10,295,304	10,318,207
	10,412,480	10,242,908
	9,964,306	9,686,463
	9,089,738	9,304,337
	9,103,151	9,256,314
	9,064,677	9,130,429
	9,173,237	9,115,680
	8,792,182	8,870,561
	8,276,807	8,460,512
	7,559,007	7,664,993
(China)[12]	7,465,915	7,442,734
	7,230,193	7,364,438
	7,223,805	7,305,659
	6,955,788	7,073,516
	6,760,464	6,844,146
	6,730,654	6,823,613
	6,825,864	6,795,803
[13]	6,791,213	6,773,201
	6,280,319	6,309,624
	6,035,104	6,182,885
	5,902,904	5,948,136
	5,649,885	5,789,090
	5,744,489	5,733,493
[14]	5,569,299	5,601,185
[15]	5,457,801	5,519,167
	5,473,197	5,518,055
	5,373,294	5,493,031
[16]	5,305,270	5,409,202
	5,110,016	5,196,630
	5,131,734	5,172,836
	5,098,039	5,152,421
	5,081,765	5,105,525
	4,730,226	5,049,269
	4,875,637	5,022,441
	4,589,511	4,838,782
	4,400,773	4,458,759
	3,907,027	3,896,023
[17]	3,794,784	3,807,492
	3,409,447	3,470,390
	3,386,015	3,431,932
	3,390,913	3,388,081
(United States)	3,240,968	3,242,023
	3,204,802	3,185,073
[18]	3,039,985	3,067,070
	2,892,455	2,979,082
	2,889,662	2,963,095
	2,880,874	2,943,393
	2,816,919	2,854,099
	2,839,144	2,839,786
	2,827,608	2,811,655
	2,636,470	2,697,845
	2,430,747	2,484,789
	2,439,892	2,480,244
	2,286,110	2,311,472
	2,105,529	2,153,339
	2,115,228	2,118,396
	1,881,063	1,882,396
	1,803,545	1,847,549
	1,840,233	1,831,802
[19]	1,717,946	1,700,031
	1,533,459	1,569,666
	1,495,921	1,502,932
	1,369,295	1,384,286
	1,350,091	1,367,196
[20]	1,331,370	1,344,976
	1,276,130	1,273,588
	1,218,917	1,230,506
	1,137,096	1,152,944
	919,422	924,145
(France)	871,540	874,883
	834,188	850,387
	821,637	826,353
	781,066	800,005
	780,914	786,385
(China)[21]	704,356	713,912
	653,313	665,098
	614,648	633,552
	623,164	628,886
Western Sahara (disputed)	568,739	579,729
	528,192	532,956
	524,106	525,994			Southern Asia
	519,741	522,331
	455,370	458,949
	402,733	411,106
	397,538	399,440
	380,356	387,558
(France)	384,697	376,517
(France)	349,459	346,002
	313,046	320,409
(France)	305,269	316,015
(France)	298,306	303,402
(France)	287,123	289,870
	288,318	282,336
(France)	280,378	281,118
	226,305	230,871
	215,261	216,663
(Netherlands)	185,345	185,427
	178,781	179,285
(United States)	165,180	166,506
	130,469	132,530
	125,522	127,951
	116,913	117,081
	112,114	112,630
	105,042	104,597
(Netherlands)	107,782	107,939
(United Kingdom)	103,490	103,674
	102,046	101,323
	92,840	93,316
(United States)	86,507	85,701
(United Kingdom)	84,132	84,165
	79,705	80,856
(United Kingdom)	71,591	73,038
	66,826	66,510
(United Kingdom)	64,749	64,698
(United Kingdom)	63,725	64,017
(Denmark)	54,990	55,922
(Denmark)	54,011	54,714			Northern Europe
(United States)	48,342	47,521
	46,709	46,758			Caribbean
(United Kingdom)	45,847	46,198
(United States)	46,078	45,143
(Netherlands)	42,139	42,749
	39,317	39,598
(United Kingdom)	38,319	38,985
	38,931	38,956
(United Kingdom)	37,609	38,471
	40,077	38,827
	34,090	33,733
(Netherlands)[22]	28,627	29,898
Saint Martin (France)	28,870	27,515
	17,759	17,727
(United Kingdom)	14,180	14,410
(New Zealand)	14,723	14,222
	11,801	11,875
(France)	11,478	11,370
(France)	10,920	11,085
	9,992	9,816
(France)	5,732	5,681
(United Kingdom)[23]	5,343	5,289
(United Kingdom)	4,453	4,420
(United Kingdom)	3,490	3,477
(New Zealand)	2,290	2,397
(New Zealand)	1,821	1,817
[24]	505	496

See also

World

• List of countries and dependencies by population
• List of countries by past and projected future population
  • List of countries by population in 1000
  • List of countries by population in 1500
  • List of countries by population in 1600
  • List of countries by population in 1700
  • List of countries by population in 1800
  • List of countries by population in 1900
  • List of countries by population in 1939
  • List of countries by population in 1989
  • List of countries by population in 2000
  • List of countries by population in 2005
  • List of countries by population in 2010
  • List of countries by population in 2015
  • List of countries by population in 2024
• World population

Continental

• Demographics of Antarctica
• List of African countries by population
• List of Asian countries by population
• List of European countries by population
  • List of European countries by population growth rate
• List of North American countries by population
• List of Oceanian countries by population
• List of South American countries by population

Transcontinental

• List of Arab countries by population
• List of countries in the Americas by population
  • List of Latin American countries by population
• List of Eurasian countries by population
• List of Middle Eastern countries by population

Subregional

• List of Caribbean countries by population

Others

• List of European Union member states by population
• List of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations by population
• List of population concern organizations

External links

• World Population Prospects, the 2019 Revision
• Data sources for the World Population Prospects
• Methodology of the United Nations Population Estimates and Projections

Notes and References

1. Web site: World Population Prospects, 2024 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. "It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present".
2. 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."
3. Including .
4. Refers to Metropolitan France only.
5. Including the , , and .
6. Including , the, the, and .
7. Including , the , and .
8. Listed as China, Taiwan Province of China.
9. Including .
10. Refers to the European Netherlands only.
11. Including the and .
12. Listed as China, Hong Kong SAR.
13. Excluding .
14. Including .
15. Including .
16. Including East Jerusalem.
17. Including and .
18. Including .
19. Listed as Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244).
20. Including .
21. Listed as China, Macao SAR.
22. Listed as , and .
23. Including , , and .
24. Listed as Holy See.