Population

Everyone resident in the country, counted mid-year.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects
years covered: 1960–2025
subject: Society

Neither end of this scale is better. It is context, not a score.

How this is measured

All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, estimated at mid-year. Here mostly so that a rate can be read against the number of people it applies to. It spans six orders of magnitude, so it is rescaled logarithmically inside an index.

Highest first for 2025

170 countries and territories have a figure for 2025. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1960.

#	Country	Region	Population
1	India	Asia-Pacific	1.5B
2	China	Asia-Pacific	1.4B
3	United States	Americas	341.8M
4	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	285.7M
5	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	255.2M
6	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	237.5M
7	Brazil	Americas	212.8M
8	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	175.7M
9	Russia	Eurasia	143.5M
10	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	135.5M
11	Mexico	Americas	132M
12	Japan	Asia-Pacific	123.4M
13	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	118.4M
14	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	116.8M
15	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	112.8M
16	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	101.6M
17	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	92.4M
18	Turkey	Eurasia	85.9M
19	Germany	Europe	83.5M
20	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	71.6M
21	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	70.5M
22	United Kingdom	Europe	69.5M
23	France	Europe	68.7M
24	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.7M
25	Italy	Europe	58.9M
26	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	57.5M
27	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	54.9M
28	Colombia	Americas	53.4M
29	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	51.7M
30	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	51.7M
31	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	51.4M
32	Spain	Europe	49.4M
33	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	47.4M
34	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	47M
35	Argentina	Americas	45.9M
36	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	43.8M
37	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	41.8M
38	Canada	Americas	41.7M
39	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	39M
40	Ukraine	Eurasia	39M
41	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	38.4M
42	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	37.1M
43	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	37M
44	Poland	Europe	36.4M
45	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	36M
46	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.6M
47	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.1M
48	Peru	Americas	34.6M
49	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.7M
50	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.7M
51	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.9M
52	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	29.6M
53	Venezuela	Americas	28.5M
54	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	27.9M
55	Australia	Asia-Pacific	27.6M
56	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	26.6M
57	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	25.6M
58	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	25.2M
59	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	24.1M
60	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	22.2M
61	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.9M
62	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	21.8M
63	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	21M
64	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	20.8M
65	Chile	Americas	19.9M
66	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.7M
67	Romania	Europe	19M
68	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.9M
69	Guatemala	Americas	18.7M
70	Ecuador	Americas	18.3M
71	Netherlands	Europe	18.1M
72	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	17.8M
73	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	17M
74	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	15.1M
75	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.8M
76	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.6M
77	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.4M
78	Bolivia	Americas	12.6M
79	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	12.3M
80	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.2M
81	Belgium	Europe	11.9M
82	Haiti	Americas	11.9M
83	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	11.5M
84	Dominican Republic	Americas	11.5M
85	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	11.5M
86	Honduras	Americas	11M
87	Cuba	Americas	10.9M
88	Czechia	Europe	10.9M
89	Portugal	Europe	10.8M
90	Tajikistan	Eurasia	10.8M
91	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	10.8M
92	Sweden	Europe	10.6M
93	Greece	Europe	10.4M
94	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	10.2M
95	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	10.1M
96	Hungary	Europe	9.5M
97	Austria	Europe	9.2M
98	Switzerland	Europe	9.1M
99	Belarus	Eurasia	9.1M
100	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.8M
101	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.6M
102	Laos	Asia-Pacific	7.9M
103	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	7.6M
104	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	7.5M
105	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	7.3M
106	Paraguay	Americas	7M
107	Nicaragua	Americas	7M
108	Serbia	Europe	6.5M
109	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.5M
110	Bulgaria	Europe	6.4M
111	El Salvador	Americas	6.4M
112	Denmark	Europe	6M
113	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	5.8M
114	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.7M
115	Finland	Europe	5.6M
116	Norway	Europe	5.6M
117	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.5M
118	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	5.5M
119	Ireland	Europe	5.5M
120	Slovakia	Europe	5.4M
121	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	5.4M
122	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	5.3M
123	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.3M
124	Costa Rica	Americas	5.2M
125	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	4.9M
126	Panama	Americas	4.6M
127	Georgia	Eurasia	3.9M
128	Croatia	Europe	3.9M
129	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.6M
130	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	3.6M
131	Uruguay	Americas	3.4M
132	Puerto Rico	Americas	3.2M
133	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	3.1M
134	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.1M
135	Armenia	Eurasia	3.1M
136	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	3M
137	Lithuania	Europe	2.9M
138	Jamaica	Americas	2.8M
139	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.8M
140	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.6M
141	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.6M
142	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.4M
143	Moldova	Eurasia	2.4M
144	Albania	Europe	2.3M
145	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.2M
146	Slovenia	Europe	2.1M
147	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.9M
148	Latvia	Europe	1.8M
149	North Macedonia	Europe	1.8M
150	Kosovo	Europe	1.6M
151	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	1.4M
152	Cyprus	Europe	1.4M
153	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	1.4M
154	Estonia	Europe	1.4M
155	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.3M
156	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.2M
157	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	933.2K
158	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	838.7K
159	Guyana	Americas	836K
160	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	796.7K
161	Luxembourg	Europe	687K
162	Suriname	Americas	639.9K
163	Montenegro	Europe	623.1K
164	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	466.3K
165	Belize	Americas	422.9K
166	Bahamas	Americas	403K
167	Iceland	Europe	392.4K
168	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	335.2K
169	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	295.3K
170	Greenland	Americas	56.8K

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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