List of countries by population in 2005

This article is about a harmonized list of population estimates for the year 2005. For the list with more recent estimates, see List of countries by population.

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This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 1 July 2005 (rounded to the nearest 1,000). The figures are estimates for the year 2005 from the U.N. World Population Prospects (2004 revision) using the medium fertility variant. ^[1]

The list includes all sovereign states and dependent territories recognized by the United Nations, plus the territory under the effective control of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

This list adopts definitions of "country" on a case-by-case basis. The "United Kingdom" is considered as a single country while constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are regarded separately.

Rank	Country / Territory	Population July 2005 UN estimate	Change from 2000*
—	World	6,464,750,000
1	China	1,307,593,000
2	India [2]	1,103,371,000
3	United States [3]	295,520,000
4	Indonesia	222,781,000
5	Brazil	186,405,000
6	Pakistan	157,935,000	1
7	Russia	143,202,000	1
8	Bangladesh	141,822,000
9	Nigeria	131,530,000	1
10	Japan	128,085,000	1
11	Mexico	107,029,000
12	Philippines	85,599,000	2
13	Vietnam	84,238,000	1
14	Germany	82,689,000	2
15	Ethiopia	77,431,000	1
16	Egypt	74,033,000	1
17	Turkey	73,193,000	1
18	Iran	69,515,000	1
19	France	65,446,000	1
20	Thailand	64,233,000	1
21	United Kingdom	59,668,000
22	Italy	58,093,000
23	Democratic Republic of the Congo	57,549,000
24	Myanmar	50,519,000
25	South Korea	50,000,000	1
26	South Africa	48,432,000	1
27	Ukraine	46,481,000	2
28	Colombia	45,600,000
29	Spain	43,064,000
30	Argentina	38,747,000
31	Poland	38,530,000
32	Tanzania	38,329,000
33	Sudan	36,233,000
34	Kenya	34,256,000
35	Algeria	32,854,000
36	Canada	32,268,000
37	Morocco	31,478,000
38	Afghanistan	29,863,000
39	Uganda	28,816,000
40	Iraq	28,807,000
41	Peru	27,968,000
42	Nepal	27,133,000
43	Venezuela	26,749,000
44	Uzbekistan	26,593,000
45	Malaysia	25,347,000
46	Saudi Arabia	24,573,000
47	North Korea	22,894,384
48	Taiwan	22,488,000
49	Ghana	22,113,000
50	Romania	21,711,000
51	Yemen	20,975,000	1
52	Sri Lanka	20,743,000	1
53	Australia [4]	20,155,000	2
54	Syria	19,792,000
55	Mozambique	19,043,000
56	Madagascar [5]	18,606,000
57	Côte d'Ivoire	18,154,000
58	Cameroon	16,322,000
59	Netherlands	16,299,000
60	Chile	16,295,000
61	Angola	15,941,000
62	Kazakhstan	14,825,000
63	Cambodia	14,071,000
64	Niger	13,957,000
65	Mali	13,518,000
66	Ecuador	13,228,000
67	Burkina Faso	13,228,000
68	Zimbabwe	13,010,000
69	Guatemala	12,884,000
70	Malawi	12,599,000
71	Zambia	11,668,000
72	Senegal	11,658,000
73	Cuba	11,269,000
74	Greece	11,120,000
75	Belgium	10,495,000
76	Portugal	10,419,000
77	Czech Republic	10,220,000
78	Tunisia	10,102,000
79	Hungary	10,098,000
80	Serbia [6]	9,778,991
81	Chad	9,755,000
82	Belarus	9,749,000
83	Guinea	9,402,000
84	Bolivia	9,182,000
85	Sweden	9,041,000
86	Rwanda	9,038,000
87	Dominican Republic	8,895,000
88	Haiti	8,528,000
89	Benin	8,439,000
90	Azerbaijan	8,411,000
91	Somalia	8,228,000
92	Austria	8,189,000
93	Bulgaria	7,726,000
94	Burundi	7,548,000
95	Switzerland	7,252,000
96	Honduras	7,205,000
97	Hong Kong (PR China)	7,041,000
98	El Salvador	6,881,000
99	Israel	6,725,000
100	Tajikistan	6,507,000
101	Paraguay	6,158,000
102	Togo	6,145,000
103	Laos	5,924,000
104	Papua New Guinea	5,887,000
105	Libya	5,853,000
106	Jordan	5,703,000
107	Tibet (PR China)	5,700,000
108	Sierra Leone	5,525,000
109	Nicaragua	5,487,000
110	Denmark	5,431,000
111	Slovakia	5,401,000
112	Kyrgyzstan	5,264,000
113	Finland [7]	5,249,000
114	Turkmenistan	4,833,000
115	Norway [8]	4,620,000
116	Croatia	4,551,000
117	United Arab Emirates	4,496,000
118	Georgia	4,474,000
119	Eritrea	4,401,000
120	Costa Rica	4,327,000
121	Singapore	4,326,000
122	Moldova	4,206,000
123	Ireland	4,148,000
123	Central African Republic	4,038,000
124	New Zealand	4,028,000
125	Republic of the Congo	3,999,000
126	Puerto Rico (US)	3,955,000
127	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,907,000
128	Palestinian territories	3,702,000
129	Lebanon	3,577,000
130	Uruguay	3,463,000
131	Lithuania	3,431,000
132	Liberia	3,283,000
133	Panama	3,232,000
134	Albania	3,130,000
135	Mauritania	3,069,000
136	Armenia	3,016,000
137	Kuwait	2,687,000
138	Jamaica	2,651,000
139	Mongolia	2,646,000
140	Oman	2,567,000
141	Latvia	2,307,000
142	Bhutan [9]	2,163,000
143	Republic of Macedonia	2,034,000
144	Namibia	2,031,000
145	Slovenia	1,967,000
146	Lesotho	1,795,000
147	Botswana	1,765,000
148	Guinea-Bissau	1,586,000
149	The Gambia	1,517,000
150	Gabon	1,384,000
151	Estonia	1,330,000
152	Trinidad and Tobago	1,305,000
153	Mauritius [10]	1,245,000
154	Swaziland	1,032,000
155	East Timor	947,000
156	Fiji	848,000
157	Cyprus [11]	835,000
158	Qatar	813,000
159	Comoros [12]	798,000
160	Djibouti	793,000
161	Réunion (France)	785,000
162	Guyana	751,000
163	Bahrain	727,000
164	Montenegro [13]	620,145
165	Cape Verde	507,000
166	Equatorial Guinea	504,000
167	Solomon Islands	478,000
168	Luxembourg	465,000
169	Macau (PR China)	460,000
170	Suriname	449,000
171	Guadeloupe (France)	448,000
172	Malta	402,000
173	Martinique (France)	396,000
174	Brunei	374,000
175	Western Sahara	341,000
176	Maldives	329,000
177	The Bahamas	323,000
178	Iceland	295,000
179	Belize	270,000
180	Barbados	270,000
181	French Polynesia (France)	257,000
182	New Caledonia (France)	237,000
183	Vanuatu	211,000
184	French Guiana (France)	187,000
185	Samoa	185,000
186	Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)	183,000
187	Guam (US)	170,000
188	Saint Lucia	161,000
189	São Tomé and Príncipe	157,000
190	Channel Islands (UK) [14]	149,000
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	119,000
192	U.S. Virgin Islands (US)	112,000
193	Federated States of Micronesia	110,000
194	Grenada	103,000
195	Tonga	102,000
196	Aruba (Netherlands)	99,000
197	Kiribati	99,000
198	Antigua and Barbuda	81,000
199	Northern Mariana Islands (US)	81,000
200	Seychelles	81,000
201	Dominica	79,000
202	Isle of Man	77,000
203	Andorra	67,000
204	American Samoa (US)	65,000
205	Bermuda (UK)	64,000
206	Marshall Islands	62,000
207	Greenland (Denmark)	57,000
208	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	47,000
209	Cayman Islands (UK)	45,000
210	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43,000
211	Monaco	35,000
212	Liechtenstein	35,000
213	San Marino	28,000
214	Gibraltar (UK)	28,000
215	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	26,000
216	British Virgin Islands (UK)	22,000
217	Palau	20,000
218	Cook Islands (NZ)	18,000
219	Wallis and Futuna (France)	15,000
220	Nauru	14,000
221	Anguilla (UK)	12,000
222	Tuvalu	10,000
223	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (France)	6,000
224	Saint Helena (UK) [15]	5,000
225	Montserrat (UK)	4,000
226	Falkland Islands (UK)	3,000
227	Niue (NZ)	1,000
228	Tokelau (NZ)	1,000
229	Vatican City	783
230	Pitcairn Islands (UK)	67

Map of countries by population for the year 2005 (U.N. source)

See also

• List of countries
• List of countries by area
• List of countries by past and future population
• List of countries by population
• List of countries by population in 1900
• List of countries by population in 2000
• List of countries by population in 2010
• List of continents by population
• List of religious populations
• World population
• Human geography

Notes

1. U.N. World Population Prospects (2004 revision)
2. Includes data from Jammu and Kashmir (India-administered), Azad Kashmir (Pakistan-administered), and Aksai Chin (PRC-administered).
3. "National Intercensal Tables: 2000–2010". www.census.gov.
4. Includes Christmas Island (1,508), Cocos (Keeling) Islands (628), and Norfolk Island (1,828).
5. The figure from the National Institute of Statistics in Madagascar does not agree with the UN figure. Latest estimate is from 2004, extrapolation gives about 17,400,000 in 2005 Archived 2003-03-12 at the Wayback Machine .
6. Geohive.com Archived 2009-02-10 at the Wayback Machine : 1991 Census figure including Kosovo (with 1.96 million).
7. Includes Åland
8. Includes Svalbard (2,701) and Jan Mayen Island.
9. The figure from the government of Bhutan does not agree with the UN figure. The 2005 Census figure is 672,425.
10. Includes Agalega, Rodrigues and St. Brandon.
11. Estimated total population of both Greek and Turkish controlled areas. The Statistical Institute of the Republic of Cyprus shows a population of 749,200 (2004 Census). The 2006 census of the Turkish controlled area (TRNC) shows a population of 264,172.
12. Includes the island of Mayotte (with a population in 2002 of 160,265).
13. Figure from the 2003 census Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine .
14. Consists of the bailiwicks of Guernsey (with a population at the 2001 census Archived 2009-11-13 at the Wayback Machine of 62,101) and Jersey (with a population at the 2001 census Archived 2006-08-23 at the Wayback Machine of 87,186).
15. Includes Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

External links

• United Nations Analytical Report for the 2004 revision of World Population Prospects – includes details of methodology and sources used for the population estimates above.
• Population clocks & projected growth charts for all countries