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This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 2015 (rounded to the nearest 1,000). The figures are estimates for the United Nations (UN) "2015 annual statistics", which lists more than 100,000 population by country and territory.
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 2015 (UN estimate) | Change from 2010* | Area (km2) [1] | Population density |
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– | World | 7,379,797,139 | |||
1 | China | 1,376,048,943 | 9,596,961 | 143.4 | |
2 | India [2] | 1,311,050,527 | 3,287,263 | 398.8 | |
3 | United States | 321,418,820 | 9,833,520 | 32.7 | |
4 | Indonesia | 257,563,815 | 1,904,569 | 135.2 | |
5 | Brazil | 207,847,528 | 8,515,767 | 24.4 | |
6 | Pakistan | 188,924,874 | 881,913 | 214.2 | |
7 | Nigeria | 182,201,962 | 923,768 | 197.2 | |
8 | Bangladesh | 160,995,642 | 147,570 | 1091 | |
9 | Russia | 143,456,918 | 17,075,200 | 8.4 | |
10 | Mexico | 127,017,224 | 1 | 1,972,550 | 64.4 |
11 | Japan | 126,573,481 | 1 | 377,972 | 334.9 |
12 | Philippines | 100,981,437 | 343,448 | 294 | |
13 | Ethiopia | 99,390,750 | 1 | 1,104,300 | 90 |
14 | Vietnam | 91,508,084 | 1 | 331,230.8 | 276.3 |
15 | Egypt | 83,483,000 | 1 | 1,010,408 | 82.6 |
16 | Iran | 79,109,272 | 1,648,195 | 48 | |
17 | Germany | 78,728,000 | 1 | 357,168 | 220.4 |
18 | Turkey | 77,266,814 | 783,356 | 98.6 | |
19 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 76,244,544 | 2,345,409 | 32.5 | |
20 | Thailand | 67,959,359 | 513,120 | 132.4 | |
21 | United Kingdom | 64,715,810 | 1 | 242,495 | 266.9 |
22 | France | 64,395,345 | 1 | 640,679 | 100.5 |
23 | Italy | 60,340,328 | 1 | 301,338 | 200.2 |
24 | Myanmar | 59,780,000 | 676,578 | 88.4 | |
25 | South Africa | 49,991,300 | 1 | 1,221,037 | 40.9 |
26 | South Korea | 49,410,366 | 1 | 100,210 | 493.1 |
27 | Spain | 45,989,016 | 2 | 505,990 | 90.9 |
28 | Ukraine | 45,782,592 | 1 | 603,628 | 75.8 |
29 | Colombia | 45,508,205 | 1 | 1,141,748 | 39.9 |
30 | Tanzania | 43,187,823 | 2 | 947,303 | 45.6 |
31 | Sudan | 42,338,426 | 2 | 1,886,068 | 22.4 |
32 | Kenya | 40,862,900 | 2 | 580,367 | 70.4 |
33 | Argentina | 40,518,951 | 3 | 2,780,400 | 14.6 |
34 | Poland | 38,167,329 | 3 | 312,679 | 122.1 |
35 | Algeria | 35,978,000 | 2,381,741 | 15.1 | |
36 | Canada | 34,108,752 | 9,984,670 | 3.4 | |
37 | Iraq | 32,481,000 | 3 | 437,072 | 74.3 |
38 | Morocco | 31,894,000 | 1 | 710,850 | 44.9 |
39 | Uganda | 31,784,600 | 241,038 | 131.9 | |
40 | Peru | 29,461,933 | 1 | 1,285,216 | 22.9 |
41 | Venezuela | 28,833,845 | 2 | 716,445 | 40.2 |
42 | Malaysia | 28,334,135 | 3 | 330,803 | 85.7 |
43 | Nepal | 28,043,744 | 1 | 147,181 | 190.5 |
44 | Uzbekistan | 28,001,400 | 448,978 | 62.4 | |
45 | Saudi Arabia | 27,136,977 | 1 | 2,149,690 | 12.6 |
46 | Afghanistan | 24,485,600 | 8 | 652,864 | 37.5 |
47 | North Korea | 24,325,701 | 120,540 | 201.8 | |
48 | Ghana | 24,223,431 | 1 | 239,567 | 101.1 |
49 | Taiwan | 23,162,120 | 1 | 36,197 | 639.9 |
50 | Yemen | 23,153,982 | 1 | 527,968 | 43.9 |
51 | Mozambique | 22,416,881 | 4 | 801,590 | 28 |
52 | Australia [3] | 22,299,800 | 1 | 7,692,024 | 2.9 |
53 | Cote d'Ivoire | 21,570,746 | 4 | 322,463 | 66.9 |
54 | Romania | 21,462,186 | 4 | 238,397 | 90 |
55 | Sri Lanka | 20,653,000 | 3 | 65,610 | 314.8 |
56 | Syria | 20,619,000 | 2 | 185,180 | 111.3 |
57 | Madagascar | 20,146,442 | 1 | 587,041 | 34.3 |
58 | Cameroon | 19,958,352 | 475,442 | 42 | |
59 | Angola | 18,992,708 | 2 | 1,246,700 | 15.2 |
60 | Chile | 17,094,270 | 756,096 | 22.6 | |
61 | Netherlands | 16,574,989 | 2 | 41,543 | 399 |
62 | Kazakhstan | 16,442,000 | 2,724,900 | 6 | |
63 | Burkina Faso | 15,730,977 | 4 | 274,200 | 57.4 |
64 | Mali | 15,370,000 | 1 | 1,240,192 | 12.4 |
65 | Niger | 15,203,822 | 1 | 1,267,000 | 12 |
66 | Ecuador | 14,483,499 | 283,561 | 51.1 | |
67 | Guatemala | 14,361,666 | 2 | 108,889 | 131.9 |
68 | Cambodia | 14,302,779 | 5 | 181,035 | 79 |
69 | Malawi | 13,947,592 | 1 | 118,484 | 117.7 |
70 | Zambia | 13,257,269 | 1 | 752,618 | 17.6 |
71 | Zimbabwe | 12,644,041 | 3 | 390,757 | 32.4 |
72 | Senegal | 12,509,434 | 196,712 | 63.6 | |
73 | Chad | 11,714,904 | 8 | 1,284,000 | 9.1 |
74 | Greece | 11,305,118 | 131,957 | 85.7 | |
75 | Cuba | 11,241,161 | 2 | 109,884 | 102.3 |
76 | Belgium | 10,839,905 | 1 | 30,528 | 355.1 |
77 | Portugal | 10,637,713 | 1 | 92,212 | 115.4 |
78 | Tunisia | 10,547,100 | 163,610 | 64.5 | |
79 | Czech Republic | 10,506,813 | 2 | 78,866 | 133.2 |
80 | Bolivia | 10,426,154 | 4 | 1,098,581 | 9.5 |
81 | Rwanda | 10,412,820 | 5 | 26,338 | 395.4 |
82 | Guinea | 10,323,755 | 1 | 245,836 | 42 |
83 | Hungary | 10,014,324 | 4 | 93,030 | 107.6 |
84 | Dominican Republic | 9,884,371 | 3 | 48,315 | 204.6 |
85 | Haiti | 9,855,000 | 3 | 27,750 | 355.1 |
86 | Belarus | 9,480,178 | 4 | 207,595 | 45.7 |
87 | Somalia | 9,358,602 | 4 | 637,657 | 14.7 |
88 | Sweden | 9,340,682 | 3 | 450,295 | 20.7 |
89 | Benin | 9,211,741 | 114,763 | 80.3 | |
90 | Azerbaijan | 8,997,586 | 86,600 | 103.9 | |
91 | Burundi | 8,518,862 | 3 | 27,834 | 306.1 |
92 | Austria | 8,375,290 | 83,879 | 99.8 | |
93 | United Arab Emirates | 8,264,070 | 24 | 83,600 | 98.9 |
94 | Honduras | 8,045,990 | 2 | 112,492 | 71.5 |
95 | Switzerland | 7,785,806 | 41,285 | 188.6 | |
96 | Israel | 7,623,600 | 3 | 22,072 | 345.4 |
97 | Tajikistan | 7,616,400 | 3 | 143,100 | 53.2 |
98 | Bulgaria | 7,563,710 | 5 | 110,993.6 | 68.1 |
99 | Serbia | 7,291,436 | 19 | 77,474 | 94.1 |
100 | Hong Kong | 7,024,200 | 3 | 2,755 | 2549.6 |
101 | Papua New Guinea | 6,744,955 | 3 | 462,840 | 0 |
102 | Libya | 6,545,619 | 3 | 1,759,541 | 0 |
103 | Paraguay | 6,459,727 | 2 | 406,752 | 0 |
104 | Laos | 6,230,200 | 1 | 237,955 | 0 |
105 | El Salvador | 6,194,126 | 7 | 21,041 | 0 |
106 | Togo | 6,191,155 | 4 | 56,785 | 0 |
107 | Jordan | 6,113,000 | 1 | 89,341 | 0 |
108 | Sierra Leone | 5,835,664 | 71,740 | 0 | |
109 | Nicaragua | 5,822,265 | 130,375 | 0 | |
110 | Denmark | 5,534,738 | 42,931 | 0 | |
111 | Turkmenistan | 5,479,800 | 3 | 491,210 | 0 |
112 | Slovakia | 5,424,925 | 1 | 49,035 | 0 |
113 | Kyrgyzstan | 5,418,300 | 1 | 199,951 | 0 |
114 | Finland [4] | 5,351,427 | 1 | 338,424 | 0 |
115 | Eritrea | 5,223,994 | 4 | 117,600 | 0 |
116 | Singapore | 5,076,700 | 5 | 721.5 | 0 |
117 | Norway [5] | 4,858,199 | 2 | 385,203 | 0 |
118 | Costa Rica | 4,563,539 | 2 | 51,100 | 0 |
119 | Central African Republic | 4,505,945 | 4 | 622,984 | 0 |
120 | Ireland | 4,467,854 | 3 | 70,273 | 0 |
121 | Georgia | 4,436,391 | 3 | 69,700 | 0 |
122 | Croatia | 4,425,747 | 6 | 56,594 | 0 |
123 | New Zealand | 4,367,800 | 1 | 268,021 | 0 |
124 | Liberia | 4,101,767 | 8 | 111,369 | 0 |
125 | Palestine | 4,048,403 | 3 | 6,020 | 0 |
126 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3,844,046 | 1 | 51,129 | 0 |
127 | Lebanon | 3,785,655 | 2 | 10,452 | 0 |
128 | Republic of the Congo | 3,758,678 | 3 | 342,000 | 0 |
129 | Puerto Rico | 3,721,978 | 3 | 9,104 | 0 |
130 | Kuwait | 3,566,437 | 7 | 17,818 | 0 |
131 | Moldova | 3,563,695 | 33,846 | 0 | |
132 | Panama | 3,504,483 | 75,417 | 0 | |
133 | Uruguay | 3,356,584 | 176,215 | 0 | |
134 | Lithuania | 3,329,039 | 65,300 | 0 | |
135 | Armenia | 3,249,482 | 29,743 | 0 | |
136 | Mauritania | 3,217,383 | 1,030,000 | 0 | |
137 | Albania | 3,195,000 | 28,748 | 0 | |
138 | Mongolia | 2,780,800 | 1,566,000 | 0 | |
139 | Oman | 2,773,479 | 309,500 | 0 | |
140 | Jamaica | 2,701,200 | 10,991 | 0 | |
141 | Latvia | 2,248,374 | 64,589 | 0 | |
142 | Namibia | 2,212,037 | 825,615 | 0 | |
143 | Kosovo | 2,208,107 | 10,908 | 0 | |
144 | Macedonia | 2,052,722 | 25,713 | 0 | |
145 | Slovenia | 2,046,976 | 20,273 | 0 | |
146 | Botswana | 2,029,307 | 581,730 | 0 | |
147 | Lesotho | 1,891,830 | 30,355 | 0 | |
148 | Gambia | 1,750,732 | 10,689 | 0 | |
149 | Qatar | 1,699,435 | 11,581 | 0 | |
150 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,647,380 | 36,125 | 0 | |
151 | Gabon | 1,501,266 | 267,667 | 0 | |
152 | Estonia | 1,340,127 | 45,227 | 0 | |
153 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,317,714 | 5,131 | 0 | |
154 | Equatorial Guinea | 1,313,000 | 28,050 | 0 | |
155 | Mauritius [6] | 1,283,415 | 2,040 | 0 | |
156 | Bahrain | 1,234,571 | 765.3 | 0 | |
157 | Timor-Leste | 1,149,028 | 0 | ||
158 | Cyprus [7] | 1,102,677 | 0 | ||
159 | Swaziland | 1,055,506 | 0 | ||
160 | Djibouti | 879,053 | 0 | ||
161 | Fiji | 850,700 | 0 | ||
162 | Réunion | 828,054 | 0 | ||
163 | Guyana | 761,442 | 0 | ||
164 | Bhutan | 695,822 | 0 | ||
165 | Comoros | 675,000 | 0 | ||
166 | Montenegro | 616,411 | 0 | ||
167 | Macau | 552,300 | 0 | ||
168 | Suriname | 531,170 | 0 | ||
169 | Solomon Islands | 530,669 | 0 | ||
170 | Western Sahara | 530,000 | 0 | ||
171 | Cape Verde | 512,582 | 0 | ||
172 | Luxembourg | 502,066 | 0 | ||
173 | Brunei | 414,400 | 0 | ||
174 | Malta | 414,372 | 0 | ||
175 | Guadeloupe | 404,394 | 0 | ||
176 | Martinique | 399,637 | 0 | ||
177 | Bahamas | 353,658 | 0 | ||
178 | Maldives | 319,738 | 0 | ||
179 | Iceland | 317,630 | 0 | ||
180 | Belize | 312,971 | 0 | ||
181 | Barbados | 276,300 | 0 | ||
182 | French Polynesia | 267,000 | 0 | ||
183 | New Caledonia | 248,000 | 0 | ||
184 | Vanuatu | 245,036 | 0 | ||
185 | French Guiana | 232,223 | 0 | ||
186 | Mayotte | 202,000 | 0 | ||
187 | Samoa | 183,123 | 0 | ||
188 | Guam | 180,865 | 0 | ||
189 | Saint Lucia | 174,000 | 0 | ||
190 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 165,397 | 0 | ||
191 | Curacao | 142,180 | 0 | ||
192 | Grenada | 109,553 | 0 | ||
193 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 109,284 | 0 | ||
194 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 106,267 | 0 | ||
195 | Tonga | 103,365 | 0 | ||
196 | Micronesia | 102,624 | 0 | ||
197 | Aruba | 101,484 | 0 | ||
198 | Kiribati | 100,835 | 0 | ||
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