The Most Populated Countries in the World
How many people are in the world and where do they live? The total number of humans as of 2020 is 7,524,090,000. And most of them live in Asia with the most populous independent state being China. The rapid growth of population in this region began from the 1950s. As a result, now 5 places in the top 10 are occupied by Asian countries. All other continents are represented only by one or two countries: the USA and Mexico (North America), Brazil (South America), Russia is from Europe (since most of the populace lives in the European part), and Nigeria (Africa).
List of The Most Populated Countries in the World
Rank | Country | Population |
1 | China | 1,366,990,000 |
2 | India | 1,260,160,000 |
3 | United States | 318,816,000 |
4 | Indonesia | 252,164,800 |
5 | Brazil | 203,212,000 |
6 | Pakistan | 188,020,000 |
7 | Nigeria | 178,517,000 |
8 | Bangladesh | 157,047,000 |
9 | Russia | 146,149,200 |
10 | Japan | 127,040,000 |
11 | Mexico | 119,713,203 |
12 | Philippines | 100,311,400 |
13 | Vietnam | 89,708,900 |
14 | Ethiopia | 87,952,991 |
15 | Egypt | 87,225,200 |
16 | Germany | 80,781,000 |
17 | Iran | 77,775,100 |
18 | Turkey | 76,667,864 |
19 | Congo | 69,360,000 |
20 | France | 65,991,000 |
21 | Thailand | 64,871,000 |
22 | United Kingdom | 64,105,654 |
23 | Italy | 60,780,377 |
24 | South Africa | 54,002,000 |
25 | Burma | 51,419,420 |
26 | South Korea | 50,423,955 |
27 | Colombia | 47,794,500 |
28 | Spain | 46,507,800 |
29 | Tanzania | 44,928,923 |
30 | Ukraine | 42,981,850 |
31 | Argentina | 42,669,500 |
32 | Kenya | 41,800,000 |
33 | Algeria | 38,700,000 |
34 | Poland | 38,496,000 |
35 | Sudan | 37,289,406 |
36 | Iraq | 36,004,552 |
37 | Canada | 35,540,419 |
38 | Uganda | 35,357,000 |
39 | Morocco | 33,389,800 |
40 | Peru | 30,814,175 |
41 | Saudi Arabia | 30,770,375 |
42 | Uzbekistan | 30,492,800 |
43 | Malaysia | 30,352,200 |
44 | Venezuela | 30,206,307 |
45 | Ghana | 27,043,093 |
46 | Nepal | 26,494,504 |
47 | Afghanistan | 26,023,100 |
48 | Yemen | 25,956,000 |
49 | Mozambique | 25,041,922 |
50 | North Korea | 25,027,000 |
51 | Australia | 23,612,700 |
52 | Taiwan | 23,404,243 |
53 | Ivory Coast | 23,202,000 |
54 | Syria | 21,987,000 |
55 | Madagascar | 21,263,403 |
56 | Cameroon | 20,386,799 |
57 | Sri Lanka | 20,277,597 |
58 | Romania | 19,942,642 |
59 | Angola | 19,813,179 |
60 | Chile | 17,819,054 |
61 | Burkina Faso | 17,322,796 |
62 | Kazakhstan | 17,309,000 |
63 | Niger | 17,138,707 |
64 | Netherlands | 16,869,900 |
65 | Ecuador | 15,834,700 |
66 | Guatemala | 15,806,675 |
67 | Malawi | 15,805,239 |
68 | Mali | 15,768,000 |
69 | Cambodia | 15,184,116 |
70 | Zambia | 15,023,315 |
71 | Senegal | 13,508,715 |
72 | Chad | 13,211,000 |
73 | Zimbabwe | 13,061,239 |
74 | South Sudan | 11,384,393 |
75 | Belgium | 11,207,699 |
76 | Cuba | 11,167,325 |
77 | Rwanda | 10,996,891 |
78 | Greece | 10,992,589 |
79 | Tunisia | 10,982,754 |
80 | Somalia | 10,806,000 |
81 | Haiti | 10,745,665 |
82 | Guinea | 10,628,972 |
83 | Czech Republic | 10,521,600 |
84 | Portugal | 10,477,800 |
85 | Dominican Republic | 10,378,267 |
86 | Bolivia | 10,027,254 |
87 | Benin | 9,988,068 |
88 | Hungary | 9,879,000 |
89 | Sweden | 9,705,005 |
90 | Azerbaijan | 9,477,100 |
91 | Belarus | 9,469,200 |
92 | United Arab Emirates | 9,446,000 |
93 | Burundi | 9,420,248 |
94 | Honduras | 8,725,111 |
95 | Austria | 8,527,230 |
96 | Israel | 8,222,700 |
97 | Switzerland | 8,183,800 |
98 | Tajikistan | 8,161,000 |
99 | Papua New Guinea | 7,398,500 |
100 | Bulgaria | 7,245,677 |
101 | Hong Kong | 7,234,800 |
102 | Serbia | 7,146,759 |
103 | Togo | 6,993,000 |
104 | Paraguay | 6,893,727 |
105 | Laos | 6,693,300 |
106 | Jordan | 6,636,770 |
107 | Eritrea | 6,536,000 |
108 | El Salvador | 6,401,240 |
109 | Libya | 6,253,000 |
110 | Sierra Leone | 6,205,000 |
111 | Nicaragua | 6,071,045 |
112 | Kyrgyzstan | 5,842,600 |
113 | Denmark | 5,639,719 |
114 | Singapore | 5,469,700 |
115 | Finland | 5,462,939 |
116 | Slovakia | 5,415,949 |
117 | Turkmenistan | 5,307,000 |
118 | Norway | 5,137,679 |
119 | Central African Republic | 4,709,000 |
120 | Costa Rica | 4,667,096 |
121 | Ireland | 4,609,600 |
122 | Republic of the Congo | 4,559,000 |
123 | Palestine | 4,550,368 |
124 | New Zealand | 4,530,260 |
125 | Georgia[16] | 4,490,500 |
126 | Liberia | 4,397,000 |
127 | Croatia | 4,267,558 |
128 | Oman | 4,061,083 |
129 | Lebanon | 4,036,000 |
130 | Bosnia | 3,791,622 |
131 | Panama | 3,713,312 |
132 | Puerto Rico | 3,615,086 |
133 | Moldova | 3,557,600 |
134 | Mauritania | 3,545,620 |
135 | Uruguay | 3,404,189 |
136 | Kuwait | 3,065,850 |
137 | Armenia | 3,009,800 |
138 | Mongolia | 2,974,629 |
139 | Lithuania | 2,928,897 |
140 | Albania | 2,895,947 |
141 | Jamaica | 2,717,991 |
142 | Namibia | 2,113,077 |
143 | Lesotho | 2,098,000 |
144 | Qatar | 2,077,357 |
145 | Macedonia | 2,065,769 |
146 | Slovenia | 2,064,108 |
147 | Botswana | 2,024,904 |
148 | Latvia | 1,993,300 |
149 | Gambia | 1,882,450 |
150 | Kosovo | 1,859,203 |
151 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,746,000 |
152 | Gabon | 1,711,000 |
153 | Equatorial Guinea | 1,622,000 |
154 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,328,019 |
155 | Estonia | 1,315,819 |
156 | Swaziland | 1,268,000 |
157 | Mauritius | 1,261,208 |
158 | Bahrain | 1,234,571 |
159 | Timor-Leste | 1,212,107 |
160 | Djibouti | 886,000 |
161 | Fiji | 859,178 |
162 | Cyprus | 858,000 |
163 | Réunion (France) | 840,974 |
164 | Guyana | 784,894 |
165 | Comoros | 763,952 |
166 | Bhutan | 752,220 |
167 | Montenegro | 620,029 |
168 | Macau (China) | 614,500 |
169 | Western Sahara | 586,000 |
170 | Solomon Islands | 581,344 |
171 | Luxembourg | 549,700 |
172 | Suriname | 534,189 |
173 | Cape Verde | 518,467 |
174 | Transnistria | 505,153 |
175 | Malta | 416,055 |
176 | Guadeloupe | 405,739 |
177 | Brunei | 393,372 |
178 | Martinique (France) | 386,486 |
179 | Bahamas | 368,390 |
180 | Belize | 349,728 |
181 | Maldives | 341,848 |
182 | Iceland | 327,050 |
183 | Northern Cyprus | 294,906 |
184 | Barbados | 285,000 |
185 | French Polynesia | 268,270 |
186 | Vanuatu | 264,652 |
187 | New Caledonia | 258,958 |
188 | Abkhazia | 240,705 |
189 | French Guiana | 237,549 |
190 | Mayotte | 212,645 |
191 | Samoa | 187,820 |
192 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 187,356 |
193 | Saint Lucia | 184,000 |
194 | Guam (USA) | 159,358 |
195 | Curaçao | 150,563 |
196 | Saint Vincent | 109,000 |
197 | Kiribati | 106,461 |
198 | Virgin Islands | 106,405 |
199 | Grenada | 103,328 |
200 | Tonga | 103,252 |
201 | Aruba | 101,484 |
202 | Micronesia | 101,351 |
203 | Jersey (UK) | 99,000 |
204 | Seychelles | 90,945 |
205 | Antigua and Barbuda | 86,295 |
206 | Isle of Man | 84,497 |
207 | Andorra | 76,098 |
208 | Dominica | 71,293 |
209 | Bermuda | 64,237 |
210 | Guernsey | 63,085 |
211 | Greenland | 56,483 |
212 | Marshall Islands | 56,086 |
213 | American Samoa | 55,519 |
214 | Cayman Islands | 55,456 |
215 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 55,000 |
216 | Northern Mariana Islands | 53,883 |
217 | South Ossetia | 51,547 |
218 | Faroe Islands | 48,456 |
219 | Sint Maarten | 37,429 |
220 | Liechtenstein | 37,132 |
221 | Saint Martin | 36,979 |
222 | Monaco | 36,950 |
223 | San Marino | 33,698 |
224 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 31,458 |
225 | Gibraltar (UK) | 30,001 |
226 | British Virgin Islands | 29,537 |
227 | Åland Islands | 28,502 |
228 | Caribbean Netherlands | 23,296 |
229 | Palau | 20,901 |
230 | Cook Islands (NZ) | 14,974 |
231 | Anguilla (UK) | 13,452 |
232 | Wallis and Futuna | 13,135 |
233 | Tuvalu | 11,323 |
234 | Nauru | 10,084 |
235 | Saint Barthélemy | 8,938 |
236 | Saint Pierre | 6,081 |
237 | Montserrat (UK) | 4,922 |
238 | Saint Helena | 4,000 |
239 | Falkland Islands (UK) | 3,000 |
240 | Svalbard and Jan Mayen | 2,655 |
241 | Norfolk Island | 2,302 |
242 | Christmas Island | 2,072 |
243 | Niue (NZ) | 1,613 |
244 | Tokelau (NZ) | 1,411 |
245 | Vatican City | 839 |
246 | Cocos Islands | 596 |
247 | Pitcairn Islands (UK) | 56 |
What are the 10 countries with the largest population?
Ten Countries with the Highest Population in the World. are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia and Mexico.
What is the world population ?
7.8 billion
The world population is projected to reach 9.9 billion by 2050, an increase of more than 25% from the current 2022 population of 7.8 billion. Total fertility rates are below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman in 91 countries and territories, mostly in Asia and Europe, as well as in the United States
How many countries are there in ?
Countries in the World: There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.
Which country has the smallest population ?
10 Smallest Countries in the World by Population in
- Vatican City (1000 residents)
- Nauru (10,670 residents)
- Tuvalu (11,192 residents)
- Palau (21,097 residents)
- San Marino (33,562 residents)
- Liechtenstein (37,877)
- Monaco (38,682 residents)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (53,000 residents)