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List of countries and dependencies in the world ranked by population, from the most populated. Growth rate, median age, fertility rate, area, density, population density, urbanization, urban population, share of world population.
234 countries. Not surprisingly, the largest countries in the world in terms of population are China and India, with both countries now having populations of well over a billion. The United States comes in third with just under 325 million residents.
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.
Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. Source HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
China is currently the most populous country in the world, with a population estimated at more than 1.42 billion as of September 2022. Only one other country in the world boasts a population of more than 1 billion people: India, whose population is estimated to be 1.41 billion people—and rising.
Find the latest data on the world's population from the World Bank.
It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present for 237 countries or areas, underpinned by analyses of historical demographic trends.
