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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.
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.
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.
4 lip 2024 · In 2022, India overtook China as the country with the largest population in the world, and now has more than 1.44 billion people.
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.
As of today, the total population of the world is around 8.22 billion people. The first billion was reached around 1800 and in just 200 years we reached 7 billion. According to Population Division of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , these are the main milestones: 1 billion - 1804. 2 billion - 1927 (in 123 years)
With 1.429 billion inhabitants, India is the most populated country in the world. The USA is in third place in terms of population and fourth in size. Australia is in 55th place in terms of population, but with an area of 7,741,220 km² it is in sixth place worldwide.
