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This list includes both countries and dependent territories. Data based on the latest United Nations Population Division estimates. Click on the name of the country or dependency for current estimates (live population clock), historical data, and projected figures.
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.
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.
Population: World Population Prospects 2022. Land Area: The World Factbook. Find the latest population data of all countries and territories in the world, including population, population density and population growth.
4 lip 2024 · Jul 4, 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. China now has the second-largest population in the...
How many countries are there in the world? Unlike other lists in our population sections, in which countries and dependencies are grouped together, here we have separated the two types in order to provide a more rigorous count of the total countries in the world and in each region.
