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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.
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.
Click on a country for details. 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.
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO ...
This page lists the current population of all the countries in the world as of November 30, 2024. It is based on the 2024 edition of World Population Prospects by the United Nations. Population projections are updated in real time.
As of 2024, 16 countries have a population above 100 million. Out of them, eight are located in Asia; four are in Africa, two in North America, and one each in Europe and South America. Viet Nam is the latest country to cross 100 mn population. Thirty-one countries have a population of more than 50 mn, while 95 have at least ten mn.
