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This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, estimated for the year 2005. For a graphical version of this list, see List of countries by population (graphical).

Only the 191 United Nations member states, plus the Republic of China (Taiwan), Vatican City, and Western Sahara are numbered; other territories and intergovernmental blocs are included for purposes of comparison.

Rank Country Population[1]
— World 6,446,000,000
1 People's Republic of China 1,306,313,812[3]
2 India 1,102,600,000
— African Union 850,000,000
— European Union 463,148,224
3 United States 297,200,000[4]
4 Indonesia 241,973,879
5 Brazil 186,112,794[5][6]
6 Pakistan 162,419,946
7 Bangladesh 144,319,628
8 Russia 143,420,309
9 Nigeria 128,771,988[5]
10 Japan 127,417,244
11 Mexico 106,202,903
12 Philippines 87,857,473
13 Vietnam 83,535,576
14 Germany 82,468,000[7]
15 Egypt 77,505,756
16 Ethiopia 73,053,286[5]
17 Turkey 69,660,559
18 Iran 68,017,860
19 Thailand 65,444,371[5]
20 France 60,656,178[8]
21 United Kingdom 60,441,457
22 Democratic Republic of the Congo 60,085,804[5]
23 Italy 58,462,375
24 South Korea 48,422,644
25 Ukraine 47,425,336
26 South Africa 44,344,136[5]
27 Spain 43,209,511[9]
28 Colombia 42,954,279
29 Myanmar 42,909,464[5]
30 Sudan 40,187,486
31 Argentina 39,537,943
32 Poland 38,635,144
33 Tanzania 36,766,356[5]
34 Kenya 33,829,590[5]
35 Morocco 32,725,847
36 Algeria 32,531,853
37 Canada 32,300,000 *
38 Afghanistan 29,928,987
39 Peru 27,925,628
40 Nepal 27,676,547
41 Uganda 27,269,482[5]
42 Uzbekistan 26,851,195
43 Saudi Arabia 26,417,599[10]
44 Malaysia 26,207,102[11]
45 Iraq 26,074,906
46 Venezuela 25,375,281
47 North Korea 22,912,177
48 Republic of China (Taiwan) 22,894,384[12]
49 Romania 22,329,977
50 Ghana 21,029,853[5]
51 Yemen 20,727,063
52 Australia 20,300,000
53 Sri Lanka 20,064,776[13]
54 Mozambique 19,406,703[5][14]
55 Syria 18,448,752[15]
56 Madagascar 18,040,341
57 Côte d'Ivoire 17,298,040[5]
58 Netherlands 16,407,491
59 Cameroon 16,380,005[5]
60 Chile 16,267,278[16]
61 Kazakhstan 15,185,844
62 Guatemala 14,655,189
63 Burkina Faso 13,925,313[5]
64 Cambodia 13,607,069[5]
65 Ecuador 13,363,593
66 Zimbabwe 12,746,990[5]
67 Mali 12,291,529
68 Malawi 12,158,924[5]
69 Niger 11,665,937
70 Cuba 11,346,670
71 Zambia 11,261,795[5]
72 Angola 11,190,786
73 Senegal 11,126,832
74 Serbia and Montenegro 10,829,175
75 Greece 10,668,354
76 Portugal 10,566,212
77 Belgium 10,364,388
78 Belarus 10,300,483
79 Czech Republic 10,241,138
80 Hungary 10,084,000[2]
81 Tunisia 10,074,951
82 Chad 9,826,419
83 Guinea 9,467,866
84 Sweden 9,001,774
85 Dominican Republic 8,950,034
86 Bolivia 8,857,870
87 Somalia 8,591,629[17]
88 Rwanda 8,440,820[5]
89 Austria 8,184,691
90 Haiti 8,121,622[5]
91 Azerbaijan 7,911,974
92 Switzerland 7,489,370
93 Benin 7,460,025[5]
94 Bulgaria 7,450,349
95 Tajikistan 7,163,506
96 Honduras 6,975,204[5]
97 Israel 6,955,000[18]
— Hong Kong SAR (PRC) 6,898,686
98 El Salvador 6,704,932
99 Burundi 6,370,609[5]
100 Paraguay 6,347,884
101 Laos 6,217,141
102 Sierra Leone 6,017,643
103 Libya 5,765,563[19]
104 Jordan 5,759,732
105 Togo 5,681,519[5]
106 Papua New Guinea 5,545,268
107 Nicaragua 5,465,100
108 Denmark 5,432,335
109 Slovakia 5,431,363
110 Finland 5,223,442
111 Kyrgyzstan 5,146,281
112 Turkmenistan 4,952,081
113 Georgia 4,677,401
114 Norway 4,593,041
115 Eritrea 4,561,599
116 Croatia 4,495,904
117 Moldova 4,455,421
118 Singapore 4,425,720
119 Republic of Ireland 4,130,700[29]
120 New Zealand 4,108,267[20]
121 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,025,476
122 Costa Rica 4,016,173
— Puerto Rico (USA) 3,916,632
123 Lebanon 3,826,018
124 Central African Republic 3,799,897[5]
125 Lithuania 3,596,617
126 Albania 3,563,112
127 Liberia 3,482,211
128 Uruguay 3,415,920
129 Mauritania 3,086,859
130 Panama 3,039,150
131 Republic of the Congo 3,039,126[5]
132 Oman 3,001,583[21]
133 Armenia 2,982,904
134 Mongolia 2,791,272
135 Jamaica 2,731,832
136 United Arab Emirates 2,563,212[22]
— West Bank 2,385,615[23]
137 Kuwait 2,335,648[24]
138 Latvia 2,290,237
139 Bhutan 2,232,291[25]
140 Macedonia 2,045,262
141 Namibia 2,030,692[5]
142 Slovenia 2,001,114[30]
143 Lesotho 1,867,035[5]
144 Botswana 1,640,115[5]
145 The Gambia 1,593,256
146 Guinea-Bissau 1,416,027
147 Gabon 1,389,201[5]
— Gaza Strip 1,376,289
148 Estonia 1,332,893
149 Mauritius 1,230,602
150 Swaziland 1,173,900[5]
151 Trinidad and Tobago 1,088,644
152 East Timor 1,040,880[26]
153 Fiji 893,354
154 Qatar 863,051
155 Cyprus 780,133
— Réunion 776,948
156 Guyana 765,283[5]
157 Bahrain 688,345[27]
158 Comoros 671,247
159 Solomon Islands 538,032
160 Equatorial Guinea 535,881
161 Djibouti 476,703
162 Luxembourg 468,571
— Macau SAR (PRC) 449,198
— Guadeloupe 448,713
163 Suriname 438,144
— Martinique 432,900
164 Cape Verde 418,224
165 Malta 398,534
166 Brunei 372,361
167 Maldives 349,106
168 The Bahamas 301,790[5]
169 Iceland 296,737
170 Belize 279,457
171 Barbados 279,254
172 Western Sahara 273,008
— French Polynesia 270,485
— Netherlands Antilles 219,958
— New Caledonia 216,494
173 Vanuatu 205,754
— French Guiana 195,506
— Mayotte 193,633
174 São Tomé and Príncipe 187,410
175 Samoa 177,287
— Guam 168,564
176 Saint Lucia 166,312
177 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 117,534
178 Tonga 112,422
— U.S. Virgin Islands 108,708
179 Federated States of Micronesia 108,105
180 Kiribati 103,092
— Jersey 90,812
181 Grenada 89,502
182 Seychelles 81,188
— Northern Mariana Islands 80,362
— Isle of Man 75,049
— Aruba 71,566
183 Andorra 70,549
184 Dominica 69,029
185 Antigua and Barbuda 68,722
— Bermuda 65,365
— Guernsey 65,228
186 Marshall Islands 59,071
— American Samoa 57,881
— Greenland 56,375
— Faroe Islands 46,962
— Cayman Islands 44,270
187 Saint Kitts and Nevis 38,958
188 Liechtenstein 33,717
189 Monaco 32,409
190 San Marino 28,880
— Gibraltar 27,884
— British Virgin Islands 22,643
— Cook Islands 21,388
— Turks and Caicos Islands 20,556
191 Palau 20,303
— Wallis and Futuna 16,025
— Anguilla 13,254
192 Nauru 13,048
193 Tuvalu 11,636
— Montserrat 9,341[28]
— Saint Helena 7,460
— Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 7,012
— Falkland Islands 2,967
— Svalbard 2,701
— Niue 2,166
— Norfolk Island 1,828
— Tokelau 1,405
194 Vatican City 921
— Cocos (Keeling) Islands 628
— Christmas Island 361
— Pitcairn Islands 46
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Notes

  • 1. ^  All estimates are for July 2005 by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's The World Factbook [1], except where noted below.
  • 2. ^  Data for the end of July 2005 by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office [2]
  • 3. ^  Does not include Hong Kong, Macau or the territories administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan, Pescadores, Quemoy and Matsu)
  • 4. ^  Estimate for September 18, 2005 by the U.S. Census Bureau [3]
  • 5. ^  Estimates for this country take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
  • 6. ^  Brazil took a count in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census
  • 7. ^  Estimate for first quarter of 2005 by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany [4]
  • 8. ^  Only includes the geographical area of Metropolitan France
  • 9. ^  Estimate for July 1 2005 by Spain's National Statistics Institute [5]
  • 10. ^  Includes 5,576,076 non-nationals
  • 11. ^  Estimate by Department of Statistics Malaysia [6], metholodgy used explained here [7]; CIA World Factbook estimate July 2005: 23,953,136
  • 12. ^  Includes Taiwan, Pescadores, Quemoy and Matsu, which are claimed by the People's Republic of China
  • 13. ^  Since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island; as of yearend 2000, approximately 65,000 were housed in 131 refugee camps in south India, another 40,000 lived outside the Indian camps, and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West
  • 14. ^  The 1997 Mozambican census reported a population of 16,099,246
  • 15. ^  In addition, about 40,000 people live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - 20,000 Arabs (18,000 Druze and 2,000 Alawites) and about 20,000 Israeli settlers
  • 16. ^  Estimate for June 30 2005 by Chile's Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas [8]
  • 17. ^  This estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare
  • 18. ^  Estimate for October 1, 2005 by the Israeli Bureau of Statistics. Includes about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, about 20,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem. Does not include 188,000 foreign workers.
  • 19. ^  Includes 166,510 non-nationals
  • 20. ^  Estimated resident population from Statistics New Zealand's Population Clock.
  • 21. ^  Includes 577,293 non-nationals
  • 22. ^  Includes an estimated 1,606,079 non-nationals; the 17 December 1995 census presents a total population figure of 2,377,453, and there are estimates of 3.44 million for 2002
  • 23. ^  In addition, there are about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem; estimate for July 2004 by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's The World Factbook[9]
  • 24. ^  Includes 1,291,354 non-nationals
  • 25. ^  Other estimates range as low as 810,000
  • 26. ^  Other estimates range as low as 800,000
  • 27. ^  Includes 235,108 non-nationals
  • 28. ^  An estimated 8,000 refugees left the island following the resumption of volcanic activity in July 1995; some have returned
  • 29. ^  Estimated resident population at April 2005 published 14 September 2005 by Central Statistics Office (Ireland) [10]
  • 30. ^  Estimate for 30 June 2005, published on October 28 2005 by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia [11].
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See also


Image:Physical world.jpg Lists of countries with rankings edit
Geography

Area, Highest point, Compactness,

Demographics

Population (graphical), Population density, Life expectancy, Infant mortality rate, Fertility rate, Birth rate, Death rate, Human Development Index, Income equality, HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate, People living with HIV/AIDS, Unemployment rate, Percentage of population living in poverty,

Economy

GDP (nominal), GDP (nominal) per capita, GDP (PPP), GDP (PPP) per capita, Current account balance, Imports, Exports, External debt, Public debt, Economic Freedom,

Politics

Date of nationhood, Military expenditures, Number of active troops, Perception of corruption,

Others

Carbon dioxide emissions, Carbon dioxide emissions per capita,

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