DEFINITION
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin.
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
China :
1,304,500,000
2005 ...
#2
India :
1,094,583,000
2005 ...
#3
United States :
296,410,400
2005 ...
#4
Indonesia :
220,558,000
2005 ...
#5
Brazil :
186,404,900
2005 ...
#6
Pakistan :
155,772,000
2005 ...
#7
Russia :
143,113,600
2005 ...
#8
Bangladesh :
141,822,300
2005 ...
#9
Nigeria :
131,529,700
2005 ...
#10
Japan :
127,774,000
2005 ...
#11
Mexico :
103,089,100
2005 ...
#12
Vietnam :
83,119,000
2005 ...
#13
Philippines :
83,054,480
2005 ...
#14
Germany :
82,469,400
2005 ...
#15
Egypt :
74,032,880
2005 ...
#16
Turkey :
72,065,000
2005 ...
#17
Ethiopia :
71,256,000
2005 ...
#18
Iran :
68,251,090
2005 ...
#19
Thailand :
64,232,760
2005 ...
#20
France :
60,873,000
2005 ...
#21
United Kingdom :
60,226,500
2005 ...
#22
Italy :
58,607,050
2005 ...
#23
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
57,548,740
2005 ...
#24
Burma :
50,519,490
2005 ...
#25
Korea, South :
48,294,140
2005 ...
#26
Ukraine :
47,075,300
2005 ...
#27
South Africa :
46,888,200
2005 ...
#28
Colombia :
45,600,240
2005 ...
#29
Spain :
43,398,150
2005 ...
#30
Argentina :
38,747,150
2005 ...
#31
Tanzania :
38,328,810
2005 ...
#32
Poland :
38,165,450
2005 ...
#33
Sudan :
36,232,940
2005 ...
#34
Kenya :
34,255,720
2005 ...
#35
Algeria :
32,853,800
2005 ...
#36
Canada :
32,299,000
2005 ...
#37
Morocco :
30,168,080
2005 ...
#38
Uganda :
28,816,230
2005 ...
#39
Peru :
27,968,240
2005 ...
#40
Nepal :
27,132,630
2005 ...
#41
Venezuela :
26,577,000
2005 ...
#42
Uzbekistan :
26,167,370
2005 ...
#43
Malaysia :
25,347,370
2005 ...
#44
Iraq :
24,360,110
1999 ...
#45
Saudi Arabia :
23,118,990
2005 ...
#46
Korea, North :
22,487,660
2005 ...
#47
Ghana :
22,112,800
2005 ...
#48
Romania :
21,634,350
2005 ...
#49
Yemen :
20,974,660
2005 ...
#50
Australia :
20,329,000
2005 ...
#51
Mozambique :
19,792,300
2005 ...
#52
Sri Lanka :
19,625,380
2005 ...
#53
Syria :
19,043,380
2005 ...
#54
Madagascar :
18,605,920
2005 ...
#55
Côte d'Ivoire :
18,153,870
2005 ...
#56
Cameroon :
16,321,860
2005 ...
#57
Netherlands :
16,319,850
2005 ...
#58
Chile :
16,295,100
2005 ...
#59
Angola :
15,941,390
2005 ...
#60
Kazakhstan :
15,146,080
2005 ...
#61
Cambodia :
14,071,010
2005 ...
#62
Afghanistan :
14,006,500
1989 ...
#63
Niger :
13,956,980
2005 ...
#64
Mali :
13,518,420
2005 ...
#65
Ecuador :
13,228,420
2005 ...
#66
Burkina Faso :
13,227,840
2005 ...
#67
Zimbabwe :
13,009,530
2005 ...
#68
Malawi :
12,883,940
2005 ...
#69
Guatemala :
12,599,060
2005 ...
#70
Zambia :
11,668,460
2005 ...
#71
Senegal :
11,658,170
2005 ...
#72
Cuba :
11,269,400
2005 ...
#73
Greece :
11,104,000
2005 ...
#74
Portugal :
10,549,450
2005 ...
#75
Belgium :
10,478,650
2005 ...
#76
Czech Republic :
10,234,090
2005 ...
#77
Hungary :
10,087,050
2005 ...
#78
Tunisia :
10,029,000
2005 ...
#79
Belarus :
9,775,591
2005 ...
#80
Chad :
9,748,931
2005 ...
#81
Guinea :
9,402,098
2005 ...
#82
Bolivia :
9,182,015
2005 ...
#83
Rwanda :
9,037,690
2005 ...
#84
Sweden :
9,024,040
2005 ...
#85
Dominican Republic :
8,894,907
2005 ...
#86
Haiti :
8,527,777
2005 ...
#87
Benin :
8,438,853
2005 ...
#88
Azerbaijan :
8,388,000
2005 ...
#89
Austria :
8,233,300
2005 ...
#90
Somalia :
8,227,826
2005 ...
#91
Serbia and Montenegro :
8,064,253
2005 ...
#92
Bulgaria :
7,740,000
2005 ...
#93
Burundi :
7,547,515
2005 ...
#94
Switzerland :
7,437,100
2005 ...
#95
Honduras :
7,204,723
2005 ...
#96
Hong Kong :
6,943,600
2005 ...
#97
Israel :
6,923,600
2005 ...
#98
El Salvador :
6,880,951
2005 ...
#99
Tajikistan :
6,506,980
2005 ...
#100
Togo :
6,145,004
2005 ...
#101
Laos :
5,924,145
2005 ...
#102
Paraguay :
5,898,651
2005 ...
#103
Papua New Guinea :
5,887,138
2005 ...
#104
Libya :
5,853,452
2005 ...
#105
Sierra Leone :
5,525,478
2005 ...
#106
Jordan :
5,473,000
2005 ...
#107
Denmark :
5,415,978
2005 ...
#108
Slovakia :
5,387,000
2005 ...
#109
Finland :
5,246,100
2005 ...
#110
Nicaragua :
5,149,311
2005 ...
#111
Kyrgyzstan :
5,143,500
2005 ...
#112
Turkmenistan :
4,833,266
2005 ...
#113
Norway :
4,623,300
2005 ...
#114
United Arab Emirates :
4,533,145
2005 ...
#115
Georgia :
4,474,404
2005 ...
#116
Croatia :
4,443,350
2005 ...
#117
Eritrea :
4,401,357
2005 ...
#118
Singapore :
4,341,800
2005 ...
#119
Costa Rica :
4,327,228
2005 ...
#120
Moldova :
4,205,747
2005 ...
#121
Ireland :
4,159,100
2005 ...
#122
New Zealand :
4,098,900
2005 ...
#123
Central African Republic :
4,037,747
2005 ...
#124
Congo, Republic of the :
3,998,904
2005 ...
#125
Puerto Rico :
3,912,054
2005 ...
#126
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
3,907,074
2005 ...
#127
Lebanon :
3,576,818
2005 ...
#128
Uruguay :
3,463,197
2005 ...
#129
Lithuania :
3,414,300
2005 ...
#130
Liberia :
3,283,267
2005 ...
#131
Panama :
3,231,502
2005 ...
#132
Albania :
3,129,678
2005 ...
#133
Mauritania :
3,068,742
2005 ...
#134
Armenia :
3,016,312
2005 ...
#135
Jamaica :
2,654,500
2005 ...
#136
Oman :
2,566,981
2005 ...