Population, List by Country

This page has a list of countries ranked by their total population. China and India are the world´s most populous nations with 1.34 billion and 1.21 billion habitants respectively. Both countries account for more than a third of world's population. The third most populous region is the Euro Area, with 329 Million people, if we can consider it as a block of countries. The United States, with 311 Million people, is next to follow. There are only 11 countries which population exceeds 100 Million, including the countries mentioned above, plus Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan and Mexico.

Country	Latest	2000	1990	1980	1970	1960
China	1341.00	1262.65	1135.19	981.24	818.32	667.07
India	1210.20	1015.92	849.52	687.33	547.57	434.85
Euro Area	329.58	311.62	301.61	293.37	279.12	258.14
United States	311.00	282.17	249.62	227.23	205.05	180.67
Indonesia	237.56	205.28	177.39	146.58	116.92	93.06
Brazil	190.73	174.17	149.57	121.62	95.99	72.74
Pakistan	175.00	138.08	107.98	82.73	60.61	45.85
Bangladesh	164.42	140.77	115.63	90.40	69.18	54.14
Nigeria	158.26	124.84	97.34	74.52	56.47	45.15
Russia	142.90	146.30	148.29	139.01	130.40	119.90
Japan	128.06	126.87	123.54	116.78	104.35	94.10
Mexico	112.34	97.97	83.23	67.57	50.60	36.94
Philippines	94.60	77.69	62.43	48.11	36.57	27.06
Vietnam	88.36	77.60	66.20	53.70	42.70	34.70
Egypt	84.47	70.17	57.78	44.43	35.58	27.80
Germany	81.63	82.21	79.43	78.30	77.72	72.67
Turkey	73.72	66.46	56.09	46.16	36.21	28.23
Thailand	68.14	62.35	56.67	47.26	37.19	27.64
France	65.03	58.90	56.74	53.88	50.77	45.68
United Kingdom	62.25	58.89	57.25	56.31	55.63	52.37
Italy	60.60	56.95	56.72	56.43	53.82	50.20
South Africa	49.99	44.00	35.20	27.58	22.09	17.40
South Korea	48.99	47.01	42.87	38.12	31.92	25.00
Spain	46.10	40.26	38.84	37.39	33.78	30.46
Colombia	45.90	39.77	33.20	26.89	21.33	16.01
Ukraine	45.78	49.18	51.89	50.04	47.32	42.78
Tanzania	43.19	34.13	25.45	18.66	13.60	10.07
Kenya	40.86	31.44	23.43	16.26	11.25	8.10
Argentina	40.09	36.94	32.50	28.15	24.00	20.68
Poland	38.18	38.45	38.12	35.58	32.53	29.56
Algeria	36.30	30.51	25.28	18.81	13.75	10.80
Canada	34.28	30.77	27.79	24.59	21.32	17.91
Morocco	32.38	28.83	24.81	19.57	15.31	11.63
Peru	29.80	26.00	21.78	17.33	13.19	9.93
Venezuela	28.83	24.31	19.75	15.09	10.72	7.58
Malaysia	28.50	23.27	18.10	13.76	10.85	8.14
Saudi Arabia	25.99	20.64	16.26	9.60	5.74	4.07
Ghana	23.84	19.53	14.97	11.03	8.74	6.79
Mozambique	23.40	18.25	13.54	12.14	9.45	7.65
Taiwan	23.16	22.28	20.40	17.87
Australia	22.50	19.15	17.07	14.69	12.51	10.28
Romania	21.45	22.44	23.21	22.20	20.25	18.40
Sri Lanka	20.45	18.71	17.11	14.94	12.34	9.70
Angola	18.99	14.28	10.66	7.85	6.08	5.01
Chile	17.13	15.42	13.19	11.18	9.57	7.65
Netherlands	16.62	15.93	14.95	14.15	13.04	11.49
Kazakhstan	16.54	14.88	16.35	14.90	13.11	10.00
Greece	11.33	10.92	10.16	9.64	8.79	8.33
Belgium	10.87	10.25	9.97	9.85	9.64	9.12
Portugal	10.56	10.23	9.90	9.77	9.04	8.94
Tunisia	10.55	9.56	8.15	6.38	5.13	4.22
Czech Republic	10.53	10.27	10.36	10.23	9.78	9.55
Rwanda	10.28	7.96	7.15	5.20	3.78	2.89
Bolivia	10.03	8.32	6.67	5.36	4.21	3.35
Hungary	10.00	10.21	10.37	10.71	10.34	9.98
Sweden	9.39	8.87	8.56	8.31	8.04	7.48
Austria	8.40	8.01	7.71	7.55	7.43	7.05
Switzerland	7.79	7.18	6.71	6.32	6.27	5.36
Israel	7.58	6.29	4.66	3.88	2.97	2.11
Bulgaria	7.56	8.06	8.72	8.86	8.49	7.87
Hong Kong	7.10	6.67	5.70	5.06	3.96	3.08
Paraguay	6.46	5.35	4.25	3.20	2.48	1.91
Denmark	5.56	5.34	5.14	5.12	4.93	4.58
Slovakia	5.43	5.39	5.28	4.98	4.53	4.14
Finland	5.36	5.18	4.99	4.78	4.61	4.43
Singapore	5.08	4.03	3.05	2.41	2.08	1.65
Norway	4.94	4.49	4.24	4.09	3.88	3.58
United Arab Emirates	4.71	3.24	1.87	1.02	0.22	0.09
Ireland	4.45	3.81	3.51	3.40	2.95	2.83
New Zealand	4.37	3.86	3.45	3.11	2.82	2.37
Lithuania	3.32	3.50	3.70	3.41	3.14	2.78
Mongolia	2.70	2.39	2.22	1.66	1.26	0.96
Latvia	2.24	2.37	2.67	2.54	2.37	2.13
Namibia	2.21	1.82	1.42	1.01	0.78	0.60
Slovenia	2.07	1.99	2.00	1.90	1.73	1.58
Macedonia	2.06	2.01	1.91	1.79	1.57	1.39
Botswana	1.98	1.72	1.35	0.99	0.69	0.52
Qatar	1.51	0.62	0.47	0.23	0.11	0.05
Estonia	1.34	1.37	1.57	1.48	1.37	1.22
Luxembourg	0.51	0.44	0.38	0.36	0.34	0.31
Iceland	0.32	0.28	0.25	0.23	0.20	0.18

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Global Economic News

Japan’s Trade Deficit Widens in January
Published: 2/20/2012 10:53:57 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, Ministry of Finance Japan
Japan’s trade deficit widened to a record level in January, as falling exports combined with surging imports of energy.

U.S. Annual Inflation Rate Down to 2.9% in January
Published: 2/17/2012 7:16:50 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.9 percent before seasonal adjustment

Canada's Annual Inflation Rate Up to 2.5% in January
Published: 2/17/2012 7:14:14 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Statistics Canada
Consumer prices rose 2.5% in the 12 months to January, led by increases for food and energy. The January rise followed a 2.3% increase in December.

Australia's Unemployment Rate Down to 5.1% in January
Published: 2/16/2012 1:14:57 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, ABS
Australia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.1 percentage points to 5.1 per cent in January, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Euro Area Trade Surplus Widens in December
Published: 2/15/2012 12:31:14 PM By: TradingEconomics.com, Eurostat
The first estimate for the euro area (EA17) trade in goods balance with the rest of the world in December 2011 gave a 9.7 bn euro surplus, compared with -1.7 bn in December 2010.

U.K. Unemployment Rate at 8.4% in December
Published: 2/15/2012 10:47:34 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, ONS
U.K. unemployment rate was 8.4 per cent of the economically active population, up 0.1 on the quarter. There were 2.67 million unemployed people, up 48,000 on the quarter. The unemployment rate has not been higher since 1995.

Euro Area GDP Down by 0.3% in Q4
Published: 2/15/2012 10:08:12 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, Eurostat
Euro Area GDP fell by 0.3% in both the euro area (EA17) and the EU271 during the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with the previous quarter, according to flash estimates published by Eurostat. In the third quarter of 2011, growth rates were +0.1% and +0.3% respectively.

Bank of Japan Announces New Stimulus
Published: 2/14/2012 11:38:02 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, Bank of Japan
The Bank of Japan on February 14th further eased monetary policy, increasing its asset purchase programme by 10 trillion yen to about 65 trillion yen, as it looks to end deflation.

U.K. Inflation Rate Drops to 3.6% in January
Published: 2/14/2012 11:20:43 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, ONS
U.K. prices rose at an annual rate of 3.6% in January, official figures show, slower than the 4.2% rate recorded the month earlier.

Japan GDP Contracts 0.6% in Q4
Published: 2/13/2012 11:08:06 AM By: TradingEconomics.com, Cabinet Office
Japan's economy shrank 0.6 percent in the October-December quarter compared with the previous three months as slowing global trade, a strong currency and disruption from severe floods in Thailand all took their toll.