List of countries by population

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This is a list of countries by population. This page has the name of almost every country in the world. There is a number to the right of every country's name. This number shows how many people live in the country. Countries with the most people are at the top. Countries with the least people are at the bottom.

This list comes from a book called CIA World Factbook 2005.

Also see: List of countries, List of countries by area, List of countries by population density, List of countries by continent, List of most populous nations by 2025, List of countries by date of nationhood, Thirty most populous cities in the world

[edit] How many people live in each country

Pos	Country	Number of People
1	China Hong Kong Macau China Total	1,306,313,812 6,898,686 449,198 1,313,661,696
2	India	1,080,264,388
(3)	European Union	457,030,418
3	United States Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Northern Mariana Islands American Samoa Johnston Atoll United States Total	296,202,709 3,916,632 168,564 108,708 80,362 57,881 361 300,535,217
4	Indonesia	241,973,879
5	Brazil	186,112,794
6	Pakistan	162,419,946
7	Bangladesh	144,319,628
8	Russia	143,420,309
9	Nigeria	128,771,988
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
15	Egypt	77,505,756
16	Ethiopia	73,053,286
17	Turkey	69,660,559
18	Iran	68,017,860
19	Thailand	65,444,371
20	France Reunion Guadeloupe Martinique French Polynesia New Caledonia French Guiana Mayotte Wallis and Futuna Saint Pierre and Miquelon France Total	60,656,178 776,948 448,713 432,900 270,485 216,494 195,506 193,633 16,025 7,012 63,213,894
21	United Kingdom Jersey Isle of Man Bermuda Guernsey Cayman Islands Gibraltar British Virgin Islands Turks and Caicos Islands Anguilla Montserrat Saint Helena Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Pitcairn Islands United Kingdom Total	60,441,457 90,812 75,049 65,365 65,228 44,270 27,884 22,643 20,556 13,254 9,341 7,460 2,967 45 60,886,331
22	Democratic Republic of the Congo	60,085,804
23	Italy	58,103,033
24	South Korea	48,422,644
25	Ukraine	47,425,336
26	Burma	46,996,558
27	South Africa	44,344,136
28	Colombia	42,954,279
29	Spain	40,341,462
30	Sudan	40,187,486
31	Argentina	39,537,943
32	Poland	38,635,144
33	Tanzania	36,766,356
34	Kenya	33,829,590
35	Morocco Western Sahara Morocco Total	32,725,847 273,008 32,998,855
36	Canada	32,805,041
37	Algeria	32,531,853
38	Afghanistan	29,928,987
39	Peru	27,925,628
40	Nepal	27,676,547
41	Uganda	27,269,482
42	Uzbekistan	26,851,195
43	Saudi Arabia	26,417,599
44	Iraq	26,074,906
45	Venezuela	25,375,281
46	Malaysia	23,953,136
47	North Korea	22,912,177
48	Taiwan	22,894,384
49	Romania	22,329,977
50	Ghana	21,946,247
51	Yemen	20,727,063
52	Australia Norfolk Island Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands) Christmas Island Australia Total	20,090,437 1,828 628 361 20,093,254
53	Sri Lanka	20,064,776
54	Mozambique	19,406,703
55	Syria	18,408,752
56	Madagascar	18,040,341
57	Cote d'Ivoire	17,298,040
58	Cameroon	16,380,005
59	Netherlands Netherlands Antilles Aruba Netherlands Total	16,407,491 219,958 71,566 16,699,015
60	Chile	16,136,137
61	Kazakhstan	15,185,844
62	Cambodia	13,607,069
63	Burkina Faso	13,925,313
64	Ecuador	13,363,593
65	Malawi	12,158,924
66	Niger	11,665,937
67	Zimbabwe	12,746,990
68	Guatemala	14,655,189
69	Angola	11,190,786
70	Senegal	11,126,832
71	Mali	12,291,529
72	Cuba	11,346,670
73	Zambia	11,261,795
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	Tunisia	10,074,951
81	Israel West Bank Gaza Strip Israel Total	7,026,000 2,749,615 1,376,289 11,128,504
82	Hungary	10,006,835
83	Chad	9,826,419
84	Guinea	9,467,866
85	Dominican Republic	8,950,034
86	Sweden	9,001,774
87	Bolivia	8,857,870
88	Somalia	8,591,629
89	Rwanda	8,440,820
90	Austria	8,184,691
91	Haiti	8,121,622
92	Azerbaijan	7,911,974
93	Burundi	6,370,609
94	Benin	7,460,025
95	Switzerland	7,489,370
96	Bulgaria	7,450,349
97	Honduras	6,975,204
98	Tajikistan	7,163,506
99	El Salvador	6,704,932
100	Paraguay	6,347,884
101	Laos	6,217,141
102	Sierra Leone	6,017,643
103	Libya	5,765,563
104	Jordan	5,759,732
105	Papua New Guinea	5,545,268
106	Denmark Greenland Faroe Islands Denmark Total	5,432,335 56,375 46,962 5,535,672
107	Nicaragua	5,465,100
108	Slovakia	5,431,363
109	Togo	5,681,519
110	Finland	5,223,442
111	Kyrgyzstan	5,146,281
112	Turkmenistan	4,952,081
113	Georgia	4,677,401
114	Eritrea	4,561,599
115	Norway Svalbard Norway Total	4,593,041 2,701 4,595,742
116	Croatia	4,495,904
117	Moldova	4,455,421
118	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,025,476
119	Singapore	4,425,720
120	Central African Republic	3,799,897
121	New Zealand Cook Islands Tokelau New Zealand Total	4,092,900 21,388 1,392 4,058,241
122	Costa Rica	4,016,173
123	Ireland	4,015,676
124	Lebanon	3,826,018
125	Republic of the Congo	3,039,126
126	Lithuania	3,596,617
127	Albania	3,563,112
128	Uruguay	3,415,920
129	Panama	3,039,150
130	Mauritania	3,086,859
131	Oman	3,001,583
132	Armenia	2,982,904
133	Liberia	3,482,211
134	Mongolia	2,791,272
135	Jamaica	2,731,832
136	United Arab Emirates	2,563,212
137	Kuwait	2,335,648
138	Latvia	2,290,237
139	Bhutan	2,232,291
140	Macedonia	2,045,262
141	Lesotho	1,867,035
142	Namibia	2,030,692
143	Slovenia	2,011,070
144	Botswana	1,640,115
145	The Gambia	1,593,256
146	Guinea-Bissau	1,416,027
147	Gabon	1,389,201
148	Estonia	1,332,893
149	Mauritius	1,230,602
150	Swaziland	1,173,900
151	Trinidad and Tobago	1,088,644
152	East Timor	1,040,880
153	Fiji	893,354
154	Qatar	863,051
155	Cyprus	780,133
156	Guyana	765,283
157	Bahrain	688,345
158	Comoros	671,247
159	Solomon Islands	538,032
160	Equatorial Guinea	535,881
161	Djibouti	476,703
162	Luxembourg	468,571
163	Suriname	438,144
164	Cape Verde	418,224
165	Malta	398,534
166	Brunei	372,361
167	Maldives	349,106
168	The Bahamas	301,790
169	Iceland	296,737
170	Belize	279,457
171	Barbados	279,254
172	Vanuatu	205,754
173	Sao Tome and Principe	187,410
174	Samoa	177,287
175	Saint Lucia	166,312
176	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	117,534
177	Tonga	112,422
178	Federated States of Micronesia	108,105
179	Kiribati	103,092
180	Grenada	89,502
181	Seychelles	81,188
182	Andorra	70,549
183	Dominica	69,029
184	Antigua and Barbuda	68,722
185	Marshall Islands	59,071
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	38,958
187	Liechtenstein	33,717
188	Monaco	32,409
189	San Marino	28,880
190	Palau	20,303
191	Nauru	13,048
192	Tuvalu	11,636
193	Niue	2,166
194	Holy See (Vatican City)	921