Population by country, 1996

Values are UN estimates.

◀▶1996

#	Country / area	Population	1986
1	China	1.23 billion	1.07 billion
2	India	970 million	781.6 million
3	United States of America	269.5 million	242.8 million
4	Indonesia	201.5 million	168.5 million
5	Brazil	163 million	136.9 million
6	Russian Federation	148.2 million	144.1 million
7	Pakistan	136.6 million	99.9 million
8	Japan	125.8 million	121.1 million
9	Bangladesh	123.7 million	101.5 million
10	Nigeria	112.3 million	86.1 million
11	Mexico	91.7 million	75.8 million
12	Germany	82.2 million	77.9 million
13	Viet Nam	72.6 million	59.7 million
14	Philippines	71.3 million	55.9 million
15	Egypt	66.3 million	51.5 million
16	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	62.5 million	50.5 million
17	Türkiye	61.5 million	51.2 million
18	Thailand	59.5 million	50.7 million
19	Ethiopia	58.5 million	40.4 million
20	France	58.3 million	55.6 million
21	United Kingdom	58.2 million	56.7 million
22	Italy	57.1 million	56.9 million
23	Ukraine	51.5 million	51.2 million
24	Republic of Korea	45.5 million	41.4 million
25	Democratic Republic of the Congo	45 million	31.8 million
26	South Africa	44.9 million	35.6 million
27	Myanmar	42.9 million	37 million
28	Spain	40.1 million	38.7 million
29	Poland	38.4 million	37.3 million
30	Colombia	36.1 million	29.6 million
31	Argentina	35.3 million	30.6 million
32	United Republic of Tanzania	30.7 million	22.9 million
33	Canada	29.6 million	26.1 million
34	Algeria	28.8 million	22.4 million
35	Kenya	27 million	19.6 million
36	Morocco	26.6 million	22.4 million
37	Sudan	25 million	20.1 million
38	Peru	24.6 million	19.9 million
39	Uzbekistan	23.1 million	18.1 million
40	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.8 million	19.8 million
41	Romania	22.6 million	22.6 million
42	Nepal	22.5 million	17.7 million
43	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	22.4 million	17.7 million
44	China, Taiwan Province of China	21.6 million	19.7 million
45	Iraq	21.2 million	15.8 million
46	Uganda	20.9 million	15.2 million
47	Malaysia	20.6 million	15.5 million
48	Australia	18.2 million	15.9 million
49	Sri Lanka	17.7 million	15.6 million
50	Ghana	17.6 million	13.8 million
51	Afghanistan	17.4 million	11.4 million
52	Yemen	17 million	11.7 million
53	Kazakhstan	16.6 million	16.1 million
54	Mozambique	16.2 million	12.7 million
55	Netherlands	15.6 million	14.6 million
56	Côte d'Ivoire	15.1 million	10.2 million
57	Syrian Arab Republic	14.8 million	10.8 million
58	Chile	14.6 million	12.5 million
59	Madagascar	14.3 million	10.6 million
60	Angola	13.9 million	10 million
61	Saudi Arabia	13.6 million	8.4 million
62	Cameroon	13.2 million	9.9 million
63	Ecuador	11.7 million	9.4 million
64	Zimbabwe	11.1 million	8.8 million
65	Cuba	10.9 million	10.2 million
66	Greece	10.5 million	10.1 million
67	Burkina Faso	10.5 million	8.1 million
68	Guatemala	10.4 million	8 million
69	Cambodia	10.4 million	6.2 million
70	Hungary	10.3 million	10.5 million
71	Czechia	10.3 million	10.3 million
72	Mali	10.3 million	8.5 million
73	Malawi	10.2 million	7.8 million
74	Belarus	10.2 million	10 million
75	Belgium	10.1 million	9.9 million
76	Portugal	10 million	10 million
77	Niger	9.9 million	7.2 million
78	Tunisia	9.2 million	7.5 million
79	Senegal	9 million	6.8 million
80	Zambia	8.9 million	6.9 million
81	Sweden	8.8 million	8.4 million
82	Bulgaria	8.3 million	9 million
83	Dominican Republic	8 million	6.5 million
84	Austria	8 million	7.6 million
85	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	7.9 million	6.5 million
86	Serbia	7.8 million	7.9 million
87	Azerbaijan	7.8 million	6.8 million
88	Guinea	7.7 million	5.7 million
89	Haiti	7.6 million	6.3 million
90	Somalia	7.4 million	6.8 million
91	Chad	7.3 million	5.2 million
92	Switzerland	7.1 million	6.5 million
93	Benin	6.3 million	4.6 million
94	China, Hong Kong SAR	6.2 million	5.4 million
95	Burundi	6.1 million	5.1 million
96	Tajikistan	6 million	4.7 million
97	Rwanda	6 million	6.4 million
98	Honduras	5.8 million	4.4 million
99	El Salvador	5.8 million	4.9 million
100	Israel	5.4 million	4.1 million
101	Slovakia	5.4 million	5.2 million
102	South Sudan	5.3 million	4.9 million
103	Denmark	5.3 million	5.1 million
104	Finland	5.1 million	4.9 million
105	Lao People's Democratic Republic	5 million	3.8 million
106	Libya	4.9 million	4 million
107	Georgia	4.9 million	5.4 million
108	Jordan	4.8 million	2.8 million
109	Kyrgyzstan	4.7 million	4.1 million
110	Papua New Guinea	4.7 million	3.5 million
111	Nicaragua	4.7 million	3.8 million
112	Paraguay	4.6 million	3.6 million
113	Croatia	4.6 million	4.8 million
114	Togo	4.5 million	3.5 million
115	Republic of Moldova	4.4 million	4.3 million
116	Norway	4.4 million	4.2 million
117	Turkmenistan	4.2 million	3.3 million
118	Sierra Leone	4.2 million	3.7 million
119	Lebanon	4 million	3.3 million
120	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.8 million	4.3 million
121	Puerto Rico	3.7 million	3.4 million
122	New Zealand	3.7 million	3.3 million
123	Ireland	3.6 million	3.5 million
124	Lithuania	3.6 million	3.6 million
125	Singapore	3.6 million	2.7 million
126	Costa Rica	3.6 million	2.8 million
127	Central African Republic	3.4 million	2.6 million
128	Armenia	3.3 million	3.3 million
129	Albania	3.3 million	3.1 million
130	Uruguay	3.2 million	3 million
131	Congo	2.8 million	2.1 million
132	Panama	2.8 million	2.2 million
133	State of Palestine	2.7 million	1.8 million
134	Jamaica	2.5 million	2.3 million
135	United Arab Emirates	2.5 million	1.4 million
136	Latvia	2.5 million	2.6 million
137	Mongolia	2.4 million	1.9 million
138	Mauritania	2.3 million	1.7 million
139	Liberia	2.2 million	2.3 million
140	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	2.2 million	1.8 million
141	Oman	2.1 million	1.4 million
142	Eritrea	2.1 million	1.8 million
143	North Macedonia	2 million	2 million
144	Slovenia	2 million	1.9 million
145	Lesotho	2 million	1.6 million
146	Kuwait	1.7 million	1.9 million
147	Namibia	1.6 million	1.1 million
148	Botswana	1.5 million	1.1 million
149	Estonia	1.4 million	1.5 million
150	Trinidad and Tobago	1.3 million	1.2 million
151	Gambia	1.3 million	875,955
152	Mauritius	1.2 million	1 million
153	Gabon	1.1 million	868,519
154	Guinea-Bissau	1.1 million	904,838
155	Eswatini	980,435	720,506
156	Timor-Leste	880,027	701,809
157	Cyprus	871,547	737,196
158	Fiji	800,654	732,264
159	Guyana	759,567	769,948
160	Réunion	715,905	605,750
161	Djibouti	639,321	413,236
162	Montenegro	632,065	605,117
163	Bahrain	600,890	438,149
164	Equatorial Guinea	582,080	395,530
165	Bhutan	543,708	516,270
166	Qatar	521,734	374,944
167	Comoros	494,807	393,787
168	Suriname	434,227	389,674
169	Cabo Verde	421,922	349,823
170	Guadeloupe	412,037	358,372
171	Luxembourg	411,148	367,215
172	Martinique	406,658	349,328
173	China, Macao SAR	402,930	296,811
174	Solomon Islands	390,317	287,149
175	Malta	386,084	353,605
176	Bahamas	303,891	255,343
177	Brunei Darussalam	294,742	222,631
178	Iceland	267,974	242,192
179	Barbados	262,204	256,250
180	Maldives	259,582	193,446
181	French Polynesia	223,770	183,298
182	Western Sahara	215,226	154,572
183	Belize	206,956	165,672
184	New Caledonia	202,761	161,542
185	Samoa	175,295	166,886
186	Vanuatu	169,039	132,009
187	Curaçao	152,165	156,649
188	Guam	151,138	125,530
189	Saint Lucia	149,400	130,219
190	French Guiana	136,895	88,578
191	Sao Tome and Principe	135,953	109,861
192	Mayotte	126,351	67,398
193	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	113,099	108,903
194	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	110,507	90,981
195	United States Virgin Islands	107,308	101,094
196	Grenada	104,227	96,438
197	Tonga	100,252	97,983
198	Jersey	85,934	80,796
199	Kiribati	81,863	67,225
200	Seychelles	78,536	70,197
201	Aruba	77,184	63,702
202	Isle of Man	71,661	64,326
203	Dominica	69,449	71,589
204	Antigua and Barbuda	68,885	64,443
205	Andorra	63,672	44,547
206	Bermuda	59,675	55,731
207	Guernsey	59,323	55,945
208	Greenland	55,937	53,479
209	American Samoa	52,842	39,833
210	Northern Mariana Islands	49,228	31,609
211	Marshall Islands	48,529	38,518
212	Faroe Islands	43,998	45,778
213	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42,605	41,749
214	Cayman Islands	33,442	21,760
215	Monaco	31,705	28,908
216	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	31,692	20,098
217	Liechtenstein	31,256	27,198
218	Saint Martin (French part)	29,479	17,307
219	Gibraltar	27,433	28,436
220	San Marino	25,320	22,590
221	British Virgin Islands	18,058	13,495
222	Cook Islands	17,829	16,714
223	Palau	17,417	13,869
224	Turks and Caicos Islands	15,410	9,729
225	Wallis and Futuna Islands	14,263	12,866
226	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	13,574	12,423
227	Nauru	10,176	8,643
228	Anguilla	9,841	7,080
229	Tuvalu	9,312	8,137
230	Montserrat	7,923	10,968
231	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	6,434	6,296
232	Saint Helena	6,316	6,663
233	Saint Barthélemy	6,270	4,188
234	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	2,816	2,240
235	Niue	2,285	2,700
236	Tokelau	1,771	1,778
237	Holy See	702	729

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024. Includes small territories.