Population by country, 2012

Values are UN estimates.

◀▶2012

#	Country / area	Population	2002
1	China	1.36 billion	1.28 billion
2	India	1.27 billion	1.09 billion
3	United States of America	315.6 million	285.6 million
4	Indonesia	251.1 million	220.6 million
5	Pakistan	205.9 million	161.4 million
6	Brazil	196.1 million	177.4 million
7	Nigeria	173.8 million	131.6 million
8	Bangladesh	154.3 million	137.9 million
9	Russian Federation	144.1 million	145.7 million
10	Japan	128 million	127.4 million
11	Mexico	116 million	100.8 million
12	Philippines	99.1 million	82.2 million
13	Ethiopia	94.5 million	70.5 million
14	Egypt	92.1 million	75.4 million
15	Viet Nam	89 million	78.4 million
16	Germany	80.9 million	82 million
17	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	78.9 million	68 million
18	Türkiye	74.6 million	66.6 million
19	Democratic Republic of the Congo	72 million	52.9 million
20	Thailand	69.2 million	64 million
21	France	63.9 million	60.1 million
22	United Kingdom	63.7 million	59.4 million
23	Italy	60.4 million	57.3 million
24	South Africa	53.3 million	47.8 million
25	Myanmar	49.6 million	46 million
26	Republic of Korea	49.4 million	47.2 million
27	Spain	47.1 million	41.4 million
28	United Republic of Tanzania	46.7 million	35.6 million
29	Ukraine	46.2 million	48.9 million
30	Colombia	45.5 million	40 million
31	Kenya	43.3 million	32.1 million
32	Argentina	42 million	37.8 million
33	Poland	38.2 million	38.2 million
34	Algeria	37.3 million	31.5 million
35	Sudan	36.5 million	28.9 million
36	Canada	34.7 million	31.4 million
37	Uganda	33.8 million	25.1 million
38	Morocco	33.1 million	29 million
39	Iraq	32.8 million	25.6 million
40	Afghanistan	30 million	20.6 million
41	Peru	29.4 million	27.1 million
42	Malaysia	29.4 million	23.8 million
43	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	29.4 million	25.2 million
44	Uzbekistan	29 million	25.2 million
45	Yemen	28 million	20.5 million
46	Nepal	27.5 million	25.1 million
47	Saudi Arabia	26.6 million	17.5 million
48	Ghana	26.4 million	20.4 million
49	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	25.2 million	23.9 million
50	Angola	24.7 million	17 million
51	Mozambique	24 million	18.7 million
52	China, Taiwan Province of China	23.3 million	22.5 million
53	Côte d'Ivoire	23.2 million	18.4 million
54	Madagascar	23.1 million	17.3 million
55	Syrian Arab Republic	23 million	17.3 million
56	Australia	22.7 million	19.5 million
57	Sri Lanka	21.1 million	19.7 million
58	Cameroon	20.5 million	15.5 million
59	Romania	20.2 million	21.9 million
60	Niger	17.5 million	12.1 million
61	Chile	17.4 million	15.8 million
62	Kazakhstan	17.2 million	15.6 million
63	Burkina Faso	16.9 million	12.5 million
64	Netherlands	16.9 million	16.2 million
65	Mali	16.7 million	12.1 million
66	Malawi	15.5 million	11.7 million
67	Ecuador	15.5 million	13 million
68	Guatemala	14.9 million	12.1 million
69	Cambodia	14.8 million	12.8 million
70	Zambia	14.7 million	10.5 million
71	Zimbabwe	13.7 million	12 million
72	Senegal	13.1 million	10.3 million
73	Chad	13 million	9 million
74	Somalia	12.3 million	9.4 million
75	Cuba	11.3 million	11.2 million
76	Greece	11.1 million	10.9 million
77	Belgium	11.1 million	10.3 million
78	Tunisia	10.9 million	9.9 million
79	Guinea	10.8 million	8.6 million
80	Rwanda	10.7 million	8.3 million
81	Portugal	10.5 million	10.4 million
82	South Sudan	10.5 million	6.4 million
83	Czechia	10.5 million	10.2 million
84	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	10.4 million	8.8 million
85	Benin	10.2 million	7.6 million
86	Dominican Republic	10 million	8.8 million
87	Haiti	10 million	8.5 million
88	Hungary	9.9 million	10.2 million
89	Burundi	9.9 million	6.7 million
90	Sweden	9.5 million	8.9 million
91	Belarus	9.5 million	9.9 million
92	Azerbaijan	9.3 million	8.3 million
93	Honduras	8.6 million	6.8 million
94	Austria	8.4 million	8.1 million
95	Papua New Guinea	8 million	5.8 million
96	Switzerland	8 million	7.2 million
97	Tajikistan	7.9 million	6.5 million
98	Jordan	7.6 million	5.6 million
99	Israel	7.5 million	6.3 million
100	Bulgaria	7.3 million	7.9 million
101	Serbia	7.3 million	7.6 million
102	United Arab Emirates	7.3 million	3.8 million
103	China, Hong Kong SAR	7.2 million	6.8 million
104	Togo	7 million	5.3 million
105	Lao People's Democratic Republic	6.5 million	5.6 million
106	Sierra Leone	6.5 million	4.9 million
107	Libya	6.1 million	5.5 million
108	El Salvador	6.1 million	6 million
109	Nicaragua	5.9 million	5.1 million
110	Paraguay	5.9 million	5.2 million
111	Turkmenistan	5.7 million	4.7 million
112	Kyrgyzstan	5.6 million	5.1 million
113	Denmark	5.6 million	5.4 million
114	Slovakia	5.4 million	5.4 million
115	Finland	5.4 million	5.2 million
116	Singapore	5.2 million	4.2 million
117	Lebanon	5.1 million	4.4 million
118	Norway	5 million	4.5 million
119	Congo	4.7 million	3.3 million
120	Costa Rica	4.6 million	4 million
121	Central African Republic	4.6 million	4 million
122	Ireland	4.6 million	3.9 million
123	New Zealand	4.4 million	3.9 million
124	Liberia	4.3 million	3.1 million
125	Croatia	4.3 million	4.3 million
126	State of Palestine	4.2 million	3.3 million
127	Georgia	3.9 million	4.2 million
128	Panama	3.7 million	3.1 million
129	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.7 million	4.2 million
130	Puerto Rico	3.7 million	3.8 million
131	Mauritania	3.6 million	2.7 million
132	Republic of Moldova	3.5 million	4.2 million
133	Oman	3.4 million	2.3 million
134	Uruguay	3.3 million	3.3 million
135	Kuwait	3.2 million	2 million
136	Eritrea	3 million	2.4 million
137	Lithuania	3 million	3.5 million
138	Armenia	2.9 million	3.1 million
139	Albania	2.9 million	3.1 million
140	Mongolia	2.8 million	2.5 million
141	Jamaica	2.8 million	2.6 million
142	Namibia	2.2 million	1.9 million
143	Botswana	2.1 million	1.7 million
144	Slovenia	2.1 million	2 million
145	Latvia	2 million	2.3 million
146	North Macedonia	2 million	2.1 million
147	Lesotho	2 million	2 million
148	Gambia	2 million	1.5 million
149	Qatar	1.9 million	694,491
150	Gabon	1.8 million	1.3 million
151	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	1.8 million	1.8 million
152	Guinea-Bissau	1.6 million	1.3 million
153	Trinidad and Tobago	1.4 million	1.3 million
154	Estonia	1.3 million	1.4 million
155	Mauritius	1.3 million	1.2 million
156	Equatorial Guinea	1.3 million	773,471
157	Bahrain	1.2 million	722,935
158	Cyprus	1.2 million	972,396
159	Timor-Leste	1.1 million	848,488
160	Eswatini	1.1 million	1.1 million
161	Djibouti	957,683	783,981
162	Fiji	914,119	853,867
163	Réunion	846,272	776,681
164	Guyana	744,526	764,089
165	Bhutan	713,277	617,685
166	Comoros	674,768	553,007
167	Montenegro	633,420	633,861
168	China, Macao SAR	581,817	449,524
169	Solomon Islands	563,102	453,418
170	Suriname	559,432	491,557
171	Luxembourg	524,801	444,243
172	Cabo Verde	511,763	463,777
173	Western Sahara	432,904	291,806
174	Malta	425,610	404,187
175	Guadeloupe	409,162	416,807
176	Brunei Darussalam	402,703	336,767
177	Martinique	392,890	414,840
178	Maldives	380,196	289,180
179	Bahamas	373,645	329,641
180	Belize	330,835	252,156
181	Iceland	319,671	286,640
182	Barbados	276,553	263,306
183	French Polynesia	272,314	245,961
184	New Caledonia	269,056	229,990
185	Vanuatu	246,124	193,438
186	French Guiana	242,316	172,554
187	Mayotte	215,759	165,771
188	Samoa	195,608	183,950
189	Sao Tome and Principe	187,560	147,967
190	Saint Lucia	172,195	160,956
191	Guam	166,468	161,860
192	Curaçao	159,706	144,857
193	Grenada	112,409	108,153
194	Kiribati	111,494	91,293
195	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109,019	113,427
196	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	107,784	112,475
197	Tonga	107,617	103,587
198	United States Virgin Islands	104,862	108,499
199	Aruba	101,373	90,909
200	Jersey	98,450	88,799
201	Seychelles	98,275	85,243
202	Antigua and Barbuda	86,810	76,587
203	Isle of Man	84,379	76,864
204	Andorra	77,708	66,042
205	Dominica	69,260	68,273
206	Bermuda	63,702	62,006
207	Guernsey	61,746	60,523
208	Greenland	56,888	56,503
209	Cayman Islands	56,370	41,796
210	American Samoa	54,713	57,086
211	Northern Mariana Islands	53,443	67,422
212	Marshall Islands	51,745	51,298
213	Faroe Islands	47,998	46,520
214	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47,012	45,941
215	Saint Martin (French part)	37,176	31,208
216	Liechtenstein	36,419	33,592
217	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	34,605	30,776
218	Monaco	34,289	32,428
219	San Marino	33,372	27,316
220	Gibraltar	31,848	27,600
221	Turks and Caicos Islands	31,382	20,030
222	British Virgin Islands	29,740	21,090
223	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	22,324	14,691
224	Palau	17,917	19,426
225	Cook Islands	17,683	14,932
226	Anguilla	13,677	11,592
227	Wallis and Futuna Islands	12,798	14,970
228	Tuvalu	10,862	9,604
229	Nauru	10,136	10,108
230	Saint Barthélemy	9,137	7,369
231	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	6,008	6,263
232	Saint Helena	5,384	5,897
233	Montserrat	4,819	4,470
234	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	3,177	3,160
235	Niue	1,753	1,961
236	Tokelau	1,609	1,872
237	Holy See	611	676

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