Countries by Population

The most populous countries are India, China, United States. Below, all 194 sovereign countries are ranked from most to least populous — click any column heading to re-sort, or select a country for its full profile.

#	Country	Population	Continent
1	India	1,463,865,525	Asia
2	China	1,406,585,000	Asia
3	United States	341,784,857	North America
4	Indonesia	285,721,236	Asia
5	Pakistan	255,219,554	Asia
6	Nigeria	237,527,782	Africa
7	Brazil	212,812,405	South America
8	Bangladesh	175,686,899	Asia
9	Russia	143,513,328	Europe
10	Ethiopia	135,472,051	Africa
11	Mexico	131,946,900	North America
12	Japan	123,366,734	Asia
13	Egypt	118,365,995	Africa
14	Philippines	116,786,962	Asia
15	DR Congo	112,832,473	Africa
16	Vietnam	101,598,527	Asia
17	Iran	92,417,681	Asia
18	Turkey	85,878,556	Asia
19	Germany	83,491,249	Europe
20	Thailand	71,619,863	Asia
21	Tanzania	70,545,865	Africa
22	United Kingdom	69,487,000	Europe
23	France	68,720,337	Europe
24	South Africa	64,747,319	Africa
25	Italy	58,915,656	Europe
26	Kenya	57,532,493	Africa
27	Myanmar	54,850,648	Asia
28	Colombia	53,425,635	South America
29	South Korea	51,684,564	Asia
30	Sudan	51,662,147	Africa
31	Uganda	51,384,894	Africa
32	Spain	49,355,143	Europe
33	Algeria	47,435,312	Africa
34	Iraq	47,020,774	Asia
35	Argentina	45,851,378	South America
36	Afghanistan	43,844,111	Asia
37	Yemen	41,773,878	Asia
38	Canada	41,651,653	North America
39	Angola	39,040,039	Africa
40	Ukraine	38,980,376	Europe
41	Morocco	38,430,770	Africa
42	Uzbekistan	37,053,428	Asia
43	Saudi Arabia	36,973,555	Asia
44	Poland	36,435,861	Europe
45	Malaysia	35,977,838	Asia
46	Mozambique	35,631,653	Africa
47	Ghana	35,064,272	Africa
48	Peru	34,576,665	South America
49	Madagascar	32,740,678	Africa
50	Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	32,711,547	Africa
51	Cameroon	29,879,337	Africa
52	Nepal	29,618,118	Asia
53	Venezuela	28,516,896	South America
54	Niger	27,917,831	Africa
55	Australia	27,614,411	Oceania
56	North Korea	26,571,036	Asia
57	Syria	25,620,427	Asia
58	Mali	25,198,821	Africa
59	Burkina Faso	24,074,580	Africa
60	Malawi	22,216,120	Africa
61	Zambia	21,913,874	Africa
62	Sri Lanka	21,756,000	Asia
63	Chad	21,003,705	Africa
64	Kazakhstan	20,843,754	Asia
65	Chile	19,859,921	South America
66	Somalia	19,654,739	Africa
67	Romania	19,020,271	Europe
68	Senegal	18,931,966	Africa
69	Guatemala	18,687,881	North America
70	Ecuador	18,289,896	South America
71	Netherlands	18,087,633	Europe
72	Cambodia	17,847,982	Asia
73	Zimbabwe	16,950,795	Africa
74	Guinea	15,099,727	Africa
75	Benin	14,814,460	Africa
76	Rwanda	14,569,341	Africa
77	Burundi	14,390,003	Africa
78	Bolivia	12,581,843	South America
79	Tunisia	12,348,573	Africa
80	South Sudan	12,188,788	Africa
81	Belgium	11,941,781	Europe
82	Haiti	11,906,095	North America
83	Jordan	11,520,684	Asia
84	Dominican Republic	11,520,487	North America
85	United Arab Emirates	11,513,149	Asia
86	Honduras	11,005,850	North America
87	Cuba	10,937,203	North America
88	Czechia	10,886,878	Europe
89	Portugal	10,804,871	Europe
90	Tajikistan	10,786,734	Asia
91	Papua New Guinea	10,762,817	Oceania
92	Sweden	10,596,620	Europe
93	Greece	10,413,962	Europe
94	Azerbaijan	10,246,996	Asia
95	Israel	10,122,800	Asia
96	Hungary	9,514,251	Europe
97	Austria	9,208,163	Europe
98	Switzerland	9,092,436	Europe
99	Belarus	9,085,991	Europe
100	Sierra Leone	8,819,794	Africa
101	Togo	8,591,626	Africa
102	Laos	7,873,046	Asia
103	Turkmenistan	7,618,847	Asia
104	Libya	7,458,555	Africa
105	Kyrgyzstan	7,343,064	Asia
106	Paraguay	7,013,078	South America
107	Nicaragua	7,007,502	North America
108	Serbia	6,549,143	Europe
109	Republic of the Congo	6,484,437	Africa
110	Bulgaria	6,433,302	Europe
111	El Salvador	6,365,503	North America
112	Singapore	6,111,175	Asia
113	Denmark	6,009,169	Europe
114	Lebanon	5,849,421	Asia
115	Liberia	5,731,206	Africa
116	Finland	5,646,436	Europe
117	Norway	5,610,870	Europe
118	Central African Republic	5,513,282	Africa
119	Oman	5,494,691	Asia
120	Ireland	5,484,367	Europe
121	Slovakia	5,413,813	Europe
122	New Zealand	5,324,700	Oceania
123	Mauritania	5,315,065	Africa
124	Costa Rica	5,152,950	North America
125	Kuwait	4,865,298	Asia
126	Panama	4,571,189	North America
127	Georgia	3,935,766	Asia
128	Croatia	3,876,200	Europe
129	Eritrea	3,607,003	Africa
130	Mongolia	3,568,978	Asia
131	Uruguay	3,384,688	South America
132	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,140,095	Europe
133	Namibia	3,092,816	Africa
134	Armenia	3,086,700	Asia
135	Qatar	2,972,215	Asia
136	Lithuania	2,888,774	Europe
137	Jamaica	2,837,077	North America
138	Gambia	2,822,093	Africa
139	Gabon	2,593,130	Africa
140	Botswana	2,562,122	Africa
141	Lesotho	2,363,325	Africa
142	Moldova	2,360,527	Europe
143	Albania	2,349,580	Europe
144	Guinea-Bissau	2,249,515	Africa
145	Slovenia	2,130,986	Europe
146	Equatorial Guinea	1,938,431	Africa
147	Latvia	1,847,785	Europe
148	North Macedonia	1,820,909	Europe
149	Bahrain	1,600,366	Asia
150	Timor-Leste	1,418,517	Asia
151	Cyprus	1,370,754	Europe
152	Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,764	North America
153	Estonia	1,366,475	Europe
154	Eswatini (Swaziland)	1,256,174	Africa
155	Mauritius	1,243,741	Africa
156	Djibouti	1,184,076	Africa
157	Fiji	933,154	Oceania
158	Comoros	882,847	Africa
159	Solomon Islands	838,645	Oceania
160	Guyana	835,986	South America
161	Bhutan	796,682	Asia
162	Luxembourg	686,970	Europe
163	Suriname	639,850	South America
164	Montenegro	623,129	Europe
165	Malta	579,704	Europe
166	Maldives	529,676	Asia
167	Cape Verde	527,326	Africa
168	Brunei	466,330	Asia
169	Belize	422,924	North America
170	Bahamas	403,033	North America
171	Iceland	392,404	Europe
172	Vanuatu	335,169	Oceania
173	Barbados	282,623	North America
174	São Tomé and Príncipe	240,254	Africa
175	Samoa	219,306	Oceania
176	Saint Lucia	180,149	North America
177	Kiribati	136,488	Oceania
178	Seychelles	122,730	Africa
179	Grenada	117,303	North America
180	Micronesia	113,683	Oceania
181	Tonga	103,742	Oceania
182	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	99,924	North America
183	Antigua and Barbuda	94,209	North America
184	Andorra	82,904	Europe
185	Dominica	65,871	North America
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	46,922	North America
187	Liechtenstein	41,024	Europe
188	Monaco	38,341	Europe
189	Marshall Islands	36,282	Oceania
190	San Marino	34,109	Europe
191	Palau	17,663	Oceania
192	Nauru	12,025	Oceania
193	Tuvalu	9,492	Oceania
194	Vatican City (Holy See)	825	Europe

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India is the most populous country, followed by China and United States. Together the top few countries hold a large share of the world's population.

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The world population is roughly 8 billion people, spread very unevenly — a handful of countries hold more than half of it, while dozens of small nations have populations under a million.

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