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List of countries and dependencies by population density; List of countries by past and projected future population; List of countries by population in 1900; List of countries by population in 2005; List of countries by population in 2010; List of population concern organizations; List of religious populations; List of sovereign states; World ...
A. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas. List of countries in the Americas by population. Territorial claims in Antarctica. List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP) List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index.
List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2022 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
LocationPopulation (1 July 2022)Population (1 July 2023)Change7,975,105,1568,045,311,448+0.88%1,417,173,1731,428,627,663+0.81%1,425,887,3371,425,671,352−0.02%338,289,857339,996,564+0.50%- Africa. Africa has the most countries of any continent, with a total of 54 countries. The most populous of these countries is Nigeria, which has over 206 million people.
- Asia. Asia has the second-highest number of countries of any continent with a total of 48. The most populated country in Asia is China, which has over 1.4 billion people.
- Europe. Europe has 51 independent states. The largest country by population and by land area is Russia with 145.93 million people and spanning over 6.6 million square miles (17.125 million square kilometers).
- North America. North America is made up of 23 countries. The most populated of these countries is the United States, which has a population of 329.9 million people.
Africa. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area, accounting for about a fifth of the world's land. With 1.3 billion people as of 2018, it accounts for about 16% of ...
The tables below list the world's most densely populated countries, both in absolute terms and in comparison to their total populations, as of November 2022. All areas and populations are from The World Factbook, unless otherwise noted. Population density (people per km 2) map of the world in 2020. Red areas denote regions of highest population ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. For instance, the United Kingdom is considered a single entity, while the ...
