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Sovereign states as identified by Butcher and Griffiths (2020), Correlates of War (2017), and Gleditsch and Ward (2007).
Population. Countries of the World (ranked by population) The list below is divided into two groups, each ranked by population: Countries (following the U.N. definition and classification, for which we have counted 195 countries in the world) Dependencies and other territories. See also: List with both countries and dependencies together.
How many countries are there in the world? Unlike other lists in our population sections, in which countries and dependencies are grouped together, here we have separated the two types in order to provide a more rigorous count of the total countries in the world and in each region.
