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  1. List of countries and dependencies by area; List of countries and dependencies by population; 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

  2. 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 ...

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    Population 2021 [7] [8]
    1
    40,099,462
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    2,790,974
    3
    10,312,992
    4
    1,463,265
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  4. 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]

    Location
    Population (1 July 2022)
    Population (1 July 2023)
    Change
    7,975,105,156
    8,045,311,448
    +0.88%
    1,417,173,173
    1,428,627,663
    +0.81%
    1,425,887,337
    1,425,671,352
    −0.02%
    338,289,857
    339,996,564
    +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.
  5. However, in the list of continents, we had to place Russia in one continent or the other, so we placed it in Europe, following the United Nations classification. About 75% of the Russian population lives in the European continent. On the other hand, 75% of Russian territory is located in Asia. Which continent does Hawaii belong to? None.

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