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Continent: Population (2021) % (world) ±% p.a. (2010–2013) Countries (2021) World: 7,909,295,151: 100%: 1.17% 191 Asia: 4,694,576,167: 59.4%: 1.04% 49 Africa: 1,393,676,444: 17.6%: 2.57% 54 Europe: 745,173,774: 9.4%: 0.08% 51 North America: 595,783,465: 7.5%: 0.96% 23 South America: 434,254,119: 5.5%: 1.05% 12 Oceania: 44,491,724: 0.6%: 1.48 ...
List of countries by past and projected future population. List of countries by population in 2000; List of countries by population in 2010; Continental. Demographics of Antarctica; List of African countries by population; List of Asian countries by population; List of European countries by population. List of European countries by population ...
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%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 .
7 Continents. 7 continents. The seven-continent model is probably the most widely taught. There are however other ways of grouping countries into continents. List of the seven continents. Ranked by current population. Which continent does Russia belong to? Russia is part of both Europe and Asia.
- Matt Rosenberg
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- Asia, the Largest Continent. Asia is by far the largest continent in the world, spanning 17.2 million square miles (44.6 million square kilometers). Being the largest geographically also puts Asia at an advantage population-wise, as having 4.6 billion of the world's 7.7 billion-person population.
- Africa. Africa is No. 2 on both lists: population and size. In area, it spans 11.6 million square miles (30 million square kilometers). Its population is estimated at 1.3 billion.
- North America. North America is where area and population diverge in their rankings because this continent's population is not growing as fast as Asia's.
- South America. South America is the fourth-largest continent, spanning 6.9 million square miles (17.8 million square kilometers). It is fifth on the world population list, with 431 million people living there.
Land areas and population estimates; Continent Land area Population km 2 sq mi % of world 2021 (estimate) % of world; Earth: 149,733,926 57,812,592 100% 7,909,295,151: 100% Asia: 44,614,000 17,226,000 29.8% 4,694,576,167: 59.4% Africa: 30,365,000 11,724,000 20.3% 1,393,676,444: 17.6% North America: 24,230,000 9,360,000 16.2%
Most people identify seven continents: Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica, from the most populous, but there are other models under which the world continents are anywhere from 4 to 7.
