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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.
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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.
In 2019, the world reached a total population of 7,764,951,032 and 🇨🇳 China was the most populous country that year, with a total of 1,421,864,031 people. Followed by 🇮🇳 India , with the second largest population globally of 1,383,112,050 people in total.
According to the medium variant of World Population Prospects 2019, the global population is projected to continue to grow, rising from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 10.9 billion at the end of the century (bold line of figure 1). The world’s population, which is currently growing at a pace of 1.1 per cent per year, is expected to stop
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United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Volume I: Comprehensive Tables (ST/ESA/SER.A/426). Official symbols of United Nations documents are composed of capital letters combined with numbers, as illustrated in the above citation.
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%: 1.06% 12 Oceania: 44,491,724: 0.6%: 1.47 ...
Jun 12, 2019 · As of 2019, the continent had an estimated population of 4.58 billion people. Asia occupies four-fifths of the Eurasian supercontinent and is divided politically into 50 countries. The continent also includes the world's three most populated regions: Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, and Southeastern Asia.
