This is a list of
continent
A continent is any of several large landmasses. Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, up to seven geographical regions are commonly regarded as continents. Ordered from largest in area to smallest, these seven ...
s and continental
subregion
A subregion is a part of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location. Cardinal directions, such as south are commonly used to define a subregion.
United Nations subregions
The United Nations Statistics Division, Statistics ...
s by population.
Distribution of populations by the United Nations geoscheme
Global, continental, and subregional totals from 1950 to
Africa
Americas
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
World
See also
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Human geography
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment. It analyzes spatial interdependencies between social i ...
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependent territories by land, water and total area, ranked by total area.
Entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign ...
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List of countries and dependencies by population
This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territory, dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being pr ...
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List of countries and dependencies by population density
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile, and also sortable by total area and by population. The list includes sovereign states a ...
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List of countries by past and projected future population Introduction
All the figures shown here have been sourced from the International Data Base (IDB) Division of the United States Census Bureau. Every individual value has been rounded to the nearest thousand, to assure data coherence, particularly wh ...
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List of countries by population in 1900
This is a list of countries by population in 1900, with colonial possessions being counted towards the ruling country's total (such as Poland counting towards Russia and Cuba counting as part of the United States
The United States of ...
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List of countries by population in 1907
This is a list of countries by population in 1907. Due to the existence of many colonial empires in 1907, dependent territories are counted under the overall empire's total and not independently if they are under de facto control.
Political ...
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List of countries by population in 2005
This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 1 July 2005 (rounded to the nearest 1,000). The figures are estimates for the year 2005 from the U.N. World Population Prospects ( ...
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List of countries by population in 2010
This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 2010 (rounded to the nearest 1,000). The figures are estimates for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OEC ...
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List of population concern organizations
This is a list of organisations who promote a moderation of the size of the human population.
Intergovernmental organizations
Worldwide
Regional
Asia-Oceania
* All countries – Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development
A ...
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List of religious populations
This is a list of religious populations by number of adherents and countries.
Adherents in 2020
Notes
By proportion
Christians
Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christianity, Christians from Christianity by count ...
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership withi ...
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World population
In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded 8 billion in November 2022. It took over 200,000 years of human prehistory and history for the ...
References
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Source
* All figures come from th
2015 Revisionof the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
World Population Prospects.
Population, list
Continents
A continent is any of several large landmasses. Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, up to seven geographical regions are commonly regarded as continents. Ordered from largest in area to smallest, these seven ...