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This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 2015 (rounded to the nearest 1,000). The figures are estimates for the United Nations (UN) "2015 annual statistics", which lists more than 100,000 population by country and territory.
The list includes all sovereign states and
dependent territories
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the controlli ...
recognized by the United Nations plus the territory under the effective control of the
Republic of China
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
(Taiwan).
This list adopts definitions of "country" on a case by case basis. The United Kingdom is considered as a single country while constituent countries of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands
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are regarded separately.
See also
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List of countries
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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List of countries 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 s ...
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List of countries by past and 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
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 ...
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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).
Estimate numbers are from t ...
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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 2000
This is a list of countries by population in 2000. It is a list of countries in the world by population in the exact beginning of the year 2000.
Because the table contains data only for the 230 nations and territories at the start of 2000, th ...
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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 continents by population
This is a list of continents and continental subregions by population.
Distribution of populations by the United Nations geoscheme
Global, continental, and subregional totals from 1950 to
Africa
Americas
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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 Christians from Christianity by country, :
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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2015
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2015-related lists