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 (2004 revision) using the medium fertility variant.
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recognized by the

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, 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 A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the ...

" on a case-by-case basis. The "

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

" is considered as a single country while constituent countries of the

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are regarded separately.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 North ...

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, : # 100 ...

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 ...

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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External links

United Nations Analytical Report for the 2004 revision of World Population Prospects
– includes details of methodology and sources used for the population estimates above.
Population clocks & projected growth charts for all countries
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