This is a list of countries by population in 1989, providing an overview of the world population before the
fall of the Iron Curtain
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, was a revolutionary wave that resulted in the end of most communist states in the world. Sometimes this revolutionary wave is also called the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Natio ...
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While the population data
is almost exclusively dated 1989, political developments before the summer of 1990 are taken into account, including
Yemeni unification
Yemeni unification () took place on May 22, 1990, when the area of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (also known as South Yemen) was united with the Yemen Arab Republic (also known as North Yemen), forming the Republic of Yemen (known ...
and
Namibian independence but not
German reunification which was finalised only in October, the
breakup of Yugoslavia and
dissolution of the Soviet Union took place two years later, and the
dissolution of Czechoslovakia three years later.
The numbers given in ''Aktuell '91''
are fully compatible with the data given by the U.S. Census Bureau,
[https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/region.php?N=%20Results%20&T=13&A=separate&RT=0&Y=1989&R=1&C=AF ] where they can be compared, as the US Census Data refers to modern national borders instead of 1989 borders. Similar remarks apply to 1990 estimates in the
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 ...
which also only apply to modern-day national borders. See also
Soviet Census (1989)
The 1989 Soviet census (russian: Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989, lit=1989 All-Union Census), conducted between 12 and 19 January of that year, was the last one that took place in the Soviet Union. The census found ...
and
1990 United States Census for comparison.
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 wit ...
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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 and dependencies by area in 1989
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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
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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 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 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 ...
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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, :
# 100 ...
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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 th ...
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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 security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...
References
External links
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1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...
1989-related lists