Population — World Ranking

How many people live in each country — the official World Bank estimate for 2023, rounded to a single person.

The top 50 — Population

Sorted with the highest value first (a higher value counts as better), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	India	1,438,069,596 people
2	China	1,410,710,000 people
3	United States	336,755,052 people
4	Indonesia	281,190,067 people
5	Pakistan	247,504,495 people
6	Nigeria	227,882,945 people
7	Brazil	211,140,729 people
8	Bangladesh	171,466,990 people
9	Russia	143,826,130 people
10	Mexico	129,739,759 people
11	Ethiopia	128,691,692 people
12	Japan	124,516,650 people
13	Philippines	114,891,199 people
14	Egypt	114,535,772 people
15	DR Congo	105,789,731 people
16	Vietnam	100,352,192 people
17	Iran	90,608,707 people
18	Türkiye	85,325,965 people
19	Germany	83,287,273 people
20	Thailand	71,702,435 people
21	United Kingdom	68,526,000 people
22	France	68,372,286 people
23	Tanzania	66,617,606 people
24	South Africa	63,212,384 people
25	Italy	58,984,216 people
26	Kenya	55,339,003 people
27	Myanmar	54,133,798 people
28	Colombia	52,321,152 people
29	South Korea	51,712,619 people
30	Sudan	50,042,791 people
31	Uganda	48,656,601 people
32	Spain	48,352,528 people
33	Algeria	46,164,219 people
34	Argentina	45,538,401 people
35	Iraq	45,074,049 people
36	Afghanistan	41,454,761 people
37	Canada	40,049,088 people
38	Yemen	39,390,799 people
39	Ukraine	37,732,836 people
40	Morocco	37,712,505 people
41	Angola	36,749,906 people
42	Poland	36,687,353 people
43	Uzbekistan	35,652,307 people
44	Malaysia	35,126,298 people
45	Peru	33,845,617 people
46	Ghana	33,787,914 people
47	Saudi Arabia	33,702,731 people
48	Mozambique	33,635,160 people
49	Madagascar	31,195,932 people
50	Ivory Coast	31,165,654 people

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data — borrowed from the Country Complex dataset — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.