Countries by Population: All 197 Ranked

Reference list Compiled by TRIVI.GG Updated 19 August 2026

This page ranks all 197 countries by population. The largest is first.

India has the largest population, at about 1,450,936,000 people. Vatican City has the smallest, at about 880.

How to read the numbers

Every number is an estimate. No country counts its people every year, so a population figure is a projection from the last census.

Different sources give a slightly different number for the same country. The order of the list changes very little between sources, because the gaps between countries are large.

The numbers here are the same numbers the Daily Country quiz compares. A guess in that quiz is measured against this data.

What the ranking shows

The first ten countries hold a large part of the world population. The last fifty hold very little of it.

Population and area are separate measures. A large country can hold few people, and a small country can hold many.

Use the population quiz to learn the top of this list. Ten countries is a short list, and it changes slowly.

All 197 countries by population

Rank	Country	Population	Continent
1	India	1,450,936,000	Asia
2	China	1,408,280,000	Asia
3	United States	341,000,000	North America
4	Indonesia	283,500,000	Asia
5	Pakistan	251,000,000	Asia
6	Nigeria	232,700,000	Africa
7	Brazil	212,600,000	South America
8	Bangladesh	173,600,000	Asia
9	Russia	146,000,000	Europe
10	Ethiopia	132,000,000	Africa
11	Mexico	130,500,000	North America
12	Japan	123,800,000	Asia
13	Philippines	115,000,000	Asia
14	Egypt	114,500,000	Africa
15	Democratic Republic of the Congo	105,600,000	Africa
16	Vietnam	101,000,000	Asia
17	Iran	91,500,000	Asia
18	Turkey	85,700,000	Asia
19	Germany	84,500,000	Europe
20	Thailand	71,700,000	Asia
21	United Kingdom	69,200,000	Europe
22	Tanzania	68,600,000	Africa
23	France	68,500,000	Europe
24	South Africa	63,000,000	Africa
25	Italy	58,990,000	Europe
26	Kenya	55,300,000	Africa
27	Myanmar	54,500,000	Asia
28	Colombia	52,700,000	South America
29	South Korea	51,700,000	Asia
30	Sudan	50,400,000	Africa
31	Spain	48,800,000	Europe
32	Uganda	47,000,000	Africa
33	Argentina	46,900,000	South America
34	Algeria	46,700,000	Africa
35	Iraq	46,000,000	Asia
36	Afghanistan	42,600,000	Asia
37	Canada	41,600,000	North America
38	Yemen	40,600,000	Asia
39	Angola	37,900,000	Africa
40	Ukraine	37,800,000	Europe
41	Uzbekistan	37,500,000	Asia
42	Morocco	37,500,000	Africa
43	Poland	37,490,000	Europe
44	Mozambique	34,600,000	Africa
45	Ghana	34,400,000	Africa
46	Malaysia	34,100,000	Asia
47	Saudi Arabia	34,000,000	Asia
48	Peru	34,000,000	South America
49	Madagascar	32,000,000	Africa
50	Ivory Coast	31,900,000	Africa
51	Nepal	29,700,000	Asia
52	Cameroon	29,100,000	Africa
53	Venezuela	28,400,000	South America
54	Australia	27,200,000	Oceania
55	Niger	27,000,000	Africa
56	North Korea	26,200,000	Asia
57	Mali	24,500,000	Africa
58	Syria	24,000,000	Asia
59	Burkina Faso	23,500,000	Africa
60	Taiwan	23,400,000	Asia
61	Sri Lanka	21,900,000	Asia
62	Malawi	21,600,000	Africa
63	Zambia	21,300,000	Africa
64	Kazakhstan	20,300,000	Asia
65	Chad	20,300,000	Africa
66	Chile	19,800,000	South America
67	Romania	19,060,000	Europe
68	Somalia	19,000,000	Africa
69	Senegal	18,500,000	Africa
70	Guatemala	18,300,000	North America
71	Netherlands	18,050,000	Europe
72	Ecuador	18,000,000	South America
73	Cambodia	17,600,000	Asia
74	Zimbabwe	16,600,000	Africa
75	Guinea	14,700,000	Africa
76	Benin	14,500,000	Africa
77	Rwanda	14,200,000	Africa
78	Burundi	13,700,000	Africa
79	Bolivia	12,400,000	South America
80	Tunisia	12,100,000	Africa
81	South Sudan	11,900,000	Africa
82	Belgium	11,800,000	Europe
83	Haiti	11,800,000	North America
84	Jordan	11,550,000	Asia
85	Dominican Republic	11,400,000	North America
86	United Arab Emirates	11,000,000	Asia
87	Czech Republic	10,900,000	Europe
88	Cuba	10,900,000	North America
89	Honduras	10,800,000	North America
90	Portugal	10,640,000	Europe
91	Papua New Guinea	10,600,000	Oceania
92	Sweden	10,550,000	Europe
93	Tajikistan	10,400,000	Asia
94	Greece	10,400,000	Europe
95	Azerbaijan	10,190,000	Asia
96	Israel	9,900,000	Asia
97	Hungary	9,580,000	Europe
98	Togo	9,500,000	Africa
99	Austria	9,200,000	Europe
100	Belarus	9,110,000	Europe
101	Switzerland	9,050,000	Europe
102	Sierra Leone	8,700,000	Africa
103	Laos	7,700,000	Asia
104	Turkmenistan	7,400,000	Asia
105	Libya	7,400,000	Africa
106	Kyrgyzstan	7,200,000	Asia
107	Nicaragua	6,920,000	North America
108	Paraguay	6,900,000	South America
109	Serbia	6,620,000	Europe
110	Bulgaria	6,440,000	Europe
111	El Salvador	6,340,000	North America
112	Republic of the Congo	6,300,000	Africa
113	Singapore	6,040,000	Asia
114	Denmark	5,980,000	Europe
115	Lebanon	5,800,000	Asia
116	Finland	5,640,000	Europe
117	Liberia	5,600,000	Africa
118	Norway	5,590,000	Europe
119	Palestine	5,500,000	Asia
120	Slovakia	5,420,000	Europe
121	Ireland	5,380,000	Europe
122	New Zealand	5,340,000	Oceania
123	Oman	5,300,000	Asia
124	Central African Republic	5,300,000	Africa
125	Mauritania	5,200,000	Africa
126	Costa Rica	5,180,000	North America
127	Kuwait	4,900,000	Asia
128	Panama	4,520,000	North America
129	Croatia	3,860,000	Europe
130	Georgia	3,700,000	Asia
131	Mongolia	3,500,000	Asia
132	Eritrea	3,500,000	Africa
133	Uruguay	3,400,000	South America
134	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,200,000	Europe
135	Qatar	3,000,000	Asia
136	Namibia	3,000,000	Africa
137	Armenia	2,970,000	Asia
138	Lithuania	2,886,000	Europe
139	Jamaica	2,830,000	North America
140	Gambia	2,800,000	Africa
141	Botswana	2,520,000	Africa
142	Gabon	2,500,000	Africa
143	Moldova	2,420,000	Europe
144	Albania	2,400,000	Europe
145	Lesotho	2,300,000	Africa
146	Guinea-Bissau	2,200,000	Africa
147	Slovenia	2,120,000	Europe
148	Equatorial Guinea	1,890,000	Africa
149	Latvia	1,860,000	Europe
150	North Macedonia	1,820,000	Europe
151	Bahrain	1,590,000	Asia
152	Kosovo	1,586,000	Europe
153	Trinidad and Tobago	1,510,000	North America
154	Timor-Leste	1,400,000	Asia
155	Estonia	1,370,000	Europe
156	Mauritius	1,270,000	Africa
157	Cyprus	1,260,000	Asia
158	Eswatini	1,240,000	Africa
159	Djibouti	1,150,000	Africa
160	Fiji	936,000	Oceania
161	Comoros	870,000	Africa
162	Guyana	820,000	South America
163	Solomon Islands	800,000	Oceania
164	Bhutan	790,000	Asia
165	Luxembourg	678,000	Europe
166	Suriname	634,000	South America
167	Montenegro	623,000	Europe
168	Malta	574,000	Europe
169	Maldives	525,000	Asia
170	Cape Verde	525,000	Africa
171	Brunei	460,000	Asia
172	Belize	415,000	North America
173	Bahamas	401,000	North America
174	Iceland	389,000	Europe
175	Vanuatu	330,000	Oceania
176	Barbados	282,000	North America
177	Sao Tome and Principe	235,000	Africa
178	Samoa	218,000	Oceania
179	Saint Lucia	180,000	North America
180	Kiribati	134,000	Oceania
181	Seychelles	121,000	Africa
182	Grenada	117,000	North America
183	Micronesia	113,000	Oceania
184	Tonga	104,000	Oceania
185	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	101,000	North America
186	Antigua and Barbuda	94,000	North America
187	Andorra	85,000	Europe
188	Dominica	72,000	North America
189	Saint Kitts and Nevis	48,000	North America
190	Marshall Islands	42,000	Oceania
191	Liechtenstein	40,000	Europe
192	Monaco	38,400	Europe
193	San Marino	33,900	Europe
194	Palau	17,700	Oceania
195	Nauru	12,000	Oceania
196	Tuvalu	11,200	Oceania
197	Vatican City	880	Europe

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Sources

Population values are 2024–25 estimates, held in the Daily Country dataset.

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