The Least Populous Countries in the World

🇹🇻 Tuvalu tops the list, with 9,492.

The world's least populous countries are mostly small island states and microstates. This list ranks them by population, starting with the fewest people.

#	Country	Population
1	Tuvalu	9,492
2	Nauru	12,025
3	Palau	17,663
4	San Marino	34,109
5	Marshall Islands	36,282
6	Monaco	38,341
7	Liechtenstein	41,024
8	Saint Kitts and Nevis	46,922
9	Dominica	65,871
10	Andorra	82,904
11	Antigua and Barbuda	94,209
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	99,924
13	Tonga	103,742
14	Micronesia	113,683
15	Grenada	117,303
16	Seychelles	122,730
17	Kiribati	136,488
18	Saint Lucia	180,149
19	Samoa	219,306
20	São Tomé and Príncipe	240,254
21	Barbados	282,623
22	Vanuatu	335,169
23	Iceland	392,404
24	Bahamas	403,033
25	Belize	422,924
26	Brunei	466,330
27	Cape Verde	527,326
28	Maldives	529,676
29	Malta	579,704
30	Montenegro	623,129
31	Suriname	639,850
32	Luxembourg	686,970
33	Bhutan	796,682
34	Guyana	835,986
35	Solomon Islands	838,645
36	Comoros	882,847
37	Fiji	933,154
38	Djibouti	1,184,076
39	Mauritius	1,243,741
40	Eswatini	1,256,174
41	Estonia	1,366,475
42	Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,764
43	Cyprus	1,370,754
44	Timor-Leste	1,418,517
45	Bahrain	1,600,366
46	North Macedonia	1,820,909
47	Latvia	1,847,785
48	Equatorial Guinea	1,938,431
49	Slovenia	2,130,986
50	Guinea-Bissau	2,249,515

Area and border data from open datasets; population from the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL). Full sources and vintage on the data page.