The Most Populous Countries in the World

🇮🇳 India tops the list, with 1,463,865,525.

This list ranks the most populous countries in the world by their latest population estimate, from the two most populous nations down through the fifty largest by people.

#	Country	Population
1	India	1,463,865,525
2	China	1,406,585,000
3	United States	341,784,857
4	Indonesia	285,721,236
5	Pakistan	255,219,554
6	Nigeria	237,527,782
7	Brazil	212,812,405
8	Bangladesh	175,686,899
9	Russia	143,513,328
10	Ethiopia	135,472,051
11	Mexico	131,946,900
12	Japan	123,366,734
13	Egypt	118,365,995
14	Philippines	116,786,962
15	DR Congo	112,832,473
16	Vietnam	101,598,527
17	Iran	92,417,681
18	Türkiye	85,878,556
19	Germany	83,491,249
20	Thailand	71,619,863
21	Tanzania	70,545,865
22	United Kingdom	69,487,000
23	France	68,720,337
24	South Africa	64,747,319
25	Italy	58,915,656
26	Kenya	57,532,493
27	Myanmar	54,850,648
28	Colombia	53,425,635
29	South Korea	51,684,564
30	Sudan	51,662,147
31	Uganda	51,384,894
32	Spain	49,355,143
33	Algeria	47,435,312
34	Iraq	47,020,774
35	Argentina	45,851,378
36	Afghanistan	43,844,111
37	Yemen	41,773,878
38	Canada	41,651,653
39	Angola	39,040,039
40	Ukraine	38,980,376
41	Morocco	38,430,770
42	Uzbekistan	37,053,428
43	Saudi Arabia	36,973,555
44	Poland	36,435,861
45	Malaysia	35,977,838
46	Mozambique	35,631,653
47	Ghana	35,064,272
48	Peru	34,576,665
49	Madagascar	32,740,678
50	Ivory Coast	32,711,547

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