List of countries by population (United Nations)
This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2019 revision of World Population Prospects.[2][3] These figures refer to the de facto population in a country or area as shown in the "estimates" section.
List
Notes
- Refers to mainland China only. The UN source document states: For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China (Hong Kong and Macau) and Taiwan.
- Refers to metropolitan France only.
- Including
Zanzibar. - Including the
Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. - Including
Crimea. - Including
Sabah and Sarawak. - Including
Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. - Listed as China, Taiwan Province of China.
- Refers to the European Netherlands only.
- Including the
Azores and Madeira. - Including
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). - Including
Kosovo. - Listed as China, Hong Kong SAR.
- Including the
Åland Islands. - Including
Svalbard and Jan Mayen. - Including
East Jerusalem. - Including
Transnistria. - Including
Abkhazia and South Ossetia. - Including
Agaléga, Rodrigues and St. Brandon. - Including
Northern Cyprus. - Listed as China, Macao SAR.
- Including
Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin. - Including
Guernsey and Jersey. - Listed as
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. - Listed as
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. - Listed as the
Holy See.
References
- "UNSD — Methodology". unstats.un.org.
- "Total Population - Both Sexes". World Population Prospects, the 2019 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- "Total population, both sexes combined (thousands)". UNdata. United Nations Statistics Division. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- "Definition of Regions". World Population Prospects, the 2019 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. June 2019. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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