This is a
list of sovereign states and other territories by population. Only the 191
United Nations member states, plus the
Republic of China and the
Vatican City are numbered; other territories are included for purposes of comparison.
Source
Notes
Does not include
Hong Kong,
Macau or the territories administered by the
Republic of China (
Taiwan,
Pescadores,
Quemoy and
Matsu)
Estimate for
May 25 2005 by the U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
Estimate for first quarter of 2005 by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany
http://www.destatis.de/indicators/e/vgr910ae.htm
Estimate for
July 1 2005 by Spain's National Statistics Institute
http://www.ine.es/en/welcome_en.htm
Estimate for
June 30 2005 by Chile's
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas http://www.ine.cl/12-pobla/Ambosprisete.htm
Estimated resident population for
March 31 2005 by
Statistics New Zealand
Includes
Taiwan,
Pescadores,
Quemoy and
Matsu, which are claimed by the
People's Republic of China
In addition, there are about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem; estimate for
July 2004 by the
United States Central Intelligence Agency's
The World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Estimates for this country take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Brazil took a count in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census
Includes 5,576,076 non-nationals
Since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island; as of yearend 2000, approximately 65,000 were housed in 131 refugee camps in south India, another 40,000 lived outside the Indian camps, and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West
The 1997 Mozambican census reported a population of 16,099,246
In addition, about 40,000 people live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - 20,000 Arabs (18,000 Druze and 2,000 Alawites) and about 20,000 Israeli settlers
This estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare
Includes about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, about 20,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, more than 5,000 in the Gaza Strip, and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem
Includes 166,510 non-nationals
Includes 577,293 non-nationals
Includes an estimated 1,606,079 non-nationals; the 17 December 1995 census presents a total population figure of 2,377,453, and there are estimates of 3.44 million for 2002
Includes 1,291,354 non-nationals
Other estimates range as low as 810,000
In addition, there are more than 5,000 Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip
Other estimates range as low as 800,000
Includes 235,108 non-nationals
An estimated 8,000 refugees left the island following the resumption of volcanic activity in July 1995; some have returned
See also
Population of Countries, list by
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