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These are the 2010 estimated total population figures for all global countries & overseas dependencies, which are listed on the United Nations Population Division database. We have also included the overall % of the global population which is residing in each nation, and you can also view this exact dataset for the years 2015, 2020 and 2050. These figures were collated as part of the 2008 United Nations revision of the 'World Population Prospects', which was released in 2009.

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	Country/Territory	United Nations Variant [1]	Continent(s)	% World Population	Estimated 2010 Population [2]

1	China	Medium variant	Asia	19.601	1,354,146,443
2	India	Medium variant	Asia	17.579	1,214,464,312
3	United States	Medium variant	North America	4.598	317,641,087
4	Indonesia	Medium variant	Asia / Oceania	3.366	232,516,771
5	Brazil	Medium variant	South America	2.829	195,423,252
6	Pakistan	Medium variant	Asia	2.674	184,753,300
7	Bangladesh	Medium variant	Asia	2.380	164,425,491
8	Nigeria	Medium variant	Africa	2.291	158,258,917
9	Russia	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	2.032	140,366,561
10	Japan	Medium variant	Asia	1.838	126,995,411
11	Mexico	Medium variant	North America	1.602	110,645,154
12	Philippines	Medium variant	Asia	1.355	93,616,853
13	Vietnam	Medium variant	Asia	1.289	89,028,741
14	Ethiopia	Medium variant	Africa	1.230	84,975,606
15	Egypt	Medium variant	Africa	1.223	84,474,427
16	Germany	Medium variant	Europe	1.188	82,056,775
17	Turkey	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	1.096	75,705,147
18	Iran	Medium variant	Asia	1.087	75,077,547
19	Thailand	Medium variant	Asia	0.986	68,139,238
20	DR Congo	Medium variant	Africa	0.982	67,827,495
21	France	Medium variant	Europe	0.907	62,636,580
22	United Kingdom	Medium variant	Europe	0.896	61,899,272
23	Italy	Medium variant	Europe	0.870	60,097,564
24	Burma	Medium variant	Asia	0.731	50,495,672
25	South Africa	Medium variant	Africa	0.731	50,492,408
26	South Korea	Medium variant	Asia	0.702	48,500,717
27	Colombia	Medium variant	South America	0.670	46,300,196
28	Ukraine	Medium variant	Europe	0.658	45,433,415
29	Spain	Medium variant	Europe	0.656	45,316,586
30	Tanzania	Medium variant	Africa	0.652	45,039,573
31	Sudan	Medium variant	Africa	0.625	43,192,438
32	Kenya	Medium variant	Africa	0.591	40,862,900
33	Argentina	Medium variant	South America	0.589	40,665,732
34	Poland	Medium variant	Europe	0.551	38,038,094
35	Algeria	Medium variant	Africa	0.513	35,422,589
36	Canada	Medium variant	North America	0.491	33,889,747
37	Uganda	Medium variant	Africa	0.489	33,796,461
38	Morocco	Medium variant	Africa	0.469	32,381,283
39	Iraq	Medium variant	Asia	0.455	31,466,698
40	Nepal	Medium variant	Asia	0.432	29,852,682
41	Peru	Medium variant	South America	0.427	29,496,120
42	Afghanistan	Medium variant	Asia	0.421	29,117,489
43	Venezuela	Medium variant	South America	0.420	29,043,555
44	Malaysia	Medium variant	Asia	0.404	27,913,990
45	Uzbekistan	Medium variant	Asia	0.402	27,794,296
46	Saudi Arabia	Medium variant	Asia	0.380	26,245,969
47	Ghana	Medium variant	Africa	0.352	24,332,755
48	Yemen	Medium variant	Asia	0.351	24,255,928
49	North Korea	Medium variant	Asia	0.347	23,990,703
50	Mozambique	Medium variant	Africa	0.339	23,405,670
51	Syria	Medium variant	Asia	0.326	22,505,091
52	Ivory Coast	Medium variant	Africa	0.312	21,570,746
53	Australia	Medium variant	Oceania	0.311	21,511,888
54	Romania	Medium variant	Europe	0.307	21,190,154
55	Sri Lanka	Medium variant	Asia	0.295	20,409,946
56	Madagascar	Medium variant	Africa	0.292	20,146,442
57	Cameroon	Medium variant	Africa	0.289	19,958,351
58	Angola	Medium variant	Africa	0.275	18,992,707
59	Chile	Medium variant	South America	0.248	17,134,708
60	Netherlands	Medium variant	Europe	0.241	16,653,346
61	Burkina Faso	Medium variant	Africa	0.236	16,286,706
62	Niger	Medium variant	Africa	0.230	15,891,482
63	Kazakhstan	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	0.228	15,753,460
64	Malawi	Medium variant	Africa	0.227	15,691,784
65	Cambodia	Medium variant	Asia	0.218	15,053,112
66	Guatemala	Medium variant	North America	0.208	14,376,881
67	Ecuador	Medium variant	South America	0.199	13,774,909
68	Mali	Medium variant	Africa	0.193	13,323,104
69	Zambia	Medium variant	Africa	0.192	13,257,269
70	Senegal	Medium variant	Africa	0.186	12,860,717
71	Zimbabwe	Medium variant	Africa	0.183	12,644,041
72	Chad	Medium variant	Africa	0.167	11,506,130
73	Cuba	Medium variant	North America	0.162	11,204,351
74	Greece	Medium variant	Europe	0.162	11,183,393
75	Portugal	Medium variant	Europe	0.155	10,732,357
76	Belgium	Medium variant	Europe	0.155	10,697,588
77	Czech Republic	Medium variant	Europe	0.151	10,410,786
78	Tunisia	Medium variant	Africa	0.150	10,373,957
79	Guinea	Medium variant	Africa	0.149	10,323,755
80	Rwanda	Medium variant	Africa	0.149	10,277,212
81	Dominican Republic	Medium variant	North America	0.148	10,225,482
82	Haiti	Medium variant	North America	0.147	10,188,175
83	Bolivia	Medium variant	South America	0.145	10,030,832
84	Hungary	Medium variant	Europe	0.144	9,973,141
85	Serbia	Medium variant	Europe	0.143	9,855,857
86	Belarus	Medium variant	Europe	0.139	9,587,940
87	Somalia	Medium variant	Africa	0.135	9,358,602
88	Sweden	Medium variant	Europe	0.135	9,293,026
89	Benin	Medium variant	Africa	0.133	9,211,741
90	Azerbaijan	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	0.129	8,933,928
91	Burundi	Medium variant	Africa	0.123	8,518,862
92	Austria	Medium variant	Europe	0.121	8,387,491
93	Honduras	Medium variant	North America	0.110	7,615,584
94	Switzerland	Medium variant	Europe	0.110	7,594,561
95	Bulgaria	Medium variant	Europe	0.109	7,497,282
96	Israel	Medium variant	Asia	0.105	7,285,033
97	Tajikistan	Medium variant	Asia	0.102	7,074,845
98	Hong Kong	Medium variant	Asia	0.102	7,069,378
99	Papua New Guinea	Medium variant	Oceania	0.100	6,888,387
100	Togo	Medium variant	Africa	0.098	6,780,030
101	Libya	Medium variant	Africa	0.095	6,545,619
102	Jordan	Medium variant	Asia	0.094	6,472,392
103	Paraguay	Medium variant	South America	0.094	6,459,727
104	Laos	Medium variant	Asia	0.093	6,436,093
105	El Salvador	Medium variant	North America	0.090	6,194,126
106	Sierra Leone	Medium variant	Africa	0.084	5,835,664
107	Nicaragua	Medium variant	North America	0.084	5,822,265
108	Kyrgyzstan	Medium variant	Asia	0.080	5,550,239
109	Denmark	Medium variant	Europe	0.079	5,481,283
110	Slovakia	Medium variant	Europe	0.078	5,411,640
111	Finland	Medium variant	Europe	0.077	5,345,826
112	Eritrea	Medium variant	Africa	0.076	5,223,994
113	Turkmenistan	Medium variant	Asia	0.075	5,176,502
114	Norway	Medium variant	Europe	0.070	4,855,315
115	Singapore	Medium variant	Asia	0.070	4,836,691
116	United Arab Emirates	Medium variant	Asia	0.068	4,707,307
117	Costa Rica	Medium variant	North America	0.067	4,639,827
118	Ireland, Republic of	Medium variant	Europe	0.066	4,589,002
119	Central African Republic	Medium variant	Africa	0.065	4,505,945
120	Croatia	Medium variant	Europe	0.064	4,409,659
121	Palestine	Medium variant	Asia	0.064	4,409,392
122	New Zealand	Medium variant	Oceania	0.062	4,303,457
123	Lebanon	Medium variant	Asia	0.062	4,254,583
124	Georgia	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	0.061	4,219,191
125	Liberia	Medium variant	Africa	0.059	4,101,767
126	Puerto Rico	Medium variant	North America	0.058	3,998,010
127	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Medium variant	Europe	0.054	3,759,633
128	Republic of Congo	Medium variant	Africa	0.054	3,758,678
129	Moldova	Medium variant	Europe	0.052	3,575,574
130	Panama	Medium variant	North America	0.051	3,508,475
131	Uruguay	Medium variant	South America	0.049	3,372,222
132	Mauritania	Medium variant	Africa	0.049	3,365,675
133	Lithuania	Medium variant	Europe	0.047	3,255,324
134	Albania	Medium variant	Europe	0.046	3,169,087
135	Armenia	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	0.045	3,090,379
136	Kuwait	Medium variant	Asia	0.044	3,050,744
137	Oman	Medium variant	Asia	0.042	2,905,114
138	Jamaica	Medium variant	North America	0.040	2,729,909
139	Mongolia	Medium variant	Asia	0.039	2,701,117
140	Latvia	Medium variant	Europe	0.032	2,240,265
141	Namibia	Medium variant	Africa	0.032	2,212,037
142	Lesotho	Medium variant	Africa	0.030	2,084,182
143	Macedonia	Medium variant	Europe	0.030	2,043,360
144	Slovenia	Medium variant	Europe	0.029	2,024,912
145	Botswana	Medium variant	Africa	0.029	1,977,569
146	Gambia	Medium variant	Africa	0.025	1,750,732
147	Guinea-Bissau	Medium variant	Africa	0.024	1,647,380
148	Qatar	Medium variant	Asia	0.022	1,508,322
149	Gabon	Medium variant	Africa	0.022	1,501,266
150	Trinidad & Tobago	Medium variant	North America	0.019	1,343,725
151	Estonia	Medium variant	Europe	0.019	1,339,459
152	Mauritius	Medium variant	Africa	0.019	1,296,569
153	Swaziland	Medium variant	Africa	0.017	1,201,904
154	East Timor	Medium variant	Asia / Oceania	0.017	1,171,163
155	Cyprus, Republic of	Medium variant	Asia / Europe	0.013	879,723
156	Djibouti	Medium variant	Africa	0.013	879,053
157	Fiji	Medium variant	Oceania	0.012	854,098
158	Reunion	Medium variant	Africa	0.012	837,094
159	Bahrain	Medium variant	Asia	0.012	807,131
160	Guyana	Medium variant	South America	0.011	761,442
161	Bhutan	Medium variant	Asia	0.010	708,484
162	Equatorial Guinea	Medium variant	Africa	0.010	693,385
163	Comoros	Medium variant	Africa	0.010	691,351
164	Montenegro	Medium variant	Europe	0.009	625,516
165	Macau	Medium variant	Asia	0.008	547,591
166	Solomon Islands	Medium variant	Oceania	0.008	535,699
167	Western Sahara	Medium variant	Africa	0.008	530,436
168	Suriname	Medium variant	South America	0.008	524,345
169	Cape Verde	Medium variant	Africa	0.007	512,582
170	Luxembourg	Medium variant	Europe	0.007	491,772
171	Guadeloupe	Medium variant	North America	0.007	467,182
172	Malta	Medium variant	Europe	0.006	409,999
173	Brunei	Medium variant	Asia	0.006	407,045
174	Martinique	Medium variant	North America	0.006	406,001
175	Bahamas	Medium variant	North America	0.005	345,736
176	Iceland	Medium variant	Europe	0.005	329,279
177	Maldives	Medium variant	Asia	0.005	313,920
178	Belize	Medium variant	North America	0.005	312,928
179	French Polynesia	Medium variant	Oceania	0.004	272,394
180	Barbados	Medium variant	North America	0.004	256,552
181	New Caledonia	Medium variant	Oceania	0.004	253,743
182	Vanuatu	Medium variant	Oceania	0.004	245,786
183	French Guiana	Medium variant	South America	0.003	231,313
184	Netherlands Antilles	Medium variant	North America	0.003	200,726
185	Mayotte	Medium variant	Africa	0.003	199,065
186	Guam	Medium variant	Oceania	0.003	179,893
187	Samoa	Medium variant	Oceania	0.003	178,943
188	Saint Lucia	Medium variant	North America	0.003	173,942
189	Sao Tome & Principe	Medium variant	Africa	0.002	165,397
190	Channel Islands	Medium variant	Europe	0.002	150,092
191	Micronesia, Fed. States of	Medium variant	Oceania	0.002	111,101
192	US Virgin Islands	Medium variant	North America	0.002	109,326
193	Saint Vincent & Grenadines	Medium variant	North America	0.002	109,284
194	Aruba	Medium variant	North America	0.002	107,380
195	Grenada	Medium variant	North America	0.002	104,342
196	Tonga	Medium variant	Oceania	0.002	104,260
197	Kiribati	Medium variant	Oceania	0.001	99,547
198	Antigua & Barbuda	Medium variant	North America	0.001	88,550
199	Northern Mariana Islands	Medium variant	Oceania	0.001	88,409
200	Andorra	Medium variant	Europe	0.001	86,685
201	Seychelles	Medium variant	Africa	0.001	84,600
202	Isle of Man	Medium variant	Europe	0.001	80,454
203	American Samoa	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	68,505
204	Dominica	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	66,515
205	Bermuda	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	64,995
206	Marshall Islands	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	63,398
207	Greenland	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	57,291
208	Cayman Islands	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	56,628
209	Saint Kitts & Nevis	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	52,368
210	Faroe Islands	Medium variant	Europe	<0.001	50,152
211	Liechtenstein	Medium variant	Europe	<0.001	36,190
212	Turks & Caicos Islands	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	32,990
213	Monaco	Medium variant	Europe	<0.001	32,904
214	San Marino	Medium variant	Europe	<0.001	31,537
215	Gibraltar	Medium variant	Europe	<0.001	31,073
216	British Virgin Islands	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	23,276
217	Palau	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	20,531
218	Cook Islands	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	19,933
219	Anguilla	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	15,465
220	Wallis & Futuna Islands	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	15,446
221	Nauru	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	10,254
222	Tuvalu	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	9,970
223	Saint Pierre y Miquelon	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	6,044
224	Montserrat	Medium variant	North America	<0.001	5,962
225	Saint Helena	Medium variant	Africa	<0.001	4,406
226	Falkland Islands	Medium variant	South America	<0.001	3,038
227	Niue	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	1,438
228	Tokelau	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	1,206
229	Vatican City	Medium variant	Europe	<0.001	785
230	Pitcairn Islands	Medium variant	Oceania	<0.001	50

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Population Growth

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Population Trends


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References

[1] We have chosen to use the 'Medium Variant' from UNdata.
[2] The statistics quoted above are taken from the UNdata statistics database. UNdata quotes the original sources as being 'United Nations Population Division' (World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision). UNdata is a statistical service provided by the United Nations. All data is available free of charge and may be copied freely, duplicated and further distributed, provided that UNdata is cited as the reference. The full UNdata re-publishing policy is here. This complete dataset was last updated by UNdata on June.18.2009 & last retrieved by BlatantWorld.com on September.12.2010. UNdata give the next update as April 2011, but these release dates can often be misleading.

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