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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 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
According to the United Nations, the population of Japan was roughly 126.4 million people (as of January 2020), and peaked at 128.5 million people in 2010. It is the 6th-most populous country in Asia, and the 11th-most populous country in the world.
Asia is the most populous continent, with its 4.64 billion inhabitants accounting for 60% of the world population. The world's two most populated countries, India and China, together constitute about 36% of the world's population. Africa is the second most populated continent, with around 1.34 billion people, or 17% of the world's population.
Country / dependency Capital Population % of country Source China * Beijing: 21,542,000: 1.5% [1] 2018 Japan * Tokyo: 14,094,034: 11.3% [2] 2023 Russia * Moscow ...
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.
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The world has hundreds of major cities, mostly in coastal regions. According to the latest official data, the world population is 8,179,580,000 people. As of 2022, the world had 159 metropolitan areas with a population of over 3,000,000 people each. [30] As of 2010, about 3 billion people live in or around urban areas. [7]