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On 11 September 2012, a pro-independence march pulled in a crowd of between 600,000 (according to the Spanish Government), 1.5 million (according to the Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona), and 2 million (according to its promoters); [113] [114] whereas poll results revealed that half the population of Catalonia supported secession from Spain.
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the 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.
Unless otherwise noted, areas and populations are sourced from the United Nations World Population Prospects, [a] which uses the latest censuses and official figures, as well as figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization, an agency of the UN. [2] Data is current as of 2025.
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]
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.
2022 [7] Netherlands: Amsterdam: Constituent Country Kingdom of the Netherlands 17,590,672 33,671 522 2022 [12] Buenos Aires: La Plata: Province Argentina 17,569,053 307,571 57 2022 [13] Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro: State Brazil 17,463,349 43,780 399 2021 [6] Khulna: Khulna: Division Bangladesh 17,416,645 22,272 782 2022 [7] México: Toluca ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
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