Population, 10,000 BCE to 1853

Future projections are based on the UN's medium-fertility scenario.

	Population (projections) people				Population (historical) people
Country/area	10,000 BCE	1853	Absolute Change	Relative Change	10,000 BCE	1853	Absolute Change	Relative Change
Afghanistan					14,737	3,800,954	+3,786,217	+25,692%
Albania					1,199	514,536	+513,337	+42,814%
Algeria					12,090	2,926,664	+2,914,574	+24,107%
American Samoa
Andorra					25	3,342	+3,317	+13,268%
Angola					379	2,488,555	+2,488,176	+656,511%
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda					1	36,977	+36,976	+3,697,600%
Argentina					27,969	1,157,536	+1,129,567	+4,039%
Armenia					9,614	558,974	+549,360	+5,714%
Aruba
Australia					314,500	769,782	+455,282	+145%
Austria					1,465	4,033,846	+4,032,381	+275,248%
Azerbaijan					20,584	1,193,956	+1,173,372	+5,700%
Bahamas						30,124
Bahrain					77	64,469	+64,392	+83,626%
Bangladesh					9,600	22,864,071	+22,854,471	+238,067%
Barbados						140,901
Belarus					20,549	3,187,606	+3,167,057	+15,412%
Belgium					888	4,533,797	+4,532,909	+510,463%
Belize					200	25,958	+25,758	+12,879%
Benin					2,557	804,973	+802,416	+31,381%
Bermuda
Bhutan					41	333,039	+332,998	+812,190%
Bolivia					104,718	1,398,030	+1,293,312	+1,235%
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina					2,349	1,043,420	+1,041,071	+44,320%
Botswana					28	103,108	+103,080	+368,143%
Brazil					415,018	7,574,774	+7,159,756	+1,725%
British Virgin Islands
Brunei					8	4,483	+4,475	+55,938%
Bulgaria					1,165	2,511,290	+2,510,125	+215,461%
Burkina Faso					3,678	1,867,760	+1,864,082	+50,682%
Burundi					584	1,430,281	+1,429,697	+244,811%
Cambodia					10,453	2,250,450	+2,239,997	+21,429%
Cameroon					3,224	2,802,478	+2,799,254	+86,825%
Canada					17,259	2,722,093	+2,704,834	+15,672%
Cape Verde						79,724
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic					2,265	936,232	+933,967	+41,235%
Chad					9,682	1,795,425	+1,785,743	+18,444%
Chile					34,799	1,486,881	+1,452,082	+4,173%
China					217,311	400,951,224	+400,733,913	+184,406%
Colombia					128,828	2,238,994	+2,110,166	+1,638%
Comoros						61,275
Congo					1,997	508,354	+506,357	+25,356%
Cook Islands
Costa Rica					2,115	106,824	+104,709	+4,951%
Cote d'Ivoire					4,806	1,059,551	+1,054,745	+21,946%
Croatia					1,198	1,640,564	+1,639,366	+136,842%
Cuba					241	1,247,533	+1,247,292	+517,549%
Curacao
Cyprus					922	185,426	+184,504	+20,011%
Czechia					697	6,958,845	+6,958,148	+998,300%
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of Congo					21,905	8,238,175	+8,216,270	+37,509%
Denmark					540	1,555,906	+1,555,366	+288,031%
Djibouti					143	40,405	+40,262	+28,155%
Dominica						23,876
Dominican Republic					755	157,686	+156,931	+20,786%
East Germany
East Timor					387	211,146	+210,759	+54,460%
Ecuador					69,685	844,735	+775,050	+1,112%
Egypt					13,668	5,850,322	+5,836,654	+42,703%
El Salvador					8,673	384,695	+376,022	+4,336%
Equatorial Guinea					2,049	110,411	+108,362	+5,289%
Eritrea					3,098	691,802	+688,704	+22,231%
Estonia					28	496,904	+496,876	+1,774,557%
Eswatini					88	68,166	+68,078	+77,361%
Ethiopia					16,296	18,391,118	+18,374,822	+112,757%
Ethiopia (former)
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands					8
Fiji						136,324
Finland					421	1,660,217	+1,659,796	+394,251%
France					16,785	36,601,225	+36,584,440	+217,959%
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon					346	303,009	+302,663	+87,475%
Gambia					26	114,313	+114,287	+439,565%
Georgia					25,145	1,449,239	+1,424,094	+5,664%
Germany					6,576	34,473,260	+34,466,684	+524,128%
Ghana					4,013	2,010,511	+2,006,498	+50,000%
Gibraltar
Greece					494	3,130,486	+3,129,992	+633,602%
Greenland
Grenada					4	32,690	+32,686	+817,150%
Guadeloupe					12
Guam
Guatemala					52,148	882,858	+830,710	+1,593%
Guernsey
Guinea					2,492	1,050,713	+1,048,221	+42,063%
Guinea-Bissau					194	213,185	+212,991	+109,789%
Guyana					5	133,552	+133,547	+2,670,940%
Haiti						969,155
Honduras					13,390	358,941	+345,551	+2,581%
Hong Kong					1,558	45,258	+43,700	+2,805%
Hungary					2,109	5,267,286	+5,265,177	+249,653%
Iceland					8	61,291	+61,283	+766,038%
India					84,810	238,079,774	+237,994,964	+280,621%
Indonesia					20,971	22,591,664	+22,570,693	+107,628%
Iran					38,101	7,636,730	+7,598,629	+19,943%
Iraq					35,992	1,267,421	+1,231,429	+3,421%
Ireland					224	6,539,235	+6,539,011	+2,919,201%
Isle of Man
Israel					11,936	215,073	+203,137	+1,702%
Italy					12,658	24,919,302	+24,906,644	+196,766%
Jamaica						411,468
Japan					5,202	32,365,906	+32,360,704	+622,082%
Jersey
Jordan					11,376	291,862	+280,486	+2,466%
Kazakhstan					108,469	2,756,636	+2,648,167	+2,441%
Kenya					10,114	3,405,073	+3,394,959	+33,567%
Kiribati						21,072
Kosovo
Kuwait					912	81,358	+80,446	+8,821%
Kyrgyzstan					28,350	716,950	+688,600	+2,429%
Laos					10,775	640,221	+629,446	+5,842%
Latvia					38	1,009,718	+1,009,680	+2,657,053%
Lebanon					20,511	420,840	+400,329	+1,952%
Lesotho					146	181,631	+181,485	+124,305%
Liberia					2,729	336,657	+333,928	+12,236%
Libya					6,936	277,302	+270,366	+3,898%
Liechtenstein					1,363	7,340	+5,977	+439%
Lithuania					45	1,264,001	+1,263,956	+2,808,791%
Luxembourg					791	195,940	+195,149	+24,671%
Macao
Madagascar					6	2,646,637	+2,646,631	+44,110,517%
Malawi					2,762	2,153,242	+2,150,480	+77,860%
Malaysia					754	562,041	+561,287	+74,441%
Maldives						51,301
Mali					3,871	1,539,205	+1,535,334	+39,662%
Malta						162,723
Marshall Islands						12,508
Martinique
Mauritania					2,995	291,247	+288,252	+9,624%
Mauritius						216,207
Mayotte
Mexico					810,851	7,982,109	+7,171,258	+884%
Micronesia (country)						19,266
Moldova					11,216	963,524	+952,308	+8,491%
Monaco						11,619
Mongolia					14,955	650,693	+635,738	+4,251%
Montenegro						211,989
Montserrat
Morocco					17,352	2,933,630	+2,916,278	+16,807%
Mozambique					2,155	4,738,754	+4,736,599	+219,796%
Myanmar					19,798	3,961,426	+3,941,628	+19,909%
Namibia					44	121,470	+121,426	+275,968%
Nauru						1,885
Nepal					107,405	4,393,218	+4,285,813	+3,990%
Netherlands					1,220	3,162,293	+3,161,073	+259,104%
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia					3
New Zealand						101,095
Nicaragua					30,733	308,143	+277,410	+903%
Niger					9,543	1,009,375	+999,832	+10,477%
Nigeria					17,305	13,752,218	+13,734,913	+79,370%
Niue
North Korea					10,773	4,489,206	+4,478,433	+41,571%
North Macedonia					725	523,827	+523,102	+72,152%
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway					237	1,450,893	+1,450,656	+612,091%
Oman					2,644	348,388	+345,744	+13,077%
Pakistan					8,500	15,182,568	+15,174,068	+178,518%
Palau						4,545
Palestine						172,357
Panama					14,392	116,636	+102,244	+710%
Papua New Guinea					9,694	768,122	+758,428	+7,824%
Paraguay					3,500	355,236	+351,736	+10,050%
Peru					242,217	3,082,835	+2,840,618	+1,173%
Philippines					16,146	3,778,702	+3,762,556	+23,303%
Poland					699	13,505,801	+13,505,102	+1,932,060%
Portugal					7,160	3,870,122	+3,862,962	+53,952%
Puerto Rico
Qatar					6	14,052	+14,046	+234,100%
Reunion
Romania					2,799	8,166,784	+8,163,985	+291,675%
Russia					257,671	42,433,459	+42,175,788	+16,368%
Rwanda					539	1,518,791	+1,518,252	+281,679%
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis						30,277
Saint Lucia					5	24,975	+24,970	+499,400%
Saint Martin (French part)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines						30,476
Samoa						46,060
San Marino						7,083
Sao Tome and Principe					2	28,721	+28,719	+1,435,950%
Saudi Arabia					17,339	2,230,265	+2,212,926	+12,763%
Senegal					734	947,560	+946,826	+128,995%
Serbia						1,999,864
Serbia and Montenegro					4,363
Seychelles						14,146
Sierra Leone					77	791,564	+791,487	+1,027,905%
Singapore						59,465
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovakia					1,679	2,418,153	+2,416,474	+143,923%
Slovenia					1,308	626,861	+625,553	+47,825%
Solomon Islands						81,221
Somalia					3,470	1,473,992	+1,470,522	+42,378%
South Africa					90	3,106,364	+3,106,274	+3,451,416%
South Korea					10,786	9,563,310	+9,552,524	+88,564%
South Sudan						1,239,435
Spain					18,221	15,114,951	+15,096,730	+82,853%
Sri Lanka					32,212	2,119,618	+2,087,406	+6,480%
Sudan					11,863	4,717,354	+4,705,491	+39,665%
Suriname					3	85,420	+85,417	+2,847,233%
Sweden					237	3,567,529	+3,567,292	+1,505,186%
Switzerland					507	2,417,406	+2,416,899	+476,706%
Syria					26,928	1,494,469	+1,467,541	+5,450%
Taiwan					5,579	2,218,902	+2,213,323	+39,672%
Tajikistan					24,652	630,401	+605,749	+2,457%
Tanzania					7,899	5,449,060	+5,441,161	+68,884%
Thailand					14,011	5,311,786	+5,297,775	+37,812%
Togo					3,271	516,986	+513,715	+15,705%
Tokelau
Tonga						18,658
Trinidad and Tobago						85,417
Tunisia					4,837	1,148,238	+1,143,401	+23,639%
Turkey					39,506	11,170,788	+11,131,282	+28,176%
Turkmenistan					19,721	496,379	+476,658	+2,417%
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu						2,931
USSR					727,181	74,919,785	+74,192,604	+10,203%
Uganda					13,183	3,010,534	+2,997,351	+22,736%
Ukraine					98,793	15,169,825	+15,071,032	+15,255%
United Arab Emirates					409	40,198	+39,789	+9,728%
United Kingdom					2,189	27,681,073	+27,678,884	+1,264,453%
United States					233,969	25,793,143	+25,559,174	+10,924%
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay					1,705	155,024	+153,319	+8,992%
Uzbekistan					102,306	2,592,213	+2,489,907	+2,434%
Vanuatu						38,342
Vatican						905
Venezuela					69,396	1,374,250	+1,304,854	+1,880%
Vietnam					21,429	6,531,393	+6,509,964	+30,379%
Wallis and Futuna
West Germany
Western Sahara
Yemen					981	2,750,989	+2,750,008	+280,327%
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen People's Republic
Yugoslavia
Zambia					668	1,594,729	+1,594,061	+238,632%
Zimbabwe					749	686,415	+685,666	+91,544%
Other
Africa					1,118,546	113,925,748	+112,807,202	+10,085%
Africa (UN)
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Americas (UN)
Asia					1,392,482	821,666,826	+820,274,344	+58,907%
Asia (UN)
Asia (excl. China and India)					881,661
Europe					3,226,284	285,853,756	+282,627,472	+8,760%
Europe (UN)
Europe (excl. Russia)					223,920
European Union (27)					80,367	187,572,465	+187,492,098	+233,295%
High-income countries					1,033,864	296,459,382	+295,425,518	+28,575%
Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)
Low-income countries					1,023,916	71,906,435	+70,882,519	+6,923%
Lower-middle-income countries					976,708	382,633,705	+381,656,997	+39,076%
North America					1,320,316	42,860,617	+41,540,301	+3,146%
Northern America (UN)
Oceania					493,845	2,196,375	+1,702,530	+345%
Oceania (UN)
South America					1,097,843	19,898,328	+18,800,485	+1,712%
South America (excl. Brazil)					682,830
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Upper-middle-income countries					5,535,831	534,845,233	+529,309,402	+9,562%
World					4,501,152

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