Population, 10,000 BCE to 1960

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

	Population (projections) people				Population (historical) people
Country/area	10,000 BCE	1960	Absolute Change	Relative Change	10,000 BCE	1960	Absolute Change	Relative Change
Afghanistan					14,737	9,034,994	+9,020,257	+61,208%
Albania					1,199	1,649,347	+1,648,148	+137,460%
Algeria					12,090	11,424,876	+11,412,786	+94,399%
American Samoa						20,117
Andorra					25	9,498	+9,473	+37,892%
Angola					379	5,231,614	+5,231,235	+1,380,273%
Anguilla						5,759
Antigua and Barbuda					1	55,582	+55,581	+5,558,100%
Argentina					27,969	20,386,005	+20,358,036	+72,788%
Armenia					9,614	1,863,664	+1,854,050	+19,285%
Aruba						54,891
Australia					314,500	10,280,765	+9,966,265	+3,169%
Austria					1,465	7,047,228	+7,045,763	+480,939%
Azerbaijan					20,584	3,982,659	+3,962,075	+19,248%
Bahamas						116,284
Bahrain					77	165,452	+165,375	+214,773%
Bangladesh					9,600	51,828,616	+51,819,016	+539,781%
Barbados						230,851
Belarus					20,549	8,207,950	+8,187,401	+39,843%
Belgium					888	9,102,115	+9,101,227	+1,024,913%
Belize					200	91,292	+91,092	+45,546%
Benin					2,557	2,517,239	+2,514,682	+98,345%
Bermuda						42,183
Bhutan					41	224,064	+224,023	+546,398%
Bolivia					104,718	3,702,263	+3,597,545	+3,435%
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba						7,812
Bosnia and Herzegovina					2,349	3,281,335	+3,278,986	+139,591%
Botswana					28	516,131	+516,103	+1,843,225%
Brazil					415,018	72,388,071	+71,973,053	+17,342%
British Virgin Islands						7,931
Brunei					8	88,318	+88,310	+1,103,875%
Bulgaria					1,165	7,862,886	+7,861,721	+674,826%
Burkina Faso					3,678	4,778,595	+4,774,917	+129,824%
Burundi					584	2,764,222	+2,763,638	+473,226%
Cambodia					10,453	5,449,909	+5,439,456	+52,037%
Cameroon					3,224	5,159,005	+5,155,781	+159,919%
Canada					17,259	17,898,743	+17,881,484	+103,607%
Cape Verde						209,985
Cayman Islands						8,411
Central African Republic					2,265	1,702,307	+1,700,042	+75,057%
Chad					9,682	3,049,786	+3,040,104	+31,400%
Chile					34,799	8,153,307	+8,118,508	+23,330%
China					217,311	654,802,013	+654,584,702	+301,220%
Colombia					128,828	15,606,155	+15,477,327	+12,014%
Comoros						197,666
Congo					1,997	1,056,692	+1,054,695	+52,814%
Cook Islands						17,639
Costa Rica					2,115	1,327,448	+1,325,333	+62,663%
Cote d'Ivoire					4,806	3,673,622	+3,668,816	+76,338%
Croatia					1,198	4,200,219	+4,199,021	+350,503%
Cuba					241	7,238,044	+7,237,803	+3,003,238%
Curacao						132,152
Cyprus					922	586,442	+585,520	+63,505%
Czechia					697	9,541,555	+9,540,858	+1,368,846%
Czechoslovakia						13,650,000
Democratic Republic of Congo					21,905	15,264,804	+15,242,899	+69,586%
Denmark					540	4,579,292	+4,578,752	+847,917%
Djibouti					143	85,995	+85,852	+60,036%
Dominica						59,339
Dominican Republic					755	3,268,295	+3,267,540	+432,787%
East Germany
East Timor					387	468,088	+467,701	+120,853%
Ecuador					69,685	4,590,838	+4,521,153	+6,488%
Egypt					13,668	26,896,428	+26,882,760	+196,684%
El Salvador					8,673	2,791,387	+2,782,714	+32,085%
Equatorial Guinea					2,049	269,758	+267,709	+13,065%
Eritrea					3,098	972,515	+969,417	+31,292%
Estonia					28	1,220,412	+1,220,384	+4,358,514%
Eswatini					88	345,292	+345,204	+392,277%
Ethiopia					16,296	21,376,637	+21,360,341	+131,077%
Ethiopia (former)						25,780,000
Falkland Islands						2,246
Faroe Islands					8	34,109	+34,101	+426,263%
Fiji						404,845
Finland					421	4,429,579	+4,429,158	+1,052,057%
France					16,785	46,428,086	+46,411,301	+276,505%
French Guiana						31,063
French Polynesia						83,646
Gabon					346	512,283	+511,937	+147,959%
Gambia					26	398,030	+398,004	+1,530,785%
Georgia					25,145	4,053,753	+4,028,608	+16,022%
Germany					6,576	72,811,591	+72,805,015	+1,107,132%
Ghana					4,013	6,961,167	+6,957,154	+173,365%
Gibraltar						21,827
Greece					494	8,384,421	+8,383,927	+1,697,151%
Greenland						32,088
Grenada					4	94,028	+94,024	+2,350,600%
Guadeloupe					12	279,391	+279,379	+2,328,158%
Guam						69,498
Guatemala					52,148	4,063,608	+4,011,460	+7,692%
Guernsey						47,142
Guinea					2,492	3,556,704	+3,554,212	+142,625%
Guinea-Bissau					194	577,599	+577,405	+297,631%
Guyana					5	569,108	+569,103	+11,382,060%
Haiti						3,858,401
Honduras					13,390	2,062,016	+2,048,626	+15,300%
Hong Kong					1,558	3,094,807	+3,093,249	+198,540%
Hungary					2,109	9,983,335	+9,981,226	+473,268%
Iceland					8	175,524	+175,516	+2,193,950%
India					84,810	435,990,289	+435,905,479	+513,979%
Indonesia					20,971	88,296,023	+88,275,052	+420,939%
Iran					38,101	21,470,388	+21,432,287	+56,251%
Iraq					35,992	7,022,010	+6,986,018	+19,410%
Ireland					224	2,827,644	+2,827,420	+1,262,241%
Isle of Man						48,845
Israel					11,936	1,891,895	+1,879,959	+15,750%
Italy					12,658	49,514,502	+49,501,844	+391,072%
Jamaica						1,649,962
Japan					5,202	96,399,711	+96,394,509	+1,853,028%
Jersey						63,624
Jordan					11,376	853,426	+842,050	+7,402%
Kazakhstan					108,469	9,429,929	+9,321,460	+8,594%
Kenya					10,114	7,695,258	+7,685,144	+75,985%
Kiribati						47,132
Kosovo						984,812
Kuwait					912	311,026	+310,114	+34,004%
Kyrgyzstan					28,350	2,215,471	+2,187,121	+7,715%
Laos					10,775	2,121,469	+2,110,694	+19,589%
Latvia					38	2,131,119	+2,131,081	+5,608,108%
Lebanon					20,511	1,794,359	+1,773,848	+8,648%
Lesotho					146	736,472	+736,326	+504,333%
Liberia					2,729	1,139,478	+1,136,749	+41,654%
Libya					6,936	1,492,852	+1,485,916	+21,423%
Liechtenstein					1,363	16,473	+15,110	+1,109%
Lithuania					45	2,769,052	+2,769,007	+6,153,349%
Luxembourg					791	313,842	+313,051	+39,577%
Macao						173,290
Madagascar					6	5,110,982	+5,110,976	+85,182,933%
Malawi					2,762	3,628,085	+3,625,323	+131,257%
Malaysia					754	7,956,159	+7,955,405	+1,055,094%
Maldives						91,162
Mali					3,871	5,402,500	+5,398,629	+139,463%
Malta						330,781
Marshall Islands						14,688
Martinique						288,733
Mauritania					2,995	824,264	+821,269	+27,421%
Mauritius						680,284
Mayotte						25,975
Mexico					810,851	36,724,570	+35,913,719	+4,429%
Micronesia (country)						43,037
Moldova					11,216	3,076,129	+3,064,913	+27,326%
Monaco						21,780
Mongolia					14,955	977,549	+962,594	+6,437%
Montenegro						471,158
Montserrat						12,015
Morocco					17,352	11,624,881	+11,607,529	+66,894%
Mozambique					2,155	6,713,654	+6,711,499	+311,438%
Myanmar					19,798	21,730,205	+21,710,407	+109,660%
Namibia					44	591,411	+591,367	+1,344,016%
Nauru						4,589
Nepal					107,405	10,123,617	+10,016,212	+9,326%
Netherlands					1,220	11,486,870	+11,485,650	+941,447%
Netherlands Antilles						132,765
New Caledonia					3	79,790	+79,787	+2,659,567%
New Zealand						2,379,435
Nicaragua					30,733	1,782,321	+1,751,588	+5,699%
Niger					9,543	3,505,009	+3,495,466	+36,629%
Nigeria					17,305	45,053,744	+45,036,439	+260,251%
Niue						4,809
North Korea					10,773	11,722,909	+11,712,136	+108,717%
North Macedonia					725	1,435,019	+1,434,294	+197,834%
Northern Mariana Islands						8,716
Norway					237	3,581,067	+3,580,830	+1,510,899%
Oman					2,644	530,449	+527,805	+19,962%
Pakistan					8,500	45,709,272	+45,700,772	+537,656%
Palau						9,311
Palestine						1,073,026
Panama					14,392	1,125,959	+1,111,567	+7,724%
Papua New Guinea					9,694	1,995,076	+1,985,382	+20,481%
Paraguay					3,500	1,883,474	+1,879,974	+53,714%
Peru					242,217	10,174,079	+9,931,862	+4,100%
Philippines					16,146	27,891,859	+27,875,713	+172,648%
Poland					699	29,575,921	+29,575,222	+4,231,076%
Portugal					7,160	8,873,185	+8,866,025	+123,827%
Puerto Rico						2,363,867
Qatar					6	35,981	+35,975	+599,583%
Reunion						359,510
Romania					2,799	18,313,450	+18,310,651	+654,185%
Russia					257,671	119,934,094	+119,676,423	+46,445%
Rwanda					539	3,022,249	+3,021,710	+560,614%
Saint Barthelemy						2,167
Saint Helena						5,343
Saint Kitts and Nevis						55,789
Saint Lucia					5	92,559	+92,554	+1,851,080%
Saint Martin (French part)						4,239
Saint Pierre and Miquelon						4,970
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines						84,359
Samoa						112,464
San Marino						15,407
Sao Tome and Principe					2	67,989	+67,987	+3,399,350%
Saudi Arabia					17,339	2,435,361	+2,418,022	+13,946%
Senegal					734	3,340,851	+3,340,117	+455,057%
Serbia						6,702,911
Serbia and Montenegro					4,363	8,044,138	+8,039,775	+184,272%
Seychelles						43,204
Sierra Leone					77	2,268,311	+2,268,234	+2,945,758%
Singapore						1,619,267
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)						2,688
Slovakia					1,679	4,124,396	+4,122,717	+245,546%
Slovenia					1,308	1,605,033	+1,603,725	+122,609%
Solomon Islands						139,653
Somalia					3,470	2,876,282	+2,872,812	+82,790%
South Africa					90	16,440,132	+16,440,042	+18,266,713%
South Korea					10,786	26,115,344	+26,104,558	+242,023%
South Sudan						2,931,518
Spain					18,221	30,404,890	+30,386,669	+166,767%
Sri Lanka					32,212	9,661,342	+9,629,130	+29,893%
Sudan					11,863	8,364,442	+8,352,579	+70,409%
Suriname					3	263,890	+263,887	+8,796,233%
Sweden					237	7,484,546	+7,484,309	+3,157,936%
Switzerland					507	5,327,725	+5,327,218	+1,050,733%
Syria					26,928	4,673,451	+4,646,523	+17,255%
Taiwan					5,579	11,046,219	+11,040,640	+197,896%
Tajikistan					24,652	2,112,085	+2,087,433	+8,468%
Tanzania					7,899	9,901,365	+9,893,466	+125,250%
Thailand					14,011	26,851,697	+26,837,686	+191,547%
Togo					3,271	1,673,073	+1,669,802	+51,049%
Tokelau						1,764
Tonga						66,138
Trinidad and Tobago						844,903
Tunisia					4,837	4,267,245	+4,262,408	+88,121%
Turkey					39,506	28,329,854	+28,290,348	+71,610%
Turkmenistan					19,721	1,643,419	+1,623,698	+8,233%
Turks and Caicos Islands						5,591
Tuvalu						5,583
USSR					727,181	213,672,861	+212,945,680	+29,284%
Uganda					13,183	7,640,933	+7,627,750	+57,861%
Ukraine					98,793	42,824,051	+42,725,258	+43,247%
United Arab Emirates					409	131,303	+130,894	+32,003%
United Kingdom					2,189	52,538,492	+52,536,303	+2,400,014%
United States					233,969	180,274,505	+180,040,536	+76,951%
United States Virgin Islands						33,006
Uruguay					1,705	2,529,916	+2,528,211	+148,282%
Uzbekistan					102,306	8,209,074	+8,106,768	+7,924%
Vanuatu						64,401
Vatican						896
Venezuela					69,396	8,160,039	+8,090,643	+11,659%
Vietnam					21,429	32,531,879	+32,510,450	+151,712%
Wallis and Futuna						8,610
West Germany
Western Sahara						30,312
Yemen					981	5,532,249	+5,531,268	+563,840%
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen People's Republic
Yugoslavia						18,130,000
Zambia					668	3,153,682	+3,153,014	+472,008%
Zimbabwe					749	3,809,349	+3,808,600	+508,491%
Other
Africa					1,118,546	283,919,591	+282,801,045	+25,283%
Africa (UN)						283,921,898
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Americas (UN)						417,520,467
Asia					1,392,482	1,691,760,355	+1,690,367,873	+121,392%
Asia (UN)						1,692,348,870
Asia (excl. China and India)					881,661	592,598,208	+591,716,547	+67,114%
Europe					3,226,284	606,401,607	+603,175,323	+18,696%
Europe (UN)						605,817,143
Europe (excl. Russia)					223,920	485,195,264	+484,971,344	+216,582%
European Union (27)					80,367	355,932,392	+355,852,025	+442,784%
High-income countries					1,033,769	781,410,430	+780,376,661	+75,488%
Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)						219,267,827
Low-income countries					1,023,916	136,124,614	+135,100,698	+13,195%
Lower-middle-income countries					976,708	895,785,161	+894,808,453	+91,615%
North America					1,320,175	269,078,139	+267,757,964	+20,282%
Northern America (UN)						198,252,592
Oceania					493,816	15,861,706	+15,367,890	+3,112%
Oceania (UN)						15,862,251
South America					1,097,843	148,440,454	+147,342,611	+13,421%
South America (excl. Brazil)					682,830	74,960,224	+74,277,394	+10,878%
Svalbard and Jan Mayen						35
Upper-middle-income countries					5,535,831	1,200,967,842	+1,195,432,011	+21,594%
World					4,501,152	3,015,470,858	+3,010,969,706	+66,893%

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