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Total Population, 1966

1966, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1966 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 742,402,213; Vatican City is lowest, at 841. The middle country reads 2,638,213. Against 1965, 222 values changed (212 up, 10 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1966

HighestChina

742,402,213

LowestVatican City

841

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Total Population, 1966, as published. UN DESA Population Division ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Population, 1966: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia742,402,213
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia500,740,247
3United StatesUSANorthern America198,265,406
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe127,533,631
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia103,792,754
6JapanJPNEastern Asia101,887,835
7BrazilBRASouth America86,139,359
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe76,611,031
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia61,669,806
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe54,676,344
11PakistanPAKSouthern Asia53,678,667
12ItalyITASouthern Europe51,919,067
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa51,188,234
14FranceFRAWestern Europe49,184,656
15UkraineUKREastern Europe45,802,519
16MexicoMEXCentral America44,629,106
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia38,024,836
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia33,617,170
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia33,177,672
20SpainESPSouthern Europe32,465,884
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia32,086,071
22PolandPOLEastern Europe31,568,284
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa31,406,541
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia29,845,941
25IranIRNSouthern Asia25,829,270

02In 1966

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China742,402,213
  2. 2India500,740,247
  3. 3United States198,265,406
  4. 4Russia127,533,631
  5. 5Indonesia103,792,754

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City841
  2. 221Sint Maarten4,664
  3. 220Saint Martin5,213
  4. 219Niue5,238
  5. 218Turks and Caicos Islands5,654

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,638,213. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031965 → 1966

Since 1965

What changed between 1965 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 212 · 10rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China723,415,733 → 742,402,213+18,986,480
  • India490,140,146 → 500,740,247+10,600,101
  • United States195,653,774 → 198,265,406+2,611,632
  • Indonesia101,365,130 → 103,792,754+2,427,624
  • Brazil83,817,583 → 86,139,359+2,321,776

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1966.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1966). Total Population, 1966 [data set], describing 1966. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1966

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07Questions

Total Population, 1966: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1966?

China, at 742,402,213, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1966 describe?

1966.

How many countries does Total Population, 1966 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1966?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Total Population, 1966 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Total Population, 2023.

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