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Total Population, 2007

2007, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2007 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,325,813,582; Vatican City is lowest, at 648. The middle country reads 5,419,303. Against 2006, 222 values changed (188 up, 34 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2007

HighestChina

1,325,813,582

LowestVatican City

648

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, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,325,813,582
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,190,676,021
3United StatesUSANorthern America301,844,226
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia237,062,337
5BrazilBRASouth America188,552,320
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia184,493,231
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa153,267,261
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia147,989,278
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe143,859,764
10JapanJPNEastern Asia128,087,682
11MexicoMEXCentral America108,774,360
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia91,075,184
13EgyptEGYNorthern Africa84,276,225
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia83,633,375
15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa83,103,217
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe81,298,542
17IranIRNSouthern Asia74,602,648
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia70,750,586
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia67,102,394
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa62,477,752
21FranceFRAWestern Europe62,432,439
22United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe61,535,855
23ItalyITASouthern Europe59,108,720
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa50,528,584
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia48,178,118

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,325,813,582
  2. 2India1,190,676,021
  3. 3United States301,844,226
  4. 4Indonesia237,062,337
  5. 5Brazil188,552,320

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City648
  2. 221Niue1,784
  3. 220Montserrat4,623
  4. 219Nauru10,020
  5. 218Tuvalu10,182

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,419,303. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 188 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,172,878,890 → 1,190,676,021+17,797,131
  • China1,318,054,036 → 1,325,813,582+7,759,546
  • Pakistan179,682,690 → 184,493,231+4,810,541
  • Nigeria149,077,334 → 153,267,261+4,189,927
  • United States298,730,209 → 301,844,226+3,114,017

Fell most

  • Germany81,701,971 → 81,298,542−403,429
  • Russia144,102,948 → 143,859,764−243,184
  • Iraq28,616,515 → 28,391,607−224,908
  • Ukraine47,278,694 → 47,062,798−215,896
  • Romania21,035,732 → 20,870,716−165,016

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 2007.

  • 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 (2007). Total Population, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2007

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07Questions

Total Population, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2007?

China, at 1,325,813,582, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Total Population, 2007 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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