Indicator · population

Population

Unit
people
Places
215 countries in 2025
Built from
World macro core indicators

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World, 1960–2025

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World as a whole. 2025: 8.2B people.
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Highest and lowest in 2025

Highest
India 1.5B people
China 1.4B people
United States 341.8M people
Indonesia 285.7M people
Pakistan 255.2M people
Lowest
Tuvalu 9.5K people
Nauru 12K people
Palau 17.7K people
St. Martin 24.9K people
San Marino 34.1K people

How it is computed

SP.POP.TOTL, from the World macro core indicators dataset on this site. visualizedata.org computes the indicator for every place and year; the full table, the map and each place's history are on its page there. The underlying data, with its source and license, is on the dataset page, with the API and downloads.