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Total Population, 1950

1950, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1950 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 544,044,358; Vatican City is lowest, at 880. The middle country reads 1,914,992.

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Total Population · Data for 1950

HighestChina

544,044,358

LowestVatican City

880

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Total Population, 1950, 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, 1950: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia544,044,358
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia346,278,821
3United StatesUSANorthern America154,202,680
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe103,392,360
5JapanJPNEastern Asia86,443,277
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe69,847,782
7IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia68,799,025
8BrazilBRASouth America53,408,551
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe50,121,017
10ItalyITASouthern Europe46,391,673
11FranceFRAWestern Europe41,883,119
12BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia41,206,856
13UkraineUKREastern Europe37,310,887
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa37,283,010
15PakistanPAKSouthern Asia35,849,260
16SpainESPSouthern Europe28,077,049
17MexicoMEXCentral America27,587,939
18VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia25,100,738
19PolandPOLEastern Europe24,780,161
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa21,148,164
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia21,021,140
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia20,428,402
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia19,757,321
24PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia18,849,528
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia17,737,117

02In 1950

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China544,044,358
  2. 2India346,278,821
  3. 3United States154,202,680
  4. 4Russia103,392,360
  5. 5Japan86,443,277

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City880
  2. 221Sint Maarten1,450
  3. 220Saint Martin2,984
  4. 219Nauru3,407
  5. 218Niue4,497

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,914,992. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

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

The site’s method

  • 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 1950.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

04The 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. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1950). Total Population, 1950 [data set], describing 1950. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1950

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06Questions

Total Population, 1950: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1950?

China, at 544,044,358, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1950 describe?

1950.

How many countries does Total Population, 1950 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1950?

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, 1950 the newest?

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

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