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Total Population, 1953

1953, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1953 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 577,557,138; Vatican City is lowest, at 898. The middle country reads 2,006,475. Against 1952, 222 values changed (214 up, 8 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1953

HighestChina

577,557,138

LowestVatican City

898

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, 1953, 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, 1953: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia577,557,138
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia370,104,573
3United StatesUSANorthern America161,168,315
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe107,851,679
5JapanJPNEastern Asia90,324,184
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia73,569,144
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe69,935,117
8BrazilBRASouth America58,433,757
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe50,727,037
10ItalyITASouthern Europe47,410,885
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia43,791,391
12FranceFRAWestern Europe43,227,880
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa39,439,820
14UkraineUKREastern Europe38,806,087
15PakistanPAKSouthern Asia38,229,654
16MexicoMEXCentral America29,899,233
17SpainESPSouthern Europe28,632,697
18VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia26,757,964
19PolandPOLEastern Europe26,126,456
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia22,958,548
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa22,644,142
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia22,109,323
23PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia21,132,500
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia20,775,325
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia18,779,900

02In 1953

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China577,557,138
  2. 2India370,104,573
  3. 3United States161,168,315
  4. 4Russia107,851,679
  5. 5Japan90,324,184

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City898
  2. 221Sint Maarten1,738
  3. 220Saint Martin3,353
  4. 219Nauru3,695
  5. 218Niue4,577

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,006,475. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031952 → 1953

Since 1952

What changed between 1952 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 214 · 8rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China565,131,438 → 577,557,138+12,425,700
  • India361,874,903 → 370,104,573+8,229,670
  • United States158,794,222 → 161,168,315+2,374,093
  • Brazil56,694,872 → 58,433,757+1,738,885
  • Indonesia71,876,432 → 73,569,144+1,692,712

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.

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 1953.

  • 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.

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

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1953). Total Population, 1953 [data set], describing 1953. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1953

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07Questions

Total Population, 1953: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1953?

China, at 577,557,138, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1953 describe?

1953.

How many countries does Total Population, 1953 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1953?

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, 1953 the newest?

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

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