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Total Population, 1955

1955, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1955 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 603,547,007; Vatican City is lowest, at 911. The middle country reads 2,076,422. Against 1954, 222 values changed (216 up, 6 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1955

HighestChina

603,547,007

LowestVatican City

911

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, 1955, 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, 1955: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia603,547,007
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia387,700,887
3United StatesUSANorthern America166,200,024
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe111,160,992
5JapanJPNEastern Asia92,425,478
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia77,273,507
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe70,334,152
8BrazilBRASouth America62,101,388
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe51,176,747
10ItalyITASouthern Europe48,130,818
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia45,767,684
12FranceFRAWestern Europe44,136,090
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa40,935,635
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia40,098,069
15UkraineUKREastern Europe39,859,711
16MexicoMEXCentral America31,650,600
17SpainESPSouthern Europe29,089,776
18VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia28,166,446
19PolandPOLEastern Europe27,063,640
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia24,310,511
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa23,795,229
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia23,343,181
23PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia22,880,573
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia22,125,103
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia19,550,482

02In 1955

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China603,547,007
  2. 2India387,700,887
  3. 3United States166,200,024
  4. 4Russia111,160,992
  5. 5Japan92,425,478

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City911
  2. 221Sint Maarten1,948
  3. 220Saint Martin3,599
  4. 219Nauru3,885
  5. 218Niue4,628

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,076,422. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031954 → 1955

Since 1954

What changed between 1954 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 216 · 6rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China590,113,858 → 603,547,007+13,433,149
  • India378,687,138 → 387,700,887+9,013,749
  • United States163,636,309 → 166,200,024+2,563,715
  • Indonesia75,367,369 → 77,273,507+1,906,138
  • Brazil60,235,122 → 62,101,388+1,866,266

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 1955.

  • 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 (1955). Total Population, 1955 [data set], describing 1955. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1955

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07Questions

Total Population, 1955: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1955?

China, at 603,547,007, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1955 describe?

1955.

How many countries does Total Population, 1955 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1955?

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, 1955 the newest?

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

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