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Total Population, 1957

1957, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1957 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 630,356,208; Vatican City is lowest, at 919. The middle country reads 2,179,897. Against 1956, 222 values changed (216 up, 6 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1957

HighestChina

630,356,208

LowestVatican City

919

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, 1957, 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, 1957: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia630,356,208
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia406,253,888
3United StatesUSANorthern America171,499,226
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe114,730,335
5JapanJPNEastern Asia94,108,977
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia81,390,834
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe71,088,146
8BrazilBRASouth America66,031,492
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe51,655,912
10ItalyITASouthern Europe48,657,034
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia48,004,669
12FranceFRAWestern Europe45,036,376
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa42,517,476
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia42,185,137
15UkraineUKREastern Europe40,998,772
16MexicoMEXCentral America33,562,724
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia29,754,428
18SpainESPSouthern Europe29,569,964
19PolandPOLEastern Europe28,076,498
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia25,880,914
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa24,994,408
22PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia24,815,855
23ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia24,674,830
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia23,660,791
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia20,382,704

02In 1957

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China630,356,208
  2. 2India406,253,888
  3. 3United States171,499,226
  4. 4Russia114,730,335
  5. 5Japan94,108,977

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City919
  2. 221Sint Maarten2,216
  3. 220Saint Martin3,847
  4. 219Nauru4,158
  5. 218Niue4,717

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,179,897. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

What changed between 1956 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

  • China616,558,583 → 630,356,208+13,797,625
  • India396,988,903 → 406,253,888+9,264,985
  • United States168,824,960 → 171,499,226+2,674,266
  • Indonesia79,282,549 → 81,390,834+2,108,285
  • Brazil64,033,995 → 66,031,492+1,997,497

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 1957.

  • 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 (1957). Total Population, 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1957

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07Questions

Total Population, 1957: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1957?

China, at 630,356,208, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1957 describe?

1957.

How many countries does Total Population, 1957 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1957?

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, 1957 the newest?

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

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