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Total Population, 1960

1960, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1960 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 654,802,069; Vatican City is lowest, at 918. The middle country reads 2,316,137. Against 1959, 222 values changed (216 up, 6 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1960

HighestChina

654,802,069

LowestVatican City

918

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, 1960, 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, 1960: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia654,802,069
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia435,990,338
3United StatesUSANorthern America180,274,555
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe119,934,141
5JapanJPNEastern Asia96,399,754
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia88,296,070
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe72,811,640
8BrazilBRASouth America72,388,126
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe52,538,548
10BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia51,828,660
11ItalyITASouthern Europe49,514,555
12FranceFRAWestern Europe46,428,134
13PakistanPAKSouthern Asia45,709,310
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa45,053,782
15UkraineUKREastern Europe42,824,093
16MexicoMEXCentral America36,724,615
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia32,531,933
18SpainESPSouthern Europe30,404,939
19PolandPOLEastern Europe29,575,966
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia28,329,898
21PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia27,891,897
22EgyptEGYNorthern Africa26,896,479
23ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia26,851,747
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia26,115,379
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia21,730,250

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China654,802,069
  2. 2India435,990,338
  3. 3United States180,274,555
  4. 4Russia119,934,141
  5. 5Japan96,399,754

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City918
  2. 221Sint Maarten2,715
  3. 220Saint Martin4,250
  4. 219Nauru4,607
  5. 218Niue4,825

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,316,137. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

What changed between 1959 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

  • India425,780,669 → 435,990,338+10,209,669
  • United States177,145,764 → 180,274,555+3,128,791
  • Indonesia85,892,869 → 88,296,070+2,403,201
  • Brazil70,214,470 → 72,388,126+2,173,656
  • China652,708,217 → 654,802,069+2,093,852

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 1960.

  • 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 (1960). Total Population, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1960

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07Questions

Total Population, 1960: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1960?

China, at 654,802,069, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1960 describe?

1960.

How many countries does Total Population, 1960 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1960?

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, 1960 the newest?

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

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