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Total Population, 1963

1963, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1963 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 684,552,645; Vatican City is lowest, at 918. The middle country reads 2,464,909. Against 1962, 222 values changed (218 up, 4 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1963

HighestChina

684,552,645

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, 1963, 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, 1963: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia684,552,645
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia468,138,575
3United StatesUSANorthern America189,825,226
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe124,449,753
5JapanJPNEastern Asia98,958,231
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia96,051,424
7BrazilBRASouth America79,164,235
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe74,698,010
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia56,504,402
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe53,652,936
11ItalyITASouthern Europe50,570,976
12PakistanPAKSouthern Asia49,447,776
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa47,973,575
14FranceFRAWestern Europe47,817,824
15UkraineUKREastern Europe44,462,372
16MexicoMEXCentral America40,424,065
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia35,249,101
18SpainESPSouthern Europe31,379,827
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia30,726,841
20PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia30,674,731
21PolandPOLEastern Europe30,674,020
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia29,342,322
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa29,091,869
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia28,145,540
25IranIRNSouthern Asia23,519,005

02In 1963

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China684,552,645
  2. 2India468,138,575
  3. 3United States189,825,226
  4. 4Russia124,449,753
  5. 5Japan98,958,231

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City918
  2. 221Sint Maarten3,584
  3. 220Saint Martin4,673
  4. 219Niue5,030
  5. 218Nauru5,226

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,464,909. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031962 → 1963

Since 1962

What changed between 1962 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 218 · 4rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China665,073,691 → 684,552,645+19,478,954
  • India457,283,090 → 468,138,575+10,855,485
  • United States186,724,272 → 189,825,226+3,100,954
  • Indonesia93,375,850 → 96,051,424+2,675,574
  • Brazil76,865,323 → 79,164,235+2,298,912

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 1963.

  • 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 (1963). Total Population, 1963 [data set], describing 1963. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1963

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07Questions

Total Population, 1963: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1963?

China, at 684,552,645, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1963 describe?

1963.

How many countries does Total Population, 1963 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1963?

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, 1963 the newest?

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

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