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Total Population, 1964

1964, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1964 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 704,798,265; Vatican City is lowest, at 922. The middle country reads 2,525,595. Against 1963, 222 values changed (217 up, 5 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1964

HighestChina

704,798,265

LowestVatican City

922

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, 1964, 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, 1964: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia704,798,265
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia479,229,598
3United StatesUSANorthern America192,819,452
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe125,630,154
5JapanJPNEastern Asia99,890,178
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia98,833,749
7BrazilBRASouth America81,488,595
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe75,313,485
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia58,178,374
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe54,009,135
11ItalyITASouthern Europe51,019,579
12PakistanPAKSouthern Asia50,799,999
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa49,012,016
14FranceFRAWestern Europe48,319,087
15UkraineUKREastern Europe44,951,156
16MexicoMEXCentral America41,772,049
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia36,201,563
18SpainESPSouthern Europe31,741,586
19PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia31,643,032
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia31,543,072
21PolandPOLEastern Europe30,993,135
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia30,232,141
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa29,858,922
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia28,744,977
25IranIRNSouthern Asia24,262,859

02In 1964

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China704,798,265
  2. 2India479,229,598
  3. 3United States192,819,452
  4. 4Russia125,630,154
  5. 5Japan99,890,178

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City922
  2. 221Sint Maarten3,922
  3. 220Saint Martin4,827
  4. 219Niue5,126
  5. 218Nauru5,515

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,525,595. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031963 → 1964

Since 1963

What changed between 1963 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 217 · 5rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China684,552,645 → 704,798,265+20,245,620
  • India468,138,575 → 479,229,598+11,091,023
  • United States189,825,226 → 192,819,452+2,994,226
  • Indonesia96,051,424 → 98,833,749+2,782,325
  • Brazil79,164,235 → 81,488,595+2,324,360

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 1964.

  • 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 (1964). Total Population, 1964 [data set], describing 1964. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1964

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07Questions

Total Population, 1964: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1964?

China, at 704,798,265, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1964 describe?

1964.

How many countries does Total Population, 1964 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1964?

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, 1964 the newest?

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

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