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Total Population, 1965

1965, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1965 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 723,415,733; Vatican City is lowest, at 887. The middle country reads 2,585,851. Against 1964, 222 values changed (215 up, 7 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1965

HighestChina

723,415,733

LowestVatican City

887

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, 1965, 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, 1965: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia723,415,733
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia490,140,146
3United StatesUSANorthern America195,653,774
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe126,634,214
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia101,365,130
6JapanJPNEastern Asia100,916,019
7BrazilBRASouth America83,817,583
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe75,966,964
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia59,902,519
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe54,359,020
11PakistanPAKSouthern Asia52,209,010
12ItalyITASouthern Europe51,480,728
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa50,086,764
14FranceFRAWestern Europe48,772,830
15UkraineUKREastern Europe45,386,892
16MexicoMEXCentral America43,174,477
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia37,129,656
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia32,625,316
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia32,345,220
20SpainESPSouthern Europe32,110,668
21PolandPOLEastern Europe31,288,336
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia31,149,337
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa30,629,174
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia29,284,338
25IranIRNSouthern Asia25,036,978

02In 1965

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China723,415,733
  2. 2India490,140,146
  3. 3United States195,653,774
  4. 4Russia126,634,214
  5. 5Indonesia101,365,130

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City887
  2. 221Sint Maarten4,282
  3. 220Saint Martin4,996
  4. 219Niue5,201
  5. 218Turks and Caicos Islands5,658

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,585,851. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031964 → 1965

Since 1964

What changed between 1964 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 215 · 7rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China704,798,265 → 723,415,733+18,617,468
  • India479,229,598 → 490,140,146+10,910,548
  • United States192,819,452 → 195,653,774+2,834,322
  • Indonesia98,833,749 → 101,365,130+2,531,381
  • Brazil81,488,595 → 83,817,583+2,328,988

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 1965.

  • 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 (1965). Total Population, 1965 [data set], describing 1965. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1965

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07Questions

Total Population, 1965: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1965?

China, at 723,415,733, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1965 describe?

1965.

How many countries does Total Population, 1965 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1965?

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, 1965 the newest?

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

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