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Total Population, 1968

1968, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1968 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 781,011,025; Vatican City is lowest, at 769. The middle country reads 2,754,187. Against 1967, 222 values changed (210 up, 12 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1968

HighestChina

781,011,025

LowestVatican City

769

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia781,011,025
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia522,716,889
3United StatesUSANorthern America203,011,019
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe129,065,041
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia109,450,006
6JapanJPNEastern Asia104,237,471
7BrazilBRASouth America90,741,240
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe77,321,279
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia65,408,276
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia56,810,507
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe55,240,645
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa53,432,783
13ItalyITASouthern Europe52,712,156
14FranceFRAWestern Europe49,947,251
15MexicoMEXCentral America47,668,303
16UkraineUKREastern Europe46,614,325
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia39,734,609
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia35,638,342
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia34,921,684
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia34,002,560
21SpainESPSouthern Europe33,170,120
22EgyptEGYNorthern Africa32,998,319
23PolandPOLEastern Europe32,078,388
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia31,175,290
25IranIRNSouthern Asia27,437,391

02In 1968

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China781,011,025
  2. 2India522,716,889
  3. 3United States203,011,019
  4. 4Russia129,065,041
  5. 5Indonesia109,450,006

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City769
  2. 221Niue5,211
  3. 220Sint Maarten5,500
  4. 219Tuvalu5,624
  5. 218Turks and Caicos Islands5,656

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,754,187. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 210 · 12rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China761,026,026 → 781,011,025+19,984,999
  • India511,606,372 → 522,716,889+11,110,517
  • Indonesia106,526,393 → 109,450,006+2,923,613
  • United States200,699,911 → 203,011,019+2,311,108
  • Brazil88,446,124 → 90,741,240+2,295,116

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 1968.

  • 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 (1968). Total Population, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1968

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07Questions

Total Population, 1968: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1968?

China, at 781,011,025, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1968 describe?

1968.

How many countries does Total Population, 1968 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1968?

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, 1968 the newest?

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

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