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Total Population, 1970

1970, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1970 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 823,308,967; Vatican City is lowest, at 745. The middle country reads 2,843,478. Against 1969, 222 values changed (213 up, 9 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1970

HighestChina

823,308,967

LowestVatican City

745

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, 1970, 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, 1970: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia823,308,967
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia545,864,268
3United StatesUSANorthern America207,796,339
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe130,367,189
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia115,657,495
6JapanJPNEastern Asia106,712,368
7BrazilBRASouth America95,375,651
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,205,102
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia69,058,894
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia60,166,719
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa55,893,838
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe55,663,801
13ItalyITASouthern Europe53,390,236
14MexicoMEXCentral America50,814,953
15FranceFRAWestern Europe50,813,075
16UkraineUKREastern Europe47,261,306
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia41,475,230
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia37,622,204
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia36,638,465
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia35,954,408
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa34,623,990
22SpainESPSouthern Europe33,812,723
23PolandPOLEastern Europe32,542,633
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia32,542,197
25IranIRNSouthern Asia29,145,100

02In 1970

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China823,308,967
  2. 2India545,864,268
  3. 3United States207,796,339
  4. 4Russia130,367,189
  5. 5Indonesia115,657,495

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City745
  2. 221Niue5,109
  3. 220Tuvalu5,663
  4. 219Turks and Caicos Islands5,667
  5. 218Saint Martin6,047

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,843,478. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 213 · 9rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China802,140,332 → 823,308,967+21,168,635
  • India533,880,544 → 545,864,268+11,983,724
  • Indonesia112,517,639 → 115,657,495+3,139,856
  • United States205,300,033 → 207,796,339+2,496,306
  • Brazil93,045,777 → 95,375,651+2,329,874

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 1970.

  • 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 (1970). Total Population, 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1970

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07Questions

Total Population, 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1970?

China, at 823,308,967, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Total Population, 1970 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1970?

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, 1970 the newest?

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

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