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Total Population, 1973

1973, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1973 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 882,576,946; Vatican City is lowest, at 735. The middle country reads 3,047,947. Against 1972, 222 values changed (211 up, 11 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1973

HighestChina

882,576,946

LowestVatican City

735

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, 1973, 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, 1973: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia882,576,946
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia583,465,598
3United StatesUSANorthern America215,006,551
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe132,475,149
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia125,288,515
6JapanJPNEastern Asia110,614,736
7BrazilBRASouth America102,600,976
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,966,971
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia73,722,294
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia65,461,912
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa60,082,139
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe56,188,791
13MexicoMEXCentral America55,667,284
14ItalyITASouthern Europe54,450,567
15FranceFRAWestern Europe52,162,210
16UkraineUKREastern Europe48,277,121
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia44,409,861
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia40,294,130
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia39,329,533
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia38,947,787
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa37,102,043
22SpainESPSouthern Europe34,926,524
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia34,625,849
24PolandPOLEastern Europe33,333,274
25IranIRNSouthern Asia31,839,838

02In 1973

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China882,576,946
  2. 2India583,465,598
  3. 3United States215,006,551
  4. 4Russia132,475,149
  5. 5Indonesia125,288,515

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City735
  2. 221Niue4,693
  3. 220Tuvalu5,681
  4. 219Turks and Caicos Islands6,090
  5. 218Anguilla6,447

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,047,947. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031972 → 1973

Since 1972

What changed between 1972 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 211 · 11rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China863,677,814 → 882,576,946+18,899,132
  • India570,482,142 → 583,465,598+12,983,456
  • Indonesia122,039,841 → 125,288,515+3,248,674
  • Brazil100,146,797 → 102,600,976+2,454,179
  • United States212,842,573 → 215,006,551+2,163,978

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 1973.

  • 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 (1973). Total Population, 1973 [data set], describing 1973. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1973

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07Questions

Total Population, 1973: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1973?

China, at 882,576,946, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1973 describe?

1973.

How many countries does Total Population, 1973 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1973?

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, 1973 the newest?

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

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