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Total Population, 1974

1974, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1974 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 900,307,582; Vatican City is lowest, at 733. The middle country reads 3,116,007. Against 1973, 222 values changed (212 up, 10 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1974

HighestChina

900,307,582

LowestVatican City

733

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, 1974, 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, 1974: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia900,307,582
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia597,041,391
3United StatesUSANorthern America217,076,476
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe133,259,158
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia128,555,045
6JapanJPNEastern Asia112,009,694
7BrazilBRASouth America105,089,675
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,996,693
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia75,839,348
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia67,415,487
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa61,679,144
12MexicoMEXCentral America57,320,149
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe56,224,550
14ItalyITASouthern Europe54,821,113
15FranceFRAWestern Europe52,504,738
16UkraineUKREastern Europe48,576,570
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia45,413,537
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia41,174,341
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia40,210,234
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia39,952,891
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa37,969,667
22SpainESPSouthern Europe35,361,762
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia35,287,837
24PolandPOLEastern Europe33,642,461
25IranIRNSouthern Asia32,796,463

02In 1974

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China900,307,582
  2. 2India597,041,391
  3. 3United States217,076,476
  4. 4Russia133,259,158
  5. 5Indonesia128,555,045

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City733
  2. 221Niue4,472
  3. 220Tuvalu5,822
  4. 219Turks and Caicos Islands6,273
  5. 218Anguilla6,479

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,116,007. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 212 · 10rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • China882,576,946 → 900,307,582+17,730,636
  • India583,465,598 → 597,041,391+13,575,793
  • Indonesia125,288,515 → 128,555,045+3,266,530
  • Brazil102,600,976 → 105,089,675+2,488,699
  • Bangladesh73,722,294 → 75,839,348+2,117,054

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 1974.

  • 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 (1974). Total Population, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1974

0674 held

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07Questions

Total Population, 1974: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1974?

China, at 900,307,582, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1974 describe?

1974.

How many countries does Total Population, 1974 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1974?

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, 1974 the newest?

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

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