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Total Population, 1975

1975, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1975 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 916,116,793; Vatican City is lowest, at 733. The middle country reads 3,186,677. Against 1974, 221 values changed (206 up, 15 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1975

HighestChina

916,116,793

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, 1975, 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, 1975: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia916,116,793
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia611,309,535
3United StatesUSANorthern America219,129,301
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe134,136,098
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia131,843,848
6JapanJPNEastern Asia113,321,196
7BrazilBRASouth America107,619,565
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,701,865
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia77,854,351
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia69,461,175
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa63,410,815
12MexicoMEXCentral America58,982,400
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe56,220,143
14ItalyITASouthern Europe55,166,045
15FranceFRAWestern Europe52,746,325
16UkraineUKREastern Europe48,865,229
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia46,482,903
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia42,120,826
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia41,053,126
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia40,940,005
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa38,875,327
22South KoreaKOREastern Asia35,875,743
23SpainESPSouthern Europe35,795,769
24PolandPOLEastern Europe33,964,399
25IranIRNSouthern Asia33,802,973

02In 1975

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China916,116,793
  2. 2India611,309,535
  3. 3United States219,129,301
  4. 4Russia134,136,098
  5. 5Indonesia131,843,848

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City733
  2. 221Niue4,229
  3. 220Tuvalu6,117
  4. 219Turks and Caicos Islands6,463
  5. 218Anguilla6,499

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,186,677. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031974 → 1975

Since 1974

What changed between 1974 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 206 · 15rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • China900,307,582 → 916,116,793+15,809,211
  • India597,041,391 → 611,309,535+14,268,144
  • Indonesia128,555,045 → 131,843,848+3,288,803
  • Brazil105,089,675 → 107,619,565+2,529,890
  • United States217,076,476 → 219,129,301+2,052,825

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 1975.

  • 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 (1975). Total Population, 1975 [data set], describing 1975. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1975

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07Questions

Total Population, 1975: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1975?

China, at 916,116,793, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1975 describe?

1975.

How many countries does Total Population, 1975 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1975?

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, 1975 the newest?

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

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