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Total Population, 1976

1976, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1976 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 930,372,292; Vatican City is lowest, at 735. The middle country reads 3,261,429. Against 1975, 222 values changed (208 up, 14 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1976

HighestChina

930,372,292

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, 1976, 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, 1976: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia930,372,292
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia625,861,883
3United StatesUSANorthern America221,168,758
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia135,173,655
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe135,080,690
6JapanJPNEastern Asia114,502,795
7BrazilBRASouth America110,213,349
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia79,855,318
9GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,364,505
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia71,620,254
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa65,258,009
12MexicoMEXCentral America60,645,512
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe56,201,138
14ItalyITASouthern Europe55,459,416
15FranceFRAWestern Europe52,959,113
16UkraineUKREastern Europe49,120,842
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia47,684,931
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia43,201,488
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia41,899,984
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia41,896,504
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa39,795,557
22South KoreaKOREastern Asia36,379,925
23SpainESPSouthern Europe36,176,280
24IranIRNSouthern Asia34,837,271
25PolandPOLEastern Europe34,296,607

02In 1976

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China930,372,292
  2. 2India625,861,883
  3. 3United States221,168,758
  4. 4Indonesia135,173,655
  5. 5Russia135,080,690

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City735
  2. 221Niue3,995
  3. 220Tuvalu6,404
  4. 219Anguilla6,521
  5. 218Turks and Caicos Islands6,660

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,261,429. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 208 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India611,309,535 → 625,861,883+14,552,348
  • China916,116,793 → 930,372,292+14,255,499
  • Indonesia131,843,848 → 135,173,655+3,329,807
  • Brazil107,619,565 → 110,213,349+2,593,784
  • Pakistan69,461,175 → 71,620,254+2,159,079

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 1976.

  • 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 (1976). Total Population, 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1976

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07Questions

Total Population, 1976: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1976?

China, at 930,372,292, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1976 describe?

1976.

How many countries does Total Population, 1976 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1976?

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, 1976 the newest?

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

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