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Total Population, 1982

1982, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1982 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,013,588,179; Vatican City is lowest, at 740. The middle country reads 3,601,175. Against 1981, 222 values changed (211 up, 11 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1982

HighestChina

1,013,588,179

LowestVatican City

740

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, 1982, 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, 1982: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,013,588,179
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia720,313,473
3United StatesUSANorthern America234,583,152
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia156,052,152
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe140,247,748
6BrazilBRASouth America126,923,155
7JapanJPNEastern Asia119,485,775
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia92,814,507
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia89,089,246
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,393,674
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa78,378,701
12MexicoMEXCentral America70,433,260
13ItalyITASouthern Europe56,719,175
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe56,292,755
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia55,011,289
16FranceFRAWestern Europe54,582,408
17PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia50,695,707
18UkraineUKREastern Europe50,402,724
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia47,494,577
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia47,322,096
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa46,407,611
22IranIRNSouthern Asia44,272,141
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia39,356,154
24SpainESPSouthern Europe38,047,101
25EthiopiaETHEastern Africa36,701,290

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,013,588,179
  2. 2India720,313,473
  3. 3United States234,583,152
  4. 4Indonesia156,052,152
  5. 5Russia140,247,748

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City740
  2. 221Niue3,251
  3. 220Anguilla6,628
  4. 219Tuvalu7,664
  5. 218Nauru8,040

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,601,175. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 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

  • India703,696,250 → 720,313,473+16,617,223
  • China997,721,071 → 1,013,588,179+15,867,108
  • Indonesia152,485,035 → 156,052,152+3,567,117
  • Pakistan85,802,049 → 89,089,246+3,287,197
  • Brazil124,063,109 → 126,923,155+2,860,046

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 1982.

  • 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 (1982). Total Population, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1982

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07Questions

Total Population, 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1982?

China, at 1,013,588,179, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does Total Population, 1982 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1982?

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, 1982 the newest?

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

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