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Total Population, 1983

1983, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1983 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,029,064,956; Vatican City is lowest, at 737. The middle country reads 3,629,981. Against 1982, 222 values changed (206 up, 16 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1983

HighestChina

1,029,064,956

LowestVatican City

737

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, 1983, 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, 1983: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,029,064,956
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia737,372,681
3United StatesUSANorthern America236,986,365
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia159,651,381
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe141,331,278
6BrazilBRASouth America129,790,077
7JapanJPNEastern Asia119,948,947
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia95,335,155
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia92,227,711
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa80,438,260
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe78,224,133
12MexicoMEXCentral America71,971,240
13ItalyITASouthern Europe56,766,111
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia56,337,921
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe56,332,058
16FranceFRAWestern Europe54,889,408
17PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia52,194,620
18UkraineUKREastern Europe50,637,029
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia48,447,410
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia48,423,309
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa47,786,402
22IranIRNSouthern Asia46,029,535
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia40,000,941
24SpainESPSouthern Europe38,253,244
25EthiopiaETHEastern Africa37,740,817

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,029,064,956
  2. 2India737,372,681
  3. 3United States236,986,365
  4. 4Indonesia159,651,381
  5. 5Russia141,331,278

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City737
  2. 221Niue3,108
  3. 220Anguilla6,647
  4. 219Tuvalu7,789
  5. 218Nauru8,216

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3,629,981. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 206 · 16rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India720,313,473 → 737,372,681+17,059,208
  • China1,013,588,179 → 1,029,064,956+15,476,777
  • Indonesia156,052,152 → 159,651,381+3,599,229
  • Pakistan89,089,246 → 92,227,711+3,138,465
  • Brazil126,923,155 → 129,790,077+2,866,922

Fell most

  • Germany78,393,674 → 78,224,133−169,541
  • Afghanistan10,991,378 → 10,917,982−73,396
  • Hungary10,656,116 → 10,622,989−33,127
  • Austria7,573,078 → 7,561,163−11,915
  • Libya3,724,765 → 3,718,961−5,804

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 1983.

  • 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 (1983). Total Population, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1983

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07Questions

Total Population, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1983?

China, at 1,029,064,956, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Total Population, 1983 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1983?

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, 1983 the newest?

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

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