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Total Population, 1991

1991, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1991 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,170,788,528; Vatican City is lowest, at 725. The middle country reads 4,348,371. Against 1990, 222 values changed (200 up, 22 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1991

HighestChina

1,170,788,528

LowestVatican City

725

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, 1991, 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, 1991: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,170,788,528
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia883,927,600
3United StatesUSANorthern America256,471,422
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia186,778,238
5BrazilBRASouth America151,724,256
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe149,448,433
7JapanJPNEastern Asia123,889,871
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia120,060,406
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia113,787,109
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa99,720,162
11MexicoMEXCentral America84,430,572
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe80,303,196
13VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia66,891,775
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia64,382,249
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa60,028,997
16IranIRNSouthern Asia59,986,931
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe57,555,192
18FranceFRAWestern Europe57,271,565
19ItalyITASouthern Europe57,075,393
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia57,009,887
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia55,637,434
22UkraineUKREastern Europe52,170,961
23EthiopiaETHEastern Africa49,717,198
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia44,439,150
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa41,687,898

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,170,788,528
  2. 2India883,927,600
  3. 3United States256,471,422
  4. 4Indonesia186,778,238
  5. 5Brazil151,724,256

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City725
  2. 221Niue2,451
  3. 220Anguilla8,703
  4. 219Tuvalu8,928
  5. 218Nauru9,850

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4,348,371. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 200 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India864,972,221 → 883,927,600+18,955,379
  • China1,153,582,724 → 1,170,788,528+17,205,804
  • Pakistan116,155,576 → 120,060,406+3,904,830
  • Indonesia183,501,098 → 186,778,238+3,277,140
  • United States253,373,387 → 256,471,422+3,098,035

Fell most

  • Kuwait1,684,819 → 1,351,399−333,420
  • Somalia7,082,811 → 6,813,760−269,051
  • Liberia2,223,667 → 1,956,518−267,149
  • Bulgaria8,822,365 → 8,695,797−126,568
  • Eritrea2,032,737 → 1,919,571−113,166

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 1991.

  • 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 (1991). Total Population, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1991

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07Questions

Total Population, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1991?

China, at 1,170,788,528, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Total Population, 1991 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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