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Total Population, 1996

1996, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1996 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,230,944,812; Vatican City is lowest, at 701. The middle country reads 4,708,759. Against 1995, 222 values changed (195 up, 27 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1996

HighestChina

1,230,944,812

LowestVatican City

701

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,230,944,812
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia979,678,458
3United StatesUSANorthern America270,860,696
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia203,204,348
5BrazilBRASouth America164,202,549
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe148,084,582
7PakistanPAKSouthern Asia138,557,092
8JapanJPNEastern Asia125,975,302
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia124,862,179
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa113,754,779
11MexicoMEXCentral America92,452,702
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe82,263,189
13VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia73,156,447
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia72,190,242
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa67,028,048
16IranIRNSouthern Asia62,881,300
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia61,951,134
18ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia59,920,064
19EthiopiaETHEastern Africa59,467,635
20FranceFRAWestern Europe58,380,641
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe58,298,565
22ItalyITASouthern Europe57,162,092
23UkraineUKREastern Europe51,226,109
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia45,638,700
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa45,296,124

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,230,944,812
  2. 2India979,678,458
  3. 3United States270,860,696
  4. 4Indonesia203,204,348
  5. 5Brazil164,202,549

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City701
  2. 221Niue2,265
  3. 220Montserrat7,604
  4. 219Tuvalu9,342
  5. 218Anguilla9,977

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4,708,759. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 195 · 27rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India960,301,044 → 979,678,458+19,377,414
  • China1,220,133,927 → 1,230,944,812+10,810,885
  • Pakistan134,582,253 → 138,557,092+3,974,839
  • Indonesia199,888,057 → 203,204,348+3,316,291
  • Nigeria110,819,428 → 113,754,779+2,935,351

Fell most

  • Ukraine51,665,539 → 51,226,109−439,430
  • Kazakhstan16,730,536 → 16,416,027−314,509
  • Italy57,403,344 → 57,162,092−241,252
  • Russia148,291,403 → 148,084,582−206,821
  • Romania22,657,723 → 22,541,910−115,813

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 1996.

  • 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 (1996). Total Population, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1996

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07Questions

Total Population, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1996?

China, at 1,230,944,812, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Total Population, 1996 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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