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Total Population, 1997

1997, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1997 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,241,139,622; Vatican City is lowest, at 698. The middle country reads 4,744,884. Against 1996, 222 values changed (194 up, 28 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1997

HighestChina

1,241,139,622

LowestVatican City

698

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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,241,139,622
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia999,133,762
3United StatesUSANorthern America273,468,013
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia206,536,095
5BrazilBRASouth America166,661,659
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe147,853,771
7PakistanPAKSouthern Asia142,531,804
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia127,198,069
9JapanJPNEastern Asia126,265,929
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa116,754,792
11MexicoMEXCentral America94,021,207
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe82,389,638
13VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia74,226,889
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia73,908,810
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa68,431,740
16IranIRNSouthern Asia63,639,638
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia62,852,966
18EthiopiaETHEastern Africa61,404,539
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia60,724,584
20FranceFRAWestern Europe58,568,660
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe58,447,089
22ItalyITASouthern Europe57,189,274
23UkraineUKREastern Europe50,786,885
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa46,029,902
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia45,941,537

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,241,139,622
  2. 2India999,133,762
  3. 3United States273,468,013
  4. 4Indonesia206,536,095
  5. 5Brazil166,661,659

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City698
  2. 221Niue2,223
  3. 220Montserrat6,958
  4. 219Tuvalu9,400
  5. 218Nauru10,197

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4,744,884. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 194 · 28rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India979,678,458 → 999,133,762+19,455,304
  • China1,230,944,812 → 1,241,139,622+10,194,810
  • Pakistan138,557,092 → 142,531,804+3,974,712
  • Indonesia203,204,348 → 206,536,095+3,331,747
  • Nigeria113,754,779 → 116,754,792+3,000,013

Fell most

  • Ukraine51,226,109 → 50,786,885−439,224
  • Kazakhstan16,416,027 → 16,043,251−372,776
  • Russia148,084,582 → 147,853,771−230,811
  • Romania22,541,910 → 22,411,513−130,397
  • Georgia4,812,775 → 4,695,356−117,419

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 1997.

  • 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 (1997). Total Population, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1997

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07Questions

Total Population, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1997?

China, at 1,241,139,622, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Total Population, 1997 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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