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Total Population, 1999

1999, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 1999 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,260,176,655; Vatican City is lowest, at 696. The middle country reads 4,809,886. Against 1998, 222 values changed (192 up, 30 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 1999

HighestChina

1,260,176,655

LowestVatican City

696

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, 1999, 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, 1999: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,260,176,655
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,038,225,823
3United StatesUSANorthern America278,785,484
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia213,004,668
5BrazilBRASouth America171,641,543
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia150,565,377
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe147,241,975
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia132,108,065
9JapanJPNEastern Asia126,801,564
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa123,047,320
11MexicoMEXCentral America97,115,707
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe81,678,287
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia77,753,257
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia76,287,452
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa71,520,954
16IranIRNSouthern Asia65,445,391
17EthiopiaETHEastern Africa65,374,561
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia64,591,923
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia62,299,043
20FranceFRAWestern Europe59,084,210
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe58,838,657
22ItalyITASouthern Europe57,240,798
23UkraineUKREastern Europe49,976,446
24DR CongoCODMiddle Africa48,912,971
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa46,730,335

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,260,176,655
  2. 2India1,038,225,823
  3. 3United States278,785,484
  4. 4Indonesia213,004,668
  5. 5Brazil171,641,543

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City696
  2. 221Niue2,111
  3. 220Montserrat5,659
  4. 219Tuvalu9,496
  5. 218Nauru10,187

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4,809,886. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 192 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,018,665,080 → 1,038,225,823+19,560,743
  • China1,250,847,127 → 1,260,176,655+9,329,528
  • Pakistan146,522,356 → 150,565,377+4,043,021
  • Nigeria119,846,254 → 123,047,320+3,201,066
  • Indonesia209,826,788 → 213,004,668+3,177,880

Fell most

  • Ukraine50,379,731 → 49,976,446−403,285
  • Russia147,635,531 → 147,241,975−393,556
  • Germany82,011,939 → 81,678,287−333,652
  • Kosovo2,078,964 → 1,871,524−207,440
  • Kazakhstan15,647,785 → 15,455,874−191,911

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 1999.

  • 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 (1999). Total Population, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/1999

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07Questions

Total Population, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 1999?

China, at 1,260,176,655, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Total Population, 1999 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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