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Total Population, 2002

2002, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2002 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,286,866,839; Vatican City is lowest, at 672. The middle country reads 5,071,692. Against 2001, 222 values changed (193 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2002

HighestChina

1,286,866,839

LowestVatican City

672

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, 2002, 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, 2002: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,286,866,839
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,097,600,380
3United StatesUSANorthern America287,084,338
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia222,088,495
5BrazilBRASouth America178,503,484
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia163,222,549
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe145,939,500
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia138,933,658
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa133,471,989
10JapanJPNEastern Asia127,484,598
11MexicoMEXCentral America101,548,624
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia83,068,889
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe82,068,326
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia78,772,224
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa76,239,137
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa71,635,517
17IranIRNSouthern Asia68,011,317
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia67,048,795
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia64,266,437
20FranceFRAWestern Europe60,327,248
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe59,540,763
22ItalyITASouthern Europe57,420,628
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa53,750,524
24UkraineUKREastern Europe48,677,281
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa48,019,415

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,286,866,839
  2. 2India1,097,600,380
  3. 3United States287,084,338
  4. 4Indonesia222,088,495
  5. 5Brazil178,503,484

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City672
  2. 221Niue1,942
  3. 220Montserrat4,476
  4. 219Tuvalu9,623
  5. 218Nauru10,082

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,071,692. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 193 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,077,898,575 → 1,097,600,380+19,701,805
  • China1,278,725,063 → 1,286,866,839+8,141,776
  • Pakistan159,270,907 → 163,222,549+3,951,642
  • Nigeria129,862,595 → 133,471,989+3,609,394
  • Indonesia219,097,902 → 222,088,495+2,990,593

Fell most

  • Ukraine49,106,855 → 48,677,281−429,574
  • Russia146,117,284 → 145,939,500−177,784
  • Romania21,919,917 → 21,770,017−149,900
  • Georgia4,209,636 → 4,127,846−81,790
  • Bulgaria7,928,452 → 7,861,943−66,509

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 2002.

  • 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 (2002). Total Population, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2002

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07Questions

Total Population, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2002?

China, at 1,286,866,839, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Total Population, 2002 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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