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Total Population, 2003

2003, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2003 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,294,517,326; Vatican City is lowest, at 664. The middle country reads 5,168,555. Against 2002, 222 values changed (190 up, 32 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2003

HighestChina

1,294,517,326

LowestVatican City

664

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,294,517,326
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,116,803,006
3United StatesUSANorthern America289,908,100
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia225,048,008
5BrazilBRASouth America180,622,688
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia167,110,248
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe145,794,229
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia140,970,351
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa137,202,644
10JapanJPNEastern Asia127,671,251
11MexicoMEXCentral America102,978,515
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia84,731,835
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe82,111,615
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia79,563,777
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa77,853,548
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa73,832,663
17IranIRNSouthern Asia68,769,340
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia67,831,730
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia64,868,166
20FranceFRAWestern Europe60,741,126
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe59,820,385
22ItalyITASouthern Europe57,739,699
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa55,343,867
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa48,500,348
25UkraineUKREastern Europe48,315,136

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,294,517,326
  2. 2India1,116,803,006
  3. 3United States289,908,100
  4. 4Indonesia225,048,008
  5. 5Brazil180,622,688

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City664
  2. 221Niue1,908
  3. 220Montserrat4,490
  4. 219Tuvalu9,695
  5. 218Nauru10,059

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,168,555. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 190 · 32rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,097,600,380 → 1,116,803,006+19,202,626
  • China1,286,866,839 → 1,294,517,326+7,650,487
  • Pakistan163,222,549 → 167,110,248+3,887,699
  • Nigeria133,471,989 → 137,202,644+3,730,655
  • Indonesia222,088,495 → 225,048,008+2,959,513

Fell most

  • Ukraine48,677,281 → 48,315,136−362,145
  • Romania21,770,017 → 21,593,450−176,567
  • Russia145,939,500 → 145,794,229−145,271
  • Belarus9,873,450 → 9,803,176−70,274
  • Bulgaria7,861,943 → 7,804,409−57,534

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 2003.

  • 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 (2003). Total Population, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2003

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07Questions

Total Population, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2003?

China, at 1,294,517,326, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Total Population, 2003 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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