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Total Population, 2004

2004, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2004 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,302,100,316; Vatican City is lowest, at 661. The middle country reads 5,250,530. Against 2003, 222 values changed (192 up, 30 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2004

HighestChina

1,302,100,316

LowestVatican City

661

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,302,100,316
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,135,991,513
3United StatesUSANorthern America292,786,253
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia227,926,649
5BrazilBRASouth America182,675,143
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia171,286,000
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe145,180,097
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia142,902,856
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa141,057,045
10JapanJPNEastern Asia127,815,774
11MexicoMEXCentral America104,394,131
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia86,394,504
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe82,092,708
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia80,338,971
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa79,477,443
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa76,077,206
17IranIRNSouthern Asia70,256,316
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia68,592,617
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia65,452,047
20FranceFRAWestern Europe61,175,247
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe60,169,967
22ItalyITASouthern Europe58,176,738
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa56,997,741
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa48,991,421
25UkraineUKREastern Europe47,979,507

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,302,100,316
  2. 2India1,135,991,513
  3. 3United States292,786,253
  4. 4Indonesia227,926,649
  5. 5Brazil182,675,143

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City661
  2. 221Niue1,869
  3. 220Montserrat4,515
  4. 219Tuvalu9,816
  5. 218Nauru10,060

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,250,530. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 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

  • India1,116,803,006 → 1,135,991,513+19,188,507
  • China1,294,517,326 → 1,302,100,316+7,582,990
  • Pakistan167,110,248 → 171,286,000+4,175,752
  • Nigeria137,202,644 → 141,057,045+3,854,401
  • Indonesia225,048,008 → 227,926,649+2,878,641

Fell most

  • Russia145,794,229 → 145,180,097−614,132
  • Ukraine48,315,136 → 47,979,507−335,629
  • Romania21,593,450 → 21,403,217−190,233
  • Belarus9,803,176 → 9,735,091−68,085
  • Bulgaria7,804,409 → 7,749,430−54,979

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 2004.

  • 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 (2004). Total Population, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2004

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07Questions

Total Population, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2004?

China, at 1,302,100,316, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Total Population, 2004 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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