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Total Population, 2006

2006, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2006 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,318,054,036; Vatican City is lowest, at 656. The middle country reads 5,329,650. Against 2005, 222 values changed (187 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2006

HighestChina

1,318,054,036

LowestVatican City

656

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,318,054,036
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,172,878,890
3United StatesUSANorthern America298,730,209
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia233,951,652
5BrazilBRASouth America186,653,106
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia179,682,690
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa149,077,334
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia146,405,973
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe144,102,948
10JapanJPNEastern Asia127,997,247
11MexicoMEXCentral America107,253,666
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia89,508,986
13EgyptEGYNorthern Africa82,700,403
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia82,167,897
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe81,701,971
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa80,703,490
17IranIRNSouthern Asia73,392,747
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia70,045,349
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia66,567,687
20FranceFRAWestern Europe62,049,838
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe61,051,094
22DR CongoCODMiddle Africa60,615,908
23ItalyITASouthern Europe58,754,433
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa49,998,277
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia48,006,518

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,318,054,036
  2. 2India1,172,878,890
  3. 3United States298,730,209
  4. 4Indonesia233,951,652
  5. 5Brazil186,653,106

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City656
  2. 221Niue1,798
  3. 220Montserrat4,582
  4. 219Nauru10,034
  5. 218Tuvalu10,056

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,329,650. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 187 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,154,676,322 → 1,172,878,890+18,202,568
  • China1,310,027,136 → 1,318,054,036+8,026,900
  • Pakistan175,453,212 → 179,682,690+4,229,478
  • Nigeria145,017,253 → 149,077,334+4,060,081
  • Indonesia230,871,650 → 233,951,652+3,080,002

Fell most

  • Russia144,597,884 → 144,102,948−494,936
  • Germany82,046,731 → 81,701,971−344,760
  • Ukraine47,585,556 → 47,278,694−306,862
  • Romania21,213,388 → 21,035,732−177,656
  • Moldova3,988,669 → 3,921,316−67,353

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 2006.

  • 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 (2006). Total Population, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2006

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07Questions

Total Population, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2006?

China, at 1,318,054,036, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Total Population, 2006 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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