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Total Population, 2009

2009, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2009 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,342,522,716; Vatican City is lowest, at 629. The middle country reads 5,487,383. Against 2008, 222 values changed (189 up, 33 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2009

HighestChina

1,342,522,716

LowestVatican City

629

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,342,522,716
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,225,524,753
3United StatesUSANorthern America308,023,454
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia243,220,028
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia194,376,534
6BrazilBRASouth America192,079,951
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa162,049,464
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia150,873,714
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe143,869,132
10JapanJPNEastern Asia128,192,470
11MexicoMEXCentral America111,999,721
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia94,384,250
13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa88,007,636
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa87,501,636
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia86,460,018
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe80,935,283
17IranIRNSouthern Asia76,457,825
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia72,464,848
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia68,121,080
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa66,412,044
21FranceFRAWestern Europe63,106,463
22United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe62,506,226
23ItalyITASouthern Europe59,904,010
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa51,728,516
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia48,660,459

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,342,522,716
  2. 2India1,225,524,753
  3. 3United States308,023,454
  4. 4Indonesia243,220,028
  5. 5Pakistan194,376,534

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City629
  2. 221Niue1,777
  3. 220Montserrat4,735
  4. 219Nauru10,016
  5. 218Tuvalu10,461

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,487,383. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 189 · 33rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,207,930,964 → 1,225,524,753+17,593,789
  • China1,333,821,016 → 1,342,522,716+8,701,700
  • Pakistan189,499,113 → 194,376,534+4,877,421
  • Nigeria157,595,014 → 162,049,464+4,454,450
  • Indonesia240,157,903 → 243,220,028+3,062,125

Fell most

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 2009.

  • 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 (2009). Total Population, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2009

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07Questions

Total Population, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2009?

China, at 1,342,522,716, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Total Population, 2009 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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