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Total Population, 2011

2011, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2011 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,360,250,664; Vatican City is lowest, at 614. The middle country reads 5,638,976. Against 2010, 222 values changed (189 up, 33 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2011

HighestChina

1,360,250,664

LowestVatican City

614

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, 2011, 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, 2011: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,360,250,664
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,261,224,954
3United StatesUSANorthern America314,105,078
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia249,470,032
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia203,746,065
6BrazilBRASouth America195,284,734
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa171,379,598
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia153,591,076
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe144,043,748
10JapanJPNEastern Asia128,096,432
11MexicoMEXCentral America115,243,504
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia98,248,614
13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa93,149,970
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa91,093,059
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia88,468,314
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe80,857,874
17IranIRNSouthern Asia78,383,598
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia74,215,203
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa70,849,311
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia69,007,208
21FranceFRAWestern Europe63,733,777
22United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe63,509,285
23ItalyITASouthern Europe60,367,880
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa52,995,205
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia49,419,820

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,360,250,664
  2. 2India1,261,224,954
  3. 3United States314,105,078
  4. 4Indonesia249,470,032
  5. 5Pakistan203,746,065

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City614
  2. 221Niue1,757
  3. 220Montserrat4,822
  4. 219Nauru10,098
  5. 218Tuvalu10,780

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,638,976. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 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

  • India1,243,481,564 → 1,261,224,954+17,743,390
  • China1,351,561,514 → 1,360,250,664+8,689,150
  • Nigeria166,642,886 → 171,379,598+4,736,712
  • Pakistan199,239,047 → 203,746,065+4,507,018
  • Indonesia246,305,322 → 249,470,032+3,164,710

Fell most

  • Libya6,497,839 → 6,343,203−154,636
  • Romania20,432,574 → 20,282,011−150,563
  • Ukraine46,456,003 → 46,307,853−148,150
  • Japan128,185,275 → 128,096,432−88,843
  • Moldova3,631,992 → 3,557,266−74,726

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 2011.

  • 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 (2011). Total Population, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2011

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07Questions

Total Population, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2011?

China, at 1,360,250,664, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Total Population, 2011 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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