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Total Population, 2013

2013, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2013 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,379,008,040; Vatican City is lowest, at 590. The middle country reads 5,868,315. Against 2012, 222 values changed (183 up, 39 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2013

HighestChina

1,379,008,040

LowestVatican City

590

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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,379,008,040
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,295,829,511
3United StatesUSANorthern America320,110,759
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia255,852,467
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia211,073,978
6BrazilBRASouth America198,478,299
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa181,049,443
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia156,532,141
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe144,604,098
10JapanJPNEastern Asia127,723,645
11MexicoMEXCentral America118,343,573
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia102,076,336
13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa98,438,751
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa95,333,553
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia90,573,104
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe81,041,582
17IranIRNSouthern Asia80,414,686
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia76,403,031
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa75,789,395
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia69,845,114
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe64,389,388
22FranceFRAWestern Europe64,387,734
23ItalyITASouthern Europe60,653,868
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa54,678,791
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia50,262,658

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,379,008,040
  2. 2India1,295,829,511
  3. 3United States320,110,759
  4. 4Indonesia255,852,467
  5. 5Pakistan211,073,978

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City590
  2. 221Niue1,762
  3. 220Montserrat4,753
  4. 219Nauru10,517
  5. 218Tuvalu11,001

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5,868,315. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 183 · 39rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,278,674,502 → 1,295,829,511+17,155,009
  • China1,369,520,864 → 1,379,008,040+9,487,176
  • Nigeria176,200,625 → 181,049,443+4,848,818
  • Pakistan207,667,125 → 211,073,978+3,406,853
  • Indonesia252,698,525 → 255,852,467+3,153,942

Fell most

  • Syria22,759,763 → 21,666,917−1,092,846
  • Japan127,928,285 → 127,723,645−204,640
  • Spain47,018,323 → 46,860,389−157,934
  • Romania20,158,452 → 20,062,921−95,531
  • Ukraine46,210,056 → 46,126,770−83,286

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 2013.

  • 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 (2013). Total Population, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2013

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07Questions

Total Population, 2013: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2013?

China, at 1,379,008,040, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2013 describe?

2013.

How many countries does Total Population, 2013 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2013?

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, 2013 the newest?

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

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