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Total Population, 2015

2015, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Population, 2015 covers 222 countries. China is highest, at 1,396,134,174; Vatican City is lowest, at 572. The middle country reads 6,154,260. Against 2014, 222 values changed (180 up, 42 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Population · Data for 2015

HighestChina

1,396,134,174

LowestVatican City

572

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,396,134,174
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1,328,024,498
3United StatesUSANorthern America326,126,497
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia261,799,249
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia217,290,883
6BrazilBRASouth America201,675,532
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa190,671,878
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia159,383,179
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe145,307,616
10JapanJPNEastern Asia127,275,872
11MexicoMEXCentral America121,072,306
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia105,312,992
13EthiopiaETHEastern Africa103,867,135
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa99,597,342
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia92,823,254
16IranIRNSouthern Asia82,619,362
17GermanyDEUWestern Europe82,077,550
18DR CongoCODMiddle Africa81,035,531
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia80,014,226
20ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia70,540,795
21United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe65,382,110
22FranceFRAWestern Europe64,916,336
23ItalyITASouthern Europe60,575,316
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa56,723,537
25TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa52,020,962

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1China1,396,134,174
  2. 2India1,328,024,498
  3. 3United States326,126,497
  4. 4Indonesia261,799,249
  5. 5Pakistan217,290,883

Lowest

  1. 222Vatican City572
  2. 221Niue1,779
  3. 220Montserrat4,673
  4. 219Nauru10,954
  5. 218Tuvalu10,963

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 6,154,260. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 180 · 42rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India1,312,277,191 → 1,328,024,498+15,747,307
  • China1,387,951,972 → 1,396,134,174+8,182,202
  • Nigeria185,896,915 → 190,671,878+4,774,963
  • Pakistan214,264,647 → 217,290,883+3,026,236
  • United States323,115,377 → 326,126,497+3,011,120

Fell most

  • Syria20,273,659 → 19,424,618−849,041
  • Japan127,486,605 → 127,275,872−210,733
  • Ukraine45,972,380 → 45,784,896−187,484
  • South Sudan11,235,073 → 11,107,561−127,512
  • Romania19,968,174 → 19,871,019−97,155

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 2015.

  • 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 (2015). Total Population, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population/2015

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07Questions

Total Population, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population in Total Population, 2015?

China, at 1,396,134,174, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Population, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Total Population, 2015 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Population, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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