Table 1a - Population size

Last update : December 2012

Country or area Population (in thousands) Sex ratio (Notes)

Women/100
Year Total Men men
Afghanistan 2012 33 397 17 276 93
Albania 2012 3 227 1 614 100
Algeria 2012 36 486 18 414 98
American Samoa 2011 ** 66.7 34.0 96
Andorra 2011 * 79.3 40.5 96 a
Angola 2012 20 163 9 990 102
Anguilla 2011 * 16.7 8.2 103 b,c
Antigua and Barbuda 2010 * 90.8 42.6 113 b,c
Argentina 2012 41 119 20 115 104
Armenia 2012 3 109 1 447 115
Aruba 2012 109 51.5 111
Australia 1
2012 22 919 11 428 101
Austria 2012 8 429 4 118 105
Azerbaijan2 2012 9 421 4 668 102
Bahamas 2012 351 172 104
Bahrain 2012 1 359 850 60
Bangladesh 2012 152 409 77 095 98
Barbados 2012 275 136 102
Belarus 2012 9 527 4 427 115
Belgium 2012 10 788 5 290 104
Belize 2012 324 160 103
Benin 2012 9 352 4 618 103
Bermuda 2012 * 64.9 30.9 110 a,c
Bhutan 2012 750 398 89
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2012 10 248 5 115 100
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2012 3 744 1 799 108
Botswana 2012 2 053 1 038 98
Brazil 2012 198 361 97 555 103
British Virgin Islands 2004 * 21.7 11.2 94 b,c
Brunei Darussalam 2012 413 208 98
Bulgaria 2012 7 398 3 572 107
Burkina Faso 2012 17 482 8 686 101
Burundi 2012 8 749 4 299 104
Cambodia 2012 14 478 7 092 104
Cameroon 2012 20 469 10 221 100
Canada 2012 34 675 17 212 101
Cape Verde 2012 505 251 101
Cayman Islands 2010 * 55.0 27.2 102 d
Central African Republic 2012 4 576 2 255 103
Chad 2012 11 831 5 884 101
Channel Islands 3
2012 154 75.5 104
Chile 2012 17 423 8 613 102
China4 2012 1 353 601 702 802 93
China, Hong Kong SAR 5
2012 7 196 3 406 111
China, Macao SAR 6
2012 567 273 108
Colombia 2012 47 551 23 382 103
Comoros 2012 773 390 98
Congo 2012 4 233 2 119 100
Cook Islands 2011 ** 15.6 7.9 97
Costa Rica 2012 4 794 2 433 97
Cte d'Ivoire 2012 20 595 10 473 97
Croatia 2012 4 387 2 112 108
Cuba 2012 11 249 5 657 99
Cyprus 7
2012 1 129 577 96
Czech Republic 2012 10 566 5 189 104
Dem. People's Republic of Korea 2012 24 554 12 052 104
Democratic Republic of the Cong 2012 69 575 34 606 101
Denmark 2012 5 593 2 775 102
Djibouti 2012 923 462 100
Dominica 2011 * 71.3 36.4 96 e
Dominican Republic 2012 10 183 5 106 99
Ecuador 2012 14 865 7 441 100
Egypt 2012 83 958 42 156 99
El Salvador 2012 6 264 2 969 111
Equatorial Guinea 2012 740 379 95
Eritrea 2012 5 581 2 752 103
Estonia 2012 1 340 618 117
Ethiopia 2012 86 539 43 072 101
Faeroe Islands 2012 * 48.4 25.1 93 a
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2006 * 3.0 1.6 88 e
Fiji 2012 876 447 96
Finland 8
2012 5 403 2 654 104
France 2012 63 458 30 899 105
French Guiana 2012 243 122 100
French Polynesia 2012 277 142 95
Gabon 2012 1 564 785 99
Gambia 2012 1 825 901 103
Georgia 9
2012 4 304 2 027 112
Germany 2012 81 991 40 232 104
Ghana 2012 25 546 12 997 97
Gibraltar 2010 * 29.4 14.7 101 b
Greece 2012 11 419 5 653 102
Greenland 2011 * 56.7 30.0 89 a
Grenada 2012 105 52.7 100
Guadeloupe 10
2012 465 219 112
Guam 2012 184 93.7 97
Guatemala 2012 15 138 7 380 105
Guinea 2012 10 481 5 297 98
Guinea-Bissau 2012 1 580 783 102
Guyana 2012 758 380 99
Haiti 2012 10 256 5 087 102
Holy See 11
2010 * 0.5 0.3 46 d
Honduras 2012 7 912 3 956 100
Hungary 2012 9 950 4 726 111
Iceland 2012 328 165 98
India 2012 1 258 351 649 474 94
Indonesia 2012 244 769 122 013 101
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2012 75 612 38 323 97
Iraq 2012 33 703 16 925 99
Ireland 2012 4 579 2 293 100
Isle of Man 2011 * 84.5 42.0 101 d
Israel 2012 7 695 3 800 102
Italy 2012 60 964 29 876 104
Jamaica 2012 2 761 1 359 103
Japan 2012 126 435 61 551 105
Jordan 2012 6 457 3 320 95
Kazakhstan 2012 16 381 7 870 108
Kenya 2012 42 749 21 354 100
Kiribati 2011 ** 103 51 101
Kuwait 2012 2 892 1 723 68
Kyrgyzstan 2012 5 448 2 687 103
Lao People's Democratic Republi 2012 6 374 3 183 100
Latvia 2012 2 235 1 029 117
Lebanon 2012 4 292 2 095 105
Lesotho 2012 2 217 1 094 103
Liberia 2012 4 245 2 135 99
Libya 2012 6 469 3 229 100
Liechtenstein 2012 * 36.5 18.0 102 a
Lithuania 2012 3 292 1 528 115
Luxembourg 2012 523 261 101
Madagascar 2012 21 929 10 933 101
Malawi 2012 15 883 7 956 100
Malaysia 12
2012 29 322 14 863 97
Maldives 2012 324 163 99
Mali 2012 16 319 8 162 100
Malta 2012 419 208 102
Marshall Islands 2011 ** 55.0 28.2 95
Martinique 2012 408 191 114
Mauritania 2012 3 623 1 821 99
Mauritius 13
2012 1 314 648 103
Mayotte 2012 217 108 101
Mexico 2012 116 147 57 288 103
Micronesia (Fed. States of) 2012 112 57.2 96
Monaco 2011 * 36.1 17.5 106 a,c
Mongolia 2012 2 844 1 404 103
Montenegro 2012 633 311 104
Montserrat 2009 * 4.9 2.7 86 b,c
Morocco 2012 32 599 15 957 104
Mozambique 2012 24 475 11 936 105
Myanmar 2012 48 724 24 007 103
Namibia 2012 2 364 1 176 101
Nauru 2011 ** 10.2 5.2 97
Nepal 2012 31 011 15 379 102
Netherlands 2012 16 714 8 303 101
Netherlands Antilles14 2012 205 95 116
New Caledonia 2012 259 129 100
New Zealand 2012 4 461 2 193 103
Nicaragua 2012 5 955 2 945 102
Niger 2012 16 644 8 378 99
Nigeria 2012 166 629 84 398 97
Niue 2011 ** 1.4 0.7 104
Northern Mariana Islands 2011 ** 63.5 32.1 98
Norway15 2012 4 960 2 485 100
Occupied Palestinian Territory16 2012 4 271 2 168 97
Oman 2012 2 904 1 716 69
Pakistan 2012 179 951 91 421 97
Palau 2011 ** 20.6 11.1 87
Panama 2012 3 625 1 826 99
Papua New Guinea 2012 7 170 3 658 96
Paraguay 2012 6 683 3 369 98
Peru 2012 29 734 14 901 100
Philippines 2012 96 471 48 367 99
Poland 2012 38 317 18 474 107
Portugal 2012 10 699 5 186 106
Puerto Rico 2012 3 743 1 801 108
Qatar 2012 1 939 1 471 32
Republic of Korea 2012 48 588 24 216 101
Republic of Moldova17 2012 3 519 1 669 111
Runion 2012 865 424 104
Romania 2012 21 388 10 370 106
Russian Federation 2012 142 703 65 992 116
Rwanda 2012 11 272 5 538 104
Saint Helena 18
2010 * 5.2 2.7 94 b,c
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2009 * 52.0 25.8 101 b,c
Saint Lucia 2012 178 86 106
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2006 * 6.1 3.0 102 e
Saint Vincent and the Grenadine 2012 109 55 98
Samoa 2012 185 95 94
San Marino 2012 * 33.4 16.2 106 b
Sao Tome and Principe 2012 172 85 102
Saudi Arabia 2012 28 705 15 817 81
Senegal 2012 13 108 6 501 102
Serbia 19
2012 9 847 4 875 102
Seychelles 2011 * 87.4 43.1 103 b
Sierra Leone 2012 6 126 2 996 104
Singapore 2012 5 256 2 649 98
Slovakia 2012 5 480 2 665 106
Slovenia 2012 2 040 999 104
Solomon Islands 2012 566 293 93
Somalia 2012 9 797 4 860 102
South Africa 2012 50 738 25 154 102
Spain20 2012 46 772 23 117 102
Sri Lanka 2012 21 224 10 464 103
Sudan 21
2012 45 722 23 036 98
Suriname 2012 534 268 100
Swaziland 2012 1 220 601 103
Sweden 2012 9 495 4 735 101
Switzerland 2012 7 734 3 805 103
Syrian Arab Republic 2012 21 118 10 682 98
Tajikistan 2012 7 079 3 476 104
TFYR Macedonia22 2012 2 067 1 035 100
Thailand 2012 69 892 34 331 104
Timor-Leste 2012 1 187 605 96
Togo 2012 6 283 3 112 102
Tokelau 2011 ** 1.2 0.6 97
Tonga 2012 105 53 100
Trinidad and Tobago 2012 1 351 654 107
Tunisia 2012 10 705 5 348 100
Turkey 2012 74 509 37 153 101
Turkmenistan 2012 5 170 2 544 103
Turks and Caicos Islands 2010 * 40.4 20.1 101 a,c
Tuvalu 2011 ** 11.2 5.6 101
Uganda 2012 35 621 17 815 100
Ukraine 2012 44 940 20 667 117
United Arab Emirates 2012 8 106 5 619 44
United Kingdom 2012 62 798 30 954 103
United Republic of Tanzania 23
2012 47 656 23 820 100
United States of America 2012 315 791 156 003 102
United States Virgin Islands 2012 109 51 111
Uruguay 2012 3 391 1 638 107
Uzbekistan 2012 28 077 13 958 101
Vanuatu 2012 252 128 96
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic o 2012 29 891 14 989 99
Viet Nam 2012 89 730 44 388 102
Wallis and Futuna Islands 2011 ** 13.2 6.5 102
Western Sahara 2012 567 299 89
Yemen 2012 25 569 12 869 99
Zambia 2012 13 884 6 961 99
Zimbabwe 2012 13 014 6 427 102
Footnotes
* Data compiled by the United Nations Demographic Yearbook system.
** Data compiled by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Demography Programme.
a de jure national estimate.
b de facto national estimate.
c The distribution between males and females was extrapolated from previous years.
d Census - de jure - complete tabulation
e Census - de facto - complete tabulation

1 Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island.

4 For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions
(SAR) of China.
5 As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.
6 As of 20 December 1999, Macao became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.
7 Including Northern-Cyprus.
8 Including land Islands.
9 Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
10 Including Saint-Barthlemy and Saint-Martin (French part).
11 Refers to the Vatican City State.
12 Including Sabah and Sarawak.
13 Including Agalega, Rodrigues, and Saint Brandon.
14 Refers to Curaao, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius.
15 Including Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.
16 Including East Jerusalem.
17 Including Transnistria.
18 Including Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha.
19 Including Kosovo.
20 Including Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.
Including Southern Sudan which voted in favor of independence, but was not an official UN Member State as of May
21
2011.
22 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
23 Including Zanzibar.
Sources:

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011), World Population Prospects: The
2010 Revision. available in http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm; supplemented by official national statistics
published in the United Nations Demographic Yearbook 2009-2010, available from the United Nations Statistics Division
website, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/default.htm; and data compiled by the Secretariat of the
Pacific Community (SPC) Statistics and Demography Programme, available from the SPC website, http://www.spc.int/sdp.

Sex ratio of population (women per 100 men) Calculated by the

Projections of the total population and population by sex are prepared by the Population Division of the United
Nations Secretariat and revised every two years in order to incorporate new data. The preparation of projections
involves two distinct processes: (a) the incorporation of all relevant information regarding past demographic
dynamics of the population of each country or area of the world; and (b) the formulation of detailed assumptions
about the future paths of fertility, mortality, and international migration.

The medium variant projections for 2012 refer to 1 July of the given year and assume the following: Total fertility in
all countries eventually converges toward a level of 1.85 children per woman by the end of the projection period
(2010-2050). However, not all countries reach this level during the projection period. The basic principle of the
fertility projection is the same for all countries, but projection procedures are slightly different depending on whether
countries had a total fertility above or below 1.85 children per woman in 2005-2010. Mortality is projected on the
basis of models of change of life expectancy that produce smaller gains the higher the life expectancy already
reached. The selection of the model for each country is based on recent trends in life expectancy by sex. For the 60
countries highly affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS are made by explicitly
modeling the course of the epidemic and by projecting the yearly incidence of HIV infection. International migration
is projected on the basis of past international migration estimates and an assessment of the policy stance of
countries with regard to future international migration flows.

In the case of official national statistics compiled through the Demographic Yearbook system, the total, female and
male population refer to the population enumerated at the most recent census for which data are available.

The sex ratio is calculated as the number of females per 100 males.