Countries With the Highest Population

Every country with a figure for population, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are India (1,463,865,525), China (1,406,585,000) and United States (341,784,857). The middle country of the 217 has 6,549,143.

What this measures

Population, total, in people. Source: World Bank. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

A count, so it is not used in any link here. Two counts move together because large countries have more of everything. That is arithmetic, not a fact about places, and no adjustment fixes it. It is included because almost every other measure is divided by it, and because a country's size is worth knowing when reading its page. It is not here to be compared with anything.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2025–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on population

• Countries With the Lowest Population
• Population by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

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• Countries With the Highest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest Ethnic Diversity
• Countries With the Highest Median Ages

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.