Most populated countries in the world

The world's countries ranked by total population. Together these 196 nations are home to the entire human population of roughly 8 billion people. The two most populous, India and China, each surpass 1.4 billion inhabitants.

#	Country	Continent	Capital	Population
1	India	Asia	New Delhi	1,463,865,525
2	China	Asia	Beijing	1,406,585,000
3	United States	Americas	Washington D.C.	341,784,857
4	Indonesia	Asia	Jakarta	285,721,236
5	Pakistan	Asia	Islamabad	255,219,554
6	Nigeria	Africa	Abuja	237,527,782
7	Brazil	Americas	Brasília	212,812,405
8	Bangladesh	Asia	Dhaka	175,686,899
9	Russia	Europe	Moscow	143,513,328
10	Ethiopia	Africa	Addis Ababa	135,472,051
11	Mexico	Americas	Mexico City	131,946,900
12	Japan	Asia	Tokyo	123,366,734
13	Egypt	Africa	Cairo	118,365,995
14	Philippines	Asia	Manila	116,786,962
15	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Africa	Kinshasa	112,832,473
16	Vietnam	Asia	Hanoi	101,598,527
17	Iran	Asia	Tehran	92,417,681
18	Turkey	Asia	Ankara	85,878,556
19	Germany	Europe	Berlin	83,491,249
20	Thailand	Asia	Bangkok	71,619,863
21	Tanzania	Africa	Dodoma	70,545,865
22	United Kingdom	Europe	London	69,487,000
23	France	Europe	Paris	68,720,337
24	South Africa	Africa	Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)	64,747,319
25	Italy	Europe	Rome	58,915,656
26	Kenya	Africa	Nairobi	57,532,493
27	Myanmar	Asia	Naypyidaw	54,850,648
28	Colombia	Americas	Bogota	53,425,635
29	South Korea	Asia	Seoul	51,684,564
30	Sudan	Africa	Khartoum	51,662,147
31	Uganda	Africa	Kampala	51,384,894
32	Spain	Europe	Madrid	49,355,143
33	Algeria	Africa	Algiers	47,435,312
34	Iraq	Asia	Baghdad	47,020,774
35	Argentina	Americas	Buenos Aires	45,851,378
36	Afghanistan	Asia	Kabul	43,844,111
37	Yemen	Asia	Sanaa	41,773,878
38	Canada	Americas	Ottawa	41,651,653
39	Angola	Africa	Luanda	39,040,039
40	Ukraine	Europe	Kyiv	38,980,376
41	Morocco	Africa	Rabat	38,430,770
42	Uzbekistan	Asia	Tashkent	37,053,428
43	Saudi Arabia	Asia	Riyadh	36,973,555
44	Poland	Europe	Warsaw	36,435,861
45	Malaysia	Asia	Kuala Lumpur	35,977,838
46	Mozambique	Africa	Maputo	35,631,653
47	Ghana	Africa	Accra	35,064,272
48	Peru	Americas	Lima	34,576,665
49	Madagascar	Africa	Antananarivo	32,740,678
50	Ivory Coast	Africa	Yamoussoukro	32,711,547
51	Cameroon	Africa	Yaounde	29,879,337
52	Nepal	Asia	Kathmandu	29,618,118
53	Venezuela	Americas	Caracas	28,516,896
54	Niger	Africa	Niamey	27,917,831
55	Australia	Oceania	Canberra	27,614,411
56	North Korea	Asia	Pyongyang	26,571,036
57	Syria	Asia	Damascus	25,620,427
58	Mali	Africa	Bamako	25,198,821
59	Burkina Faso	Africa	Ouagadougou	24,074,580
60	Taiwan	Asia	Taipei	23,375,000
61	Malawi	Africa	Lilongwe	22,216,120
62	Zambia	Africa	Lusaka	21,913,874
63	Sri Lanka	Asia	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)	21,756,000
64	Chad	Africa	N'Djamena	21,003,705
65	Kazakhstan	Asia	Nur-Sultan (Astana)	20,843,754
66	Chile	Americas	Santiago	19,859,921
67	Somalia	Africa	Mogadishu	19,654,739
68	Romania	Europe	Bucharest	19,020,271
69	Senegal	Africa	Dakar	18,931,966
70	Guatemala	Americas	Guatemala City	18,687,881
71	Ecuador	Americas	Quito	18,289,896
72	Netherlands	Europe	Amsterdam	18,087,633
73	Cambodia	Asia	Phnom Penh	17,847,982
74	Zimbabwe	Africa	Harare	16,950,795
75	Guinea	Africa	Conakry	15,099,727
76	Benin	Africa	Porto-Novo	14,814,460
77	Rwanda	Africa	Kigali	14,569,341
78	Burundi	Africa	Gitega	14,390,003
79	Bolivia	Americas	Sucre (constitutional) and La Paz (seat of government)	12,581,843
80	Tunisia	Africa	Tunis	12,348,573
81	South Sudan	Africa	Juba	12,188,788
82	Belgium	Europe	Brussels	11,941,781
83	Haiti	Americas	Port-au-Prince	11,906,095
84	Jordan	Asia	Amman	11,520,684
85	Dominican Republic	Americas	Santo Domingo	11,520,487
86	United Arab Emirates	Asia	Abu Dhabi	11,513,149
87	Honduras	Americas	Tegucigalpa	11,005,850
88	Cuba	Americas	Havana	10,937,203
89	Czech Republic	Europe	Prague	10,886,878
90	Portugal	Europe	Lisbon	10,804,871
91	Tajikistan	Asia	Dushanbe	10,786,734
92	Papua New Guinea	Oceania	Port Moresby	10,762,817
93	Sweden	Europe	Stockholm	10,596,620
94	Greece	Europe	Athens	10,413,962
95	Azerbaijan	Europe	Baku	10,246,996
96	Israel	Asia	Jerusalem	10,122,800
97	Hungary	Europe	Budapest	9,514,251
98	Austria	Europe	Vienna	9,208,163
99	Switzerland	Europe	Bern	9,092,436
100	Belarus	Europe	Minsk	9,085,991
101	Sierra Leone	Africa	Freetown	8,819,794
102	Togo	Africa	Lomé	8,591,626
103	Laos	Asia	Vientiane	7,873,046
104	Turkmenistan	Asia	Ashgabat	7,618,847
105	Libya	Africa	Tripoli	7,458,555
106	Kyrgyzstan	Asia	Bishkek	7,343,064
107	Paraguay	Americas	Asunción	7,013,078
108	Nicaragua	Americas	Managua	7,007,502
109	Serbia	Europe	Belgrade	6,549,143
110	Republic of the Congo	Africa	Brazzaville	6,484,437
111	Bulgaria	Europe	Sofia	6,433,302
112	El Salvador	Americas	San Salvador	6,365,503
113	Singapore	Asia	Singapore	6,111,175
114	Denmark	Europe	Copenhagen	6,009,169
115	Lebanon	Asia	Beirut	5,849,421
116	Liberia	Africa	Monrovia	5,731,206
117	Finland	Europe	Helsinki	5,646,436
118	Norway	Europe	Oslo	5,610,870
119	Central African Republic	Africa	Bangui	5,513,282
120	Oman	Asia	Muscat	5,494,691
121	Ireland	Europe	Dublin	5,484,367
122	Slovakia	Europe	Bratislava	5,413,813
123	Palestine	Asia	Jerusalem (proclaimed), Ramallah (administrative)	5,413,596
124	New Zealand	Oceania	Wellington	5,324,700
125	Mauritania	Africa	Nouakchott	5,315,065
126	Costa Rica	Americas	San Jose	5,152,950
127	Kuwait	Asia	Kuwait City	4,865,298
128	Panama	Americas	Panama City	4,571,189
129	Georgia	Europe	Tbilisi	3,935,766
130	Croatia	Europe	Zagreb	3,876,200
131	Eritrea	Africa	Asmara	3,607,003
132	Mongolia	Asia	Ulaanbaatar	3,568,978
133	Uruguay	Americas	Montevideo	3,384,688
134	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	Sarajevo	3,140,095
135	Namibia	Africa	Windhoek	3,092,816
136	Armenia	Europe	Yerevan	3,086,700
137	Qatar	Asia	Doha	2,972,215
138	Lithuania	Europe	Vilnius	2,888,774
139	Jamaica	Americas	Kingston	2,837,077
140	Gambia	Africa	Banjul	2,822,093
141	Gabon	Africa	Libreville	2,593,130
142	Botswana	Africa	Gaborone	2,562,122
143	Lesotho	Africa	Maseru	2,363,325
144	Moldova	Europe	Chisinau	2,360,527
145	Albania	Europe	Tirana	2,349,580
146	Guinea-Bissau	Africa	Bissau	2,249,515
147	Slovenia	Europe	Ljubljana	2,130,986
148	Equatorial Guinea	Africa	Malabo	1,938,431
149	Latvia	Europe	Riga	1,847,785
150	North Macedonia	Europe	Skopje	1,820,909
151	Bahrain	Asia	Manama	1,600,366
152	Timor-Leste	Asia	Dili	1,418,517
153	Cyprus	Asia	Nicosia	1,370,754
154	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	Port of Spain	1,367,764
155	Estonia	Europe	Tallinn	1,366,475
156	Eswatini	Africa	Mbabane	1,256,174
157	Mauritius	Africa	Port Louis	1,243,741
158	Djibouti	Africa	Djibouti	1,184,076
159	Fiji	Oceania	Suva	933,154
160	Comoros	Africa	Moroni	882,847
161	Solomon Islands	Oceania	Honiara	838,645
162	Guyana	Americas	Georgetown	835,986
163	Bhutan	Asia	Thimphu	796,682
164	Luxembourg	Europe	Luxembourg	686,970
165	Suriname	Americas	Paramaribo	639,850
166	Montenegro	Europe	Podgorica	623,129
167	Malta	Europe	Valletta	579,704
168	Maldives	Asia	Malé	529,676
169	Cape Verde	Africa	Praia	527,326
170	Brunei	Asia	Bandar Seri Begawan	466,330
171	Belize	Americas	Belmopan	422,924
172	Bahamas	Americas	Nassau	403,033
173	Iceland	Europe	Reykjavik	392,404
174	Vanuatu	Oceania	Port Vila	335,169
175	Barbados	Americas	Bridgetown	282,623
176	Sao Tome and Principe	Africa	São Tomé	240,254
177	Samoa	Oceania	Apia	219,306
178	Saint Lucia	Americas	Castries	180,149
179	Kiribati	Oceania	Tarawa	136,488
180	Seychelles	Africa	Victoria	122,730
181	Grenada	Americas	Saint George's	117,303
182	Micronesia	Oceania	Palikir	113,683
183	Tonga	Oceania	Nuku'alofa	103,742
184	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Americas	Kingstown	99,924
185	Antigua and Barbuda	Americas	Saint John's	94,209
186	Andorra	Europe	Andorra la Vella	82,904
187	Dominica	Americas	Roseau	65,871
188	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Americas	Basseterre	46,922
189	Liechtenstein	Europe	Vaduz	41,024
190	Monaco	Europe	Monaco	38,341
191	Marshall Islands	Oceania	Majuro	36,282
192	San Marino	Europe	San Marino	34,109
193	Palau	Oceania	Ngerulmud	17,663
194	Nauru	Oceania	Yaren	12,025
195	Tuvalu	Oceania	Funafuti	9,492
196	Vatican City	Europe	Vatican City	825