From Matt Rosenberg,
Your Guide to Geography.
FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!

Nov 10 2006

This is a listing of the 23 most populous countries in the world (those having a population over fifty million). Data are estimates from mid-2006.

1. China - 1,313,973,713
2. India - 1,095,351,995
3. United States - 298,444,215 (as of Nov. 2006 - 300,176,035)
4. Indonesia - 245,452,739
5. Brazil - 188,078,227
6. Pakistan - 165,803,560
7. Bangladesh - 147,365,352
8. Russia - 142,893,540
9. Nigeria - 131,859,731
10. Japan - 127,463,611
11. Mexico - 107,449,525
12. Philippines - 89,468,677
13. Vietnam - 84,402,966
14. Germany - 82,422,299
15. Egypt - 78,887,007
16. Ethiopia - 74,777,981
17. Turkey - 70,413,958
18. Iran - 68,688,433
19. Thailand - 64,631,595
20. Democratic Republic of the Congo - 62,660,551
21. France - 60,876,136
22. United Kingdom - 60,609,153
23. Italy - 58,133,509

Source: U.S. Census Bureau International Data Base