World Development Indicators

Population, total

The denominator behind almost every other figure on this page.

28 member states have a figure and no shape on this map. The outlines come from Natural Earth’s 110m dataset, which has no polygon for a state below a certain size, and almost all of these are small island or micro-states. They are not missing from the data — only from the picture: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Barbados, Comoros, Cabo Verde, Dominica, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Grenada, Kiribati, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Malta, Mauritius, Naoero, Palau, Singapore, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Tonga, Tuvalu, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa.

How the World Bank defines it

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.

World Bank, World Development Indicators — SP.POP.TOTL, CC BY 4.0.

Each state is shown at the most recent year it reports, which is not the same year for every state. Comparing a 2025 figure with a 2019 one is comparing different years, and this table does not pretend otherwise.

Where the numbers come from

World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division