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Most populated countries in the world (2025)

The world's most populated countries are ranked here with the World Bank population estimates for 2025. The table is a quick guide to country populations: it covers the 170 entries in the Travle game that have a World Bank figure, with their share of the total and their density, so you can compare the most populous countries with the smallest ones.

The 10 most populated countries (2025)

1. 1. India1,463,865,525 people
2. 2. China1,406,585,000 people
3. 3. United States341,784,857 people
4. 4. Indonesia285,721,236 people
5. 5. Pakistan255,219,554 people
6. 6. Nigeria237,527,782 people
7. 7. Brazil212,812,405 people
8. 8. Bangladesh175,686,899 people
9. 9. Russia143,513,328 people
10. 10. Ethiopia135,472,051 people

Together, the 10 most populous countries account for 57.0% of the population of all the entries in the table.

The world's most populated countries by continent

• Africa: Nigeria (237,527,782 people)
• Asia: India (1,463,865,525 people)
• Europe: Russia (143,513,328 people)
• North America: United States (341,784,857 people)
• South America: Brazil (212,812,405 people)
• Oceania: Australia (27,614,411 people)

How the most populous countries compare

India and China together hold 35.1% of the people in this table. The top ten, the world's most populous nations, account for 57.0%, and the share drops quickly after them: 151 of the 170 countries hold less than 1% each.

Country populations: every country ranked (2025)

The table lists the countries and their population in 2025, from the largest to the smallest.

Population of every country in the table, World Bank 2025

Rank	Country	Population	Share	People per km²
1	India	1,463,865,525	17.92%	445.3
2	China	1,406,585,000	17.22%	147.1
3	United States	341,784,857	4.18%	34.8
4	Indonesia	285,721,236	3.50%	149.1
5	Pakistan	255,219,554	3.12%	320.6
6	Nigeria	237,527,782	2.91%	257.1
7	Brazil	212,812,405	2.61%	25.0
8	Bangladesh	175,686,899	2.15%	1,190.5
9	Russia	143,513,328	1.76%	8.4
10	Ethiopia	135,472,051	1.66%	119.9
11	Mexico	131,946,900	1.62%	67.4
12	Japan	123,366,734	1.51%	326.4
13	Egypt	118,365,995	1.45%	118.2
14	Philippines	116,786,962	1.43%	389.3
15	Democratic Republic of the Congo	112,832,473	1.38%	48.1
16	Vietnam	101,598,527	1.24%	306.6
17	Iran	92,417,681	1.13%	53.0
18	Turkey	85,878,556	1.05%	109.4
19	Germany	83,491,249	1.02%	233.4
20	Thailand	71,619,863	0.88%	139.6
21	Tanzania	70,545,865	0.86%	74.6
22	United Kingdom	69,487,000	0.85%	285.2
23	France	68,720,337	0.84%	113.3
24	South Africa	64,747,319	0.79%	53.1
25	Italy	58,915,656	0.72%	195.0
26	Kenya	57,532,493	0.70%	97.2
27	Myanmar	54,850,648	0.67%	81.1
28	Colombia	53,425,635	0.65%	46.8
29	South Korea	51,684,564	0.63%	514.5
30	Sudan	51,662,147	0.63%	27.5
31	Uganda	51,384,894	0.63%	212.7
32	Spain	49,355,143	0.60%	97.5
33	Algeria	47,435,312	0.58%	19.9
34	Iraq	47,020,774	0.58%	108.1
35	Argentina	45,851,378	0.56%	16.5
36	Afghanistan	43,844,111	0.54%	67.2
37	Yemen	41,773,878	0.51%	79.1
38	Canada	41,651,653	0.51%	2.7
39	Angola	39,040,039	0.48%	31.3
40	Ukraine	38,980,376	0.48%	64.6
41	Morocco	38,430,770	0.47%	86.1
42	Uzbekistan	37,053,428	0.45%	82.5
43	Saudi Arabia	36,973,555	0.45%	17.2
44	Poland	36,435,861	0.45%	116.1
45	Malaysia	35,977,838	0.44%	108.8
46	Mozambique	35,631,653	0.44%	44.6
47	Ghana	35,064,272	0.43%	147.0
48	Peru	34,576,665	0.42%	26.9
49	Madagascar	32,740,678	0.40%	55.3
50	Côte d'Ivoire	32,711,547	0.40%	101.4
51	Cameroon	29,879,337	0.37%	62.8
52	Nepal	29,618,118	0.36%	201.2
53	Venezuela	28,516,896	0.35%	31.3
54	Niger	27,917,831	0.34%	22.0
55	Australia	27,614,411	0.34%	3.6
56	North Korea	26,571,036	0.33%	220.4
57	Syria	25,620,427	0.31%	138.4
58	Mali	25,198,821	0.31%	20.3
59	Burkina Faso	24,074,580	0.29%	87.8
60	Malawi	22,216,120	0.27%	187.5
61	Zambia	21,913,874	0.27%	29.1
62	Sri Lanka	21,756,000	0.27%	331.6
63	Chad	21,003,705	0.26%	16.4
64	Kazakhstan	20,843,754	0.26%	7.6
65	Chile	19,859,921	0.24%	26.3
66	Somalia	19,654,739	0.24%	30.8
67	Romania	19,020,271	0.23%	79.8
68	Senegal	18,931,966	0.23%	96.2
69	Guatemala	18,687,881	0.23%	171.6
70	Ecuador	18,289,896	0.22%	71.3
71	Netherlands	18,087,633	0.22%	435.4
72	Cambodia	17,847,982	0.22%	98.6
73	Zimbabwe	16,950,795	0.21%	43.4
74	Guinea	15,099,727	0.18%	61.4
75	Benin	14,814,460	0.18%	129.1
76	Rwanda	14,569,341	0.18%	553.1
77	Burundi	14,390,003	0.18%	517.0
78	Bolivia	12,581,843	0.15%	11.5
79	Tunisia	12,348,573	0.15%	75.5
80	South Sudan	12,188,788	0.15%	18.8
81	Belgium	11,941,781	0.15%	389.1
82	Haiti	11,906,095	0.15%	429.0
83	Jordan	11,520,684	0.14%	129.0
84	Dominican Republic	11,520,487	0.14%	78.5
85	United Arab Emirates	11,513,149	0.14%	116.7
86	Honduras	11,005,850	0.13%	97.8
87	Cuba	10,937,203	0.13%	99.5
88	Czechia	10,886,878	0.13%	138.0
89	Portugal	10,804,871	0.13%	117.2
90	Tajikistan	10,786,734	0.13%	76.3
91	Papua New Guinea	10,762,817	0.13%	23.3
92	Sweden	10,596,620	0.13%	20.0
93	Greece	10,413,962	0.13%	78.9
94	Azerbaijan	10,246,996	0.13%	118.3
95	Israel	10,122,800	0.12%	458.7
96	Hungary	9,514,251	0.12%	102.3
97	Austria	9,208,163	0.11%	109.8
98	Switzerland	9,092,436	0.11%	220.2
99	Belarus	9,085,991	0.11%	43.8
100	Sierra Leone	8,819,794	0.11%	122.0
101	Togo	8,591,626	0.11%	151.3
102	Laos	7,873,046	0.10%	33.2
103	Turkmenistan	7,618,847	0.09%	15.5
104	Libya	7,458,555	0.09%	4.2
105	Kyrgyzstan	7,343,064	0.09%	36.7
106	Paraguay	7,013,078	0.09%	17.2
107	Nicaragua	7,007,502	0.09%	53.8
108	Serbia	6,549,143	0.08%	74.0
109	Republic of the Congo	6,484,437	0.08%	19.0
110	Bulgaria	6,433,302	0.08%	58.0
111	El Salvador	6,365,503	0.08%	302.5
112	Denmark	6,009,169	0.07%	140.0
113	Lebanon	5,849,421	0.07%	559.6
114	Liberia	5,731,206	0.07%	51.5
115	Finland	5,646,436	0.07%	16.7
116	Norway	5,610,870	0.07%	9.0
117	Central African Republic	5,513,282	0.07%	8.8
118	Oman	5,494,691	0.07%	17.8
119	Ireland	5,484,367	0.07%	78.0
120	Slovakia	5,413,813	0.07%	110.4
121	Palestine	5,413,596	0.07%	898.5
122	New Zealand	5,324,700	0.07%	19.9
123	Mauritania	5,315,065	0.07%	5.2
124	Costa Rica	5,152,950	0.06%	100.8
125	Kuwait	4,865,298	0.06%	273.0
126	Panama	4,571,189	0.06%	60.7
127	Georgia	3,935,766	0.05%	56.5
128	Croatia	3,876,200	0.05%	44.0
129	Eritrea	3,607,003	0.04%	29.7
130	Mongolia	3,568,978	0.04%	2.3
131	Uruguay	3,384,688	0.04%	19.2
132	Puerto Rico	3,184,835	0.04%	359.1
133	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,140,095	0.04%	61.3
134	Namibia	3,092,816	0.04%	3.8
135	Armenia	3,086,700	0.04%	103.8
136	Qatar	2,972,215	0.04%	255.4
137	Lithuania	2,888,774	0.04%	44.2
138	Jamaica	2,837,077	0.03%	258.1
139	The Gambia	2,822,093	0.03%	249.9
140	Gabon	2,593,130	0.03%	9.7
141	Botswana	2,562,122	0.03%	4.4
142	Lesotho	2,363,325	0.03%	77.8
143	Moldova	2,360,527	0.03%	69.7
144	Albania	2,349,580	0.03%	81.7
145	Guinea-Bissau	2,249,515	0.03%	62.3
146	Slovenia	2,130,986	0.03%	104.1
147	Equatorial Guinea	1,938,431	0.02%	69.1
148	Latvia	1,847,785	0.02%	28.6
149	North Macedonia	1,820,909	0.02%	70.8
150	Kosovo	1,576,876	0.02%	—
151	Timor-Leste	1,418,517	0.02%	95.4
152	Cyprus	1,370,754	0.02%	148.2
153	Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,764	0.02%	266.7
154	Estonia	1,366,475	0.02%	30.1
155	Eswatini	1,256,174	0.02%	72.3
156	Djibouti	1,184,076	0.01%	51.0
157	Fiji	933,154	0.01%	50.9
158	Solomon Islands	838,645	0.01%	29.5
159	Guyana	835,986	0.01%	3.9
160	Bhutan	796,682	0.01%	20.8
161	Luxembourg	686,970	0.01%	265.2
162	Suriname	639,850	0.01%	3.9
163	Montenegro	623,129	0.01%	44.9
164	Brunei Darussalam	466,330	0.01%	80.8
165	Belize	422,924	0.01%	18.4
166	Bahamas	403,033	0.00%	29.0
167	Iceland	392,404	0.00%	3.8
168	Vanuatu	335,169	0.00%	27.5
169	New Caledonia	295,333	0.00%	15.9
170	Greenland	56,831	0.00%	0.1

Sources: country list from the Travle game; capitals, continents and ISO codes from Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); population and surface area from the World Bank World Development Indicators (data updated 2026-10-08); checked 2026-10-20. The list includes some territories, so it is not a list of sovereign states only.

Share: percentage of the combined population of the entries in this table. Density uses the latest World Bank surface area, which can be a different year. For the population of all countries in the world, including those outside the game, see the World Bank's own tables.

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