|
Population (in
thousands) for the countries of the world: 1998
| World total |
5,901,054 |
| Afghanistan |
21,354 |
| Albania |
3,119 |
| Algeria |
30,081 |
| American Samoa |
63 |
| Andorra |
72 |
| Angola |
12,092 |
| Anguilla |
8 |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
67 |
| Argentina |
36,123 |
| Armenia |
3,536 |
| Aruba |
94 |
| Australia (1) |
18,520 |
| Austria |
8,140 |
| Azerbaijan |
7,669 |
| Bahamas |
296 |
| Bahrain |
595 |
| Bangladesh |
124,774 |
| Barbados |
268 |
| Belarus |
10,315 |
| Belgium |
10,141 |
| Belize |
230 |
| Benin |
5,781 |
| Bermuda |
64 |
| Bhutan |
2,004 |
| Bolivia |
7,957 |
| Bosnia and
Herzegovina |
3,675 |
| Botswana |
1,570 |
| Brazil |
165,851 |
| British Virgin
Islands |
20 |
| Brunei Darussalam |
315 |
| Bulgaria |
8,336 |
| Burkina Faso |
11,305 |
| Burundi |
6,457 |
| Cambodia |
10,716 |
| Cameroon |
14,305 |
| Canada |
30,563 |
| Cape Verde |
408 |
| Cayman Islands |
36 |
| Central African
Republic |
3,485 |
| Chad |
7,270 |
| Channel Islands |
151 |
| Chile |
14,824 |
| China |
1,255,698 |
| China, Hong Kong SAR |
6,660 |
| Colombia |
40,803 |
| Comoros |
658 |
| Congo |
2,785 |
| Cook Islands |
19 |
| Costa Rica |
3,841 |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
14,292 |
| Croatia |
4,481 |
| Cuba |
11,116 |
| Cyprus |
771 |
| Czech Republic |
10,282 |
| Dem. People's Rep. of
Korea |
23,348 |
| Dem. Republic of the
Congo |
49,139 |
| Denmark |
5,270 |
| Djibouti |
623 |
| Dominica |
71 |
| Dominican Republic |
8,232 |
| East Timor |
857 |
| Ecuador |
12,175 |
| Egypt |
65,978 |
| El Salvador |
6,032 |
| Equatorial Guinea |
431 |
| Eritrea |
3,577 |
| Estonia |
1,429 |
| Ethiopia |
59,649 |
| Faeroe Islands |
43 |
| Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
2 |
| Fiji |
796 |
| Finland |
5,154 |
| France |
58,683 |
| French Guiana |
167 |
| French Polynesia |
227 |
| Gabon |
1,167 |
| Gambia |
1,229 |
| Gaza Strip |
1,036 |
| Georgia |
5,059 |
| Germany |
82,133 |
| Ghana |
19,162 |
| Gibraltar |
25 |
| Greece |
10,600 |
| Greenland |
56 |
| Grenada |
93 |
| Guadeloupe |
443 |
| Guam |
161 |
| Guatemala |
10,801 |
| Guinea |
7,337 |
| Guinea-Bissau |
1,161 |
| Guyana |
850 |
| Haiti |
7,952 |
| Holy See (2) |
|
| Honduras |
6,147 |
| Hungary |
10,116 |
| Iceland |
276 |
| India |
982,223 |
| Indonesia |
206,338 |
| Iran (Islamic
Republic of) |
65,758 |
| Iraq |
21,800 |
| Ireland |
3,681 |
| Isle of Man |
77 |
| Israel |
5,984 |
| Italy |
57,369 |
| Jamaica |
2,538 |
| Japan |
126,281 |
| Jordan |
6,304 |
| Kazakstan |
16,319 |
| Kenya |
29,008 |
| Kiribati |
81 |
| Kuwait |
1,811 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
4,643 |
| Lao People's Dem.
Republic |
5,163 |
| Latvia |
2,424 |
| Lebanon |
3,191 |
| Lesotho |
2,062 |
| Liberia |
2,666 |
| Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya |
5,339 |
| Liechtenstein |
32 |
| Lithuania |
3,694 |
| Luxembourg |
422 |
| Macau |
459 |
| Madagascar |
15,057 |
| Malawi |
10,346 |
| Malaysia |
21,410 |
| Maldives |
271 |
| Mali |
10,694 |
| Malta |
384 |
| Marshall Islands |
60 |
| Martinique |
389 |
| Mauritania |
2,529 |
| Mauritius (3) |
1,141 |
| Mexico |
95,831 |
| Micronesia, (Fed.
States of) |
114 |
| Monaco |
33 |
| Mongolia |
2,579 |
| Montserrat |
11 |
| Morocco |
27,377 |
| Mozambique |
18,880 |
| Myanmar |
44,497 |
| Namibia |
1,660 |
| Nauru |
11 |
| Nepal |
22,847 |
| Netherlands |
15,678 |
| Netherlands Antilles |
213 |
| New Caledonia |
206 |
| New Zealand |
3,796 |
| Nicaragua |
4,807 |
| Niger |
10,078 |
| Nigeria |
106,409 |
| Niue |
2 |
| Northern Mariana
Islands |
70 |
| Norway |
4,419 |
| Oman |
2,382 |
| Pakistan |
148,166 |
| Palau |
19 |
| Panama |
2,767 |
| Papua New Guinea |
4,600 |
| Paraguay |
5,222 |
| Peru |
24,797 |
| Philippines |
72,944 |
| Pitcairn (4) |
|
| Poland |
38,718 |
| Portugal |
9,869 |
| Puerto Rico |
3,810 |
| Qatar |
579 |
| Republic of Korea |
46,109 |
| Republic of Moldova |
4,378 |
| Reunion |
682 |
| Romania |
22,474 |
| Russian Federation |
147,434 |
| Rwanda |
6,604 |
| Saint Helena (5) |
6 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
39 |
| Saint Lucia |
150 |
| Saint Pierre and
Miquelon |
7 |
| Saint Vincent and
Grenadines |
112 |
| Samoa |
174 |
| San Marino |
26 |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
141 |
| Saudi Arabia |
20,181 |
| Senegal |
9,003 |
| Seychelles |
76 |
| Sierra Leone |
4,568 |
| Singapore |
3,476 |
| Slovakia |
5,377 |
| Slovenia |
1,993 |
| Solomon Islands |
417 |
| Somalia |
9,237 |
| South Africa |
39,357 |
| Spain |
39,628 |
| Sri Lanka |
18,455 |
| Sudan |
28,292 |
| Suriname |
414 |
| Swaziland |
952 |
| Sweden |
8,875 |
| Switzerland |
7,299 |
| Syrian Arab Republic |
15,333 |
| Tajikistan |
6,015 |
| TFYR Macedonia (6) |
1,999 |
| Thailand |
60,300 |
| Togo |
4,397 |
| Tokelau |
1 |
| Tonga |
98 |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
1,283 |
| Tunisia |
9,335 |
| Turkey |
64,479 |
| Turkmenistan |
4,309 |
| Turks and Caicos
Islands |
16 |
| Tuvalu |
11 |
| Uganda |
20,554 |
| Ukraine |
50,861 |
| United Arab Emirates |
2,353 |
| United Kingdom |
58,649 |
| United Rep. of
Tanzania |
32,102 |
| United States of
America |
274,028 |
| United States Virgin
Islands |
94 |
| Uruguay |
3,289 |
| Uzbekistan |
23,574 |
| Vanuatu |
182 |
| Venezuela |
23,242 |
| Viet Nam |
77,562 |
| Wallis and Futuna
Islands |
14 |
| Western Sahara |
275 |
| Yemen |
16,887 |
| Yugoslavia |
10,635 |
| Zambia |
8,781 |
| Zimbabwe |
11,377 |
Source:
United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The
1998 Revision, forthcoming. |
