Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female by country

The FAOSTAT Population module contains time series data on population, by sex and urban/rural. The series consist of both estimates and projections for different periods as available from the original sources, namely: 1. Population data refers to the World Population Prospects: The 2024 Revision from the UN...

Countries reporting
243
Highest
743,542 1000 No
India
Lowest
1.05 1000 No
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Median
3,488 1000 No
Years covered
151
1950–2100
Data points
38,972

What the numbers show

Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female is currently reported for 243 countries. The highest value is 743,542 1000 No in India; the lowest is 1.05 1000 No in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

The median across all reporting countries is 3,488 1000 No, and the mean is 22,374 1000 No.

Over the past decade 89 countries rose and 154 fell. The largest increase was in Pacific Islands Trust Territory (up 46.9%), and the largest decrease in China, Hong Kong SAR (down 23.8%).

Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 743,542 1000 No 2100 down 4.7% rising
2 China 319,567 1000 No 2100 down 14.4% rising
3 China, mainland 313,250 1000 No 2100 down 14.4% rising
4 Pakistan 259,090 1000 No 2100 up 2.5% volatile
5 Nigeria 237,227 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 219,817 1000 No 2100 up 8.4% volatile
7 Ethiopia 183,282 1000 No 2100 up 5.5% rising
8 USSR 154,485 1000 No 1991 up 8.1% rising
9 Indonesia 147,430 1000 No 2100 down 3.7% rising
10 United Republic of Tanzania 132,558 1000 No 2100 up 10.1% volatile
11 Bangladesh 104,333 1000 No 2100 down 4.8% rising
12 Egypt 100,315 1000 No 2100 up 1.1% volatile
13 Brazil 82,304 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% rising
14 Angola 76,286 1000 No 2100 up 9.3% volatile
15 Sudan 69,735 1000 No 2100 up 5.2% rising
16 Mexico 65,616 1000 No 2100 down 5.6% rising
17 Afghanistan 65,039 1000 No 2100 up 5.8% volatile
18 Russian Federation 64,780 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% falling
19 Uganda 60,822 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
20 Philippines 57,691 1000 No 2100 down 6.6% rising
21 Yemen 54,803 1000 No 2100 up 3.9% volatile
22 Mozambique 53,829 1000 No 2100 up 5.0% volatile
23 Kenya 53,727 1000 No 2100 up 0.7% volatile
24 Côte d'Ivoire 52,707 1000 No 2100 up 9.1% volatile
25 Iraq 50,009 1000 No 2100 up 2.7% volatile
26 Viet Nam 46,233 1000 No 2100 down 5.2% rising
27 Niger 45,615 1000 No 2100 up 5.4% volatile
28 Cameroon 45,113 1000 No 2100 up 6.9% volatile
29 Madagascar 43,120 1000 No 2100 up 5.6% volatile
30 Mali 40,192 1000 No 2100 up 5.4% volatile
31 Japan 39,867 1000 No 2100 down 4.4% falling
32 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 39,628 1000 No 2100 down 6.1% rising
33 Uzbekistan 36,856 1000 No 2100 up 4.3% rising
34 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 36,855 1000 No 2100 down 1.4% rising
35 Germany 35,391 1000 No 2100 down 0.3% falling
36 France 35,191 1000 No 2100 up 0.3% rising
37 Chad 35,138 1000 No 2100 up 6.2% volatile
38 Ghana 34,429 1000 No 2100 up 2.3% volatile
39 Somalia 34,351 1000 No 2100 up 6.4% volatile
40 Zambia 32,895 1000 No 2100 up 6.3% volatile
41 Türkiye 32,750 1000 No 2100 down 9.4% rising
42 Algeria 31,777 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% rising
43 Saudi Arabia 31,198 1000 No 2100 up 7.3% volatile
44 Malawi 30,321 1000 No 2100 up 4.7% volatile
45 Ethiopia PDR 27,111 1000 No 1992 up 38.2% rising
46 Canada 26,798 1000 No 2100 up 3.2% rising
47 Burkina Faso 25,421 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
48 Myanmar 25,258 1000 No 2100 down 4.9% rising
49 Australia and New Zealand 24,460 1000 No 2100 up 4.9% rising
50 Senegal 23,953 1000 No 2100 up 4.6% volatile
51 Colombia 23,624 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% rising
52 Sudan (former) 23,371 1000 No 2011 up 33.6% rising
53 Thailand 23,079 1000 No 2100 down 7.7% rising
54 Malaysia 21,832 1000 No 2100 down 2.4% rising
55 Syrian Arab Republic 21,807 1000 No 2100 down 1.3% volatile
56 Australia 21,642 1000 No 2100 up 5.6% rising
57 Benin 19,967 1000 No 2100 up 5.4% volatile
58 Burundi 19,365 1000 No 2100 up 4.3% volatile
59 Argentina 19,145 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% rising
60 Zimbabwe 19,130 1000 No 2100 up 3.0% volatile
61 Caribbean 19,040 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% rising
62 Peru 19,027 1000 No 2100 down 4.1% rising
63 Morocco 18,652 1000 No 2100 down 5.5% rising
64 Italy 17,512 1000 No 2100 down 6.2% falling
65 Spain 17,076 1000 No 2100 down 4.5% rising
66 Kazakhstan 16,815 1000 No 2100 up 2.7% rising
67 Rwanda 16,639 1000 No 2100 up 3.1% volatile
68 Guinea 16,208 1000 No 2100 up 1.8% volatile
69 Nepal 16,146 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% rising
70 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 14,364 1000 No 2100 down 4.6% rising
71 Guatemala 13,041 1000 No 2100 down 3.2% volatile
72 South Sudan 12,299 1000 No 2100 up 0.6% rising
73 Togo 11,881 1000 No 2100 up 7.0% volatile
74 United Arab Emirates 11,620 1000 No 2100 up 11.7% volatile
75 Republic of Korea 11,554 1000 No 2100 down 13.8% flat
76 Cambodia 11,469 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
77 Melanesia 11,313 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
78 Yugoslav SFR 11,294 1000 No 1991 up 3.5% rising
79 Sri Lanka 10,672 1000 No 2100 down 5.3% rising
80 Jordan 10,584 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% volatile
81 Congo 10,131 1000 No 2100 up 8.2% volatile
82 Tajikistan 10,007 1000 No 2100 up 1.1% rising
83 Poland 9,786 1000 No 2100 down 10.0% falling
84 Israel 9,762 1000 No 2100 up 5.9% volatile
85 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 9,688 1000 No 2100 down 6.6% rising
86 Ecuador 9,543 1000 No 2100 down 5.4% rising
87 Papua New Guinea 9,357 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
88 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,025 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% rising
89 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 8,702 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
90 Mauritania 8,606 1000 No 2100 up 7.4% volatile
91 Honduras 8,495 1000 No 2100 down 0.8% volatile
92 Sierra Leone 8,103 1000 No 2100 down 0.1% volatile
93 Czechoslovakia 8,024 1000 No 1992 up 1.9% rising
94 Ukraine 7,873 1000 No 2100 down 15.7% falling
95 Haiti 7,869 1000 No 2100 down 2.2% rising
96 Chile 6,735 1000 No 2100 down 10.9% rising
97 Liberia 6,410 1000 No 2100 up 2.4% volatile
98 Kyrgyzstan 5,899 1000 No 2100 up 0.8% rising
99 Dominican Republic 5,888 1000 No 2100 down 5.0% rising
100 Palestine 5,677 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
101 Sweden 5,587 1000 No 2100 down 0.1% rising
102 Belgium 5,498 1000 No 2100 down 1.5% flat
103 Belgium-Luxembourg 5,445 1000 No 1999 up 3.2% rising
104 Romania 5,408 1000 No 2100 down 7.4% falling
105 Tunisia 5,323 1000 No 2100 down 6.2% rising
106 Oman 5,193 1000 No 2100 up 8.4% volatile
107 China, Taiwan Province of 5,052 1000 No 2100 down 11.7% flat
108 Turkmenistan 5,034 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% rising
109 Azerbaijan 4,946 1000 No 2100 down 3.1% rising
110 Libya 4,815 1000 No 2100 down 1.8% rising
111 Lao People's Democratic Republic 4,649 1000 No 2100 down 4.6% rising
112 Switzerland 4,568 1000 No 2100 up 0.6% rising
113 Paraguay 4,534 1000 No 2100 down 1.9% rising
114 Portugal 4,504 1000 No 2100 down 0.5% flat
115 Serbia and Montenegro 4,295 1000 No 2005 down 2.7% flat
116 Eritrea 4,254 1000 No 2100 up 3.1% rising
117 Kuwait 4,171 1000 No 2100 up 9.5% volatile
118 Czechia 4,042 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% falling
119 Austria 3,691 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% flat
120 Hungary 3,653 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% falling
121 Lebanon 3,567 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% rising
122 Gabon 3,488 1000 No 2100 up 7.2% volatile
123 Nicaragua 3,468 1000 No 2023 up 13.9% rising
124 Namibia 3,070 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
125 Greece 3,061 1000 No 2100 down 5.8% falling
126 Qatar 3,025 1000 No 2100 up 14.2% volatile
127 Panama 2,950 1000 No 2100 down 1.5% rising
128 Denmark 2,899 1000 No 2100 down 1.4% rising
129 Gambia 2,898 1000 No 2100 up 1.1% volatile
130 New Zealand 2,819 1000 No 2100 down 0.5% rising
131 Cuba 2,757 1000 No 2100 down 10.4% falling
132 Mongolia 2,756 1000 No 2100 up 1.9% rising
133 Norway 2,690 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
134 Ireland 2,638 1000 No 2100 down 3.7% rising
135 El Salvador 2,591 1000 No 2100 down 8.7% rising
136 Equatorial Guinea 2,448 1000 No 2100 up 5.3% volatile
137 Guinea-Bissau 2,376 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% volatile
138 Finland 2,261 1000 No 2100 down 3.4% flat
139 Belarus 2,235 1000 No 2100 down 10.6% falling
140 Singapore 2,077 1000 No 2100 down 10.2% rising
141 Botswana 1,969 1000 No 2100 down 1.2% volatile
142 Costa Rica 1,908 1000 No 2100 down 9.5% rising
143 Serbia 1,850 1000 No 2100 down 8.0% falling
144 Bulgaria 1,761 1000 No 2100 down 6.9% falling
145 Slovakia 1,716 1000 No 2100 down 6.4% falling
146 Lesotho 1,674 1000 No 2100 down 1.3% rising
147 Georgia 1,505 1000 No 2100 down 5.2% falling
148 Bahrain 1,342 1000 No 2100 up 8.2% volatile
149 Uruguay 1,144 1000 No 2100 down 9.7% flat
150 China, Hong Kong SAR 1,090 1000 No 2100 down 23.8% flat
151 Croatia 1,070 1000 No 2100 down 8.0% falling
152 Timor-Leste 981.29 1000 No 2100 down 3.3% rising
153 Comoros 960.29 1000 No 2100 up 3.8% volatile
154 Djibouti 940.38 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
155 Solomon Islands 912.18 1000 No 2100 up 2.9% volatile
156 Armenia 854.22 1000 No 2100 down 7.2% falling
157 Slovenia 773.01 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% falling
158 Republic of Moldova 756.86 1000 No 2100 down 8.9% falling
159 Mayotte 686.73 1000 No 2100 up 10.8% volatile
160 Eswatini 685.51 1000 No 2100 down 5.6% rising
161 Bosnia and Herzegovina 676.82 1000 No 2100 down 10.1% falling
162 Cyprus 631.64 1000 No 2100 down 3.5% rising
163 Lithuania 615.89 1000 No 2100 down 12.7% falling
164 Albania 580.03 1000 No 2100 down 13.2% falling
165 Jamaica 544.43 1000 No 2100 down 17.4% falling
166 Puerto Rico 521.69 1000 No 2100 down 20.2% falling
167 Latvia 470.3 1000 No 2100 down 9.4% falling
168 Guyana 455.78 1000 No 2100 down 3.6% rising
169 Trinidad and Tobago 455.57 1000 No 2100 down 9.0% rising
170 Fiji 444.8 1000 No 2100 down 4.6% rising
171 Vanuatu 431.36 1000 No 2100 up 6.1% volatile
172 North Macedonia 422.57 1000 No 2100 down 11.8% falling
173 Estonia 417.66 1000 No 2100 down 6.2% falling
174 Western Sahara 398.6 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% volatile
175 French Guiana 387.28 1000 No 2100 up 6.7% volatile
176 Polynesia 374.35 1000 No 2100 down 1.1% rising
177 Luxembourg 369.69 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
178 Suriname 358.14 1000 No 2100 down 3.4% rising
179 Bhutan 334.32 1000 No 2100 down 7.1% rising
180 Micronesia 327.52 1000 No 2100 down 0.6% rising
181 Mauritius 298.03 1000 No 2100 down 14.3% flat
182 Sao Tome and Principe 271.01 1000 No 2100 up 3.4% volatile
183 Maldives 257.6 1000 No 2100 down 1.3% rising
184 Brunei Darussalam 226.34 1000 No 2100 down 3.1% rising
185 Belize 219.33 1000 No 2100 down 7.0% rising
186 Cabo Verde 210.44 1000 No 2100 down 9.0% rising
187 Bahamas 200.05 1000 No 2100 down 2.9% rising
188 Samoa 187.95 1000 No 2100 up 4.2% rising
189 China, Macao SAR 174.46 1000 No 2100 down 15.4% rising
190 Iceland 169.5 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% rising
191 Malta 168.51 1000 No 2100 down 8.9% rising
192 New Caledonia 167.3 1000 No 2100 down 1.9% rising
193 Montenegro 159.71 1000 No 2100 down 10.5% falling
194 Netherlands Antilles (former) 136.59 1000 No 2010 up 14.3% rising
195 Guadeloupe 125.82 1000 No 2100 down 4.9% falling
196 Kiribati 112.49 1000 No 2100 up 0.8% rising
197 Martinique 107.34 1000 No 2100 down 3.9% falling
198 Guam 102.14 1000 No 2100 down 0.6% rising
199 Pacific Islands Trust Territory 99.35 1000 No 1990 up 46.9% rising
200 Barbados 97.75 1000 No 2100 down 7.1% falling
201 French Polynesia 95.09 1000 No 2100 down 10.1% rising
202 Micronesia (Federated States of) 65.13 1000 No 2100 down 2.2% rising
203 Seychelles 58.73 1000 No 2100 down 3.6% rising
204 Cayman Islands 58.38 1000 No 2100 up 0.3% volatile
205 Tonga 58.13 1000 No 2100 up 0.2% rising
206 Saint Lucia 55.65 1000 No 2100 down 10.1% rising
207 Curaçao 54.73 1000 No 2100 down 9.9% falling
208 Aruba 37.79 1000 No 2100 down 6.4% rising
209 Grenada 37.43 1000 No 2100 down 10.4% flat
210 Antigua and Barbuda 34.32 1000 No 2100 down 8.1% rising
211 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 32.81 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% falling
212 United States Virgin Islands 31.75 1000 No 2100 down 2.5% flat
213 Faroe Islands 31.19 1000 No 2100 down 1.7% rising
214 Isle of Man 28.97 1000 No 2100 down 5.9% rising
215 Dominica 25.36 1000 No 2100 down 7.1% falling
216 Gibraltar 24.74 1000 No 2100 down 1.9% rising
217 Andorra 23.7 1000 No 2100 down 11.4% rising
218 Monaco 23.61 1000 No 2100 up 6.3% rising
219 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 21.23 1000 No 2100 down 6.5% rising
220 Liechtenstein 21.15 1000 No 2100 down 0.1% rising
221 Northern Mariana Islands 19.66 1000 No 2100 down 1.4% falling
222 Turks and Caicos Islands 19.42 1000 No 2100 down 6.9% volatile
223 Greenland 18.77 1000 No 2100 down 5.8% rising
224 Bermuda 18.42 1000 No 2100 down 8.4% falling
225 San Marino 15.73 1000 No 2100 up 0.1% rising
226 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15.62 1000 No 2100 down 8.5% falling
227 British Virgin Islands 14.25 1000 No 2100 down 7.4% rising
228 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 13.95 1000 No 2100 down 6.0% rising
229 Marshall Islands 12.06 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% falling
230 Nauru 10.39 1000 No 2100 up 2.4% rising
231 Saint Martin (French part) 10.07 1000 No 2100 up 2.6% falling
232 Tuvalu 6.14 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% rising
233 Palau 5.64 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% falling
234 Saint Barthélemy 4.79 1000 No 2100 down 10.0% flat
235 Anguilla 4.77 1000 No 2100 down 10.6% rising
236 Cook Islands 3.93 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% falling
237 Wallis and Futuna Islands 3.39 1000 No 2100 down 10.2% falling
238 Tokelau 2.23 1000 No 2100 down 1.0% rising
239 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 1.44 1000 No 2100 down 5.9% falling
240 Montserrat 1.4 1000 No 2100 down 4.8% volatile
241 Niue 1.22 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% falling
242 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 1.14 1000 No 2100 down 4.3% rising
243 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1.05 1000 No 2100 down 13.8% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female
Unit
1000 No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
277 places, 38,972 data points, 1950–2100
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT Population module contains time series data on population, by sex and urban/rural. The series consist of both estimates and projections for different periods as available from the original sources, namely: 1. Population data refers to the World Population Prospects: The 2024 Revision from the UN Population Division. 2. Urban/rural population data refers to the World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision from the UN Population Division.