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
247
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 247 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 22,251 1000 No.

Over the past decade 91 countries rose and 156 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
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 219,817 1000 No 2100 up 8.4% volatile
5 Nigeria 237,227 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
5 United Republic of Tanzania 132,558 1000 No 2100 up 10.1% volatile
6 Ethiopia 183,282 1000 No 2100 up 5.5% rising
6 Viet Nam 46,233 1000 No 2100 down 5.2% rising
7 USSR 154,485 1000 No 1991 up 8.1% rising
7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 39,628 1000 No 2100 down 6.1% rising
8 Indonesia 147,430 1000 No 2100 down 3.7% rising
9 Bangladesh 104,333 1000 No 2100 down 4.8% rising
9 Türkiye 32,750 1000 No 2100 down 9.4% rising
10 Egypt 100,315 1000 No 2100 up 1.1% volatile
10 Syrian Arab Republic 21,807 1000 No 2100 down 1.3% volatile
11 Brazil 82,304 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% rising
11 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 14,364 1000 No 2100 down 4.6% rising
12 Angola 76,286 1000 No 2100 up 9.3% volatile
12 Melanesia 11,313 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
13 Sudan 69,735 1000 No 2100 up 5.2% rising
13 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 9,688 1000 No 2100 down 6.6% rising
14 Mexico 65,616 1000 No 2100 down 5.6% rising
14 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,025 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% rising
15 Afghanistan 65,039 1000 No 2100 up 5.8% volatile
15 Lao People's Democratic Republic 4,649 1000 No 2100 down 4.6% rising
16 Russian Federation 64,780 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% falling
16 Timor-Leste 981.29 1000 No 2100 down 3.3% rising
17 Uganda 60,822 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
17 Republic of Moldova 756.86 1000 No 2100 down 8.9% falling
18 Philippines 57,691 1000 No 2100 down 6.6% rising
18 Polynesia 374.35 1000 No 2100 down 1.1% rising
19 Yemen 54,803 1000 No 2100 up 3.9% volatile
19 Micronesia 327.52 1000 No 2100 down 0.6% rising
20 Mozambique 53,829 1000 No 2100 up 5.0% volatile
20 Micronesia (Federated States of) 65.13 1000 No 2100 down 2.2% rising
21 Kenya 53,727 1000 No 2100 up 0.7% volatile
21 Wallis and Futuna Islands 3.39 1000 No 2100 down 10.2% falling
22 Iraq 50,009 1000 No 2100 up 2.7% volatile
23 South Africa 49,126 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% rising
24 Niger 45,615 1000 No 2100 up 5.4% volatile
25 Côte d'Ivoire 52,707 1000 No 2100 up 9.1% volatile
25 Cameroon 45,113 1000 No 2100 up 6.9% volatile
26 Madagascar 43,120 1000 No 2100 up 5.6% volatile
27 Mali 40,192 1000 No 2100 up 5.4% volatile
28 Japan 39,867 1000 No 2100 down 4.4% falling
28 Caribbean 19,040 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% rising
29 Uzbekistan 36,856 1000 No 2100 up 4.3% rising
29 Cabo Verde 210.44 1000 No 2100 down 9.0% rising
30 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 36,855 1000 No 2100 down 1.4% rising
31 Germany 35,391 1000 No 2100 down 0.3% falling
32 France 35,191 1000 No 2100 up 0.3% rising
33 Chad 35,138 1000 No 2100 up 6.2% volatile
34 Ghana 34,429 1000 No 2100 up 2.3% volatile
35 Somalia 34,351 1000 No 2100 up 6.4% volatile
36 Zambia 32,895 1000 No 2100 up 6.3% volatile
37 Algeria 31,777 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% rising
38 Saudi Arabia 31,198 1000 No 2100 up 7.3% volatile
39 Malawi 30,321 1000 No 2100 up 4.7% volatile
40 Ethiopia PDR 27,111 1000 No 1992 up 38.2% rising
41 Canada 26,798 1000 No 2100 up 3.2% rising
42 Burkina Faso 25,421 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
43 Myanmar 25,258 1000 No 2100 down 4.9% rising
44 Australia and New Zealand 24,460 1000 No 2100 up 4.9% rising
45 Senegal 23,953 1000 No 2100 up 4.6% volatile
46 Colombia 23,624 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% rising
47 Sudan (former) 23,371 1000 No 2011 up 33.6% rising
48 Thailand 23,079 1000 No 2100 down 7.7% rising
49 Malaysia 21,832 1000 No 2100 down 2.4% rising
50 Australia 21,642 1000 No 2100 up 5.6% rising
51 Benin 19,967 1000 No 2100 up 5.4% volatile
52 Burundi 19,365 1000 No 2100 up 4.3% volatile
53 Argentina 19,145 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% rising
54 Zimbabwe 19,130 1000 No 2100 up 3.0% volatile
55 Peru 19,027 1000 No 2100 down 4.1% rising
56 Morocco 18,652 1000 No 2100 down 5.5% rising
57 Italy 17,512 1000 No 2100 down 6.2% falling
58 Spain 17,076 1000 No 2100 down 4.5% rising
59 Kazakhstan 16,815 1000 No 2100 up 2.7% rising
60 Rwanda 16,639 1000 No 2100 up 3.1% volatile
61 Guinea 16,208 1000 No 2100 up 1.8% volatile
62 Nepal 16,146 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% rising
63 Guatemala 13,041 1000 No 2100 down 3.2% volatile
64 South Sudan 12,299 1000 No 2100 up 0.6% rising
65 Togo 11,881 1000 No 2100 up 7.0% volatile
66 United Arab Emirates 11,620 1000 No 2100 up 11.7% volatile
67 Republic of Korea 11,554 1000 No 2100 down 13.8% flat
68 Cambodia 11,469 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
69 Yugoslav SFR 11,294 1000 No 1991 up 3.5% rising
70 Sri Lanka 10,672 1000 No 2100 down 5.3% rising
71 Jordan 10,584 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% volatile
72 Congo 10,131 1000 No 2100 up 8.2% volatile
73 Tajikistan 10,007 1000 No 2100 up 1.1% rising
74 Poland 9,786 1000 No 2100 down 10.0% falling
75 Israel 9,762 1000 No 2100 up 5.9% volatile
76 Ecuador 9,543 1000 No 2100 down 5.4% rising
77 Central African Republic 9,538 1000 No 2100 up 5.6% volatile
78 Papua New Guinea 9,357 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
79 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 8,702 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
80 Mauritania 8,606 1000 No 2100 up 7.4% volatile
81 Honduras 8,495 1000 No 2100 down 0.8% volatile
82 Sierra Leone 8,103 1000 No 2100 down 0.1% volatile
83 Czechoslovakia 8,024 1000 No 1992 up 1.9% rising
84 Ukraine 7,873 1000 No 2100 down 15.7% falling
85 Haiti 7,869 1000 No 2100 down 2.2% rising
86 Chile 6,735 1000 No 2100 down 10.9% rising
87 Liberia 6,410 1000 No 2100 up 2.4% volatile
88 Kyrgyzstan 5,899 1000 No 2100 up 0.8% rising
89 Dominican Republic 5,888 1000 No 2100 down 5.0% rising
90 Palestine 5,677 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
91 Sweden 5,587 1000 No 2100 down 0.1% rising
92 Belgium 5,498 1000 No 2100 down 1.5% flat
93 Belgium-Luxembourg 5,445 1000 No 1999 up 3.2% rising
94 Romania 5,408 1000 No 2100 down 7.4% falling
95 Tunisia 5,323 1000 No 2100 down 6.2% rising
96 Oman 5,193 1000 No 2100 up 8.4% volatile
97 China, Taiwan Province of 5,052 1000 No 2100 down 11.7% flat
98 Turkmenistan 5,034 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% rising
99 Azerbaijan 4,946 1000 No 2100 down 3.1% rising
100 Libya 4,815 1000 No 2100 down 1.8% rising
101 Switzerland 4,568 1000 No 2100 up 0.6% rising
102 Paraguay 4,534 1000 No 2100 down 1.9% rising
103 Portugal 4,504 1000 No 2100 down 0.5% flat
104 Serbia and Montenegro 4,295 1000 No 2005 down 2.7% flat
105 Eritrea 4,254 1000 No 2100 up 3.1% rising
106 Kuwait 4,171 1000 No 2100 up 9.5% volatile
107 Czechia 4,042 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% falling
108 Austria 3,691 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% flat
109 Hungary 3,653 1000 No 2100 down 2.3% falling
110 Lebanon 3,567 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% rising
111 Gabon 3,488 1000 No 2100 up 7.2% volatile
112 Nicaragua 3,468 1000 No 2023 up 13.9% rising
113 Namibia 3,070 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% volatile
114 Greece 3,061 1000 No 2100 down 5.8% falling
115 Qatar 3,025 1000 No 2100 up 14.2% volatile
116 Panama 2,950 1000 No 2100 down 1.5% rising
117 Denmark 2,899 1000 No 2100 down 1.4% rising
118 Gambia 2,898 1000 No 2100 up 1.1% volatile
119 New Zealand 2,819 1000 No 2100 down 0.5% rising
120 Cuba 2,757 1000 No 2100 down 10.4% falling
121 Mongolia 2,756 1000 No 2100 up 1.9% rising
122 Norway 2,690 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
123 Ireland 2,638 1000 No 2100 down 3.7% rising
124 El Salvador 2,591 1000 No 2100 down 8.7% rising
125 Equatorial Guinea 2,448 1000 No 2100 up 5.3% volatile
126 Guinea-Bissau 2,376 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% volatile
127 Finland 2,261 1000 No 2100 down 3.4% flat
128 Belarus 2,235 1000 No 2100 down 10.6% falling
129 Singapore 2,077 1000 No 2100 down 10.2% rising
130 Botswana 1,969 1000 No 2100 down 1.2% volatile
131 Costa Rica 1,908 1000 No 2100 down 9.5% rising
132 Serbia 1,850 1000 No 2100 down 8.0% falling
133 Bulgaria 1,761 1000 No 2100 down 6.9% falling
134 Slovakia 1,716 1000 No 2100 down 6.4% falling
135 Lesotho 1,674 1000 No 2100 down 1.3% rising
136 Georgia 1,505 1000 No 2100 down 5.2% falling
137 Bahrain 1,342 1000 No 2100 up 8.2% volatile
138 Uruguay 1,144 1000 No 2100 down 9.7% flat
139 China, Hong Kong SAR 1,090 1000 No 2100 down 23.8% flat
140 Croatia 1,070 1000 No 2100 down 8.0% falling
141 Comoros 960.29 1000 No 2100 up 3.8% volatile
142 Djibouti 940.38 1000 No 2100 up 1.3% volatile
143 Solomon Islands 912.18 1000 No 2100 up 2.9% volatile
144 Armenia 854.22 1000 No 2100 down 7.2% falling
145 Slovenia 773.01 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% falling
146 Mayotte 686.73 1000 No 2100 up 10.8% volatile
147 Eswatini 685.51 1000 No 2100 down 5.6% rising
148 Bosnia and Herzegovina 676.82 1000 No 2100 down 10.1% falling
149 Cyprus 631.64 1000 No 2100 down 3.5% rising
150 Lithuania 615.89 1000 No 2100 down 12.7% falling
151 Albania 580.03 1000 No 2100 down 13.2% falling
152 Jamaica 544.43 1000 No 2100 down 17.4% falling
153 Puerto Rico 521.69 1000 No 2100 down 20.2% falling
154 Latvia 470.3 1000 No 2100 down 9.4% falling
155 Guyana 455.78 1000 No 2100 down 3.6% rising
156 Trinidad and Tobago 455.57 1000 No 2100 down 9.0% rising
157 Fiji 444.8 1000 No 2100 down 4.6% rising
158 Réunion 436.13 1000 No 2100 down 3.1% rising
159 Vanuatu 431.36 1000 No 2100 up 6.1% volatile
160 North Macedonia 422.57 1000 No 2100 down 11.8% falling
161 Estonia 417.66 1000 No 2100 down 6.2% falling
162 Western Sahara 398.6 1000 No 2100 down 0.9% volatile
163 French Guiana 387.28 1000 No 2100 up 6.7% volatile
164 Luxembourg 369.69 1000 No 2100 down 2.1% rising
165 Suriname 358.14 1000 No 2100 down 3.4% rising
166 Bhutan 334.32 1000 No 2100 down 7.1% rising
167 Mauritius 298.03 1000 No 2100 down 14.3% flat
168 Sao Tome and Principe 271.01 1000 No 2100 up 3.4% volatile
169 Maldives 257.6 1000 No 2100 down 1.3% rising
170 Brunei Darussalam 226.34 1000 No 2100 down 3.1% rising
171 Belize 219.33 1000 No 2100 down 7.0% rising
172 Bahamas 200.05 1000 No 2100 down 2.9% rising
173 Samoa 187.95 1000 No 2100 up 4.2% rising
174 China, Macao SAR 174.46 1000 No 2100 down 15.4% rising
175 Iceland 169.5 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% rising
176 Malta 168.51 1000 No 2100 down 8.9% rising
177 New Caledonia 167.3 1000 No 2100 down 1.9% rising
178 Montenegro 159.71 1000 No 2100 down 10.5% falling
179 Netherlands Antilles (former) 136.59 1000 No 2010 up 14.3% rising
180 Guadeloupe 125.82 1000 No 2100 down 4.9% falling
181 Kiribati 112.49 1000 No 2100 up 0.8% rising
182 Martinique 107.34 1000 No 2100 down 3.9% falling
183 Guam 102.14 1000 No 2100 down 0.6% rising
184 Pacific Islands Trust Territory 99.35 1000 No 1990 up 46.9% rising
185 Barbados 97.75 1000 No 2100 down 7.1% falling
186 French Polynesia 95.09 1000 No 2100 down 10.1% rising
187 Seychelles 58.73 1000 No 2100 down 3.6% rising
188 Cayman Islands 58.38 1000 No 2100 up 0.3% volatile
189 Tonga 58.13 1000 No 2100 up 0.2% rising
190 Saint Lucia 55.65 1000 No 2100 down 10.1% rising
191 Curaçao 54.73 1000 No 2100 down 9.9% falling
192 Aruba 37.79 1000 No 2100 down 6.4% rising
193 Grenada 37.43 1000 No 2100 down 10.4% flat
194 Antigua and Barbuda 34.32 1000 No 2100 down 8.1% rising
195 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 32.81 1000 No 2100 down 7.3% falling
196 United States Virgin Islands 31.75 1000 No 2100 down 2.5% flat
197 Faroe Islands 31.19 1000 No 2100 down 1.7% rising
198 Isle of Man 28.97 1000 No 2100 down 5.9% rising
199 Dominica 25.36 1000 No 2100 down 7.1% falling
200 Gibraltar 24.74 1000 No 2100 down 1.9% rising
201 Andorra 23.7 1000 No 2100 down 11.4% rising
202 Monaco 23.61 1000 No 2100 up 6.3% rising
203 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 21.23 1000 No 2100 down 6.5% rising
204 Liechtenstein 21.15 1000 No 2100 down 0.1% rising
205 Northern Mariana Islands 19.66 1000 No 2100 down 1.4% falling
206 Turks and Caicos Islands 19.42 1000 No 2100 down 6.9% volatile
207 Greenland 18.77 1000 No 2100 down 5.8% rising
208 Bermuda 18.42 1000 No 2100 down 8.4% falling
209 American Samoa 16.27 1000 No 2100 down 3.8% rising
210 San Marino 15.73 1000 No 2100 up 0.1% rising
211 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15.62 1000 No 2100 down 8.5% falling
212 British Virgin Islands 14.25 1000 No 2100 down 7.4% rising
213 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 13.95 1000 No 2100 down 6.0% rising
214 Marshall Islands 12.06 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% falling
215 Nauru 10.39 1000 No 2100 up 2.4% rising
216 Saint Martin (French Part) 10.07 1000 No 2100 up 2.6% falling
217 Tuvalu 6.14 1000 No 2100 up 2.2% rising
218 Palau 5.64 1000 No 2100 down 5.7% falling
219 Saint Barthélemy 4.79 1000 No 2100 down 10.0% flat
220 Anguilla 4.77 1000 No 2100 down 10.6% rising
221 Cook Islands 3.93 1000 No 2100 down 2.7% falling
222 Tokelau 2.23 1000 No 2100 down 1.0% rising
223 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 1.44 1000 No 2100 down 5.9% falling
224 Montserrat 1.4 1000 No 2100 down 4.8% volatile
225 Niue 1.22 1000 No 2100 up 1.5% falling
226 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 1.14 1000 No 2100 down 4.3% rising
227 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1.05 1000 No 2100 down 13.8% falling

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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
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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.