thousands
Rank Territory Value
191 Saint Kitts & Nevis 42
192 Monaco 34
193 Liechtenstein 33
194 San Marino 27
195 Palau 20
196 Cook Islands 18
197 Nauru 13
198 Tuvalu 10
199 Niue 2
200 Holy See 1
MOST AND FEWEST PEOPLE
Technical notes
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millions
Rank Territory Value
1 China 1295
2 India 1050
3 United States 291
4 Indonesia 217
5 Brazil 176
6 Pakistan 150
7 Russian Federation 144
8 Bangladesh 144
9 Japan 128
10 Nigeria 121
Land area
Total Population
www.worldmapper.org
Produced by the SASI group (Sheffield) and Mark Newman (Michigan)
“Out of every 100 persons added to the population in the coming decade, 97 will live in developing countries.”
In Spring 2000 world population
estimates reached 6 billion; that is 6
thousand million. The distribution of
the earth’s population is shown in this
map.
India, China and Japan appear large
on the map because they have large
populations. Panama, Namibia and
Guinea-Bissau have small populations
so are barely visible on the map.
Population is very weakly related to
land area. However, Sudan, which is
geographically the largest country in
Africa, has a smaller population than
Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Democratic
Republic of Congo, South Africa or
Tanzania.
• Data source: United Nations Development
Programme, 2004, Human Development Report.
• Population data is from 2002
• The population not included is estimated as 2 to
3 million (see Appendix map 2).
• See website for further information.
The size of each territory shows the relative propotion
of the world’s population living there.
Map 002
Hania Zlotnik, 2005
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