The next three biggest cities are also in Java but neighbouring Sumatra also has around 50 million residents, roughly the same as the number that live in Spain. Only around 6000 of those islands are populated though and just over half of those 274 million, live on the volcanic island of Java, home to the capital Jakarta. With 17,508 islands, Indonesia is quite unique in its nature, certainly for a country of its size. The Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia is next with around 274 million residents. Indonesia – 274 million Jakarta via Ken Marshall, CC BY 2.0 California is the most populated state with almost 40 million residents while Texas, Florida and New York are the other major states in terms of the number of people living there. The US population is pretty heavily concentrated on the two coasts. That’s significantly less than China (153) or India (465). The USA has approximately 36 people per kilometre squared. What the USA doesn’t lack is space, and there is certainly room for growth should it decide to opt for a more openly pro-immigration stance in the coming decades to help boost its population. The population of the United States is growing though, largely due to migration, at a rate of 0.59% per year, which is slightly higher than China. Over the past couple of years, India has pulled more than a billion residents clear of the USA, the next most populated country. Another major difference is that India is around three times more densely populated with its hectic cities and limited resources making some question whether its current population growth is sustainable. In comparison to China, India is far less developed and faces more hurdles to overcome on its road to becoming a global economic and political superpower. Unless there are any biblical changes to mankind and life on earth, it is likely to continue to be the most populated country for many centuries to come. When it does so, India is only likely to pull away with an estimated population growth of 1% per year. According to a recent UN estimate, it is expected to replace China as the world’s most populous nation as early as the year 2027. India is now only around 60 million people (roughly the population of Italy and just less than that of the UK and France) behind China and it is growing faster. Over the past couple of decades, China has developed into a modern nation of megacities with the likes of Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen all home to more than 10 million people. In other words, out of every five or six people on the planet, one is Chinese and that doesn’t even account for the large Chinese communities that exist in many other countries around the world. Today, China is closing in on the 1.5 billion mark and it accounts for about 18.5% of the world’s total population. This in part is due to the fact many parents were in fact given special permission to have two children during that period, although the measures did still manage to slow China’s population growth.
Despite its well documented “ one child policy” which ran from 1979 until 2015, China’s population has continued to rise. The ten countries and territories in the world with the smallest population are Vatican City (799), Tokelau (1,378), Niue (1,622), Falkland Islands (3,539), Montserrat (4,965), Saint Pierre And Miquelon (5,759), Saint Barthelemy (9,945), Nauru (10,903), Wallis And Futuna (10,982), and Tuvalu (12,066).The world’s most populated country is China. The ten most populous countries in 2022 are China, India, followed by the United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico. China and India account for roughly 36% of the world’s population. Ninety-one (91) countries have populations greater than 10 million. The total world population is expected to reach around 11 billion people by the end of the century.įourteen (14) countries have populations greater than 100 million. With an estimated difference of fewer than 20 million people, experts predict that India will overtake China as the most populous nation on earth by 2030. India has the second-largest population in the world, with just under 1.40 billion inhabitants. The total world population amounts to more than 7.8 billion people, in 2022, China remains the country with the largest population in the world, with more than 1.44 billion people.
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