Population concentration

How the world’s population is distributed across countries.

25% of world population
in 2 countries
50% of world population
in 7 countries
75% of world population
in 28 countries

Cumulative population distribution

Country Population Languages Religions
India 1,463,865,000
China 1,416,096,000
United States of America 347,275,000
Indonesia 285,721,000
Pakistan 255,219,000
Nigeria 237,527,000
Brazil 212,812,000
Bangladesh 175,686,000
Russian Federation 143,997,000
Ethiopia 135,472,000
Mexico 131,946,000
Japan 123,103,000
Egypt 118,365,000
Philippines 116,786,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo 112,832,000
Viet Nam 101,598,000
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 92,417,000
Türkiye 87,685,000
Germany 84,075,000
Thailand 71,619,000
Methodology: Countries are ordered by population size. Cumulative shares represent the proportion of the world population accounted for by the top-ranked countries.