What Countries Have the Highest Population?
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Human population continues to grow in most parts of the world, and the table below should help to illustrate how the population is divided amongst the various countries. It is interesting to note that the two most populous countries (China and India) are home to about one third of the world's total population. Here are the 25 most populous countries.
| country | population | |
| China | 1,284,300,000 |  |
| India | 1,045,800,000 | |
| United States | 280,600,000 | |
| Indonesia | 231,300,000 | |
| Brazil | 176,000,000 | |
| Pakistan | 147,700,000 | |
| Russia | 145,000,000 | |
| Bangladesh | 133,400,000 | |
| Nigeria | 130,000,000 | |
| Japan | 127,000,000 | |
| Mexico | 103,400,000 | |
| Philippines | 84,500,000 | |
| Germany | 83,300,000 | |
| Vietnam | 81,100,000 | |
| Egypt | 70,700,000 | |
| Ethiopia | 67,700,000 | |
| Turkey | 67,300,000 | |
| Iran | 66,600,000 | |
| Thailand | 62,400,000 | |
| United Kingdom | 59,800,000 | |
| France | 59,800,000 | |
| Italy | 57,700,000 | |
| Congo | 55,200,000 | |
| Ukraine | 48,400,000 | |
| South Korea | 48,300,000 | |
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Source: CIA World Factbook 2002
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