World Population 2023: 8 billion

Sovereign States and Dependencies Sorted by Population Size based on statistics at www.worldometers.info.

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Age Ranges
According to the CIA under its "World" heading, the median age 31 years.

• According to Statista, 25% or 2 billion are less than 15 years old (born after 2008)
• According to the UN, 1.2 billion are 15 to 24 years old (born between 1998 to 2007)
• which places 800 million in the 25 to 31 years bracket (born between 1991 to 1997)
• 3.2 billion are in the 31 to 64 years bracket (born between 1958 to 1991)
• as according to Statista, 10% or 800 million are 65 years and older (born before 1958)

Birth Rates and Death Rates
The average birthrate is estimated at about 4 to 5 babies per second or 367,000 per day (134 million for the year), the average death rate is about 183,500 per day (67 million for the year), leading to a net yearly increase of about 67 million.

In Australia the numbers are a small fraction of this. In 2022/23 the birthrate was 34 babies per hour or 820 per day (300,000 for the year), the death rate was 22 per hour or 520 per day (190,000 for the year), leading to a net natural yearly increase of about 110,000. An O/S students surge meant net migrant intake on top of this was 388,000.

Sorting by Country Name
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Sorting by Life Expectancy
You can also sort on two columns, eg life expectancy within region, by clicking the Life Expectancy column first.
Life Expectancy stats from UN in 2022.

The Life Expectancy column reveals countries, sadly, where it is low, e.g. in Sub-Saharan Africa, where destructive activity from mind-altering drugs and idolatry and so-called "casual" sex i.e. fornication (sleaziness and slackness) has been rampant. In many of these countries the under-age-5 mortality rate is well above the norm, with the cause frequently due to sepsis — a young body's inability to cope with bacterial or viral infection. Rev 2:21-23. However, as that under-age-5 link also indicates, the infant mortality rate in those countries over the past 70 years has greatly improved, praise God for the many workers out there.

UN and IMF Membership
With regards to the IMF (International Monetary Fund), there are 190 members, of which one member (Kosovo) is not a member of the UN, and four non-members of the IMF (Cuba, North Korea, Liechtenstein, and Monaco) are sovereign countries at the UN. With regards to the UN, there are thus 193 sovereign member states numbered below, though the governments of six of them are not recognized by one or more other member states. In alphabetic order, the six countries are Armenia (not diplomatically recognized by Pakistan at present), * China (a number of countries still recognizing the administration in Taiwan in its place, Cyprus (with Turkey recognizing the administration in North Cyprus in its place), ** Israel (with many countries recognizing the administration in the observer *** State of Palestine in its place), North Korea (with France, Japan and South Korea recognizing the government in South Korea in its place), and South Korea (not diplomatically recognized by North Korea at present).
Click here for more info from Wikipedia.

* Beijing was initially recognized as China's capital by the USSR in 1949, India in 1950, France in 1964, Italy in 1970, UK and the UN in 1971, and many countries (including Australia and Japan) in 1972, US in 1979, South Korea (finally) in 1992. In 2023, 13 UN member countries recognize Taiwan at a diplomatic level: 4 small islands in the Pacific Ocean, 4 islands and 3 countries in Central America, Paraguay in South America, Eswatini (Swaziland) in Africa, plus one UN observer country: Vatican City in Rome.
** 28 UN member countries in 2023 refuse to recognize Israel officially (eg at a passport or visa level) and 3 countries (Iran Syria and Lebanon) are engaged in a primary trading boycott of all Israeli business.
*** 138 UN member countries in 2023 recognize the UN observer State of Palestine. Of the 55 UN members who do not recognize the State of Palestine (including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, US, and most of Europe) there is general support for some form of two-state solution to the conflict.

UN Member	Region ▲▼	Country ▲▼	Population (millions) ▲▼	Life Expectancy ▲▼	Population cf ▲▼	Life Expectancy cf
	Asia	India	1426.000	67.2	1426.000	67.20
	Asia	China China and India based on UN Report Apr 2023	1425.000	78.2	2851.000	72.70
	North America	US	337.000	77.2	3188.000	73.17
	Asia	Indonesia Java 150million Sumatra 60million Sulawesi 20million Kalimantan 17million 900 other islands 33million	282.000	67.6	3470.000	72.72
	Asia	Pakistan	234.000	66.1	3704.000	72.30
	Africa	Nigeria	222.000	52.7	3926.000	71.19
	South America	Brazil	217.000	72.8	4143.000	71.28
	Asia	Bangladesh	170.000	72.4	4313.000	71.32
	East Europe	Russia	146.000	69.4	4459.000	71.26
	Central America	Mexico	133.000	70.2	4592.000	71.23
	Asia	Japan	125.000	84.8	4717.000	71.59
	Africa	Ethiopia (previously known as Abyssinia)	124.000	65.0	4841.000	71.42
	Asia	Philippines	114.000	69.3	4955.000	71.37
	Africa	Egypt	108.000	70.2	5063.000	71.35
	Asia	Vietnam	100.000	73.6	5163.000	71.39
	Africa	Democratic Republic of the Congo (previously Zaire)	98.000	59.2	5261.000	71.16
	Asia	Iran (previously known as Persia)	87.000	73.9	5348.000	71.21
	Asia	Turkey	87.000	76.0	5435.000	71.28
	Europe	Germany	84.600	80.6	5519.600	71.43
	Asia	Thailand	70.300	78.7	5589.900	71.52
	Europe	UK	69.000	80.7	5658.900	71.63
	Europe	France	65.700	82.5	5724.600	71.75
	Africa	Tanzania	65.000	66.2	5789.600	71.69
	Africa	South Africa	61.500	62.3	5851.100	71.59
	Europe	Italy	60.200	82.9	5911.300	71.71
	Africa	Kenya	57.400	61.4	5968.700	71.61
	Asia	Myanmar (previously known as Burma)	55.500	65.7	6024.200	71.56
	South America	Colombia	52.500	72.8	6076.700	71.57
	Asia	South Korea	51.400	83.7	6128.100	71.67
	Africa	Uganda	50.300	62.7	6178.400	71.59
	Europe	Spain	47.000	83.0	6225.400	71.68
	Africa	Sudan	47.000	65.3	6272.400	71.63
	South America	Argentina	46.400	75.4	6318.800	71.66
	Africa	Algeria	46.200	76.4	6365.000	71.70
	East Europe	Ukraine	43.000	71.6	6408.000	71.69
	Asia	Iraq	43.000	70.4	6451.000	71.69
	Asia	Afghanistan	41.600	62.0	6492.600	71.62
	North America	Canada	39.000	82.7	6531.600	71.69
	East Europe	Poland	38.000	76.5	6569.600	71.72
	Africa	Morocco	38.000	74.0	6607.600	71.73
	Asia	Saudi Arabia	36.400	76.9	6644.000	71.76
	Africa	Angola	36.000	61.6	6680.000	71.70
	Asia	Uzbekistan	35.000	70.9	6715.000	71.70
	South America	Peru	34.300	72.4	6749.300	71.70
	Africa	Mozambique	34.000	59.3	6783.300	71.64
	Asia	Malaysia	33.600	74.9	6816.900	71.66
	Africa	Ghana	33.000	63.8	6849.900	71.62
	Asia	Yemen	32.000	63.8	6881.900	71.58
	Asia	Nepal	30.700	68.4	6912.600	71.57
	Africa	Madagascar	30.000	64.5	6942.600	71.54
	Africa	Cameroon	28.600	60.3	6971.200	71.49
	Africa	Cote d-Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	28.400	58.6	6999.600	71.44
	South America	Venezuela	28.200	70.6	7027.800	71.44
	Africa	Niger	27.000	61.6	7054.800	71.40
	Oceania	Australia	26.400	84.5	7081.200	71.45
	Asia	North Korea	26.000	73.3	7107.200	71.46
-	Asia	Taiwan (Claimed by China, but has a rival administration that claims all of China as its territory)	24.000	81.0	7131.200	71.49
	Africa	Burkina Faso	22.400	59.3	7153.600	71.45
	Africa	Mali	21.700	58.9	7175.300	71.41
	Asia	Sri Lanka	21.600	76.4	7196.900	71.43
	Africa	Malawi	20.400	62.9	7217.300	71.40
	Africa	Zambia	19.700	61.2	7237.000	71.37
	South America	Chile	19.500	78.9	7256.500	71.39
	Asia	Kazakhstan	19.300	69.4	7275.800	71.39
	Asia	Syria	19.000	72.1	7294.800	71.39
	East Europe	Romania	19.000	74.2	7313.800	71.40
	Central America	Guatemala	18.800	69.2	7332.600	71.39
	South America	Ecuador	18.300	73.7	7350.900	71.40
	Africa	Senegal	18.000	67.1	7368.900	71.39
	Africa	Chad	17.600	52.5	7386.500	71.34
	Asia	Cambodia	17.300	69.6	7403.800	71.34
	Europe	Netherlands	17.200	81.7	7421.000	71.36
	Africa	Somalia	17.000	55.3	7438.000	71.33
	Africa	Zimbabwe	15.400	59.3	7453.400	71.30
	Africa	Guinea	14.000	58.9	7467.400	71.28
	Africa	Rwanda	14.000	66.1	7481.400	71.27
	Africa	Benin	13.000	59.8	7494.400	71.25
	Africa	Burundi	13.000	61.7	7507.400	71.23
	Africa	Tunisia	12.100	73.8	7519.500	71.24
	Central America	Haiti	12.000	63.2	7531.500	71.22
	South America	Bolivia	12.000	63.6	7543.500	71.21
	Europe	Belgium	11.700	81.9	7555.200	71.23
	Africa	South Sudan	11.600	55.0	7566.800	71.20
	Central America	Cuba	11.300	73.7	7578.100	71.21
	Central America	Dominican Republic	11.100	72.6	7589.200	71.21
	Asia	Jordan	11.000	74.3	7600.200	71.21
	East Europe	Czechia	10.800	77.7	7611.000	71.22
	Asia	Azerbaijan	10.400	69.4	7621.400	71.22
	Europe	Greece	10.300	80.1	7631.700	71.23
	Europe	Sweden	10.300	83.0	7642.000	71.25
	Central America	Honduras	10.300	70.1	7652.300	71.25
	Europe	Portugal	10.200	81.0	7662.500	71.26
	Asia	United Arab Emirates	10.200	78.7	7672.700	71.27
	Asia	Tajikistan	10.100	71.6	7682.800	71.27
	East Europe	Hungary	9.600	74.5	7692.400	71.27
	East Europe	Belarus	9.500	72.4	7701.900	71.27
	Oceania	Papua New Guinea	9.400	65.4	7711.300	71.27
	Europe	Austria	9.100	81.6	7720.400	71.28
	Asia	Israel	9.000	82.3	7729.400	71.29
	Europe	Switzerland	8.800	84.0	7738.200	71.31
	Africa	Togo	8.800	61.6	7747.000	71.30
	Europe	Serbia	8.700	74.2	7755.700	71.30
	Africa	Sierra Leone	8.400	60.1	7764.100	71.29
-	Asia	China Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region of China)	7.600	85.5	7771.700	71.30
	Asia	Laos	7.500	68.1	7779.200	71.30
	South America	Paraguay	7.400	70.3	7786.600	71.30
	Africa	Libya	7.100	71.9	7793.700	71.30
	East Europe	Bulgaria	6.800	71.8	7800.500	71.30
	Central America	Nicaragua	6.800	73.8	7807.300	71.30
	Asia	Kyrgyzstan	6.800	70.0	7814.100	71.30
	Asia	Lebanon	6.800	75.0	7820.900	71.30
	Central America	El Salvador	6.600	70.7	7827.500	71.30
	Asia	Turkmenistan	6.200	69.3	7833.700	71.30
	Asia	Singapore	6.000	82.8	7839.700	71.31
	Africa	Congo (Republic)	5.900	63.5	7845.600	71.30
	Europe	Denmark	5.800	81.4	7851.400	71.31
	Europe	Finland	5.600	82.0	7857.000	71.32
	Europe	Norway	5.500	83.2	7862.500	71.33
	East Europe	Slovakia	5.500	74.9	7868.000	71.33
	Africa	Liberia	5.400	60.7	7873.400	71.32
	Asia	Oman	5.400	72.5	7878.800	71.32
	Central America	Costa Rica	5.200	77.0	7884.000	71.33
	Europe	Ireland	5.100	82.0	7889.100	71.33
	Africa	Central African Republic	5.000	53.9	7894.100	71.32
	Africa	Mauritania	5.000	64.4	7899.100	71.32
	Oceania	New Zealand	4.900	82.5	7904.000	71.32
	Central America	Panama	4.500	76.2	7908.500	71.33
	Asia	Kuwait	4.400	78.7	7912.900	71.33
	Europe	Croatia	4.000	77.6	7916.900	71.33
	Asia	Georgia	4.000	71.7	7920.900	71.33
	Africa	Eritrea	3.700	66.5	7924.600	71.33
	South America	Uruguay	3.500	75.4	7928.100	71.33
	Asia	Mongolia	3.400	71.0	7931.500	71.33
-	Asia	State of Palestine (West Bank)	3.400	73.5	7934.900	71.34
	Europe	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.200	75.3	7938.100	71.34
	Asia	Armenia	3.000	72.0	7941.100	71.34
	Asia	Qatar	3.000	79.3	7944.100	71.34
	Europe	Albania	2.800	76.5	7946.900	71.34
	Europe	Lithuania	2.800	73.7	7949.700	71.34
-	Central America	Puerto Rico (US Territory)	2.700	80.2	7952.400	71.35
	Central America	Jamaica	2.700	70.5	7955.100	71.35
	Africa	Namibia	2.600	59.3	7957.700	71.34
	East Europe	Moldova	2.600	68.8	7960.300	71.34
	Africa	Gambia	2.500	62.1	7962.800	71.34
	Africa	Botswana	2.300	61.1	7965.100	71.33
	Africa	Gabon	2.300	65.8	7967.400	71.33
	Africa	Lesotho	2.200	53.1	7969.600	71.33
	Europe	Slovenia	2.100	80.7	7971.700	71.33
-	Asia	State of Palestine (Gaza Strip)	2.000	73.5	7973.700	71.33
-	Europe	Kosovo (technically an autonomous region inside Serbia)	2.000	76.8	7975.700	71.33
	Europe	Macedonia North	2.000	73.8	7977.700	71.33
	Europe	Latvia	1.900	73.6	7979.600	71.33
	Africa	Guinea-Bissau	1.600	59.7	7981.200	71.33
	Africa	Equatorial Guinea	1.500	60.6	7982.700	71.33
	Asia	Bahrain	1.400	78.8	7984.100	71.33
	Asia	Timor-Leste as a nation occupies mountainous eastern half of island. Official languages are Portuguese and Tetum, with numerous tribal languages outside Dili, the capital. Click here for a recent news article	1.300	67.7	7985.400	71.33
	Europe	Estonia	1.300	77.1	7986.700	71.33
	Central America	Trinidad and Tobago	1.300	73.0	7988.000	71.33
	Africa	Swaziland (Eswatini)	1.200	57.1	7989.200	71.33
	Africa	Mauritius	1.200	73.6	7990.400	71.33
	Africa	Djibouti	1.000	62.3	7991.400	71.33
	Africa	Comoros	0.900	63.4	7992.300	71.33
	Europe	Cyprus	0.890	81.2	7993.190	71.33
	Oceania	Fiji	0.890	67.1	7994.080	71.33
-	Africa	Reunion Island (Region under France)	0.870	81.6	7994.950	71.33
	Asia	Bhutan	0.750	71.8	7995.700	71.33
	South America	Guyana	0.740	65.7	7996.440	71.33
	Oceania	Solomon Islands	0.720	70.3	7997.160	71.33
-	Asia	China Macao SAR (Special Administrative Region of China)	0.680	85.4	7997.840	71.33
	Europe	Luxembourg	0.630	82.6	7998.470	71.33
-	Africa	Western Sahara (technically administered by Morocco, previously Spanish Sahara until 1975)	0.620	70.8	7999.090	71.33
	Europe	Montenegro	0.620	76.3	7999.710	71.33
	South America	Suriname	0.600	70.3	8000.310	71.33
	Asia	Maldives	0.580	79.9	8000.890	71.33
	Africa	Cabo Verde	0.570	74.1	8001.460	71.33
	Europe	Malta	0.510	83.8	8001.970	71.33
	Asia	Brunei Darussalam	0.450	74.6	8002.420	71.33
	Central America	Belize	0.430	70.5	8002.850	71.33
	Central America	Bahamas	0.390	71.6	8003.240	71.33
-	Central America	Guadeloupe (Region under France)	0.380	80.5	8003.620	71.33
	Europe	Iceland	0.370	82.7	8003.990	71.33
-	Central America	Martinique (Region under France)	0.360	80.7	8004.350	71.33
	Oceania	Vanuatu	0.300	70.4	8004.650	71.33
-	Oceania	French Polynesia (French Territory) includes Tahiti	0.280	79.5	8004.930	71.33
-	South America	French Guiana (Region under France)	0.280	74.9	8005.210	71.33
	Central America	Barbados	0.270	77.6	8005.480	71.33
-	Oceania	New Caledonia (French Territory)	0.270	79.0	8005.750	71.33
-	Africa	Mayotte (Region under France)	0.250	74.2	8006.000	71.34
	Africa	Sao Tome and Principe	0.220	67.6	8006.220	71.33
	Oceania	Samoa	0.200	72.8	8006.420	71.34
	Central America	Saint Lucia	0.180	71.1	8006.600	71.34
-	Oceania	Guam (US Territory)	0.170	76.7	8006.770	71.34
-	Central America	Curacao (Dutch autonomous region) pronounced Kew-ra-sow	0.150	75.4	8006.920	71.34
	Oceania	Kiribati	0.120	67.4	8007.040	71.34
-	Central America	Aruba (Dutch autonomous region)	0.110	74.6	8007.150	71.34
	Central America	Grenada	0.110	74.9	8007.260	71.34
	Central America	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.110	69.6	8007.370	71.34
	Oceania	Micronesia Federated States	0.105	70.7	8007.475	71.34
	Africa	Seychelles	0.100	71.3	8007.575	71.34
-	Europe	Channel Islands (Jersey, UK Crown Dependency)	0.100	80.7	8007.675	71.34
	Central America	Antigua and Barbuda	0.100	78.5	8007.775	71.34
-	Central America	United States Virgin Islands (US Territory)	0.100	74.7	8007.875	71.34
	Oceania	Tonga	0.100	71.0	8007.975	71.34
-	Europe	Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)	0.085	80.5	8008.060	71.34
	Europe	Andorra (landlocked in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain)	0.080	80.4	8008.140	71.34
-	Europe	Channel Islands (Guernsey, UK Crown Dependency)	0.070	82.2	8008.210	71.34
-	Central America	Cayman Islands (UK Territory)	0.070	75.1	8008.280	71.34
	Central America	Dominica	0.070	72.8	8008.350	71.34
-	North America	Bermuda (UK Territory)	0.060	79.3	8008.410	71.34
-	North America	Greenland (technically part of Denmark since 1814, self rule since 2009. Island mass is mostly inside the Arctic Circle)	0.055	72.4	8008.465	71.34
	Oceania	Marshall Islands	0.055	65.3	8008.520	71.34
-	Europe	Faeroe Islands (Denmark self-governing territory)	0.050	79.3	8008.570	71.34
	Central America	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.050	71.7	8008.620	71.34
-	Oceania	Northern Mariana Islands (US Territory)	0.050	77.2	8008.670	71.34
-	Central America	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK Territory)	0.045	74.6	8008.715	71.34
-	Oceania	American Samoa (US Territory)	0.045	72.5	8008.760	71.34
	Europe	Liechtenstein	0.040	83.3	8008.800	71.34
	Europe	Monaco	0.040	85.9	8008.840	71.34
-	Central America	Saint Martin (French Territory)	0.040	80.4	8008.880	71.34
-	Europe	Gibraltar (UK Territory)	0.035	79.3	8008.915	71.34
	Europe	San Marino	0.035	80.9	8008.950	71.34
-	Central America	British Virgin Islands (UK Territory)	0.030	74.5	8008.980	71.34
-	Central America	Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba Islands - Special Dutch municipalities)	0.025	75.1	8009.005	71.34
-	Oceania	Cook Islands (a sovereign state, with New Zealand bearing U.N. responsibility)	0.020	74.8	8009.025	71.34
	Oceania	Palau	0.020	66.0	8009.045	71.34
-	Central America	Anguilla (UK Territory)	0.015	76.6	8009.060	71.34
-	Central America	Saint Barthelemy (French Territory)	0.010	80.4	8009.070	71.34
	Oceania	Nauru	0.010	63.6	8009.080	71.34
	Oceania	Tuvalu	0.010	64.5	8009.090	71.34
-	Oceania	Wallis and Futuna Islands (French Territory)	0.010	78.4	8009.100	71.34
-	Africa	Saint Helena (UK Territory)	0.006	76.8	8009.106	71.34
-	North America	Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French Territory)	0.006	77.2	8009.112	71.34
-	Central America	Montserrat (UK Territory)	0.005	75.6	8009.117	71.34
-	South America	Falkland Islands Malvinas (UK Territory)	0.003	78.6	8009.120	71.34
-	Oceania	Niue (a sovereign state, with New Zealand bearing U.N. responsibility)	0.002	70.8	8009.122	71.34
-	Europe	Holy See (Vatican City in Rome, a sovereign observer state)	0.001	82.0	8009.123	71.34
-	Oceania	Tokelau (New Zealand territory)	0.001	75.2	8009.124	71.34

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