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
1,476,625,000
China
1,412,914,000
United States of America
349,035,000
Indonesia
287,886,000
Pakistan
259,299,000
Nigeria
242,431,000
Brazil
213,562,000
Bangladesh
177,818,000
Russian Federation
143,394,000
Ethiopia
138,902,000
Mexico
132,997,000
Japan
122,427,000
Egypt
120,101,000
Philippines
117,724,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo
116,452,000
Viet Nam
102,177,000
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
93,168,000
Türkiye
87,926,000
Germany
83,644,000
United Republic of Tanzania
72,563,000
Methodology: Countries are ordered by population size. Cumulative shares represent the proportion of the world population accounted for by the top-ranked countries.