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Indicators on population Last update: June 2009   Population (in thousands) Sex ratio of population Annual population growth rate, (Notes) 2005-2010 Country or area Year Total Men Women men/100 women % Afghanistan 2009 28,149.9 14,578.7 13,571.2 107   3.4 Albania 2009 3,155.3 1,557.3 1,598.0 97   0.4 Algeria 2009 34,895.5 17,615.8 17,279.7 102   1.5 American Samoa 2009   ** 65.1 33.2 31.9 104   1.7 Andorra 2006   * 82.2 43.0 39.2 110   1.7 c Angola 2009 18,497.6 9,118.2 9,379.4 97   2.7 Anguilla 2001   * 11.4 5.6 5.8 97   2.5 a Antigua and Barbuda 2005   * 82.8 38.9 43.9 89   1.2 c Argentina 2009 40,276.4 19,754.5 20,521.9 96   1.0 Armenia 2009 3,083.0 1,437.0 1,646.0 87   0.2 Aruba 2009 106.5 51.1 55.4 92   1.2 Australia 2009 21,292.9 10,584.8 10,708.1 99   1.1 o Austria 2009 8,363.9 4,078.5 4,285.4 95   0.4 Azerbaijan 2009 8,832.2 4,316.7 4,515.5 96   1.1 Bahamas 2009 341.7 167.2 174.5 96   1.2 Bahrain 2009 791.5 454.2 337.3 135   2.1 Bangladesh 2009 162,220.8 82,032.2 80,188.6 102   1.4 Barbados 2009 255.9 124.2 131.7 94   0.3 Belarus 2009 9,633.5 4,479.4 5,154.2 87   -0.5 Belgium 2009 10,646.8 5,214.2 5,432.6 96   0.5 Belize 2009 306.8 154.6 152.2 102   2.1 Benin 2009 8,935.0 4,509.1 4,425.9 102   3.2 Bermuda 2006   * 63.8 30.5 33.3 92   0.3 d Bhutan 2009 697.3 367.6 329.7 112   1.7 Bolivia 2009 9,862.9 4,918.1 4,944.8 99   1.8 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2009 3,766.6 1,812.3 1,954.2 93   -0.1 Botswana 2009 1,949.8 974.2 975.6 100   1.5 Brazil 2009 193,733.8 95,406.0 98,327.8 97   1.0 British Virgin Islands 2001   * 20.6 10.6 10.0 106   1.1 a Brunei Darussalam 2009 399.7 206.3 193.4 107   1.9 Bulgaria 2009 7,544.6 3,647.8 3,896.8 94   -0.6 Burkina Faso 2009 15,756.9 7,870.1 7,886.8 100   3.4 Burundi 2009 8,303.3 4,070.0 4,233.3 96   2.9 Cambodia 2009 14,805.4 7,244.7 7,560.6 96   1.6 Cameroon 2009 19,521.6 9,758.8 9,762.9 100   2.3 Canada 2009 33,573.5 16,624.6 16,948.9 98   1.0 Cape Verde 2009 505.6 241.7 263.9 92   1.4 Cayman Islands 2006   * 52.0 26.3 25.7 103   1.5 d Central African Republic 2009 4,422.4 2,172.6 2,249.8 97   1.9 Chad 2009 11,206.2 5,569.5 5,636.6 99   2.8 Channel Islands 2009 149.9 73.4 76.5 96   0.2 j Chile 2009 16,970.3 8,393.1 8,577.1 98   1.0 China 2009 1,345,751.0 698,405.9 647,345.1 108   0.6 g China, Hong Kong SAR 2009 7,022.1 3,331.1 3,691.0 90   0.5 h China, Macao SAR 2009 538.0 256.6 281.4 91   2.3 i Colombia 2009 45,659.7 22,475.5 23,184.2 97   1.5 Comoros 2009 676.0 339.2 336.8 101   2.3 Congo 2009 3,683.2 1,838.5 1,844.7 100   1.9 Cook Islands 2009   ** 15.6 8.0 7.6 105   0.9 Costa Rica 2009 4,578.9 2,325.5 2,253.5 103   1.4 Côte d'Ivoire 2009 21,075.0 10,733.4 10,341.6 104   2.3 Croatia 2009 4,416.2 2,127.6 2,288.6 93   -0.2 Cuba 2009 11,204.2 5,617.3 5,586.9 101   0.0 Cyprus 2009 871.0 424.1 446.9 95   1.0 Czech Republic 2009 10,368.9 5,088.3 5,280.6 96   0.4 Dem. People's Republic of Korea 2009 23,906.1 11,804.3 12,101.8 98   0.4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2009 66,020.4 32,717.6 33,302.7 98   2.8 Denmark 2009 5,470.3 2,711.5 2,758.8 98   0.2 Djibouti 2009 864.2 431.9 432.3 100   1.8 Dominica 2002   * 70.4 35.5 34.9 102   -0.3 c Dominican Republic 2009 10,090.2 5,068.9 5,021.3 101   1.4 Ecuador 2009 13,625.1 6,824.9 6,800.2 100   1.1 Egypt 2009 82,999.4 41,742.5 41,256.9 101   1.8 El Salvador 2009 6,163.1 2,908.0 3,255.0 89   0.4 Equatorial Guinea 2009 676.3 335.4 340.9 98   2.6 Eritrea 2009 5,073.3 2,495.2 2,578.1 97   3.1 Estonia 2009 1,340.3 618.0 722.3 86   -0.1 Ethiopia 2009 82,824.7 41,204.1 41,620.7 99   2.6 Faeroe Islands 2006   * 48.3 25.1 23.2 108   0.6 d Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2006   * 3.0 1.6 1.4 113   0.4 a Fiji 2009 849.2 430.9 418.3 103   0.6 Finland 2009 5,325.6 2,610.2 2,715.4 96   0.4 k France 2009 62,342.7 30,311.9 32,030.8 95   0.5 French Guiana 2009 225.7 112.5 113.1 100   2.7 French Polynesia 2009 269.0 137.5 131.6 105   1.3 Gabon 2009 1,474.6 736.6 738.0 100   1.8 Gambia 2009 1,705.2 845.7 859.5 98   2.7 Georgia 2009 4,260.3 2,003.9 2,256.4 89   -1.1 Germany 2009 82,166.7 40,285.7 41,880.9 96   -0.1 Ghana 2009 23,837.3 12,080.7 11,756.6 103   2.1 Gibraltar 2006   * 29.1 14.5 14.5 100   0.2 c Greece 2009 11,161.3 5,533.1 5,628.2 98   0.2 Greenland 2006   * 56.8 30.1 26.7 113   0.0 d Grenada 2009 103.9 52.0 52.0 100   0.4 Guadeloupe 2009 465.4 223.2 242.2 92   0.5 Guam 2009 177.7 90.4 87.3 104   1.3 Guatemala 2009 14,026.9 6,835.7 7,191.3 95   2.5 Guinea 2009 10,068.7 5,084.9 4,983.9 102   2.3 Guinea-Bissau 2009 1,610.7 797.9 812.8 98   2.2 Guyana 2009 762.5 391.4 371.1 105   -0.1 Haiti 2009 10,032.6 4,955.6 5,077.0 98   1.6 Holy See 2000   * 0.8 0.5 0.3 197   0.1 a,m Honduras 2009 7,466.0 3,729.8 3,736.2 100   2.0 Hungary 2009 9,992.7 4,743.5 5,249.2 90   -0.2 Iceland 2009 322.7 165.2 157.4 105   2.1 India 2009 1,198,003.3 618,942.5 579,060.7 107   1.4 Indonesia 2009 229,964.7 114,807.2 115,157.5 100   1.2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2009 74,195.7 37,727.9 36,467.8 103   1.2 Iraq 2009 30,747.3 15,545.7 15,201.6 102   2.2 Ireland 2009 4,515.5 2,261.1 2,254.3 100   1.8 Isle of Man 2006   * 80.1 39.5 40.5 98   0.1 b Israel 2009 7,169.6 3,555.4 3,614.1 98   1.7 Italy 2009 59,870.1 29,126.0 30,744.1 95   0.5 Jamaica 2009 2,718.8 1,330.6 1,388.2 96   0.5 Japan 2009 127,156.2 61,939.8 65,216.4 95   -0.1 Jordan 2009 6,316.4 3,239.3 3,077.2 105   3.0 Kazakhstan 2009 15,637.0 7,447.0 8,190.0 91   0.7 Kenya 2009 39,802.0 19,895.3 19,906.7 100   2.6 Kiribati 2009   ** 99.0 49.0 49.9 98   1.6 Kuwait 2009 2,985.0 1,777.2 1,207.8 147   2.4 Kyrgyzstan 2009 5,482.2 2,705.0 2,777.2 97   1.2 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2009 6,320.4 3,153.5 3,167.0 100   1.8 Latvia 2009 2,249.4 1,036.7 1,212.7 85   -0.5 Lebanon 2009 4,223.6 2,067.9 2,155.6 96   0.8 Lesotho 2009 2,066.9 975.6 1,091.3 89   0.9 Liberia 2009 3,955.0 1,965.2 1,989.8 99   4.1 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 2009 6,419.9 3,318.8 3,101.1 107   2.0 Liechtenstein 2006   * 35.0 17.3 17.8 97   0.8 c Lithuania 2009 3,286.5 1,537.9 1,748.6 88   -1.0 Luxembourg 2009 486.2 241.2 245.0 98   1.2 Madagascar 2009 19,625.0 9,771.2 9,853.8 99   2.7 Malawi 2009 15,263.4 7,584.8 7,678.7 99   2.8 Malaysia 2009 27,467.8 13,946.6 13,521.2 103   1.7 Maldives 2009 309.4 156.3 153.2 102   1.4 Mali 2009 13,010.2 6,424.4 6,585.8 98   2.4 Malta 2009 408.7 203.6 205.2 99   0.4 Marshall Islands 2009   ** 54.1 27.7 26.3 105   2.2 Martinique 2009 404.7 189.8 215.0 88   0.4 Mauritania 2009 3,290.6 1,668.5 1,622.1 103   2.4 Mauritius 2009 1,288.2 638.3 649.9 98   0.7 e Mayotte 2009 194.2 97.2 96.9 100   2.6 Mexico 2009 109,610.0 53,974.7 55,635.3 97   1.0 Micronesia (Fed. States of) 2009 110.7 56.4 54.3 104   0.3 Monaco 2000   * 32.0 15.5 16.5 94   0.3 b Mongolia 2009 2,671.0 1,321.0 1,350.0 98   1.2 Montenegro 2009 624.2 306.8 317.4 97   0.0 Montserrat 2001   * 4.5 2.4 2.1 117   1.2 a Morocco 2009 31,992.6 15,712.2 16,280.4 97   1.2 Mozambique 2009 22,894.3 11,134.6 11,759.7 95   2.3 Myanmar 2009 50,019.8 24,433.7 25,586.1 95   0.9 Namibia 2009 2,171.1 1,070.3 1,100.8 97   1.9 Nauru 2009   ** 9.8 5.0 4.8 103   0.3 Nepal 2009 29,330.5 14,567.7 14,762.8 99   1.8 Netherlands 2009 16,592.2 8,224.1 8,368.1 98   0.4 Netherlands Antilles 2009 198.2 91.9 106.3 87   1.5 New Caledonia 2009 250.1 125.4 124.6 101   1.5 New Zealand 2009 4,266.5 2,107.3 2,159.2 98   0.9 Nicaragua 2009 5,742.8 2,843.4 2,899.4 98   1.3 Niger 2009 15,290.1 7,657.1 7,633.0 100   3.9 Nigeria 2009 154,728.9 77,547.5 77,181.4 100   2.3 Niue 2009   ** 1.5 0.7 0.8 97   -2.7 Norfolk Island 2006   * 2.5 1.2 1.3 93   … a Northern Mariana Islands 2009   ** 63.1 31.5 31.7 99   1.9 Norway 2009 4,812.2 2,392.2 2,420.0 99   0.9 l Occupied Palestinian Territory 2009 4,277.4 2,176.6 2,100.7 104   3.2 Oman 2009 2,845.4 1,605.2 1,240.3 129   2.1 Pakistan 2009 180,808.1 93,101.7 87,706.4 106   2.2 Palau 2009   ** 20.4 10.9 9.5 116   0.4 Panama 2009 3,453.9 1,741.2 1,712.7 102   1.6 Papua New Guinea 2009 6,732.2 3,421.4 3,310.8 103   2.4 Paraguay 2009 6,348.9 3,205.2 3,143.7 102   1.8 Peru 2009 29,164.9 14,617.5 14,547.4 100   1.2 Philippines 2009 91,983.1 46,327.8 45,655.3 101   1.8 Pitcairn 2009 0.1 … … …   0.0 Poland 2009 38,073.7 18,364.7 19,709.1 93   -0.1 Portugal 2009 10,707.1 5,184.7 5,522.4 94   0.3 Puerto Rico 2009 3,981.6 1,909.3 2,072.3 92   0.4 Qatar 2009 1,409.4 1,062.9 346.5 307   10.7 Republic of Korea 2009 48,332.8 23,931.8 24,401.0 98   0.4 Republic of Moldova 2009 3,603.5 1,711.6 1,891.9 90   -1.0 Réunion 2009 826.9 403.2 423.7 95   1.3 Romania 2009 21,274.7 10,342.5 10,932.3 95   -0.4 Russian Federation 2009 140,873.6 65,096.4 75,777.2 86   -0.4 Rwanda 2009 9,997.6 4,842.1 5,155.5 94   2.7 Saint Helena 2009 4.5 … … …   -1.4 f Saint Kitts and Nevis 2001   * 46.1 22.9 23.2 99   1.3 c Saint Lucia 2009 172.2 84.3 87.9 96   1.0 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2009 6.1 … … …   -0.3 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2009 109.2 55.1 54.1 102   0.1 Samoa 2009 178.8 93.2 85.7 109   0.0 San Marino 2006   * 31.4 15.3 16.1 95   0.8 c Sao Tome and Principe 2009 162.8 80.6 82.1 98   1.6 Saudi Arabia 2009 25,720.6 14,097.8 11,622.8 121   2.1 Senegal 2009 12,534.2 6,214.3 6,319.9 98   2.6 Serbia 2009 9,849.8 4,873.2 4,976.7 98   0.0 Seychelles 2006   * 84.6 42.9 41.7 103   0.5 c Sierra Leone 2009 5,696.5 2,774.3 2,922.2 95   2.7 Singapore 2009 4,736.9 2,380.1 2,356.8 101   2.5 Slovakia 2009 5,405.7 2,622.3 2,783.4 94   0.1 Slovenia 2009 2,020.1 986.7 1,033.4 95   0.2 Solomon Islands 2009 523.2 270.8 252.3 107   2.5 Somalia 2009 9,133.1 4,529.1 4,604.0 98   2.3 South Africa 2009 50,109.8 24,705.2 25,404.6 97   1.0 Spain 2009 44,903.7 22,140.0 22,763.6 97   1.0 Sri Lanka 2009 20,237.7 9,965.6 10,272.1 97   0.9 Sudan 2009 42,272.4 21,285.3 20,987.1 101   2.2 Suriname 2009 519.7 260.5 259.3 100   1.0 Swaziland 2009 1,184.9 579.3 605.6 96   1.3 Sweden 2009 9,249.2 4,590.0 4,659.3 99   0.5 Switzerland 2009 7,567.7 3,696.2 3,871.4 95   0.4 Syrian Arab Republic 2009 21,906.2 11,056.3 10,849.8 102   3.3 Tajikistan 2009 6,952.2 3,432.3 3,520.0 98   1.6 TFYR Macedonia 2009 2,042.5 1,020.0 1,022.5 100   0.1 n Thailand 2009 67,764.0 33,327.9 34,436.1 97   0.7 Timor-Leste 2009 1,133.6 577.0 556.6 104   3.3 Togo 2009 6,618.6 3,276.4 3,342.2 98   2.5 Tokelau 2009   ** 1.2 0.6 0.6 102   -0.1 Tonga 2009 104.0 52.7 51.3 103   0.5 Trinidad and Tobago 2009 1,338.6 650.4 688.2 95   0.4 Tunisia 2009 10,271.5 5,165.4 5,106.1 101   1.0 Turkey 2009 74,815.7 37,579.4 37,236.3 101   1.2 Turkmenistan 2009 5,109.9 2,518.0 2,591.9 97   1.3 Turks and Caicos Islands 2006   * 33.2 16.5 16.7 99   1.6 d Tuvalu 2009   ** 11.1 5.5 5.6 99   0.4 Uganda 2009 32,709.9 16,382.7 16,327.2 100   3.3 Ukraine 2009 45,708.1 21,076.3 24,631.8 86   -0.7 United Arab Emirates 2009 4,598.6 3,093.2 1,505.4 205   2.8 United Kingdom 2009 61,565.4 30,202.2 31,363.2 96   0.5 United Republic of Tanzania 2009 43,739.1 21,806.6 21,932.4 99   2.9 United States of America 2009 314,658.8 155,244.1 159,414.7 97   1.0 United States Virgin Islands 2009 109.5 51.9 57.6 90   -0.1 Uruguay 2009 3,360.9 1,621.8 1,739.1 93   0.3 Uzbekistan 2009 27,488.2 13,664.3 13,824.0 99   1.1 Vanuatu 2009 239.8 122.3 117.5 104   2.5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2009 28,583.4 14,349.0 14,234.4 101   1.7 Viet Nam 2009 88,068.9 43,498.2 44,570.7 98   1.1 Wallis and Futuna Islands 2009   ** 14.2 7.0 7.1 98   0.7 Western Sahara 2009 513.2 271.5 241.7 112   3.7 Yemen 2009 23,580.2 11,922.8 11,657.4 102   2.9 Zambia 2009 12,935.4 6,452.7 6,482.7 100   2.4 Zimbabwe 2009 12,522.8 6,054.6 6,468.2 94   0.3

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Population
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009), World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. CD-ROM Edition; supplemented by official national statistics published in United Nations Demographic Yearbook 2006, available from the United Nations Statistics Division website, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/default.htm (accessed June 2009); and data compiled by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Demography Programme, available from the SPC website, http://www.spc.int/sdp/ (accessed June 2009).

Sex ratio of population
Calculated by the United Nations Statistics Division based on the given population by sex.

Annual population growth rate
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009), World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. CD-ROM Edition.

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Technical notes:

Projections of the total population and population by sex are prepared by the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat and revised every two years in order to incorporate new data. The preparation of projections involves two distinct processes: (a) the incorporation of all relevant information regarding past demographic dynamics of the population of each country or area of the world; and (b) the formulation of detailed assumptions about the future paths of fertility, mortality, and international migration.

The medium variant projections for 2009 refer to 1 July of the given year and assume the following: Total fertility in all countries eventually converges toward a level of 1.85 children per woman by the end of the projection period (2005-2050). However, not all countries reach this level during the projection period. The basic principle of the fertility projection is the same for all countries, but projection procedures are slightly different depending on whether countries had a total fertility above or below 1.85 children per woman in 2000-2005. Mortality is projected on the basis of models of change of life expectancy that produce smaller gains the higher the life expectancy already reached. The selection of the model for each country is based on recent trends in life expectancy by sex. For the 60 countries highly affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS are made by explicitly modeling the course of the epidemic and by projecting the yearly incidence of HIV infection. International migration is projected on the basis of past international migration estimates and an assessment of the policy stance of countries with regard to future international migration flows.

In the case of official national statistics compiled through the Demographic Yearbook system, the total, male and female population refer to the population enumerated at the most recent census for which data are available.

The sex ratio is calculated as the number of males per 100 females.

The annual rate of population change is an average for the five-year period 2005-2010 and refers to the rate at which the population is increasing or decreasing (negative sign) in a given year, expressed as a percentage of the base population.