Total population peak passed
The highest total population in the source series occurs before the display year.
60countries and areas
26.7%of 2024 projected global population
2.18bnpeople in the cohort
| Montserrat | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1950 | 4,389 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1960 | 46,843 |
| Niue | Oceania | 1967 | 1,819 |
| Cook Islands | Oceania | 1971 | 13,729 |
| Dominica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1980 | 66,205 |
| Hungary | Europe | 1980 | 9,676,135 |
| Saint Helena | Africa | 1987 | 5,237 |
| Serbia | Europe | 1987 | 6,736,216 |
| Bulgaria | Europe | 1988 | 6,757,689 |
| Georgia | Asia | 1988 | 3,807,670 |
| Latvia | Europe | 1989 | 1,871,871 |
| Croatia | Europe | 1990 | 3,875,325 |
| Estonia | Europe | 1990 | 1,360,546 |
| Albania | Europe | 1991 | 2,791,765 |
| Armenia | Asia | 1991 | 2,973,840 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | 1991 | 3,164,253 |
| Lithuania | Europe | 1991 | 2,859,110 |
| Republic of Moldova | Europe | 1991 | 3,034,961 |
| Romania | Europe | 1991 | 19,015,088 |
| Russian Federation | Europe | 1991 | 144,820,423 |
| Belarus | Europe | 1993 | 9,056,696 |
| Ukraine | Europe | 1993 | 37,860,221 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Northern America | 1995 | 5,628 |
| Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244) | Europe | 1997 | 1,684,790 |
| Guadeloupe | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1999 | 375,106 |
| Martinique | Latin America and the Caribbean | 1999 | 343,195 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | Oceania | 2000 | 44,278 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2000 | 100,616 |
| United States Virgin Islands | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2000 | 84,905 |
| Puerto Rico | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2001 | 3,242,204 |
| American Samoa | Oceania | 2002 | 46,765 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | Oceania | 2003 | 11,277 |
| Palau | Oceania | 2004 | 17,695 |
| Greenland | Northern America | 2005 | 55,840 |
| North Macedonia | Europe | 2005 | 1,823,009 |
| Japan | Asia | 2009 | 123,753,041 |
| Greece | Europe | 2010 | 10,047,817 |
| Marshall Islands | Oceania | 2010 | 37,548 |
| Portugal | Europe | 2010 | 10,425,292 |
| Isle of Man | Europe | 2011 | 84,160 |
| Cuba | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2012 | 10,979,783 |
| Italy | Europe | 2014 | 59,342,867 |
| Saint Martin (French part) | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2014 | 26,129 |
| Mauritius | Africa | 2015 | 1,271,169 |
| Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2018 | 3,470 |
| China, Taiwan Province of China | Asia | 2019 | 23,213,962 |
| Curaçao | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2019 | 185,482 |
| China, Hong Kong SAR | Asia | 2020 | 7,414,909 |
| Republic of Korea | Asia | 2020 | 51,717,590 |
| San Marino | Europe | 2020 | 33,581 |
| Uruguay | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2020 | 3,386,588 |
| China | Asia | 2021 | 1,419,321,278 |
| Bermuda | Northern America | 2022 | 64,636 |
| Thailand | Asia | 2022 | 71,668,011 |
| Austria | Europe | 2023 | 9,120,813 |
| Czechia | Europe | 2023 | 10,735,859 |
| Jamaica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2023 | 2,839,175 |
| Poland | Europe | 2023 | 38,539,201 |
| Slovakia | Europe | 2023 | 5,506,760 |
| Spain | Europe | 2023 | 47,910,526 |
Milestone cohorts overlap and must not be added together. “Since” is the start of the current uninterrupted state or the first year the milestone is reached in the WPP series. Membership and population evidence are labeled separately.
SOURCE · UN WPP 2024 CHECKS PASSED · DETAILS⌄
Releasewpp2024
RevisionPOP/DB/WPP/Rev.2024/GEN/F01/Rev.1
Retrieved2026-06-25T11:25:03+00:00
LicenceCC BY 3.0 IGO
Formulapopulation-state-v2 · global-population-share-by-state-and-milestone-v1
Transformreproducible canonical pipeline
Measurement universeall 237 WPP country and area records in the canonical Register
Reference time2024 projected population; source observations through 2023
Unitcountry/area count · people · share of summed population
Evidence statusobserved cohort membership · projected population