Declining
Annual population change is below the threshold for fewer than five consecutive years.
28countries and areas
23.7%of 2024 projected global population
1.93bnpeople in the cohort
| China, Hong Kong SAR | Asia | 2021 | 7,414,909 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244) | Europe | 2021 | 1,684,790 |
| Palau | Oceania | 2021 | 17,695 |
| San Marino | Europe | 2021 | 33,581 |
| Tonga | Oceania | 2021 | 104,175 |
| Bermuda | Northern America | 2022 | 64,636 |
| China | Asia | 2022 | 1,419,321,278 |
| Austria | Europe | 2023 | 9,120,813 |
| Czechia | Europe | 2023 | 10,735,859 |
| Latvia | Europe | 2023 | 1,871,871 |
| Monaco | Europe | 2023 | 38,631 |
| Nepal | Asia | 2023 | 29,651,054 |
| Poland | Europe | 2023 | 38,539,201 |
| Republic of Moldova | Europe | 2023 | 3,034,961 |
| Romania | Europe | 2023 | 19,015,088 |
| Russian Federation | Europe | 2023 | 144,820,423 |
| Armenia | Asia | 2024 | 2,973,840 |
| Estonia | Europe | 2024 | 1,360,546 |
| Germany | Europe | 2024 | 84,552,242 |
| Hungary | Europe | 2024 | 9,676,135 |
| Lithuania | Europe | 2024 | 2,859,110 |
| Montenegro | Europe | 2024 | 638,479 |
| Portugal | Europe | 2024 | 10,425,292 |
| Puerto Rico | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2024 | 3,242,204 |
| Republic of Korea | Asia | 2024 | 51,717,590 |
| Slovakia | Europe | 2024 | 5,506,760 |
| Thailand | Asia | 2024 | 71,668,011 |
| Uruguay | Latin America and the Caribbean | 2024 | 3,386,588 |
Population states are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. “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 statusprojected cohort membership · projected population