World Development Indicators
World population
Total population reproduced from the World Bank. This page does not estimate its own figures.
Country and area ranking
Source
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0. LifeNaviHub reproduces the published values and does not create its own population estimates.
Population, total · SP.POP.TOTL
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Methodology
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Upstream sources named by the World Bank
World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division