2020 World Population and Growth Projection

The United Nations published their 2019 World Population Prospects which reported the live world population count and its projections in 2020 by countries and territories.

Similar to the 2019 World Population Count, China was projected to maintain its position as the most populated country in the world with a population of more than 1.4 billion. This was followed by India (1.38 Billion), United States (0.33 Billion), Indonesia (0.27 Billion), and Pakistan (0.22 Billion).

The least populated countries were Vatican City (809), Tokelau (1,350), Niue (1,618), Falkland Islands (3,483), and Montserrat (4,999).

Moreover, it is also worth noting that relative to the 2019 World Population, Niger, Bahrain, and Equatorial Guinea were the regions expected to have the highest population growth at a rate of more than 3.3%.

On the other hand, Puerto Rico, Wallis and Futuna, Lithuania, and Latvia were the regions projected to have more than 1% population decline.

2020 World Population Projection

Rank		Country/Territory	Population	Growth Rate
1		China	1,439,323,774	0.38%
2		India	1,380,004,385	0.98%
3		United States of America	331,002,647	0.59%
4		Indonesia	273,523,621	1.06%
5		Pakistan	220,892,331	1.96%
6		Brazil	212,559,409	0.71%
7		Nigeria	206,139,587	2.51%
8		Bangladesh	164,689,383	1%
9		Russia	145,934,460	0.04%
10		Mexico	128,932,753	1.05%
11		Japan	126,476,458	-0.3%
12		Ethiopia	114,963,583	2.51%
13		Philippines	109,581,085	1.34%
14		Egypt	102,334,403	1.9%
15		Vietnam	97,338,583	0.9%
16		Democratic Republic of the Congo	89,561,404	3.09%
17		Turkey	84,339,067	1.08%
18		Iran	83,992,953	1.28%
19		Germany	83,783,945	0.32%
20		Thailand	69,799,978	0.25%
21		United Kingdom	67,886,004	0.52%
22		France	65,273,512	0.22%
23		Italy	60,461,828	-0.15%
24		Tanzania	59,734,213	2.89%
25		South Africa	59,308,690	1.27%
26		Myanmar	54,409,794	0.67%
27		Kenya	53,771,300	2.23%
28		South Korea	51,269,183	0.09%
29		Colombia	50,882,884	1.07%
30		Spain	46,754,783	0.04%
31		Uganda	45,741,000	3.22%
32		Argentina	45,195,777	0.92%
33		Algeria	43,851,043	1.82%
34		Sudan	43,849,269	2.36%
35		Ukraine	43,733,759	-0.59%
36		Iraq	40,222,503	2.27%
37		Afghanistan	38,928,341	2.28%
38		Poland	37,846,605	-0.11%
39		Canada	37,742,157	0.88%
40		Morocco	36,910,558	1.19%
41		Saudi Arabia	34,813,867	1.57%
42		Uzbekistan	33,469,199	1.46%
43		Peru	32,971,846	1.4%
44		Angola	32,866,268	3.17%
45		Malaysia	32,365,998	1.29%
46		Mozambique	31,255,435	2.85%
47		Ghana	31,072,945	2.11%
48		Yemen	29,825,968	2.23%
49		Nepal	29,136,808	1.81%
50		Venezuela	28,435,943	-0.28%
51		Madagascar	27,691,019	2.61%
52		Cameroon	26,545,864	2.52%
53		Côte d'Ivoire	26,378,275	2.51%
54		North Korea	25,778,815	0.44%
55		Australia	25,499,881	1.16%
56		Niger	24,206,636	3.7%
57		Taiwan	23,816,775	0.18%
58		Sri Lanka	21,413,250	0.42%
59		Burkina Faso	20,903,278	2.78%
60		Mali	20,250,834	2.93%
61		Romania	19,237,682	-0.66%
62		Malawi	19,129,955	2.62%
63		Chile	19,116,209	0.86%
64		Kazakhstan	18,776,707	1.2%
65		Zambia	18,383,956	2.84%
66		Guatemala	17,915,567	1.86%
67		Ecuador	17,643,060	1.53%
68		Syria	17,500,657	2.46%
69		Netherlands	17,134,873	0.22%
70		Senegal	16,743,930	2.67%
71		Cambodia	16,718,971	1.39%
72		Chad	16,425,859	2.92%
73		Somalia	15,893,219	2.83%
74		Zimbabwe	14,862,927	1.46%
75		Guinea	13,132,792	2.75%
76		Rwanda	12,952,209	2.51%
77		Benin	12,123,198	2.66%
78		Burundi	11,890,781	3.03%
79		Tunisia	11,818,618	1.05%
80		Bolivia	11,673,029	1.37%
81		Belgium	11,589,616	0.43%
82		Haiti	11,402,533	1.22%
83		Cuba	11,326,616	-0.06%
84		South Sudan	11,193,729	1.18%
85		Dominican Republic	10,847,904	1%
86		Czech Republic	10,708,982	0.18%
87		Greece	10,423,056	-0.48%
88		Jordan	10,203,140	0.99%
89		Portugal	10,196,707	-0.29%
90		Azerbaijan	10,139,175	0.9%
91		Sweden	10,099,270	0.62%
92		Honduras	9,904,608	1.6%
93		United Arab Emirates	9,890,400	1.21%
94		Hungary	9,660,350	-0.25%
95		Tajikistan	9,537,642	2.27%
96		Belarus	9,449,321	-0.03%
97		Austria	9,006,400	0.57%
98		Papua New Guinea	8,947,027	1.91%
99		Serbia	8,737,370	-0.4%
100		Israel	8,655,541	1.57%
101		Switzerland	8,654,618	0.73%
102		Togo	8,278,737	2.37%
103		Sierra Leone	7,976,985	2.05%
104		Hong Kong	7,496,988	0.81%
105		Laos	7,275,556	1.46%
106		Paraguay	7,132,530	1.23%
107		Bulgaria	6,948,445	-0.74%
108		Libya	6,871,287	1.37%
109		Lebanon	6,825,442	-0.44%
110		Nicaragua	6,624,554	1.19%
111		Kyrgyzstan	6,524,191	1.66%
112		El Salvador	6,486,201	0.5%
113		Turkmenistan	6,031,187	1.48%
114		Singapore	5,850,343	0.79%
115		Denmark	5,792,203	0.35%
116		Finland	5,540,718	0.15%
117		Republic of the Congo	5,518,092	2.49%
118		Slovakia	5,459,643	0.05%
119		Norway	5,421,242	0.78%
120		Oman	5,106,622	2.58%
121		Palestine	5,101,416	2.35%
122		Costa Rica	5,094,114	0.91%
123		Liberia	5,057,677	2.38%
124		Ireland	4,937,796	1.12%
125		Central African Republic	4,829,764	1.75%
126		New Zealand	4,822,233	0.81%
127		Mauritania	4,649,660	2.67%
128		Panama	4,314,768	1.58%
129		Kuwait	4,270,563	1.49%
130		Croatia	4,105,268	-0.61%
131		Moldova	4,033,963	-0.23%
132		Georgia	3,989,175	-0.19%
133		Eritrea	3,546,427	1.39%
134		Uruguay	3,473,727	0.35%
135		Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,280,815	-0.62%
136		Mongolia	3,278,292	1.62%
137		Armenia	2,963,234	0.19%
138		Jamaica	2,961,161	0.44%
139		Qatar	2,881,060	1.7%
140		Albania	2,877,800	-0.11%
141		Puerto Rico	2,860,840	-2.54%
142		Lithuania	2,722,291	-1.37%
143		Namibia	2,540,916	1.83%
144		Gambia	2,416,664	2.85%
145		Botswana	2,351,625	2.04%
146		Gabon	2,225,728	2.39%
147		Lesotho	2,142,252	0.79%
148		North Macedonia	2,083,380	0%
149		Slovenia	2,078,932	0.01%
150		Guinea-Bissau	1,967,998	2.39%
151		Latvia	1,886,202	-1.09%
152		Bahrain	1,701,583	3.55%
153		Equatorial Guinea	1,402,985	3.35%
154		Trinidad and Tobago	1,399,491	0.32%
155		Estonia	1,326,539	0.07%
156		Timor-Leste	1,318,442	1.92%
157		Mauritius	1,271,767	0.16%
158		Cyprus	1,207,361	0.73%
159		Eswatini	1,160,164	1.04%
160		Djibouti	988,002	1.46%
161		Fiji	896,444	0.72%
162		Reunion	895,308	0.71%
163		Comoros	869,595	2.15%
164		Guyana	786,559	0.48%
165		Bhutan	771,612	1.1%
166		Solomon Islands	686,878	2.48%
167		Macau	649,342	1.37%
168		Montenegro	628,062	0.01%
169		Luxembourg	625,976	1.64%
170		Western Sahara	597,330	2.49%
171		Suriname	586,634	0.9%
172		Cape Verde	555,988	1.09%
173		Maldives	540,542	1.77%
174		Malta	441,539	0.26%
175		Brunei Darussalam	437,483	0.96%
176		Guadeloupe	400,127	0.02%
177		Belize	397,621	1.83%
178		Bahamas	393,248	0.96%
179		Martinique	375,265	-0.08%
180		Iceland	341,250	0.65%
181		Vanuatu	307,150	2.37%
182		French Guiana	298,682	2.63%
183		Barbados	287,371	0.12%
184		New Caledonia	285,491	0.96%
185		French Polynesia	280,904	0.58%
186		Mayotte	272,813	2.44%
187		São Tomé and Príncipe	219,161	1.88%
188		Samoa	198,410	0.66%
189		Saint Lucia	183,629	0.45%
190	-	Channel Islands	173,859	0.92%
191		Guam	168,783	0.88%
192		Curacao	164,100	0.41%
193		Kiribati	119,446	1.54%
194		Micronesia	115,021	1.05%
195		Grenada	112,519	0.46%
196		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,947	0.32%
197		Aruba	106,766	0.43%
198		Tonga	105,697	1.14%
199		United States Virgin Islands	104,423	-0.15%
200		Seychelles	98,340	0.61%
201		Antigua and Barbuda	97,928	0.83%
202		Isle of Man	85,032	0.52%
203		Andorra	77,265	0.15%
204		Dominica	71,991	0.25%
205		Cayman Islands	65,720	1.17%
206		Bermuda	62,273	-0.38%
207		Marshall Islands	59,194	0.68%
208		Northern Mariana Islands	57,557	0.6%
209		Greenland	56,772	0.2%
210		American Samoa	55,197	-0.21%
211		Saint Kitts and Nevis	53,192	0.67%
212		Faroe Islands	48,865	0.38%
213		Sint Maarten	42,882	1.15%
214		Monaco	39,244	0.71%
215		Turks and Caicos Islands	38,718	1.35%
216		Saint Martin	38,659	1.7%
217		Liechtenstein	38,137	0.31%
218		San Marino	33,938	0.22%
219		Gibraltar	33,691	-0.04%
220		British Virgin Islands	30,237	0.67%
221		Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	26,221	0.91%
222		Palau	18,092	0.5%
223		Cook Islands	17,564	0.1%
224		Anguilla	15,002	0.87%
225		Tuvalu	11,792	1.16%
226		Wallis and Futuna	11,246	-1.69%
227		Nauru	10,834	0.65%
228		Saint Barthélemy	9,885	0.32%
229		Saint Helena	6,071	0.16%
230		Saint Pierre and Miquelon	5,795	-0.45%
231		Montserrat	4,999	0.16%
232		Falkland Islands	3,483	3.19%
233		Niue	1,618	0.25%
234		Tokelau	1,350	1.48%
235		Vatican City	809	-0.74%