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Population by Country — Live Population of Every Country

Live figures for 217 countries and territories · Updated every second

This table shows the live population of every country in the world, counting up in real time. Population figures start from World Bank and UN Population Division baselines and tick forward continuously using each country's own birth and death rates — the same method behind the world population clock on our homepage.

Sort by any column to see which countries are largest, which are growing fastest, and which are already shrinking. Roughly two-thirds of the world lives in just the top twenty countries on this list, while dozens of nations now record more deaths than births each year.

# Country Live population Births today Deaths today Growth / year

How these numbers are calculated

Every figure here is computed in your browser, not fetched from a server. Each country has a baseline population from the World Bank's SP.POP.TOTL series, plus a crude birth rate (SP.DYN.CBRT.IN) and crude death rate (SP.DYN.CDRT.IN), both expressed per 1,000 people per year.

To produce a live count, the annual rates are converted into per-second increments and projected forward from a fixed 2025 baseline. A country with a population of 10 million and a birth rate of 20 per 1,000, for example, adds about 200,000 births a year — roughly one birth every 158 seconds. "Births today" and "deaths today" reset at midnight UTC.

These are projections, not censuses. No country counts every birth and death as it happens, so all live population counters — including ours — are best understood as well-grounded estimates of the current total rather than exact headcounts. For a fuller explanation of the method and its limits, see how the world population clock works.

Why some countries are shrinking

A country's population grows when births exceed deaths and shrinks when the reverse is true. In the table above, countries with a negative growth figure are losing population through natural change alone — before accounting for migration, which these figures do not model.

Japan, Italy, and much of Eastern Europe now sit in this category, the result of fertility rates that fell below the replacement level of about 2.1 children per woman decades ago combined with populations that have aged since. Meanwhile most of the fastest-growing countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, where birth rates remain high and median ages are young. Our guide to birth rates vs. death rates covers why that gap matters more than total population for predicting a country's future.

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