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Country name 2008 2009 2010 2011
Afghanistan 25,137,384 25,758,347 26,394,322 27,003,469
Albania 1,587,046 1,557,461 1,527,739 1,499,146
Algeria 10,366,279 10,150,577 9,922,586 9,763,225
American Samoa 5,099 4,955 4,804 4,726
Andorra 9,242 9,780 10,339 10,958
Angola 7,827,647 7,887,445 7,942,083 8,015,581
Antigua and Barbuda 60,658 61,433 62,202 62,841
Argentina 3,192,156 3,142,660 3,091,951 3,059,462
Armenia 1,104,986 1,107,828 1,111,105 1,112,526
Aruba 56,239 56,780 57,208 57,454
Australia 2,416,352 2,423,284 2,417,033 2,412,856
Austria 2,744,016 2,737,955 2,730,535 2,723,580
Azerbaijan 4,119,131 4,187,435 4,219,228 4,252,201
Bahamas, The 54,502 54,595 54,641 54,660
Bahrain 120,617 133,587 143,622 149,729
Bangladesh 106,212,543 106,681,544 107,215,948 107,768,208
Barbados 155,670 154,519 153,369 152,303
Belarus 2,504,854 2,456,343 2,409,037 2,366,204
Belgium 279,487 278,204 277,184 277,133
Belize 175,537 182,485 189,713 196,927
Benin 4,766,585 4,850,797 4,933,107 5,013,274
Bermuda
Bhutan 468,077 470,823 473,364 475,689
Bolivia 3,316,928 3,327,173 3,336,529 3,348,102
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,009,976 1,987,890 1,965,317 1,940,915
Botswana 791,425 787,764 783,170 779,503
Brazil 31,155,274 30,852,208 30,538,365 30,278,579
Brunei Darussalam 97,076 97,249 97,348 97,585
Bulgaria 2,166,111 2,119,665 2,070,121 1,978,052
Burkina Faso 11,789,269 12,013,775 12,241,689 12,469,839
Burundi 7,138,307 7,322,016 7,490,746 7,638,077
Cambodia 11,119,211 11,226,213 11,336,901 11,443,717
Cameroon 9,318,686 9,411,526 9,503,109 9,597,548
Canada 6,536,525 6,587,676 6,636,248 6,668,580
Cape Verde 194,094 191,712 189,308 187,326
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic 2,604,812 2,647,332 2,691,287 2,732,457
Chad 8,342,514 8,561,925 8,786,525 9,009,549
Chile 1,945,870 1,919,695 1,892,432 1,874,503
China 708,102,278 693,783,486 679,206,337 665,333,597
Colombia 11,501,498 11,535,773 11,564,451 11,594,379
Comoros 502,338 515,708 529,240 542,322
Congo, Dem. Rep. 42,045,733 42,879,872 43,717,511 44,530,957
Congo, Rep. 1,445,187 1,467,167 1,486,857 1,504,823
Costa Rica 1,664,413 1,666,916 1,668,534 1,671,137
Cote d'Ivoire 9,670,348 9,711,236 9,758,960 9,818,530
Croatia 1,902,869 1,890,705 1,876,015 1,857,000
Cuba 2,775,151 2,782,770 2,790,290 2,791,697
Curacao
Cyprus 323,486 325,641 327,662 329,290
Czech Republic 2,756,445 2,777,970 2,791,532 2,787,509
Denmark 746,067 739,697 732,572 728,029
Djibouti 197,619 201,005 204,414 207,555
Dominica 22,495 22,395 22,319 22,212
Dominican Republic 3,120,212 3,096,334 3,070,222 3,053,097
Ecuador 4,841,057 4,818,726 4,793,181 4,777,731
Egypt, Arab Rep. 44,459,594 45,194,782 45,934,810 46,601,416
El Salvador 2,254,036 2,232,932 2,212,137 2,194,356
Equatorial Guinea 403,011 413,814 424,884 435,641
Eritrea 3,950,002 4,051,328 4,155,658 4,258,414
Estonia 409,622 409,402 409,272 408,440
Ethiopia 66,469,482 67,754,750 69,049,686 70,313,846
Faeroe Islands 28,931 28,836 28,774 28,761
Fiji 412,962 413,856 414,502 414,818
Finland 887,508 884,790 881,842 878,946
France 10,454,158 10,035,390 9,612,312 9,328,623
French Polynesia 128,134 129,849 131,537 132,960
Gabon 218,991 216,172 213,204 212,529
Gambia, The 732,289 740,821 749,155 760,023
Georgia 2,076,418 2,086,855 2,104,304 2,114,665
Germany 21,651,611 21,521,469 21,413,289 21,312,874
Ghana 11,677,081 11,790,506 11,899,551 12,016,447
Greece 4,398,446 4,395,944 4,388,267 4,354,862
Greenland 9,140 8,968 8,887 8,720
Grenada 64,107 64,016 63,932 63,822
Guam 12,032 12,156 12,280 12,372
Guatemala 7,055,495 7,171,630 7,291,158 7,410,770
Guinea 6,297,656 6,389,361 6,491,228 6,597,564
Guinea-Bissau 846,813 853,592 860,344 867,941
Guyana 538,808 539,832 540,888 541,325
Haiti 4,982,393 4,891,835 4,797,758 4,726,533
Honduras 3,621,736 3,651,103 3,680,402 3,710,540
Hong Kong SAR, China
Hungary 3,219,749 3,162,647 3,103,507 3,047,779
Iceland 20,984 20,681 20,278 20,005
India 830,603,599 838,280,540 845,841,116 852,967,051
Indonesia 121,401,141 120,780,826 120,117,770 119,500,950
Iran, Islamic Rep. 22,853,536 22,919,719 22,977,689 23,126,081
Iraq 10,037,783 10,372,749 10,718,795 11,041,004
Ireland 1,711,429 1,711,618 1,704,819 1,729,619
Isle of Man 40,218 40,592 40,944 41,204
Israel 606,557 616,664 623,382 630,312
Italy 19,165,922 19,205,323 19,221,620 19,188,659
Jamaica 1,289,695 1,293,915 1,296,792 1,297,117
Japan 14,410,379 13,229,801 12,055,539 11,330,746
Jordan 1,044,287 1,052,054 1,059,858 1,068,584
Kazakhstan 7,190,165 7,414,363 7,552,458 7,677,132
Kenya 29,682,737 30,310,196 30,963,438 31,629,968
Kiribati 54,343 55,135 55,938 56,676
Korea, Dem. Rep. 9,638,951 9,664,004 9,687,365 9,696,891
Korea, Rep. 8,665,050 8,550,094 8,432,805 8,362,474
Kosovo
Kuwait 45,463 46,866 48,112 49,180
Kyrgyz Republic 3,441,284 3,482,931 3,524,573 3,563,005
Lao PDR 4,165,599 4,157,846 4,147,096 4,136,120
Latvia 729,012 726,670 722,841 664,505
Lebanon 545,466 544,652 543,838 543,168
Lesotho 1,586,654 1,587,555 1,588,384 1,588,917
Liberia 1,935,289 2,015,742 2,084,892 2,139,335
Libya 1,396,985 1,413,910 1,425,896 1,430,030
Liechtenstein 30,349 30,583 30,826 31,071
Lithuania 1,113,061 1,104,432 1,084,618 996,466
Luxembourg 74,847 74,994 75,100 75,595
Macao SAR, China
Macedonia, FYR 838,756 839,939 840,936 839,682
Madagascar 13,548,779 13,823,923 14,099,897 14,373,137
Malawi 11,855,692 12,211,649 12,584,803 12,966,765
Malaysia 8,186,358 8,071,841 7,950,581 7,883,167
Maldives 192,281 190,955 189,550 188,484
Mali 9,687,644 9,894,092 10,101,500 10,307,453
Malta 23,643 22,911 22,168 21,518
Marshall Islands 15,386 15,368 15,384 15,437
Mauritania 1,948,181 1,990,958 2,033,309 2,071,447
Mauritius 736,536 741,314 745,767 748,515
Mexico 25,202,858 25,183,309 25,151,561 25,133,084
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 85,600 85,799 86,059 86,319
Moldova 1,948,322 1,918,958 1,890,173 1,862,937
Monaco
Mongolia 919,270 906,985 893,854 883,206
Montenegro 234,449 233,785 233,045 232,112
Morocco 13,783,444 13,813,278 13,842,630 13,864,147
Mozambique 15,504,750 15,825,882 16,149,452 16,459,906
Myanmar 32,600,922 32,586,282 32,575,039 32,553,650
Namibia 1,392,691 1,406,612 1,419,795 1,431,800
Nepal 24,269,170 24,621,196 24,969,332 25,304,493
Netherlands 3,006,748 2,937,119 2,866,654 2,815,788
New Caledonia 91,714 92,941 95,249 97,151
New Zealand 591,789 597,065 603,018 606,156
Nicaragua 2,438,830 2,456,073 2,474,324 2,491,379
Niger 11,955,589 12,361,215 12,779,367 13,197,722
Nigeria 78,797,273 79,791,853 80,794,239 81,860,556
Northern Mariana Islands 5,571 5,390 5,271 5,226
Norway 1,027,206 1,024,675 1,021,756 1,021,624
Oman 720,534 734,128 746,026 755,925
Pakistan 108,298,973 109,795,303 111,304,605 112,735,970
Palau 3,823 3,615 3,405 3,274
Panama 917,605 905,737 892,885 885,754
Papua New Guinea 5,731,526 5,868,189 6,005,646 6,136,946
Paraguay 2,478,988 2,486,516 2,493,134 2,502,203
Peru 6,785,603 6,749,573 6,713,476 6,690,222
Philippines 46,527,536 47,204,166 47,891,285 48,483,046
Poland 14,812,086 14,861,118 14,912,637 15,068,859
Portugal 4,319,753 4,261,520 4,201,113 4,112,838
Puerto Rico 63,220 54,386 45,669 42,026
Qatar 25,512 25,344 23,656 22,949
Romania 10,158,732 10,141,757 10,120,452 10,089,193
Russian Federation 37,810,938 37,595,365 37,516,654 37,420,638
Rwanda 8,173,183 8,397,935 8,625,630 8,850,746
Samoa 144,476 145,363 146,322 147,311
San Marino 1,853 1,858 1,864 1,868
Sao Tome and Principe 63,298 63,064 62,871 62,944
Saudi Arabia 4,803,672 4,862,367 4,917,599 4,973,418
Senegal 6,860,153 7,018,858 7,180,229 7,333,710
Serbia 3,278,713 3,242,166 3,205,826 3,166,337
Seychelles 41,232 41,110 40,463 39,884
Sierra Leone 3,466,567 3,526,600 3,586,473 3,643,125
Singapore
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovak Republic 2,426,191 2,439,460 2,452,559 2,441,074
Slovenia 1,007,363 1,018,590 1,025,131 1,027,871
Solomon Islands 412,629 421,574 430,491 439,272
Somalia 5,671,220 5,757,980 5,851,483 5,948,160
South Africa 19,209,813 19,191,457 19,223,655 19,229,645
South Sudan 7,399,039 7,822,978 8,171,736 8,451,907
Spain 10,454,672 10,482,126 10,465,482 10,422,254
Sri Lanka 17,169,206 17,370,598 17,546,582 17,712,272
St. Kitts and Nevis 34,752 35,208 35,665 36,062
St. Lucia 135,874 139,141 142,113 144,940
St. Martin (French part)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 56,598 56,231 55,849 55,440
Sudan 21,748,457 22,084,160 22,486,210 22,912,601
Suriname 162,456 161,715 160,927 160,292
Swaziland 809,344 819,822 830,514 840,542
Sweden 1,404,962 1,403,276 1,401,467 1,397,935
Switzerland 2,021,617 2,044,232 2,062,803 2,080,185
Syrian Arab Republic 8,853,299 8,958,038 9,063,368 9,146,654
Tajikistan 4,920,091 4,986,755 5,055,798 5,124,297
Tanzania 31,512,997 32,268,544 33,057,400 33,858,554
Thailand 45,647,796 45,736,154 45,807,304 45,805,498
Timor-Leste 784,633 803,869 823,058 842,582
Togo 3,662,873 3,714,429 3,765,385 3,814,753
Tonga 78,950 79,373 79,742 79,985
Trinidad and Tobago 1,159,134 1,160,224 1,161,118 1,161,744
Tunisia 3,541,780 3,559,486 3,576,356 3,595,555
Turkey 21,966,072 21,727,875 21,471,394 21,054,002
Turkmenistan 2,564,196 2,582,577 2,601,165 2,616,896
Turks and Caicos Islands 2,943 2,781 2,586 2,482
Tuvalu 4,959 4,929 4,899 4,868
Uganda 26,828,400 27,585,227 28,358,170 29,133,016
Ukraine 14,651,360 14,504,026 14,364,410 14,221,910
United Arab Emirates 1,034,644 1,131,998 1,198,715 1,236,382
United Kingdom 12,703,793 12,728,250 12,758,890 12,777,456
United States 56,019,582 55,646,515 55,240,574 54,890,032
Uruguay 258,662 255,975 253,321 251,162
Uzbekistan 17,366,483 17,688,278 18,221,669 18,705,602
Vanuatu 173,327 177,000 180,723 184,454
Venezuela, RB 2,024,505 1,977,400 1,927,841 1,901,665
Vietnam 60,310,682 60,414,841 60,511,105 60,578,329
Virgin Islands (U.S.) 5,655 5,418 5,179 5,016
West Bank and Gaza 945,778 965,590 985,818 1,007,226
Yemen, Rep. 15,698,422 16,054,290 16,417,765 16,783,368
Zambia 7,690,240 7,850,246 7,920,657 8,197,437
Zimbabwe 7,816,830 7,774,291 7,777,959 7,828,561

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