List of countries by population in 1989 explained

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This is a list of countries by population in 1989, providing an overview of the world population before the fall of the Iron Curtain.

While the population data[1] is almost exclusively dated 1989, political developments before the summer of 1990 are taken into account, including Yemeni unification and Namibian independence but not German reunification which was finalised only in October, the breakup of Yugoslavia and dissolution of the Soviet Union took place two years later, and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia three years later.

The numbers given in Aktuell '91 are fully compatible with the data given by the U.S. Census Bureau,[2] where they can be compared, as the US Census Data refers to modern national borders instead of 1989 borders. Similar remarks apply to 1990 estimates in the List of countries by past and future population which also only apply to modern-day national borders. See also Soviet Census (1989) and 1990 United States Census for comparison.

RankPercentage of world's population
  World population 5,230,452,409[3]
1 1,110,000,00021.2%
2 814,000,00015.5%
3   287,800,0005.5%
4 250,140,0004.7%
5 175,000,0003.3%
6 147,500,0002.8%
7 123,000,0002.3%
8 112,800,0002.1%
9 107,000,0002.0%
10 92,800,0001.8%
11 84,900,0001.6%
12   64,400,0001.2%
13   United Kingdom62,800,0001.2%
14   62,000,0001.1%
15 59,200,0001.1%
16 57,500,0001.0%
17 56,000,0001.0%
18 55,400,0001.0%
19 55,000,0001.0%
20 55,000,0001.0%
21   55,000,0001.0%
22   47,700,0000.9%
23   42,400,0000.8%
24 39,900,0000.7%
25 39,200,0000.7%
26   37,900,0000.7%
27  South Africa37,360,0000.7%
28   34,000,0000.6%
29 32,400,0000.6%
30 32,300,0000.6%
31 26,200,0000.5%
32 25,400,0000.4%
33 25,000,0000.4%
34   24,700,0000.4%
35 24,700,0000.4%
36   23,800,0000.4%
37 23,700,0000.4%
38   23,200,0000.4%
39   22,000,0000.4%
40 21,800,0000.4%
41   20,100,0000.3%
42   19,400,0000.3%
43   18,800,0000.3%
44 17,600,0000.3%
45 17,500,0000.3%
46 17,400,0000.3%
47 16,800,0000.3%
48 16,800,0000.3%
49   16,400,0000.3%
50   15,700,0000.3%
51   15,500,0000.2%
52 15,300,0000.2%
53 14,900,0000.2%
54 14,100,0000.2%
55 12,700,0000.2%
56 12,700,0000.2%
57   12,200,0000.2%
58   11,800,0000.2%
59 11,100,0000.2%
60 10,900,0000.2%
61 10,600,0000.2%
62 10,600,0000.2%
63 10,500,0000.2%
64   Portugal10,300,0000.19%
65 10,000,0000.19%
66 9,900,0000.18%
67 9,100,0000.17%
68   9,000,0000.17%
699,000,0000.17%
70 8,900,0000.17%
71 8,600,0000.16%
72 8,500,0000.16%
73   8,500,0000.16%
74 8,500,0000.16%
75 8,100,0000.15%
76 8,000,0000.15%
77   7,900,0000.15%
78 7,800,0000.14%
79 7,700,0000.14%
80 7,700,0000.14%
81 7,600,0000.14%
82 7,400,0000.14%
83 7,300,0000.13%
84 7,300,0000.13%
85   7,000,0000.13%
86 6,700,0000.12%
87 6,200,0000.11%
88 6,100,0000.11%
89 5,700,0000.10%
90 5,500,0000.10%
91 5,200,0000.099%
92 5,100,0000.097%
93 5,100,0000.097%
94 4,970,0000.095%
95 4,600,0000.087%
96 4,300,0000.082%
97 4,300,0000.082%
98 4,200,0000.080%
99 4,000,0000.076%
100   3,900,0000.074%
101 3,900,0000.074%
102 3,700,0000.070%
103 3,700,0000.070%
104 3,600,0000.068%
105 3,400,0000.065%
106 3,200,0000.061%
107 3,200,0000.061%
108 3,000,0000.057%
109 3,000,0000.057%
110 2,900,0000.055%
111 2,900,0000.055%
112 2,650,0000.050%
113 2,500,0000.047%
114 2,500,0000.047%
115   2,500,000
116 2,400,0000.045%
117 2,300,0000.043%
118 2,100,0000.040%
119   2,000,0000.038%
120  2,000,0000.038%
121 1,970,0000.037%
122 1,800,0000.034%
123 1,700,0000.032%
124 1,500,0000.028%
125 1,500,0000.028%
126 1,400,0000.026%
127 1,300,0000.024%
128 1,200,0000.022%
129 1,100,0000.021%
130 1,050,0000.020%
131 929,0000.017%
132   840,0000.016%
133 758,0000.014%
134 757,0000.014%
135 730,0000.014%
136696,0000.013%
137 483,0000.0092%
138 460,0000.0087%
139 400,0000.0076%
140 389,0000.0074%
141 383,0000.0073%
142 377,0000.0072%
143 358,0000.0068%
144 342,0000.0065%
145 337,0000.0064%
146 314,0000.0060%
147   267,0000.0051%
148 256,0000.0048%
149 251,0000.0047%
150 247,0000.0047%
151 202,0000.0038%
152 180,0000.0034%
153 169,0000.0032%
  169,0000.0032%
154 150,0000.0028%
155 128,0000.0024%
156   114,0000.0021%
157 108,0000.0020%
158 108,0000.0020%
159 100,0000.0019%
160 86,0000.0016%
161 76,0000.0014%
162 70,0000.0013%
163 67,0000.0012%
164 49,0000.00093%
165 40,0000.00076%
166 30,0000.00057%
167 29,0000.00055%
168 23,0000.00043%
169 9,0000.00017%
170 8,1000.00015%
171   1,0000.000019%

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Aktuell '91 – Das Lexikon der Gegenwart, Harenberg Lexikon Verlag (1990) . 3611001309 . Jahrgang . Siebter . 1990 .
  2. https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/region.php?N=%20Results%20&T=13&A=separate&RT=0&Y=1989&R=1&C=AF
  3. Web site: GeoHive – World Population 1950–2050. 2016-02-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132504/http://www.geohive.com/earth/his_history3.aspx. 2016-11-19. dead.