This is a list of primate species by estimated global population. This list is not comprehensive as not all primates have had their numbers quantified.
Common name | Binomial name | data-sort-type="number" width="15%" | Population | Status | Trend | Notes | Image |
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Hainan black crested gibbon | Nomascus hainanus | 20–50[1] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Population was estimated at over 2,000 in the late 1950s. | |||
Eastern black crested gibbon | Nomascus nasutus | 45–47[2] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Previously thought to be possibly extinct. Numbers may be higher. | |||
Cat Ba langur | Trachypithecus poliocephalus | 51–54[3] | |||||
Popa langur | Trachypithecus popa | 135–176[4] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Estimate for mature individuals. | |||
Raffles' banded langur | Presbytis femoralis | 200–250[5] | CR | ||||
Sarawak surili | Presbytis chrysomelas | 200–500[6] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Perrier's sifaka | Propithecus perrieri | 230[7] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | One of the 25 most endangered primates. | |||
Delacour's langur | Trachypithecus delacouri | 234–275[8] | align=center style="background:#F08080 | CR | The population of the species has radically decreased over the past decade. | ||
Silky sifaka | Propithecus candidus | 250[9] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Estimate is believed to be a maximum. | |||
Tonkin snub-nosed monkey | Rhinopithecus avunculus | 250[10] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Barbara Brown's titi | Callicebus barbarabrownae | 260[11] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Minimum estimation. | |||
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey | Rhinopithecus strykeri | 260–330[12] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Mentawai langur | Presbytis potenziani | 300–1,200[13] | |||||
Superagui lion tamarin | Leontopithecus caissara | 400[14] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Maximum estimate. | |||
Blond capuchin | Cebus flavius | 500 | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | EN | [15] | ||
Greater bamboo lemur | Prolemur simus | 500[16] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Kashmir gray langur | Semnopithecus ajax | 500[17] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Maximum estimate; 250 mature. | |||
Coimbra Filho's titi | Callicebus coimbrai | 500–1,000[18] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Gray-shanked douc | Pygathrix cinerea | 550–700[19] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Arunachal macaque | Macaca munzala | 569[20] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | While one source gives a minimum estimate of 569, another claims adult species number less than 250. | |||
White-headed langur | Trachypithecus leucocephalus | 600[21] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | CR | |||
Gray snub-nosed monkey | Rhinopithecus brelichi | 750[22] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Northern muriqui | Brachyteles hypoxanthus | 855[23] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Minimum estimate. | |||
Black lion tamarin | Leontopithecus chrysopygus | 1,000[24] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Tana River mangabey | Cercocebus galeritus | 1,000–1,200[25] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Kipunji | Rungwecebus kipunji | 1,117[26] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | EN | |||
Sanje mangabey | Cercocebus sanjei | 1,300[27] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate is likely a maximum. | |||
Southern muriqui | Brachyteles arachnoides | 1,300[28] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Black crested gibbon | Nomascus concolor | 1,300–2,000[29] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Siau Island tarsier | Tarsius tumpara | 1,358–12,470[30] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Amongst the world's top 25 most endangered primates. | |||
Golden bamboo lemur | Hapalemur aureus | 1,479[31] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Red slender loris | Loris tardigradus | 1,500[32] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Sangihe tarsier | Tarsius sangirensis | 1,505–2,795[33] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Population estimates are considered inconclusive. | |||
Zanzibar red colobus | Procolobus kirkii | 2,000[34] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Maximum estimate. | |||
Black snub-nosed monkey | Rhinopithecus bieti | 2,000[35] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Maximum estimate; less than 1,000 mature organisms. | |||
François' langur | Trachypithecus francoisi | 2,000–2,100[36] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86 | EN | Estimate for mature individuals. | ||
Pagai Island macaque | Macaca pagensis | 2,100–3,700[37] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Numbered 15,000 in 1980. | |||
Indochinese gray langur | Trachypithecus crepusculus | 2,400–2,500[38] | EN | Estimate for mature individuals. | |||
Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur | Hapalemur alaotrensis | 2,500[39] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Estimates were for 2002 and showed a decline of over 50% in under ten years. | |||
Moor macaque | Macaca maura | 3,000–5,000[40] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Golden lion tamarin | Leontopithecus rosalia | 3,200[41] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Minimum estimate; wild only. In addition to these, there are about 490 golden lion tamarins in 150 zoos around the world.[42] | |||
Lion-tailed macaque | Macaca silenus | 4,000[43] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate is a maximum. | |||
Silvery gibbon | Hylobates moloch | 4,000–4,500[44] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Javan surili | Presbytis comata | 5,000–12,000[45] | VU | ||||
Javan fuscous leaf monkey | Presbytis fredericae | 5,000–17,000[46] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | VU | |||
Gee's golden langur | Trachypithecus geei | 6,000–6,500[47] | EN | Estimate is for mature individuals. | |||
Eastern gorilla | Gorilla beringei | 5,880 | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Approximately 5,000 eastern lowland gorillas (G. b. graueri) and 880 mountain gorillas (G. b. beringei).[48] | |||
Cotton-top tamarin | Saguinus oedipus | 6,000[49] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Estimate for mature organisms is 2,000. | |||
Golden-crowned sifaka | Propithecus tattersalli | 6,000–10,000[50] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Golden-headed lion tamarin | Leontopithecus chrysomelas | 6,000–15,000[51] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Muna-buton macaque | Macaca brunnescens | 6,221–18,435[52] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is from 2007. | |||
Pig-tailed langur | Simias concolor | 6,700–17,300[53] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Down from an estimated 26,000 in 1980. | |||
Gray-headed lemur | Eulemur cinereiceps | 7,265[54] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Maximum population estimate is 7,265±2,268. | |||
Sumatran orangutan | Pongo abelii | 7,300[55] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur | Microcebus berthae | 8,000[56] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate is a maximum. | |||
Natuna Island surili | Presbytis natunae | 10,000[57] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | ||||
Roosmalens' dwarf marmoset | Callibella humilis | 10,000[58] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | ||||
Siberut langur | Presbytis siberu | 11,014–27,439[59] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86 | EN | Population is for Siberut National Park. | ||
Barbary macaque | Macaca sylvanus | 15,000[60] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Population may be underestimated. | |||
Udzungwa red colobus | Procolobus gordonorum | 15,400[61] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Population may be overestimated. | |||
Northern giant mouse lemur | Mirza zaza | 16,500–17,500[62] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | ||||
Siberut macaque | Macaca siberu | 17,000–30,000[63] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Numbered 39,000 in 1980. | |||
Capped langur | Trachypithecus pileatus | 18,600[64] | VU | ||||
Nilgiri langur | Trachypithecus johnii | 20,000[65] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Maximum estimate; mature individuals number less than 10,000. | |||
Red-eared guenon | Cercopithecus erythrotis | 20,000[66] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Minimum estimate. | |||
Kloss's gibbon | Hylobates klossii | 20,000–25,000[67] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Bonobo | Pan paniscus | 29,500–50,000[68] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Population may be underestimated. | |||
Bornean orangutan | Pongo pygmaeus | 47,000–73,000[69] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | ||||
Heck's macaque | Macaca hecki | 100,000[70] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | VU | Little is known about its populations. Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||
Japanese macaque | Macaca fuscata | 114,431[71] | LC | [72] | |||
Tonkean macaque | Macaca tonkeana | 150,000[73] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | VU | |||
Western gorilla | Gorilla gorilla | 150,000–250,000[74] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Figures are considered an overestimation. | |||
Chimpanzee | Pan troglodytes | 172,700–299,700[75] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Booted macaque | Macaca ochreata | 180,000[76] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | VU | Estimate is from 2001. | ||
Gelada | Theropithecus gelada | 200,000[77] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | ||||
Müller's Bornean gibbon | Hylobates muelleri | 250,000–375,000[78] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | ||||
Crab-eating macaque | Macaca fascicularis | 3,000,000[79] | EN | Latest full estimation was made at the start of the 2000s. | |||
Senegal bushbaby | Galago senegalensis | 107,000,000[80] | LC[81] | ||||
Human | Homo sapiens | 8,009,000,000 |