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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 [1] 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.
Rank | Country | Population 1989 estimate | Percentage of world's population |
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– | World population | 5,230,452,409 [3] | |
1 | China | 1,110,000,000 | 21.2% |
2 | India | 814,000,000 | 15.5% |
3 | Soviet Union Republics
| 287,800,000 | 5.5% |
4 | United States | 250,140,000 | 4.7% |
5 | Indonesia | 175,000,000 | 3.3% |
6 | Brazil | 147,500,000 | 2.8% |
7 | Japan | 123,000,000 | 2.3% |
8 | Bangladesh | 112,800,000 | 2.1% |
9 | Pakistan | 107,000,000 | 2.0% |
10 | Nigeria | 92,800,000 | 1.8% |
11 | Mexico | 84,900,000 | 1.6% |
12 | Vietnam | 64,400,000 | 1.2% |
13 | United Kingdom Overseas territories
| 62,800,000 | 1.2% |
14 | West Germany | 62,000,000 | 1.1% |
15 | Philippines | 59,200,000 | 1.1% |
16 | Italy | 57,500,000 | 1.0% |
17 | France | 56,000,000 | 1.0% |
18 | Turkey | 55,400,000 | 1.0% |
19 | Egypt | 55,000,000 | 1.0% |
20 | Thailand | 55,000,000 | 1.0% |
21 | Iran | 55,000,000 | 1.0% |
22 | Ethiopia | 47,700,000 | 0.9% |
23 | South Korea | 42,400,000 | 0.8% |
24 | Myanmar | 39,900,000 | 0.7% |
25 | Spain | 39,200,000 | 0.7% |
26 | Poland | 37,900,000 | 0.7% |
27 | South Africa bantustans [4]
| 37,360,000 | 0.7% |
28 | Zaire | 34,000,000 | 0.6% |
29 | Argentina | 32,400,000 | 0.6% |
30 | Colombia | 32,300,000 | 0.6% |
31 | Canada | 26,200,000 | 0.5% |
32 | Morocco | 25,400,000 | 0.4% |
33 | Sudan | 25,000,000 | 0.4% |
34 | Tanzania | 24,700,000 | 0.4% |
35 | Algeria | 24,700,000 | 0.4% |
36 | Yugoslavia Republics
| 23,800,000 | 0.4% |
37 | Kenya | 23,700,000 | 0.4% |
38 | Romania | 23,200,000 | 0.4% |
39 | North Korea | 22,000,000 | 0.4% |
40 | Peru | 21,800,000 | 0.4% |
41 | Taiwan | 20,100,000 | 0.3% |
42 | Venezuela | 19,400,000 | 0.3% |
43 | Nepal | 18,800,000 | 0.3% |
44 | Iraq | 17,600,000 | 0.3% |
45 | Sri Lanka | 17,500,000 | 0.3% |
46 | Malaysia | 17,400,000 | 0.3% |
47 | Uganda | 16,800,000 | 0.3% |
48 | Australia | 16,800,000 | 0.3% |
49 | East Germany | 16,400,000 | 0.3% |
50 | Czechoslovakia | 15,700,000 | 0.3% |
51 | Afghanistan | 15,500,000 | 0.2% |
52 | Mozambique | 15,300,000 | 0.2% |
53 | Netherlands | 14,900,000 | 0.2% |
54 | Ghana | 14,100,000 | 0.2% |
55 | Saudi Arabia | 12,700,000 | 0.2% |
56 | Chile | 12,700,000 | 0.2% |
57 | Syria | 12,200,000 | 0.2% |
58 | Ivory Coast | 11,800,000 | 0.2% |
59 | Madagascar | 11,100,000 | 0.2% |
60 | Cameroon | 10,900,000 | 0.2% |
61 | Hungary | 10,600,000 | 0.2% |
62 | Cuba | 10,600,000 | 0.2% |
63 | Ecuador | 10,500,000 | 0.2% |
64 | Portugal Overseas territories
| 10,300,000 | 0.19% |
65 | Greece | 10,000,000 | 0.19% |
66 | Belgium | 9,900,000 | 0.18% |
67 | Zimbabwe | 9,100,000 | 0.17% |
68 | Bulgaria | 9,000,000 | 0.17% |
69 | Angola | 9,000,000 | 0.17% |
70 | Guatemala | 8,900,000 | 0.17% |
71 | Somalia | 8,600,000 | 0.16% |
72 | Sweden | 8,500,000 | 0.16% |
73 | North Yemen | 8,500,000 | 0.16% |
74 | Mali | 8,500,000 | 0.16% |
75 | Malawi | 8,100,000 | 0.15% |
76 | Tunisia | 8,000,000 | 0.15% |
77 | Cambodia | 7,900,000 | 0.15% |
78 | Zambia | 7,800,000 | 0.14% |
79 | Senegal | 7,700,000 | 0.14% |
80 | Burkina Faso | 7,700,000 | 0.14% |
81 | Austria | 7,600,000 | 0.14% |
82 | Niger | 7,400,000 | 0.14% |
83 | Rwanda | 7,300,000 | 0.13% |
84 | Dominican Republic | 7,300,000 | 0.13% |
85 | Bolivia | 7,000,000 | 0.13% |
86 | Switzerland | 6,700,000 | 0.12% |
87 | Haiti | 6,200,000 | 0.11% |
88 | Guinea | 6,100,000 | 0.11% |
89 | Chad | 5,700,000 | 0.10% |
90 | El Salvador | 5,500,000 | 0.10% |
91 | Burundi | 5,200,000 | 0.099% |
92 | Honduras | 5,100,000 | 0.097% |
93 | Denmark | 5,100,000 | 0.097% |
94 | Finland | 4,970,000 | 0.095% |
95 | People's Republic of Benin | 4,600,000 | 0.087% |
96 | Sierra Leone | 4,300,000 | 0.082% |
97 | Libya | 4,300,000 | 0.082% |
98 | Norway | 4,200,000 | 0.080% |
99 | Paraguay | 4,000,000 | 0.076% |
100 | Laos | 3,900,000 | 0.074% |
101 | Jordan | 3,900,000 | 0.074% |
102 | Nicaragua | 3,700,000 | 0.070% |
103 | Ireland | 3,700,000 | 0.070% |
104 | Papua New Guinea | 3,600,000 | 0.068% |
105 | New Zealand | 3,400,000 | 0.065% |
106 | Togo | 3,200,000 | 0.061% |
107 | Albania | 3,200,000 | 0.061% |
108 | Central African Republic | 3,000,000 | 0.057% |
109 | Uruguay | 3,000,000 | 0.057% |
110 | Lebanon | 2,900,000 | 0.055% |
111 | Costa Rica | 2,900,000 | 0.055% |
112 | Singapore | 2,650,000 | 0.050% |
113 | Liberia | 2,500,000 | 0.047% |
114 | Israel | 2,500,000 | 0.047% |
115 | South Yemen | 2,500,000 | |
116 | Jamaica | 2,400,000 | 0.045% |
117 | Panama | 2,300,000 | 0.043% |
118 | Mongolia | 2,100,000 | 0.040% |
119 | Palestine | 2,000,000 | 0.038% |
120 | People's Republic of the Congo | 2,000,000 | 0.038% |
121 | Kuwait | 1,970,000 | 0.037% |
122 | Mauritania | 1,800,000 | 0.034% |
123 | Lesotho | 1,700,000 | 0.032% |
124 | United Arab Emirates | 1,500,000 | 0.028% |
125 | Bhutan | 1,500,000 | 0.028% |
126 | Oman | 1,400,000 | 0.026% |
127 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,300,000 | 0.024% |
128 | Botswana | 1,200,000 | 0.022% |
129 | Gabon | 1,100,000 | 0.021% |
130 | Mauritius | 1,050,000 | 0.020% |
131 | Guinea-Bissau | 929,000 | 0.017% |
132 | The Gambia | 840,000 | 0.016% |
133 | Fiji | 758,000 | 0.014% |
134 | Swaziland | 757,000 | 0.014% |
135 | Guyana | 730,000 | 0.014% |
136 | Cyprus | 696,000 | 0.013% |
137 | Bahrain | 483,000 | 0.0092% |
138 | Comoros | 460,000 | 0.0087% |
139 | Suriname | 400,000 | 0.0076% |
140 | Equatorial Guinea | 389,000 | 0.0074% |
141 | Djibouti | 383,000 | 0.0073% |
142 | Luxembourg | 377,000 | 0.0072% |
143 | Malta | 358,000 | 0.0068% |
144 | Qatar | 342,000 | 0.0065% |
145 | Cape Verde | 337,000 | 0.0064% |
146 | Solomon Islands | 314,000 | 0.0060% |
147 | Brunei | 267,000 | 0.0051% |
148 | Barbados | 256,000 | 0.0048% |
149 | Iceland | 251,000 | 0.0047% |
150 | Bahamas | 247,000 | 0.0047% |
151 | Maldives | 202,000 | 0.0038% |
152 | Belize | 180,000 | 0.0034% |
153 | Samoa | 169,000 | 0.0032% |
# | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | 169,000 | 0.0032% |
154 | Vanuatu | 150,000 | 0.0028% |
155 | Saint Lucia | 128,000 | 0.0024% |
156 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 114,000 | 0.0021% |
157 | Tonga | 108,000 | 0.0020% |
158 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 108,000 | 0.0020% |
159 | Grenada | 100,000 | 0.0019% |
160 | Antigua and Barbuda | 86,000 | 0.0016% |
161 | Dominica | 76,000 | 0.0014% |
162 | Seychelles | 70,000 | 0.0013% |
163 | Kiribati | 67,000 | 0.0012% |
164 | Andorra | 49,000 | 0.00093% |
165 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 40,000 | 0.00076% |
166 | Liechtenstein | 30,000 | 0.00057% |
167 | Monaco | 29,000 | 0.00055% |
168 | San Marino | 23,000 | 0.00043% |
169 | Tuvalu | 9,000 | 0.00017% |
170 | Nauru | 8,100 | 0.00015% |
171 | Vatican City | 1,000 | 0.000019% |
After registering steady increases during the Soviet period, the population of Armenia declined from its peak value of 3.633 million in 1992 to 2.986 million in 2017.
The demographics of North Korea are determined through national censuses and international estimates. The Central Bureau of Statistics of North Korea conducted the most recent census in 2008, where the population reached 24 million inhabitants. The population density is 199.54 inhabitants per square kilometre, and the 2014 estimated life expectancy is 69.81 years. In 1980, the population rose at a near consistent, but low, rate. Since 2000, North Korea's birth rate has exceeded its death rate; the natural growth is positive. In terms of age structure, the population is dominated by the 15–64-year-old segment (68.09%). The median age of the population is 32.9 years, and the gender ratio is 0.95 males to 1.00 female. Since the early 1990s, the birth rate has been fairly stable, with an average of 2 children per woman, down from an average of 3 in the early 1980s.
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