Notes: These were the world's 10 most populous nations in 2005. Cumulatively their population was
3.9 billion, or 60% of the world total: 1.31 billion in China, 1.13 billion in India, and 1.44 billion across the other eight.
Between 1950 and 2005, Pakistan and Nigeria's populations more than quadrupled; Bangladesh, Brazil and India's more than
tripled; and China's more than doubled. The population increase in the US was 90%, in Japan it was 50%, and in Russia it was 40%.
Russia's population has been declining, though, since 1993, and Japan's may have peaked in 2007.
Notes: These were the world's 10 most populous nations in 2005. Cumulatively their population was 3.9 billion, or 60% of the world total: 1.31 billion in China, 1.13 billion in India, and 1.44 billion across the other eight.
Between 1950 and 2005, Pakistan and Nigeria's populations more than quadrupled; Bangladesh, Brazil and India's more than tripled; and China's more than doubled. The population increase in the US was 90%, in Japan it was 50%, and in Russia it was 40%. Russia's population has been declining, though, since 1993, and Japan's may have peaked in 2007.
Source of data: United Nations Population Division, "World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision".