The demographic status of the world's population

country capital area sq.km. 2008-07-01 est.
Afghanistan Kabul 647,500 32,738,376
Albania Tirana 28,748 3,619,778
Algeria Algiers 2,381,740 33,769,669
American Samoa Pago Pago 199 57,496
Andorra Andorra la Vella 468 72,413
Angola Luanda 1,246,700 12,531,357
Anguilla The Valley 102 14,108
Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's 443 69,842
Argentina Buenos Aires 2,766,890 40,677,348
Armenia Yerevan 29,800 2,968,586
Aruba Oranjestad 193 101,541
Australia Canberra 7,686,850 20,600,856
Austria Vienna 83,870 8,205,533
Azerbaijan Baku 86,600 8,177,717
Bahamas, The Nassau 13,940 307,451
Bahrain Manama 665 718,306
Bangladesh Dhaka 144,000 153,546,901
Barbados Bridgetown 431 281,968
Belarus Minsk 207,600 9,685,768
Belgium Brussels 30,528 10,403,951
Belize Belmopan 22,966 301,270
Benin Porto-Novo 112,620 8,294,941
Bermuda Hamilton 53 66,536
Bhutan Thimphu 47,000 682,321
Bolivia Sucre 1,098,580 9,247,816
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 51,129 4,590,310
Botswana Gaborone 600,370 1,842,323
Brazil Brasilia 8,511,965 191,908,598
British Virgin Islands Road Town 153 24,004
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 5,770 381,371
Bulgaria Sofia 110,910 7,262,675
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 274,200 15,264,735
Burma (Myanmar) Pyinmana 678,500 47,758,181
Burundi Bujumbura 27,830 8,691,005
Cambodia Phnom Penh 181,040 14,241,640
Cameroon Yaounde 475,440 18,467,692
Canada Ottawa 9,984,670 33,212,696
Cape Verde Praia 4,033 426,998
Cayman Islands George Town 262 47,862
Central African Republic Bangui 622,984 4,434,873
Chad N'Djamena 1,284,000 10,111,337
Chile Santiago 756,950 16,454,143
China Beijing 9,596,960 1,330,044,605
China, Hong Kong SAR Victoria 1,092 7,018,636
China, Macao SAR Macau 28 460,823
Christmas Island The Settlement 135 1,402
Cocos Islands West Island 14 596
Colombia Bogota 1,138,910 45,013,674
Comoros Moroni 2,170 731,775
Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Kinshasa 2,345,410 66,514,506
Congo, Rep. of the Brazzaville 342,000 3,903,318
Cook Islands Avarua 237 21,750
Costa Rica San Jose 51,100 4,195,914
Cote d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 322,460 18,373,060
Croatia Zagreb 56,542 4,491,543
Cuba Havana 110,860 11,423,952
Cyprus Nicosia 9,250 792,604
Czech Republic Prague 78,866 10,220,911
Denmark Copenhagen 43,094 5,484,723
Djibouti Djibouti 23,000 506,221
Dominica Roseau 754 72,514
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 48,730 9,507,133
Ecuador Quito 283,560 13,927,650
Egypt Cairo 1,001,450 81,713,517
El Salvador San Salvador 21,040 7,066,403
Equatorial Guinea Malabo 28,051 616,459
Eritrea Asmara 121,320 5,028,475
Estonia Tallinn 45,226 1,307,605
Ethiopia Addis Ababa 1,127,127 78,254,090
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Stanley 12,173 3,140
Faroe Islands Torshavn 1,399 48,668
Fiji Suva 18,270 931,741
Finland Helsinki 338,145 5,244,749
France Paris 643,427 64,057,790
French Polynesia Papeete 4,167 283,019
Gabon Libreville 267,667 1,485,832
Gambia, The Banjul 11,300 1,735,464
Georgia T'bilisi 69,700 4,630,841
Germany Berlin 357,021 82,369,548
Ghana Accra 239,460 23,382,848
Gibraltar Gibraltar 7 28,002
Greece Athens 131,940 10,722,816
Greenland Nuuk 2,166,086 56,326
Grenada Saint George's 344 90,343
Guam Hagatna 541 175,877
Guatemala Guatemala 108,890 13,002,206
Guernsey Saint Peter Port 78 65,726
Guinea Conakry 245,857 10,211,437
Guinea-Bissau Bissau 36,120 1,503,182
Guyana Georgetown 214,970 770,794
Haiti Port-au-Prince 27,750 8,924,553
Holy See (Vatican City) Vatican City 0 824
Honduras Tegucigalpa 112,090 7,639,327
Hungary Budapest 93,030 9,930,915
Iceland Reykjavik 103,000 304,367
India New Delhi 3,287,590 1,147,995,898
Indonesia Jakarta 1,919,440 237,512,355
Iran Tehran 1,648,000 65,875,223
Iraq Baghdad 437,072 28,221,181
Ireland Dublin 70,280 4,156,119
Israel Jerusalem 20,770 7,112,359
Italy Rome 301,230 58,145,321
Jamaica Kingston 10,991 2,804,332
Japan Tokyo 377,835 127,288,419
Jersey Saint Helier 116 91,533
Jordan Amman 92,300 6,198,677
Kazakhstan Astana 2,717,300 15,340,533
Kenya Nairobi 582,650 37,953,838
Kiribati Tarawa 811 110,356
Korea, North P'yongyang 120,540 23,479,089
Korea, South Seoul 98,480 49,232,844
Kosovo Pristina 10,887 2,126,708
Kuwait Kuwait 17,820 2,596,799
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 198,500 5,356,869
Laos Vientiane 236,800 6,677,534
Latvia Riga 64,589 2,245,423
Lebanon Beirut 10,400 3,971,941
Lesotho Maseru 30,355 2,128,180
Liberia Monrovia 111,370 3,334,587
Libya Tripoli 1,759,540 6,173,579
Liechtenstein Vaduz 160 34,498
Lithuania Vilnius 65,200 3,565,205
Luxembourg Luxembourg 2,586 486,006
Macedonia Skopje 25,333 2,061,315
Madagascar Antananarivo 587,040 20,042,551
Malawi Lilongwe 118,480 13,931,831
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 329,750 25,274,133
Maldives Male 300 379,174
Mali Bamako 1,240,000 12,324,029
Malta Valletta 316 403,532
Man, Isle of Douglas 572 76,220
Marshall Islands Majuro 181 63,174
Mauritania Nouakchott 1,030,700 3,364,940
Mauritius Port Louis 2,040 1,274,189
Mayotte Mamoutzou 374 216,306
Mexico Mexico 1,972,550 109,955,400
Micronesia, Federated States of Palikir 702 107,665
Moldova Chisinau 33,843 4,324,450
Monaco Monaco 2 32,796
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 1,564,116 2,996,081
Montenegro Podgorica 14,026 678,177
Montserrat Plymouth ¹ 102 9,638
Morocco Rabat 446,550 34,343,219
Mozambique Maputo 801,590 21,284,701
Namibia Windhoek 825,418 2,088,669
Nauru no official capital 21 13,770
Nepal Kathmandu 147,181 29,519,114
Netherlands Amsterdam 41,526 16,645,313
Netherlands Antilles Willemstad 960 225,369
New Caledonia Noumea 19,060 224,824
New Zealand Wellington 268,680 4,173,460
Nicaragua Managua 129,494 5,785,846
Niger Niamey 1,267,000 13,272,679
Nigeria Abuja 923,768 138,283,240
Niue Alofi 260 1,444
Norfolk Island Kingston 35 2,128
Northern Mariana Islands Saipan 477 86,616
Norway Oslo 323,802 4,644,457
Oman Muscat 212,460 3,311,640
Pakistan Islamabad 803,940 167,762,040
Palau Melekeok 458 21,093
Palestinian Territory, Occupied Ramallah 6,220 4,149,173
Panama Panama 78,200 3,292,693
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 462,840 5,931,769
Paraguay Asuncion 406,750 6,831,306
Peru Lima 1,285,220 29,180,899
Philippines Manila 300,000 92,681,453
Pitcairn Islands Adamstown 47 48
Poland Warsaw 312,685 38,500,696
Portugal Lisbon 92,391 10,676,910
Puerto Rico San Juan 13,790 3,958,128
Qatar Doha 11,437 928,635
Romania Bucharest 237,500 22,246,862
Russia Moscow 17,075,200 140,702,094
Rwanda Kigali 26,338 10,186,063
Saint Barthelemy Gustavia 21 7,492
Saint Helena Jamestown 413 7,601
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 261 39,619
Saint Lucia Castries 616 172,884
Saint Martin Marigot 54 29,376
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre 242 7,044
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 389 118,432
Samoa Apia 2,944 217,083
San Marino San Marino 61 29,973
Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome 1,001 206,178
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 2,149,690 28,161,417
Senegal Dakar 196,190 12,853,259
Serbia Belgrade 77,474 8,032,338
Seychelles Victoria 455 82,247
Sierra Leone Freetown 71,740 6,294,774
Singapore Singapore 693 4,608,167
Slovakia Bratislava 48,845 5,455,407
Slovenia Ljubljana 20,273 2,007,711
Solomon Islands Honiara 28,450 581,318
Somalia Mogadishu 637,657 9,558,666
South Africa Pretoria ² 1,219,912 43,786,115
Spain Madrid 504,782 40,491,051
Sri Lanka Colombo 65,610 21,128,773
Sudan Khartoum 2,505,810 40,218,455
Suriname Paramaribo 163,270 475,996
Svalbard Longyearbyen 61,020 2,165
Swaziland Mbabane ³ 17,363 1,128,814
Sweden Stockholm 449,964 9,045,389
Switzerland Bern 41,290 7,581,520
Syria Damascus 185,180 19,747,586
Taiwan Taipei 35,980 22,920,946
Tajikistan Dushanbe 143,100 7,211,884
Tanzania Dar es Salaam 945,087 40,213,162
Thailand Bangkok 514,000 65,493,298
Timor-Leste (East-Timor) Dili 15,007 1,108,777
Togo Lome 56,785 5,858,673
Tokelau none 10 1,433
Tonga Nuku'alofa 748 119,009
Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain 5,128 1,047,366
Tunisia Tunis 163,610 10,383,577
Turkey Ankara 780,580 71,892,807
Turkmenistan Ashgabat 488,100 5,179,571
Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Town 430 22,352
Tuvalu Fongafale 26 12,177
Uganda Kampala 236,040 31,367,972
Ukraine Kiev 603,700 45,994,287
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 83,600 4,621,399
United Kingdom London 244,820 60,943,912
United States of America Washington DC 9,826,630 303,824,646
Uruguay Montevideo 176,220 3,477,778
Uzbekistan Tashkent 447,400 28,268,440
Vanuatu Port-Vila 12,200 215,446
Venezuela Caracas 912,050 26,414,815
Vietnam Hanoi 329,560 86,116,559
Virgin Islands, U.S. Charlotte Amalie 1,910 108,210
Wallis and Futuna Mata-Utu 274 16,448
Western Sahara none 266,000 393,831
Yemen Sanaa 527,970 23,013,376
Zambia Lusaka 752,614 11,669,534
Zimbabwe Harare 390,580 12,382,920
World   510,072,000 6,677,563,921
source: "The World Factbook 2007-2008", CIA.
note: .1: due to a volcanic eruption in 1997 an interim government seat is established at Brades.
note: .2: Pretoria is administrative capital; Cape Town is legislative capital; Bloemfontein is judicial capital.
note: .3: Mbabane is administrative capital; Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital.
note: Western Sahara is virtually annexed by Morocco.
note: Kosovo has separated from Serbia in 2008.