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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
–    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%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Jahrgang, Siebter (1990). Aktuell '91 – Das Lexikon der Gegenwart, Harenberg Lexikon Verlag (1990). ISBN 3611001309.
  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 [dead link]
  3. ^ "GeoHive – World Population 1950–2050". Archived from the original on 2016-11-19. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  4. ^ Sally Frankental; Owen Sichone (1 January 2005). South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. ABC-CLIO. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-57607-674-3. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
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