28/06/2024, 16:41 World population - Wikipedia

Population by region (2020 estimates)

Density Population
Region Most populous country Most populous city (metropolitan area)
(inhabitants/km2) (millions)

13,515,000 – Tokyo Metropolis

Asia 104.1 4,641 1,439,090,595 – India
(37,400,000 – Greater Tokyo Area)

9,500,000 – Cairo
Africa 44.4 1,340 211,401,000 – Nigeria
(20,076,000 – Greater Cairo)

146,171,000 – Russia, approx. 110 million in 13,200,000 – Moscow

Europe 73.4 747
Europe (20,004,000 – Moscow metropolitan area)

12,252,000 – São Paulo City

Latin America 24.1 653 214,103,000 – Brazil
(21,650,000 – São Paulo Metro Area)

8,804,000 – New York City

Northern
14.9 368 332,909,000 – United States (23,582,649 – New York metropolitan
America[note 1]
area[89])

Oceania 5 42 25,917,000 – Australia 5,367,000 – Sydney

Antarctica ~0 0.004[87] N/A[note 2] 1,258 – McMurdo Station

Largest populations by country

Cartogram showing the distribution of the world

population, each square represents half a million
people.

choropleth showing Population density (people

per square kilometre) by country or U.S. state in
2019

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