POPULATION

DEFINITION

• POPULATION is defined as “the number of people living together in the same place”
• For Example:A city’s POPULATION is calculated by the number of people living in that city.These peoples are called “RESIDENTS”.
• POPULATION is usually determined by a process called “CENSUS”
• CENSUS is the process of collecting,Analyzing, structuring and publishing of population.
• If there is no population,a place cannot be called a village or town or city or even a country.

POPULATION BY COUNTRY

• Below is the list of countries by population from high to low

NUMBER BY POPULATION	COUNTRY
1	CHINA
2	INDIA
3	UNITED STATES
4	INDONESIA
5	PAKISTAN
6	BRAZIL
7	NIGERIA
8	BANGLADESH
9	RUSSIA
10	MEXICO
11	JAPAN
12	EGYPT
13	IRAN
14	GERMANY
15	THAILAND
16	UNITED KINGDOM
17	FRANCE
18	ITALY
19	SOUTH AFRICA
20	SOUTH KOREA
21	SPAIN
22	ARGENTINA
23	IRAQ
24	CANADA
25	MALAYSIA
26	NEPAL
27	AUSTRALIA
28	SRILANKA
29	PORTUGAL

NOTE

• 11th JULY is observed as the “WORLD POPULATION DAY”
• The current world population is 7.8 BILLION PEOPLE.
• CHINA is the most populated country constituting of 143.932 CRORE PEOPLE.
• INDIA is the second most populated country constituting of 138.729 CRORE PEOPLE.
• VATICAN CITY has the smallest population in the WORLD constituting of population less than 1,000 people.
• 50.4% of the World’s population is MALE and 49.6% Of the World’s population is FEMALE.