List of most populous nations by 2025

The United Nations Population Fund has calculated, based on current trends, the future population of the world's countries. These figures can easily change as events such as wars, diseases, or dramatic demographic changes would all greatly affect the results. The study projected the world population in 2025 to be 8.039 billion.

Rank	Current Rank	Change	Country	Projected Population (millions)	Current Population (millions)	Population change (per cent)
1	1	=	People's Republic of China	1480.4	1294	+14.4%
2	2	=	India	1330.2	1049	+26.8%
3	3	=	United States	332.5	294	+13.1%
4	4	=	Indonesia	275.2	234	+17.6%
5	6	+1	Pakistan	268.9	151	+78.1%
6	9	+3	Nigeria	238.4	133	+79.2%
7	5	-2	Brazil	216.6	182	+19.0%
8	8	=	Bangladesh	180.0	138	+30.4%
9	16	+7	Ethiopia	136.3	67	+103.4%
10	7	-3	Russia	131.4	145	-9.4%
11	11	=	Mexico	130.2	105	+24.0%
12	18	+6	Iran	128.3	68	+88.7%
13	10	-3	Japan	121.3	127	-4.5%
14	14	=	Vietnam	110.1	82	+34.2%
15	23	+8	Dem. Rep. of Congo	105.9	57	+85.7%
16	12	-4	Philippines	105.2	85	+23.7%
17	15	-2	Egypt	95.8	75	+27.7%
18	17	-1	Turkey	85.8	68	+26.1%
19	13	-6	Germany	80.9	82	-1.3%
20	26	+6	South Africa	71.6	43	+66.51%

List of most populous nations by 2025

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