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Least Populated Countries in the World

Q: What is the least populated country in the world?

Vatican City, with about 882 people, followed by Tuvalu (9,492), Nauru (12,025) and Palau (17,663).

Vatican City has the smallest population of any country — about 882 people. 13 countries have fewer than 100,000 inhabitants, most of them island states in the Pacific and the Caribbean or European microstates.

882

Fewest people: Vatican City

Countries under 100,000

Countries under 1 million

196

Countries ranked

Top 10 least populated countries

882

9,492

12,025

17,663

34,109

36,282

38,341

41,024

Saint Kitts and Nevis

46,922

Dominica

65,871

Smallest 5%
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Smallest 30%
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Largest 25%

All countries, least populated first

Rank	Country	Population	Area	People per km²	Continent
1	Vatican City	882	0.44 km²	2,005	Europe
2	Tuvalu	9,492	26 km²	365	Oceania
3	Nauru	12,025	21 km²	573	Oceania
4	Palau	17,663	459 km²	38	Oceania
5	San Marino	34,109	61 km²	559	Europe
6	Marshall Islands	36,282	181 km²	200	Oceania
7	Monaco	38,341	2.00 km²	19,171	Europe
8	Liechtenstein	41,024	160 km²	256	Europe
9	Saint Kitts and Nevis	46,922	261 km²	180	Americas
10	Dominica	65,871	751 km²	88	Americas
11	Andorra	82,904	468 km²	177	Europe
12	Antigua and Barbuda	94,209	443 km²	213	Americas
13	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	99,924	389 km²	257	Americas
14	Tonga	103,742	747 km²	145	Oceania
15	Micronesia	113,683	702 km²	162	Oceania
16	Grenada	117,303	344 km²	341	Americas
17	Seychelles	122,730	455 km²	270	Africa
18	Kiribati	136,488	811 km²	168	Oceania
19	Saint Lucia	180,149	616 km²	297	Americas
20	Samoa	219,306	2,831 km²	78	Oceania
21	Sao Tome and Principe	240,254	964 km²	249	Africa
22	Barbados	282,623	430 km²	657	Americas
23	Vanuatu	335,169	12,189 km²	27	Oceania
24	Iceland	392,404	103,000 km²	3.9	Europe
25	Bahamas	403,033	13,880 km²	40	Americas
26	Belize	422,924	22,966 km²	19	Americas
27	Brunei	466,330	5,765 km²	89	Asia
28	Cape Verde	527,326	4,033 km²	131	Africa
29	Maldives	529,676	298 km²	1,777	Asia
30	Malta	579,704	316 km²	1,835	Europe
31	Montenegro	623,129	13,812 km²	46	Europe
32	Suriname	639,850	163,820 km²	4.1	Americas
33	Luxembourg	686,970	2,586 km²	266	Europe
34	Bhutan	796,682	38,394 km²	21	Asia
35	Guyana	835,986	214,969 km²	4.2	Americas
36	Solomon Islands	838,645	28,896 km²	30	Oceania
37	Comoros	882,847	2,235 km²	395	Africa
38	Fiji	933,154	18,274 km²	51	Oceania
39	Djibouti	1,184,076	23,200 km²	51	Africa
40	Mauritius	1,243,741	2,040 km²	613	Africa
41	Eswatini	1,256,174	17,364 km²	73	Africa
42	Estonia	1,366,475	45,228 km²	32	Europe
43	Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,764	5,128 km²	267	Americas
44	Cyprus	1,370,754	9,251 km²	148	Europe
45	Timor-Leste	1,418,517	14,874 km²	95	Asia
46	Kosovo	1,576,876	10,887 km²	145	Europe
47	Bahrain	1,600,366	760 km²	2,106	Asia
48	North Macedonia	1,820,909	25,713 km²	72	Europe
49	Latvia	1,847,785	64,589 km²	30	Europe
50	Equatorial Guinea	1,938,431	28,051 km²	69	Africa
51	Slovenia	2,130,986	20,273 km²	106	Europe
52	Guinea-Bissau	2,249,515	36,125 km²	80	Africa
53	Albania	2,349,580	28,748 km²	86	Europe
54	Moldova	2,360,527	33,851 km²	72	Europe
55	Lesotho	2,363,325	30,355 km²	78	Africa
56	Botswana	2,562,122	581,730 km²	4.5	Africa
57	Gabon	2,593,130	267,667 km²	10	Africa
58	Gambia	2,822,093	11,300 km²	279	Africa
59	Jamaica	2,837,077	10,991 km²	262	Americas
60	Lithuania	2,888,774	65,300 km²	46	Europe
61	Qatar	2,972,215	11,586 km²	257	Asia
62	Armenia	3,086,700	29,743 km²	109	Europe
63	Namibia	3,092,816	824,292 km²	3.8	Africa
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,140,095	51,197 km²	61	Europe
65	Uruguay	3,384,688	176,215 km²	19	Americas
66	Mongolia	3,568,978	1,564,116 km²	2.3	Asia
67	Eritrea	3,607,003	117,600 km²	36	Africa
68	Croatia	3,876,200	56,594 km²	69	Europe
69	Georgia	3,935,766	69,700 km²	56	Europe
70	Panama	4,571,189	75,420 km²	61	Americas
71	Kuwait	4,865,298	17,818 km²	273	Asia
72	Costa Rica	5,152,950	51,100 km²	101	Americas
73	Mauritania	5,315,065	1,030,700 km²	5.2	Africa
74	New Zealand	5,324,700	268,838 km²	20	Oceania
75	Palestine	5,413,596	6,020 km²	899	Asia
76	Slovakia	5,413,813	49,035 km²	113	Europe
77	Ireland	5,484,367	70,273 km²	80	Europe
78	Oman	5,494,691	309,500 km²	18	Asia
79	Central African Republic	5,513,282	622,984 km²	8.8	Africa
80	Norway	5,610,870	323,802 km²	18	Europe
81	Finland	5,646,436	338,145 km²	19	Europe
82	Liberia	5,731,206	111,369 km²	60	Africa
83	Lebanon	5,849,421	10,400 km²	572	Asia
84	Denmark	6,009,169	43,094 km²	142	Europe
85	Singapore	6,111,175	719 km²	8,619	Asia
86	El Salvador	6,365,503	21,041 km²	307	Americas
87	Bulgaria	6,433,302	110,879 km²	59	Europe
88	Republic of the Congo	6,484,437	342,000 km²	19	Africa
89	Serbia	6,549,143	77,474 km²	85	Europe
90	Nicaragua	7,007,502	130,370 km²	58	Americas
91	Paraguay	7,013,078	406,752 km²	18	Americas
92	Kyrgyzstan	7,343,064	199,951 km²	38	Asia
93	Libya	7,458,555	1,759,540 km²	4.2	Africa
94	Turkmenistan	7,618,847	488,100 km²	16	Asia
95	Laos	7,873,046	236,800 km²	34	Asia
96	Togo	8,591,626	56,785 km²	158	Africa
97	Sierra Leone	8,819,794	71,740 km²	123	Africa
98	Belarus	9,085,991	207,600 km²	45	Europe
99	Switzerland	9,092,436	41,277 km²	227	Europe
100	Austria	9,208,163	83,871 km²	112	Europe
101	Hungary	9,514,251	93,028 km²	106	Europe
102	Israel	10,122,800	21,937 km²	471	Asia
103	Azerbaijan	10,246,996	86,600 km²	124	Europe
104	Greece	10,413,962	131,957 km²	80	Europe
105	Sweden	10,596,620	450,295 km²	26	Europe
106	Papua New Guinea	10,762,817	462,840 km²	24	Oceania
107	Tajikistan	10,786,734	144,100 km²	76	Asia
108	Portugal	10,804,871	92,090 km²	118	Europe
109	Czechia	10,886,878	78,867 km²	141	Europe
110	Cuba	10,937,203	110,860 km²	100	Americas
111	Honduras	11,005,850	112,090 km²	98	Americas
112	United Arab Emirates	11,513,149	83,600 km²	138	Asia
113	Dominican Republic	11,520,487	48,670 km²	238	Americas
114	Jordan	11,520,684	89,342 km²	130	Asia
115	Haiti	11,906,095	27,750 km²	432	Americas
116	Belgium	11,941,781	30,528 km²	394	Europe
117	South Sudan	12,188,788	644,329 km²	19	Africa
118	Tunisia	12,348,573	163,610 km²	79	Africa
119	Bolivia	12,581,843	1,098,581 km²	12	Americas
120	Burundi	14,390,003	27,830 km²	560	Africa
121	Rwanda	14,569,341	26,338 km²	591	Africa
122	Benin	14,814,460	112,622 km²	134	Africa
123	Guinea	15,099,727	245,857 km²	61	Africa
124	Zimbabwe	16,950,795	390,757 km²	44	Africa
125	Cambodia	17,847,982	181,035 km²	101	Asia
126	Netherlands	18,087,633	41,543 km²	534	Europe
127	Ecuador	18,289,896	283,561 km²	66	Americas
128	Guatemala	18,687,881	108,889 km²	174	Americas
129	Senegal	18,931,966	196,722 km²	98	Africa
130	Romania	19,020,271	238,391 km²	83	Europe
131	Somalia	19,654,739	637,657 km²	31	Africa
132	Chile	19,859,921	756,102 km²	27	Americas
133	Kazakhstan	20,843,754	2,724,900 km²	7.7	Asia
134	Chad	21,003,705	1,284,000 km²	17	Africa
135	Sri Lanka	21,756,000	65,610 km²	337	Asia
136	Zambia	21,913,874	752,618 km²	29	Africa
137	Malawi	22,216,120	118,484 km²	236	Africa
138	Burkina Faso	24,074,580	274,200 km²	88	Africa
139	Mali	25,198,821	1,240,192 km²	21	Africa
140	Syria	25,620,427	187,437 km²	138	Asia
141	North Korea	26,571,036	120,538 km²	221	Asia
142	Australia	27,614,411	7,741,220 km²	3.6	Oceania
143	Niger	27,917,831	1,267,000 km²	22	Africa
144	Venezuela	28,516,896	912,050 km²	32	Americas
145	Nepal	29,618,118	147,181 km²	207	Asia
146	Cameroon	29,879,337	475,440 km²	63	Africa
147	Côte d'Ivoire	32,711,547	322,463 km²	103	Africa
148	Madagascar	32,740,678	587,041 km²	56	Africa
149	Peru	34,576,665	1,285,216 km²	27	Americas
150	Ghana	35,064,272	238,533 km²	154	Africa
151	Mozambique	35,631,653	799,380 km²	45	Africa
152	Malaysia	35,977,838	329,847 km²	109	Asia
153	Poland	36,435,861	312,685 km²	120	Europe
154	Saudi Arabia	36,973,555	2,149,690 km²	17	Asia
155	Uzbekistan	37,053,428	447,400 km²	87	Asia
156	Morocco	38,430,770	716,550 km²	54	Africa
157	Ukraine	38,980,376	603,550 km²	67	Europe
158	Angola	39,040,039	1,246,700 km²	31	Africa
159	Canada	41,651,653	9,984,670 km²	4.6	Americas
160	Yemen	41,773,878	527,968 km²	79	Asia
161	Afghanistan	43,844,111	652,230 km²	67	Asia
162	Argentina	45,851,378	2,780,400 km²	17	Americas
163	Iraq	47,020,774	438,317 km²	108	Asia
164	Algeria	47,435,312	2,381,740 km²	20	Africa
165	Spain	49,355,143	505,370 km²	99	Europe
166	Uganda	51,384,894	241,038 km²	261	Africa
167	Sudan	51,662,147	1,861,484 km²	30	Africa
168	South Korea	51,684,564	99,720 km²	533	Asia
169	Colombia	53,425,635	1,138,910 km²	51	Americas
170	Myanmar	54,850,648	676,578 km²	84	Asia
171	Kenya	57,532,493	580,367 km²	101	Africa
172	Italy	58,915,656	301,340 km²	200	Europe
173	South Africa	64,747,319	1,219,090 km²	53	Africa
174	France	68,720,337	643,801 km²	107	Europe
175	United Kingdom	69,487,000	243,610 km²	287	Europe
176	Tanzania	70,545,865	947,300 km²	80	Africa
177	Thailand	71,619,863	513,120 km²	140	Asia
178	Germany	83,491,249	357,022 km²	239	Europe
179	Türkiye	85,878,556	783,562 km²	112	Asia
180	Iran	92,417,681	1,648,195 km²	60	Asia
181	Vietnam	101,598,527	331,210 km²	328	Asia
182	DR Congo	112,832,473	2,344,858 km²	50	Africa
183	Philippines	116,786,962	300,000 km²	392	Asia
184	Egypt	118,365,995	1,001,450 km²	119	Africa
185	Japan	123,366,734	377,915 km²	338	Asia
186	Mexico	131,946,900	1,964,375 km²	68	Americas
187	Ethiopia	135,472,051	1,104,300 km²	124	Africa
188	Russia	143,513,328	17,098,242 km²	8.8	Europe
189	Bangladesh	175,686,899	148,460 km²	1,350	Asia
190	Brazil	212,812,405	8,515,770 km²	25	Americas
191	Nigeria	237,527,782	923,768 km²	261	Africa
192	Pakistan	255,219,554	796,095 km²	331	Asia
193	Indonesia	285,721,236	1,904,569 km²	158	Asia
194	United States	341,784,857	9,833,517 km²	37	Americas
195	China	1,406,585,000	9,596,960 km²	151	Asia
196	India	1,463,865,525	3,287,263 km²	492	Asia

Data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0); Vatican City: Holy See estimate.

The 20 least populated countries

Vatican City — 882
Tuvalu — 9,492
Nauru — 12,025
Palau — 17,663
San Marino — 34,109
Marshall Islands — 36,282
Monaco — 38,341
Liechtenstein — 41,024
Saint Kitts and Nevis — 46,922
Dominica — 65,871
Andorra — 82,904
Antigua and Barbuda — 94,209
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — 99,924
Tonga — 103,742
Micronesia — 113,683
Grenada — 117,303
Seychelles — 122,730
Kiribati — 136,488
Saint Lucia — 180,149
Samoa — 219,306

Least populated country on each continent

Europe: Vatican City — 882
Oceania: Tuvalu — 9,492
Americas: Saint Kitts and Nevis — 46,922
Africa: Seychelles — 122,730
Asia: Brunei — 466,330

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Frequently asked questions

What is the least populated country in the world?

Vatican City, with about 882 people, followed by Tuvalu (9,492), Nauru (12,025) and Palau (17,663).

What is the least populated country in Europe?

Vatican City (882).

What is the least populated country in Africa?

Seychelles (122,730).

What is the most populated country?

India, followed by China — see countries by population.