Honest projection · estimated · by country

Population Added Today, by Country

Each country’s NET population change so far — births and arrivals minus deaths and departures, projected from its annual growth rate. A few countries are shrinking; theirs counts down.

Worldwide, that is about 213,898 per day, across every country. The ranked list below is each country’s own share of that flow — tap any country for its full breakdown.

Top 20 countries

  1. 1India35,384 / day
  2. 2Nigeria13,270 / day
  3. 3Pakistan10,385 / day
  4. 4Congo, Dem. Rep.9,701 / day
  5. 5Ethiopia9,341 / day
  6. 6United States9,092 / day
  7. 7Indonesia6,317 / day
  8. 8Bangladesh5,772 / day
  9. 9Egypt, Arab Rep.5,530 / day
  10. 10Tanzania5,395 / day
  11. 11China-4,747 / day
  12. 12Saudi Arabia4,476 / day
  13. 13Uganda3,771 / day
  14. 14Canada3,349 / day
  15. 15Yemen, Rep.3,314 / day
  16. 16Afghanistan3,312 / day
  17. 17Angola3,158 / day
  18. 18Mexico3,083 / day
  19. 19Kenya3,025 / day
  20. 20Syrian Arab Republic3,018 / day

About these numbers

These are honest projections, not a live census. Each country’s yearly figure is carried forward evenly over real elapsed time (peopleper second = the annual figure ÷ 31,556,952 seconds), the same method the headline counters on the Pulse wall use. The source is World Bank Open Data (CC-BY 4.0) (2024). The true value is known only to within a margin; this is the running estimate, and we label it as one.

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