6. The 10 countries with the largest total population:
Rank
Country / Territory
Population
Date
% of world
population
Source
1
China[73]
1,351,690,000
June 30, 2012
19.2%
[74]
2
India
1,203,710,000
March 2011
17%
[75]
3
United States
313,827,000
June 30, 2012
4.47%
[76]
4
Indonesia
238,400,000
May 2010
3.33%
[77]
5
Brazil
196,622,000
June 30, 2012
2.8%
[78]
6
Pakistan
179,973,000
June 30, 2012
2.56%
[79]
7
Nigeria
170,123,740
July 2012
2.42%
[80]
8
Bangladesh
161,083,804
July 2012
2.29%
[81]
9
Russia
141,927,297
January 1, 2010
2.021%
[82]
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Japan
127,610,000
May 1, 2012
1.82%
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12. METHODS OF POPULATION CONTROL
encouraging family planning
spread immigration, emigration and urbanisation
improving farming
stimulating small medium enterprises
13. “Population growth is
based on the
geometrical progression
and food growth is
based on the
arithmetical
progression” - Thomas
Robert Malthus -