This document provides population data from 1850 to 2010 for various countries and regions of the world. It lists the country/region and the reported population for each decade. The populations range from a few hundred to millions, with the largest being China, India, United States and Europe (total). The data comes from official census reports from each country.

1. 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Europe (Total) 922849 667200 414970 2871032 472880
Albania 103 719 1313 15840
Austria 109 1692 2737 4743 27193 71427 190246 126739 127169 145106 134400 95631 57135 26160 12072 6700 3879
Belarus 11187 12714
Belgium 269 556 626 1221 2260 3467 3854 3888 2927 2643
Bohemia 1487 8093 8093 15055
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2020 1426
Bulgaria 308 578 1104 4777
Bulgaria, Serbia, & Montenegro 540 670
Croatia 7816
Czechoslovakia 26437 35318 26884 35050 33756 25761 16320 11825 8628 5972
Denmark 612 682 1096 1495 5621 7997 9092 11096 8845 8857 4611 1065 806
England 27082 24452 29064 35907 68836 78483 71613 78237 63115 58259 10731
England and Wales 23671 27977 69357
Estonia 1340 3719 752
Finland 3783 7410 10240 13224 11245 10868 8200 5386 967
France 4990 8074 8265 9910 10535 14755 18293 23085 23400 19696 24374 18877 21997 11609 12386 15092
German States/Germany 56141 118292 151203 163483 210723 822343 278137 194155 237588 224749 220520 152192 141097 60760 38259 27708 19841
Gibraltar 32
Great Britain 2 234574 337938 48306 68836 103028 80416 118441 97703 80019 61018
Great Britain (not spec.) 64
Greece 19 43 69 263 1309 8038 21455 27182 28593 32082 32250 41882 41760 31894 29805 23030
Greenland 7
Hungary 521 4101 12222 31516 76627 64393 59883 62588 57332 52305 38563 22660 14631 11144 7806
Iceland 86 345
Ireland 133730 203740 201990 198585 190418 275102 252672 203450 192810 181831 164887 134796 82813 42360 31252 22604 14122
Italy 708 1464 2794 12223 39951 145433 340770 390832 440250 409489 392379 345489 271077 156280 98868 72481 535333
Latvia 5172 5317 8655 1227 2018
Lithuania 7475 15005 15089 15367 13531 8880 1608 2093
Luxembourg 19 105 20 43 94 302 323 340 466
Macedonia 1444
Malta 4 7
Moldova 5107
Netherlands 1439 1237 1860 1384 2608 4193 4750 5335 5608 7525 4635 2275 2455 2283
Norway 251 372 893 1575 11887 22281 24500 46750 30750 30419 24783 14147 2741 1164
Poland 1566 2393 9020 6759 37873 145679 238339 194163 194960 188492 129770 77160 61265 65999 55176
Portugal 144 63 76 277 431 1088 2462 2676 3964 3234 2718 2571
Romania 10499 33586 38139 46750 40655 30769 27085 23511 17560 17585 19280 12807
Russia/USSR 467 1151 4551 48790 155201 484193 479800 442432 395696 329911 222854 124303 78430 80815 81408 68553
Sardinia 40
Scotland 7660 9204 7333 8683 11242 19836 23123 21545 38535 33292 35763 30229 2370
Spain 303 416 423 609 887 1491 3359 11140 14183 13583 12183 12193 8438 7836 8421
Sweden 606 1558 3194 7069 28820 34952 33703 37267 28881 26611 11677 9075 1961 2421 3129
Switzerland 1771 2178 4545 4953 8371 10452 9233 9895 8551 7151 5819 28740 3131
Turkey 25 38 77 266 1401 9855 4469 15115 17663 13213 7355 9026 10247
Ukraine 69727 56879
United Kingdom 78409 34520 288740 28996 34134
Wales 803 584 929 965 1686 1779 1510 1903 1296 1478
Yugoslavia 5271 6450 6475 7477 13954 18821 22300 21926 19535 13870
Europe (Other) 11 17 63 3664 223 229 425 2669 5757 48307 4479 41029 51738 1077
Middle East 15746 74582
Afghanistan 3401 4833 3652
Armenia 3779 3563 1507 1021
Iran 7372 7112 638
Iraq 1317 1272 518
Israel 7556 19876 21288 24186
Jordan 1406 1407 3205
Kazakhstan 3118
Kuwait 1299
Lebanon 1433 4369 5154 6753
Palestine 913 2631
Palestine-Syria 8696 8958
Saudi Arabia 604
Syria 4485 6065 2774 2758 5191 3041
Uzbekistan 18253
Yemen 8564
Middle East (Other) 5239 15746 12496
Asia (Total-incl. Middle East) 34847 116493 217680 404342 686599 828540
Bangladesh 1280 8695 42865 53604
Burma 2321 6050
Cambodia 2284 2219 2344
China 51 175 787 2648 6080 3936 4001 6629 21529 37348 85100 114099 261551 348474
Hong Kong 27317 31895 30232
India 23 80 120 250 238 413 630 1554 5032 21500 40419 68263 72926
Indonesia 1782 2727 4669
Japan 4 20 85 311 957 2073 1871 4413 12837 19415 18143
Korea 602 2665 20380 56949 70990 68237
Laos 315 418 324
Malaysia 3449 7618 9875
Nepal 7687
Pakistan 315 932 4440 14911 39165 41681
Phillipines 4399 8275 21260 36463 49644 59347
Singapore 1721
Sri Lanka 2917
Taiwan 3994 21742 21622
Thailand 6770
Vietnam 9492 14707 12057
Asia (Other) 69 16 10 192 925 202 498 1488 5107 2281 78093 2597 2788
Caribbean (Total) 1012 480 314 3439 8856 16415 36480 61295 13344 232143 453300 594080 856229 862329
Bahamas 1778 663
Barbados 24671 27065 2280
Cuba 1294 2011 30018 67020 49720 41039 26030 17822
Dominica 10144
Dominican Republic 9536 51231 120600 225017 369186 382346
Grenada 11784 19013
Haiti 3146 20245 50160 71892 95580 92286
Jamaica 12072 40672 93100 116128 178922 173814
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 14719
Trinidad & Tobago 13773 39160 56478 88794 90871
West Indies Federation 38258
Caribbean (Other) 5992 70652 27869
South and Central America 181** 239** 444** 605** 1921 7777 18202 12429 41723 87870 175800 357914 532640 551042
Argentina 5149 12082 11677 11228
Belize 6358 7026
Bolivia 479 3291 3875 4555
Brazil 8832 14241 13270
Chile 1546 5034 6780 5271
Colombia 5306 22581 41020 65731 84404 64789
Costa Rica 1148 5745 5819 4528
Ecuador 2970 16075 39000 60451 114944 133095
New York City Foreign-Born Population

2. El Salvador 292 18453 26802 28849
Guatemala 640 12888 17936 23396
Guyana 31960 76150 130647 138768
Honduras 2243 4672 9520 17890 32358 37531
Nicaragua 912 7348 8284 7648
Paraguay 97
Panama 5901 25278 23118 17777
Peru 1454 19818 27278 31872
Uruguay 435 3261 3285
Venezuela 2054 4292 8181 10791
Other South America 5413 7363
Americas 736222
Canada (British No. America) 3899 4501 7147 8398 21926 28581 25582 40118 40345 46634 42823 34764 15320 13818 17318 22447
Mexico 54 64 132 282 2572 4292 2973 3614 3909 4927 7380 32689 122550 183205
Oceania 2819 6859
Australia 22 73 175 342 484 1041 1177 987 1604 2166 3860 5571
Melanesia 124
Micronesia 36
New Zealand 271 279 804 766
Polynesia 146
Oceania (other) 12 522
Australasia 73
Africa 44 50 87 154 357 1238 2516 13029 23360 42481 92435 114653
Cameroon 999
Cape Verde 167 45
Egypt 2742 10304 15231 13318
Eritrea 1107
Ethiopia 1453 1792 2085
Ghana 5634 14915 23088
Kenya 1193
Liberia 2936
Morocco 3009 7239
"Northern Africa" 3039
Nigeria 5676 15689 18727
Sierra Leone 1599 2944
South Africa 852 1909 2214 2727
Sudan 1079
Africa Other 1124 11534 8456
Atlantic Islands 30 20 35 177 373 961 1536 1822
Azores 69 122
Pacific Islands 3 1 11 41 78 229 335 36
Sandwich Islands 11 7 48 8
"Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 36
Born At Sea 36 93 135 447 208 239 39
All other 9541 5 67 7880*** 1367 218 2623 88490 3682 13632 72077 21772 125479 130882 23087 27834
Not Specified 108 244 8416 60778
Total 235733 383717 419094 478670 639943 1270080 1944357 1991547 2358686 2080020 2017665 1858898 1437058 1670199 2082931 2871032
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Type of Data
Nativities
of the
Inhabitan
ts of the
Leading
Cities of
the
United
States
Nativity of
the
Population
of the City
of New
York, New
York
Nativities
of the
Population
s of
Principle
Cities
Foreign-
born
population
of fifty
principle
cities,
distributed
according
to birth
among
various
foreign
countries
Foreign-
born
populatio
n,
distribute
d
according
to country
of birth,
for cities
having
25,000
inhabitant
s or more
Foreign-
born
population
of certain
cities,
distributed
according
to principle
countries
of birth:
1900
"Foreign-
born
Population
by Country
of Birth in
Cities
Having, in
1910,
100,000
Inhabitants
or More:
1910, 1900,
1890"
"Country
of Birth of
Foreign-
Born
Population
, for Citites
Having
100,000
Inhabitant
s or More:
1920"
"Country of
Birth of the
Foreign-
Born
Population,
for Cities of
100,000 or
More:
1930"
"Foreign-
Born
White by
Country of
Birth, by
Sex, for
the City of
New York:
1940 and
1930 (Both
Sexes)"
"Country
of Birth of
the
Foreign-
Born
White
Populatio
n, for
Standard
Metropoli
tan Areas,
Urbanized
Areas,
and
Urban
Places of
100,000
or More:
1950"
"Nativity
and
Parentage
of Foreign
White Stock
by Country
of Origin"
"Citizenshi
p of the
Foreign
Born by
Race and
Country of
Birth
(Total
Column)"
"Foreign-
Born
Populatio
n by Area
of Origin
and
Country of
Birth"
"Place of
Birth of
Foreign-
Born
Persons:
1990"
"Place of
Birth for
the
Foreign-
Born
Populatio
n in New
York City,
New York"
"Place of
Birth for the
Foreign-
Born
Population
in New York
City, New
York" --
American
Community
Survery 1-
Year
Estimates
Notes
**Added
statistics for
South
America
and Central
America
***No
alternate
given in
Compendiu
m
Italicized
data are
taken from
the 1910
source,
where
1900 is
also
included
Note
division of
Ireland
into
Northern
Ireland vs.
Free
Ireland