Biggest Countries by Population

How many of the world's 24 most populous countries can you name?

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First submitted	January 19, 2012
Times taken	1,118,475
Average score	75.0%
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Population	Country
1435 mil	India
1434 mil	China
344 mil	United States
279 mil	Indonesia
243 mil	Pakistan
226 mil	Nigeria
217 mil	Brazil
174 mil	Bangladesh

Population	Country
144 mil	Russia
129 mil	Mexico
128 mil	Ethiopia
123 mil	Japan
118 mil	Philippines
114 mil	Egypt
104 mil	D. R. Congo
99.2 mil	Vietnam

Population	Country
89.5 mil	Iran
86.0 mil	Turkey
83.3 mil	Germany
71.9 mil	Thailand
68.4 mil	Tanzania
68.4 mil	United Kingdom
67.6 mil	France
60.7 mil	South Africa

Level 53

Nov 17, 2016

Stop using wikipedia as a source for quizzes like this; use the CIA World Factbook instead. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/

+18

Level 60

Nov 17, 2016

May I ask why? Is it because "Wikipedia is untrustworthy"? Sorry to tell you, but every source is untrustworthy. Every source will differ from each other, and some are untrustworthy. Or is it because "anybody can edit on Wikipedia", rarely will there be incorrect information on Wikipedia, and people could notice the error and fix it. Also, you can check the references to see if the Wiki page and the sources are similar or not

Level 45

Nov 23, 2017

According to the CIA World Factbook (updated July 2017), there are only a couple differences. Iran is ahead of Turkey, which is ahead of Germany and Tanzania fell to 26th (behind Myanmar/Burma and South Africa). So, the Wikipedia page is still accurate, for the time the data was received. As of July 2017, Iran has 1.3 million more people than Turkey, which has less than 300,000 more people than Germany.

Level 52

Nov 18, 2016

Missed Bangladesh...dang it!

Level 67

Nov 23, 2023

Amy Schneider be like:

Level 22

Dec 12, 2016

Missed France

Level 22

Dec 12, 2016

thailand has passed france and uk and uk has passed france

Level 20

Dec 9, 2017

???

Level 21

Dec 13, 2016

I can't believe I forgot Italy.. wow.

Level 55

Dec 17, 2016

I got everything except Ethiopia and... Japan. Yeah, Japan. Wow.

Level 20

Dec 9, 2017

you didn't get japan!!

that's a shame

Level 47

Jun 16, 2023

Their population is getting older and declining, not super surprising...

Level 47

Dec 24, 2016

Got it with 2.26 to spare

Level 38

Dec 29, 2016

Smart....missed Russia...

Level 44

Oct 11, 2023

Same, only one I missed.

Level 60

Jan 22, 2017

Missed Tanzania and Ethiopia.

How come this 2 countries makes the list despite of being only a little urbanised

Level 60

Feb 2, 2018

Birth control. They can't stop their mother from producing babies

Level 61

Nov 28, 2023

Urbanization doesn't matter as much as the birth rate.

Level 21

Feb 10, 2017

I did this quiz with 1;07 seconds left :)

Level 63

Feb 23, 2017

Got it on my second try with 1:49 remaining.

Level 35

Mar 5, 2017

Tried typing in Ukraine at the last minute and was missing U.K. It accepted the "U.K." in Ukraine. :)

Level 57

Mar 22, 2017

Great quiz! Check out also my country list quizzes in "Finnhit".

Level 52

Mar 24, 2017

4 months later, got em all this time with 1.12 to go

Level 36

Apr 1, 2017

What a foolish, I missed Tanzania :(

Level 57

Apr 13, 2017

Check out and comment similar new quiz by Finnhit. Half minute more time but together 44 countries..

Level 35

Apr 17, 2017

Tanzania - nope, would never have guessed!

Level 48

Apr 26, 2017

you spelt philippians wrong

Level 59

Jul 12, 2017

Yes, you did! :-)

Level 28

Feb 28, 2018

Level 46

May 3, 2017

I got every single goddamned one EXCEPT for Russia.

Typed in Ukraine too..it was one of those "I just assumed I already wrote it," moments

Level 43

May 20, 2017

22/24, missed Italy (no idea how) and Tanzania

Level 58

May 23, 2017

every time i take this quiz i forget exactly one and it's different every time!

Level 67

Jun 28, 2017

0:10 remaining, with 2 entire minutes struggling to remember freakin' Pakistan.

Level 33

Jan 2, 2022

I got Pakistan easily because I live in India and India is near to Pakistan

Level 76

Jul 1, 2017

22/24 Pakistan and Turkey :(

Level 16

Aug 8, 2017

Tanzania? That really caught me off guard!

Level 42

Aug 14, 2017

missed tanzania :/

Level 20

Aug 17, 2017

Forgot Nigeria but thought of Tanzania, how did I not think of Nigeria?

Level 74

Aug 22, 2017

Missed Ethiopia/Tanzania. Upon googling: famine in Ethiopia, criminal poaching in Tanzania

Level 37

Aug 22, 2017

100%

Level 50

Aug 22, 2017

Missed Nigeria (seems obvious to me)

Missed Italy (Quite surprised Italy was on there)

Level 28

Aug 22, 2017

i never knew that Vietnam has a large population

Level 60

Aug 22, 2017

With all the space Canada has and it still doesn't make this list...

Level 83

Aug 24, 2017

if climate change renders all the land between the tropics uninhabitable they might have a few billion refugees headed their way some day.

Level 71

Feb 5, 2020

I forget the exact numbers, but I believe the majority of the population lives within about 100km (or maybe it was miles) of the border with the U.S. Everything north of that is rather empty

Level 37

Aug 24, 2017

1:39 left

Level 16

Aug 27, 2017

1:24

Level 16

Aug 27, 2017

Got all of them with 1:24 remaining!

Level 55

Sep 6, 2017

Turkey and Iran. Every f___ing time!

Level 61

Sep 12, 2017

Recent estimates put Pakistan higher than Brazil on Wikipedia.

Level 52

Sep 26, 2017

Want to be scared? India will surpass China in population by 2100. Want to be terrified? It'll surpass the U.S. for life expectancy in less than half that time if current rates hold.

+13

Level 83

Feb 28, 2018

That should dramatically cut down on hold times when I call my credit card company.

Level 28

Feb 28, 2018

I'm a terrible person for laughing at that...lmao

Level 81

Dec 8, 2023

By 2100 was correct, I suppose, but here I am a mere 6 years later and it has already happened.

Level 9

Oct 16, 2017

25/25-2:13 left

Level 40

Nov 5, 2017

Got all but Vietnam and Germany.

Level 51

Nov 5, 2017

Darn! Forgot Bangladesh and Tanzania. I never would have guessed Tanzania either haha. Weird that it has more population than South Africa...

Level 44

Nov 18, 2017

How the hell does tanzania have one of the worlds top population

+19

Level 71

Feb 5, 2020

because there's lots of people there

Level 59

Jan 13, 2023

underrated comment

Level 37

Nov 20, 2017

Missed UK, even though i was born there

Level 14

Dec 8, 2017

LOL, Good quiz and Super easy. I lived in bangladesh

Level 46

Dec 31, 2017

I just checked Wikipedia. Pakistan is ahead of Brazil in population.

Level 66

Jan 31, 2018

Why do I always forget the Philippines? #facepalm....

Level 28

Feb 21, 2018

Same. Your not alone. #facepalm

Level 28

Feb 21, 2018

*You're

Level 12

Mar 15, 2018

Ridiculously high birth rates are the only reason african countries other than Nigeria are on there.

Level 56

May 28, 2018

I guess that might help, yes.

+14

Level 57

Jun 2, 2022

Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes

Level 32

Oct 23, 2023

Heard in Cameroon: "If you wear a watch, you're always late."

Level 15

Mar 22, 2018

tanzania!? What is happening!?

Level 15

Mar 22, 2018

it would have been a good game, had i thought of tanzania

Level 42

Apr 6, 2018

Owshet got UK 3 seconds remaining

Level 55

May 10, 2018

24/24 with 3:28 left, and I’m only a fourth grader lol.

Level 39

Sep 29, 2022

Damn. I missed Ethiopia and the phillipines

Level 50

Jun 18, 2018

Check out my quizz about Persian Emperors! https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/249043/persian-emperors/stats

Level 58

Jan 2, 2023

Level 44

Jul 19, 2018

easy 11 years old

Level 28

Jul 27, 2018

I'm surprised Nauru isn't on here!

Level 17

Aug 2, 2018

same

Level 74

Jun 19, 2019

Same. Tuvalu too.

Level 41

Jun 16, 2021

where vatican. Bad source

Level 44

Nov 29, 2021

ikr

Level 51

Aug 21, 2018

24/24 remembered ethiopia in the last moment

Level 18

Oct 20, 2018

21/24 I got The Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Ethiopia but not DR Congo, Turkey and Tanzania.

Level 38

Nov 21, 2018

missed Bangladesh

Level 23

Jan 3, 2019

okay so i put philippines and it didnt let me

Level 20

Jan 6, 2019

All but Italy. Didn't expect another European country up there

Level ∞

Jan 7, 2019

Note: I'll be using the site worldometers.com for all our country population data from now on. They are more consistent than Wikipedia in this domain.

Level 84

Feb 22, 2019

There is no worldometers.com. It's a domain name squatter.

Level ∞

Feb 22, 2019

Sorry, worldometers.info.

Level 40

Jan 23, 2019

Way too easy; got all of them with 1:25 minuets left, there should be a yellow box quiz just like this one.

Level 44

Mar 22, 2019

Not everyone is a geography major like you

Level 48

Jan 24, 2019

Couldn't get Bangladesh.

Level 35

Feb 24, 2019

Didn't know Tanzania had surpassed Italy. Was a guess that got me 24/24

Level 50

Apr 28, 2019

Britain has a bigger population than France. I've read it everywhere. This quiz need an Update!

Level ∞

Apr 28, 2019

No, the quiz is correct. You are likely seeing population estimates that incorrectly include only metropolitan France.

Level 74

Jun 19, 2019

arrggg... 23/24. For 90 seconds I was trying to think of the last country. Tanzania popped into my head multiple times, but i didn't think it had 60 million people.

Level 83

Aug 21, 2019

Looks like Italy moved in to last place with the last update. Almost off the list...

Level 33

Jan 2, 2022

Now in 2022 it is off the list...

Level 20

Oct 14, 2019

@JetPunkerO

Level 48

Nov 15, 2019

DRC with 2 mins remaining. Another great quiz!

Level 28

Dec 5, 2019

South America has a population of 58,558,270 and Tanzania has a population of 58,005,463

Level 71

Feb 5, 2020

given that brazil has 212 million, I'm no math genius but I'm fairly sure that means South America has more than 58 million. perhaps you meant South Africa?

Level 20

Jan 14, 2020

ukraine showed up as united kingdom???

Level 83

Mar 3, 2020

"Uk" showed up as United Kingdom

Level 43

Nov 27, 2021

I have this problem every time I do the nations of the world quiz as I approach Europe from the east. I write "Uk" (UK comes up) then "rainebeleruspolandgermanydenmarknetherlands" before I realise what I've done

Level 69

Mar 20, 2020

Funnily, all countries bordering The Vatican are in this quiz.

Level 28

Mar 20, 2020

lololol

Level 26

Aug 12, 2022

Not anymore

Level 28

Mar 20, 2020

got

100%

Level 30

Apr 22, 2020

Ummm worldometers says that the uk is more populous that france

Level 64

May 6, 2020

France has also overseas territories.

Level 22

Apr 26, 2020

Nice quiz

Level 24

May 12, 2020

I somehow missed Russia - can my life get any worse?

Level 47

May 20, 2020

23/24 missed Tanzania

(only 7 btw)

Level 32

Jun 3, 2020

Yeah Sure Kid, Nice lies you got there

Level 53

Jun 16, 2020

I forgot the USA. ._.

Level 40

Jun 19, 2020

24/24 with 2:54 left. Im only 11

Level 56

Aug 6, 2020

I won't be born until the year 92384! but I got 'em anyway

Level 62

Jul 15, 2020

Wow I came back to this quiz after 4 years and the numbers have completely changed! Since I last took this quiz, looks like Pakistan and Nigeria have surpassed 200 million people and Indonesia is gaining fast on the USA. I still remember when Nigeria first entered the top 10 list!

Level 29

Jul 19, 2020

Those African annoying countries.

Level 29

Jul 19, 2020

I just hate 'em

Level 29

Jul 19, 2020

Answers :

1. China

2. India

3. USA

4. Indonesia

5. Pakistan

Level 59

Nov 28, 2023

Yeah except now it's :

1. India

2. China

3. USA

4. Indonesia

5. Pakistan

Level 55

Oct 5, 2020

No Vatican City? I thought it was the most popeulous country in the world!

Level 53

Apr 16, 2022

Same... I kept thinking I was spelling it wrong

Level 42

Oct 17, 2020

Surprisingly South Africa and Spain do not make the list. Tanzania makes it

Level 37

Nov 7, 2020

Ethiopia and Tanzania

Level 52

Nov 8, 2020

2:14

Level 32

Nov 20, 2020

2020's going to need an update for Nigeria

By the time the secret serial killers are done their population will be cut by a fourth O_O

Level 57

Dec 2, 2020

Somehow missed DRC, even though it will have the largest city in the world by 2100

Level 15

Dec 31, 2020

Ez! 2:04 minutes for me!

Level 36

Jan 12, 2021

I got 24/24 and I don’t care what age you are, or myself for that matter.

Level 17

Jan 13, 2021

Wow I actually got all of them

Level 40

Feb 10, 2021

I suck at countries in geography compared to you guys tbh, cause I only got 19 of these correct on my first attempt but I always get all of them right on flag quizzes idek why xD

Level 56

Feb 11, 2021

I got 21 and I'm 13. missed russia ethiopia and bangladesh

Level 51

Mar 2, 2021

we don't care

Level 27

May 13, 2021

im 13 and I got all them except tanzania first try.

but fr nobody really cares I'm saying it to make myself feel accomplished. :D

Level 41

Jun 15, 2021

Why do people act like having a higher age makes you more smart?

Level 17

Feb 25, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Level 39

Jan 10, 2023

I memorized that link. Not gonna get me this time, Rick!

Level 59

Feb 28, 2021

Not gonna lie, was surprised to see Ethiopia so high up, I thought it's population was more like 80 million, guess I'm old.

Level 83

Mar 7, 2021

Not that old. Growing fast.

Level 30

Mar 12, 2021

I missed Thailand! How did I miss Thailand?

Level 41

Jun 15, 2021

Level 56

Apr 22, 2021

I missed Japan.... *facepalm* :)

Level 21

May 11, 2021

4got turkey egypt iran and vietnam :/

Level 41

Aug 17, 2021

Those are all the countries by population, not asian or african countries.

Level 35

May 12, 2021

missed russia and germany... i dont know how

Level 67

Jun 13, 2021

Let's gooo I got Ethiopia with 7 seconds remaining

Level 52

Sep 21, 2021

I got all countries and im only 3 years old

Level 57

Oct 29, 2021

Damn it, I forgot Doctor Congo

Level 44

Nov 26, 2021

I really wasn't expecting Tanzania to be on here. I had 8 seconds left, and I was missing one country, and I was about to admit defeat, then I tried Tanzania and it was actually right.

Level 33

Jan 2, 2022

Again I'm telling, Tanzania is one of the easiest in this quiz for me

Level 48

Dec 31, 2021

Yes, 1.48 got them all! Ethiopia was the last one.

Level 32

Jan 24, 2022

Being such a desert, it's surprising Egypt has so many people.

Level 63

Jan 31, 2022

The Nile River

Level 31

Feb 1, 2022

im surprised about tanzania, i missed tanzania and italy

Level 49

Mar 17, 2022

need to be updated: India is no.1 now (March 2022)

Level 40

Apr 19, 2022

I'm a genius. I got Tanzania second but missed the UK.

Level 15

Apr 21, 2022

cool

Level 51

May 6, 2022

23/24, missed Vietnam somehow.

Level 24

May 18, 2022

grr

Level 71

Jun 10, 2022

Most recent change is Pakistan and Nigeria surpassing Brazil, and Turkey Germany?

Level 51

Jun 10, 2022

just reset today, thats nice

Level 69

Jun 10, 2022

Am I the only one who still thought that pakistan was 197million?

Level 58

Jul 19, 2022

yes

Level 25

Jul 9, 2022

22/24 misses bangladesh + vietnam

Level 75

Jul 21, 2022

Down goes Italy.

Level 75

Aug 5, 2022

"We need a new plague"

- Dwight K. Schrute

Level 44

Aug 24, 2022

i forgor about france and germany💀

Level 29

Sep 25, 2022

2:14 100%

Level 25

Oct 6, 2022

Stumped on Tanzania, didn´t know it had that many people!

Hey, the more you know!

Level 53

Nov 15, 2022

Surprised only 53% got Japan...

Level 63

Dec 20, 2022

Yeah, you'd think Japan would be an easy guess

Level 29

Jan 19, 2023

You should update it cause India surpassed China

Level 46

Feb 7, 2023

true

Level 70

Apr 26, 2023

Not quite yet. According to Quizmaster’s source, India is still behind by 7 million.

Level 52

Mar 11, 2023

Got Tanzania before the time ended! Tanzania was unexpected

Level 67

Apr 20, 2023

Just missed Japan and Turkey

Level 76

Apr 24, 2023

Everyone ready for the #1 spot to change? Apparently it’s going to happen this week!

Level 70

Apr 26, 2023

According to Quizmaster’s source, India is actually still 7 million behind China. So no need to party just yet. Unless if you’re using another source obviously.

Level 29

Apr 26, 2023

But now it is official that India is the most populated country but quizmaster Source

Prob has not updated yet.

Level 73

Apr 27, 2023

India now (maybe) the most populated country now, not sure though. But I think they are now since they grow faster than China and China lost a few million people last year. China's population will soon start to decline while India's population will continue to grow until it reaches 1.6-1.7 billion people by the end of the century. China on the other hand will drop down to around 1 billion.

Level 51

May 6, 2023

India is now the most populated. This quiz needs to be updated

Level ∞

Jun 30, 2023

No. It won't happen until later this year. Hong Kong exists.

Level 20

Jun 8, 2023

21 first try

Level 31

Jun 19, 2023

Tanzania already passed France and will soon also pass the UK.

Level 67

Jun 23, 2023

3:30 used, Philippines took me a while

Level 31

Jun 30, 2023

India has been more populated than China since April 24th, 2023, so you need to change this!

Level ∞

Jun 30, 2023

No. It won't happen until later this year. Hong Kong exists.

Level 49

Nov 28, 2023

ohhhh they weren't counting Hong Kong, that must be why people said that it happened in April

Level 65

Jul 19, 2023

Curious why Tanzania is so rarely guessed.

Level 44

Sep 14, 2023

curveball with tanzania

Level 19

Oct 11, 2023

Last second

Level 36

Nov 26, 2023

How did I forget Egypt?!

Level 51

Nov 28, 2023

Huh... I forgot South Africa. I think that's because the last time I did this quiz Italy was the last country.

Level 72

Nov 28, 2023

"As of 1 January 2024." So now we're predicting the future?

Level 68

Nov 28, 2023

Yes the almighty Quizmaster is precognitive praise him

Level 49

Nov 28, 2023

India takes the lead, baby!

Level 49

Nov 28, 2023

C'mon, Vietnam! I believe in you! You can make it into the 100 million club!

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