The biggest number of people lives in China at 1.439 billion people, or 18.47% of the total population of Earth. India takes second place. Slightly fewer people live here, measuring at 1.38 billion, or 17.7% of all people on the planet. They are followed by:

United States: 0.331 billion people (4.25% of the world’s population)
Indonesia: 0.274 billion people (3.51% of the world’s population)
Pakistan: 0.221 billion people (2.83% of the world’s population)
Brazil: 0.213 billion people (2.73% of the world’s population)
Nigeria: 0.206 billion people (2.64% of the world’s population)
Bangladesh: 0.165 billion people (2.11% of the world’s population)
Russia: 0.146 billion people (1.87% of the world’s population)
Mexico: 0.129 billion people (1.65% of the world’s population)

By region, the population is distributed as follows: 59.5% of all people live in Asia, 17.2% live in Africa, 9.6% live in Europe, 8.4% live in Latin America, 4.7% live in North America, and only 0.5% live in Oceania.

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