Annual World Population by Country 1957

In 1957, 🇨🇳China was the most populous country in the world, with a total of 630,003,025 people. Followed by 🇮🇳India, with the second largest population globally of 416,935,400 people in total. The country with the lowest population count for the year was 🇻🇦Holy See with only 918 people.

The geographic region with the largest population in 1957 was Asia with a total population of 1,603,627,326 people, closely followed by Africa with a population of 265,515,232, and Europe with a population of 587,711,635 people recorded for the year.

When devided into sub-subregions we can see that Eastern Asia had the largest populous of 769,852,920 people on record. Followed by Southern Asia with a population of 553,367,610, and South-Eastern Asia with 197,835,387 people in the sub-region.

If we devide the global population into income groups we can see that Middle-income countries had the largest population with a total of 1,969,075,826 people. While the lowest population for 1957 was found in No income group available with a population of 7,386,616 people in that segment.