Annual World Population by Country 1959

In 1959, 🇨🇳China was the most populous country in the world, with a total of 652,179,194 people. Followed by 🇮🇳India, with the second largest population globally of 435,900,352 people in total. The country with the lowest population count for the year was 🇻🇦Holy See with only 920 people.

The geographic region with the largest population in 1959 was Asia with a total population of 1,672,747,887 people, closely followed by Africa with a population of 277,648,187, and Europe with a population of 599,684,870 people recorded for the year.

When devided into sub-subregions we can see that Southern Asia had the largest populous of 578,876,187 people on record. Followed by Eastern Asia with a population of 796,907,032, and South-Eastern Asia with 209,528,927 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 2,055,517,164 people. While the lowest population for 1959 was found in No income group available with a population of 7,962,249 people in that segment.