Annual World Population by Country 1972

In 1972, 🇨🇳China was the most populous country in the world, with a total of 862,840,403 people. Followed by 🇮🇳India, with the second largest population globally of 582,837,973 people in total. The country with the lowest population count for the year was 🇻🇦Holy See with only 749 people.

The geographic region with the largest population in 1972 was Asia with a total population of 2,246,224,553 people, closely followed by Africa with a population of 384,930,392, and Latin America and the Caribbean with a population of 300,799,282 people recorded for the year.

When devided into sub-subregions we can see that Eastern Asia had the largest populous of 1,042,164,274 people on record. Followed by Southern Asia with a population of 782,509,366, and South-Eastern Asia with 294,434,640 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 2,751,902,778 people. While the lowest population for 1972 was found in No income group available with a population of 12,213,642 people in that segment.