World's 50 Most Populous Countries: 2012
This table provides figures about the 50 most populous nations in the world. China is the most populous.
RankCountryPopulation
World7,021,836,029
1.China1,343,239,923
2.India1,205,073,612
3.United States313,847,465
4.Indonesia248,645,008
5.Brazil199,321,413
6.Pakistan190,291,129
7.Nigeria170,123,740
8.Bangladesh161,083,804
9.Russia142,517,670
10.Japan127,368,088
11.Mexico114,975,046
12.Philippines103,775,002
13.Vietnam91,519,289
14.Ethiopia91,195,675
15.Egypt83,688,164
16.Germany81,305,856
17.Turkey79,749,461
18.Iran78,868,711
19.Congo, Dem. Rep.73,599,190
20.Thailand67,091,089
21.France65,630,692
22.United Kingdom63,047,162
23.Italy61,261,254
24.Burma54,584,650
25.Korea, South48,860,500
26.South Africa48,810,427
27.Spain47,042,984
28.Tanzania46,912,768
29.Colombia45,239,079
30.Ukraine44,854,065
31.Kenya43,013,341
32.Argentina42,192,494
33.Poland38,415,284
34.Algeria37,367,226
35.Canada34,300,083
36.Sudan34,206,710
37.Uganda33,640,833
38.Morocco32,309,239
39.Iraq31,129,225
40.Afghanistan30,419,928
41.Nepal29,890,686
42.Peru29,549,517
43.Malaysia29,179,952
44.Uzbekistan28,394,180
45.Venezuela28,047,938
46.Saudi Arabia26,534,504
47.Yemen24,771,809
48.Ghana24,652,402
49.Korea, North24,589,122
50.Mozambique23,515,934
Source:CIA World Factbook
http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/most-populous-countries.html

And the POOREST too!

mgbeketoto: And the POOREST too!

Nigeria is not poor even though a huge number of its population is living in poverty........its actually one of the wealthiest.

ehn see them, they are happy now...inspite of a poor GDP...alot of pple are still suffering

D_BestDoc:
Nigeria is not poor even though a huge number of its population is living in poverty........its actually one of the wealthiest.

wealthiest how with a gdp of 300 billion dollars and per capital income of 1500 dollars I laugh in chinese. Nigeria is a poor country.

tensazangetsu: wealthiest how with a gdp of 300 billion dollars and per capital income of 1500 dollars I laugh in chinese. Nigeria is a poor country.

with such huge deposit of natural resources in Nigeria you still call the country poor?

Mismanagement of resources, bad leadership and extreme corruption makes the citizens live in poverty and the country not-so-developed.
For the records,Nigeria is wealthier than alot of the so called developed countries,but the difference is that they put their minimal resources into good use and appear better than Nigeria and we dont.



Maybe you should remind yourself how many barrels of crude oil that country produces everyday and countries that depend on it.(just crude oil,not talking about other possible and untapped sources of income)

A country is rated with d per capita income versus national income and yes we r indeed very poor. Forget d natural resources whatever.
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..........and we keep on counting! Shebi we lv to born,e go soon hammer us for eye! Country without vision.everybody is just d same. Both d govt and d governd!

Well, at least seven is a lucky number, so we still get small hope

One Nigeria!

And the irony of it all is that, its the poor that can hardly afford 3 square meals to their children that are having more children.

Those who are very wealthy,successful and influential are having three to maximum of four children while those who cant afford to feed three children are having 20+, 30+,etc children, from multiple wives, with the slogan "its God that cakes care of children" and this is one of our major problems as a country.
May God help us as a country o.
We shall surely get there.

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