Least Populous Countries & Territories (2026)

The world's least populous countries are often small island nations or microstates. Pitcairn Islands has the smallest population with just 35 people, followed by French Southern and Antarctic Lands (400) and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (593).

#1

Pitcairn Islands

35

#2

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

400

#3

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

593

Least Populous Countries & Territories - 245 countries ranked by Population

Rank	Country	Population	Population	Region
1	Pitcairn Islands	35	35	Oceania
2	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	400	400	Antarctic
3	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	593	593	Oceania
4	Vatican City	882	882	Europe
5	Antarctica	1,300	1,300	Antarctic
6	Niue	1,681	1,681	Oceania
7	Christmas Island	1,692	1,692	Oceania
8	Norfolk Island	2,188	2,188	Oceania
9	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	2,530	2,530	Europe
10	Tokelau	2,608	2,608	Oceania
11	Falkland Islands	3,662	3,662	Americas
12	Montserrat	4,386	4,386	Americas
13	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	5,651	5,651	Africa
14	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	5,819	5,819	Americas
15	Saint Barthélemy	10,562	10,562	Americas
16	Tuvalu	10,643	10,643	Oceania
17	Wallis and Futuna	11,620	11,620	Oceania
18	Nauru	11,680	11,680	Oceania
19	Cook Islands	15,040	15,040	Oceania
20	Anguilla	16,010	16,010	Americas
21	Palau	16,733	16,733	Oceania
22	Åland Islands	30,654	30,654	Europe
23	Saint Martin	31,496	31,496	Americas
24	Caribbean Netherlands	31,980	31,980	Americas
25	San Marino	34,132	34,132	Europe
26	Gibraltar	38,000	38,000	Europe
27	Monaco	38,423	38,423	Europe
28	British Virgin Islands	39,471	39,471	Americas
29	Liechtenstein	40,900	40,900	Europe
30	Sint Maarten	41,349	41,349	Americas
31	Marshall Islands	42,418	42,418	Oceania
32	Northern Mariana Islands	47,329	47,329	Oceania
33	American Samoa	49,710	49,710	Oceania
34	Turks and Caicos Islands	50,828	50,828	Americas
35	Saint Kitts and Nevis	51,320	51,320	Americas
36	Faroe Islands	54,885	54,885	Europe
37	Greenland	56,542	56,542	Americas
38	Bermuda	64,055	64,055	Americas
39	Guernsey	64,781	64,781	Europe
40	Dominica	67,408	67,408	Americas
41	Isle of Man	84,530	84,530	Europe
42	Cayman Islands	84,738	84,738	Americas
43	United States Virgin Islands	87,146	87,146	Americas
44	Andorra	88,406	88,406	Europe
45	Tonga	100,179	100,179	Oceania
46	Jersey	103,267	103,267	Europe
47	Antigua and Barbuda	103,603	103,603	Americas
48	Micronesia	105,564	105,564	Oceania
49	Aruba	107,566	107,566	Americas
50	Grenada	109,021	109,021	Americas
51	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,872	110,872	Americas
52	Kiribati	120,740	120,740	Oceania
53	Seychelles	122,729	122,729	Africa
54	Guam	153,836	153,836	Oceania
55	Curaçao	156,115	156,115	Americas
56	Saint Lucia	184,100	184,100	Americas
57	Samoa	205,557	205,557	Oceania
58	São Tomé and Príncipe	209,607	209,607	Africa
59	New Caledonia	264,596	264,596	Oceania
60	Barbados	267,800	267,800	Americas
61	French Polynesia	279,500	279,500	Oceania
62	French Guiana	292,354	292,354	Americas
63	Mayotte	320,901	320,901	Africa
64	Vanuatu	321,409	321,409	Oceania
65	Martinique	349,925	349,925	Americas
66	Guadeloupe	378,561	378,561	Americas
67	Iceland	391,810	391,810	Europe
68	Bahamas	398,165	398,165	Americas
69	Belize	417,634	417,634	Americas
70	Brunei	455,500	455,500	Asia
71	Cape Verde	491,233	491,233	Africa
72	Maldives	515,132	515,132	Asia
73	Malta	574,250	574,250	Europe
74	Western Sahara	600,904	600,904	Africa
75	Suriname	616,500	616,500	Americas
76	Montenegro	623,327	623,327	Europe
77	Luxembourg	681,973	681,973	Europe
78	Macau	685,900	685,900	Asia
79	Solomon Islands	750,325	750,325	Oceania
80	Guyana	772,975	772,975	Americas
81	Bhutan	784,043	784,043	Asia
82	Réunion	896,175	896,175	Africa
83	Fiji	900,869	900,869	Oceania
84	Comoros	919,901	919,901	Africa
85	Djibouti	1,066,809	1,066,809	Africa
86	Eswatini	1,235,549	1,235,549	Africa
87	Mauritius	1,243,741	1,243,741	Africa
88	Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,764	1,367,764	Americas
89	Estonia	1,369,995	1,369,995	Europe
90	Timor-Leste	1,391,221	1,391,221	Asia
91	Cyprus	1,442,614	1,442,614	Europe
92	Kosovo	1,585,566	1,585,566	Europe
93	Bahrain	1,594,654	1,594,654	Asia
94	Equatorial Guinea	1,668,768	1,668,768	Africa
95	Guinea-Bissau	1,781,308	1,781,308	Africa
96	North Macedonia	1,822,612	1,822,612	Europe
97	Latvia	1,829,000	1,829,000	Europe
98	Lesotho	2,116,427	2,116,427	Africa
99	Slovenia	2,130,638	2,130,638	Europe
100	Botswana	2,359,609	2,359,609	Africa
101	Albania	2,363,314	2,363,314	Europe
102	Gambia	2,422,712	2,422,712	Africa
103	Gabon	2,469,296	2,469,296	Africa
104	Moldova	2,749,076	2,749,076	Europe
105	Jamaica	2,825,544	2,825,544	Americas
106	Lithuania	2,894,886	2,894,886	Europe
107	Namibia	3,022,401	3,022,401	Africa
108	Armenia	3,076,200	3,076,200	Asia
109	Qatar	3,173,024	3,173,024	Asia
110	Puerto Rico	3,203,295	3,203,295	Americas
111	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,422,000	3,422,000	Europe
112	Uruguay	3,499,451	3,499,451	Americas
113	Mongolia	3,544,835	3,544,835	Asia
114	Eritrea	3,607,000	3,607,000	Africa
115	Croatia	3,866,233	3,866,233	Europe
116	Georgia	4,000,921	4,000,921	Asia
117	Panama	4,064,780	4,064,780	Americas
118	Kuwait	4,881,254	4,881,254	Asia
119	Mauritania	4,927,532	4,927,532	Africa
120	Liberia	5,248,621	5,248,621	Africa
121	Costa Rica	5,309,625	5,309,625	Americas
122	New Zealand	5,324,700	5,324,700	Oceania
123	Oman	5,343,630	5,343,630	Asia
124	Slovakia	5,413,813	5,413,813	Europe
125	Ireland	5,458,600	5,458,600	Europe
126	Palestine	5,483,450	5,483,450	Asia
127	Lebanon	5,490,000	5,490,000	Asia
128	Norway	5,606,944	5,606,944	Europe
129	Finland	5,650,325	5,650,325	Europe
130	Denmark	6,011,488	6,011,488	Europe
131	El Salvador	6,029,976	6,029,976	Americas
132	Paraguay	6,109,644	6,109,644	Americas
133	Singapore	6,110,200	6,110,200	Asia
134	Republic of the Congo	6,142,180	6,142,180	Africa
135	Bulgaria	6,437,360	6,437,360	Europe
136	Central African Republic	6,470,307	6,470,307	Africa
137	Serbia	6,567,783	6,567,783	Europe
138	Nicaragua	6,803,886	6,803,886	Americas
139	Turkmenistan	7,057,841	7,057,841	Asia
140	Kyrgyzstan	7,281,800	7,281,800	Asia
141	Libya	7,459,000	7,459,000	Africa
142	Hong Kong	7,527,500	7,527,500	Asia
143	Laos	7,647,000	7,647,000	Asia
144	Togo	8,095,498	8,095,498	Africa
145	Sierra Leone	9,077,691	9,077,691	Africa
146	Switzerland	9,082,848	9,082,848	Europe
147	Belarus	9,109,280	9,109,280	Europe
148	Austria	9,200,931	9,200,931	Europe
149	Hungary	9,539,502	9,539,502	Europe
150	Cuba	9,748,007	9,748,007	Americas
151	Honduras	9,892,632	9,892,632	Americas
152	Israel	10,134,800	10,134,800	Asia
153	Azerbaijan	10,241,722	10,241,722	Asia
154	Greece	10,400,720	10,400,720	Europe
155	Tajikistan	10,499,000	10,499,000	Asia
156	Sweden	10,605,098	10,605,098	Europe
157	Portugal	10,749,635	10,749,635	Europe
158	Dominican Republic	10,771,504	10,771,504	Americas
159	Czechia	10,882,341	10,882,341	Europe
160	United Arab Emirates	11,294,243	11,294,243	Asia
161	Bolivia	11,365,333	11,365,333	Americas
162	Jordan	11,734,000	11,734,000	Asia
163	Papua New Guinea	11,781,559	11,781,559	Oceania
164	Belgium	11,825,551	11,825,551	Europe
165	Haiti	11,867,032	11,867,032	Americas
166	Tunisia	11,972,169	11,972,169	Africa
167	Burundi	12,332,788	12,332,788	Africa
168	Benin	13,224,860	13,224,860	Africa
169	Rwanda	14,104,969	14,104,969	Africa
170	Guinea	14,363,931	14,363,931	Africa
171	South Sudan	15,786,898	15,786,898	Africa
172	Zimbabwe	17,073,087	17,073,087	Africa
173	Cambodia	17,577,760	17,577,760	Asia
174	Guatemala	18,079,810	18,079,810	Americas
175	Netherlands	18,100,436	18,100,436	Europe
176	Ecuador	18,103,660	18,103,660	Americas
177	Senegal	18,593,258	18,593,258	Africa
178	Romania	19,036,031	19,036,031	Europe
179	Chad	19,340,757	19,340,757	Africa
180	Somalia	19,655,000	19,655,000	Africa
181	Zambia	19,693,423	19,693,423	Africa
182	Chile	20,206,953	20,206,953	Americas
183	Kazakhstan	20,426,568	20,426,568	Asia
184	Malawi	20,734,262	20,734,262	Africa
185	Sri Lanka	21,763,170	21,763,170	Asia
186	Mali	22,395,489	22,395,489	Africa
187	Taiwan	23,317,031	23,317,031	Asia
188	Burkina Faso	24,070,553	24,070,553	Africa
189	Syria	25,620,000	25,620,000	Asia
190	North Korea	25,950,000	25,950,000	Asia
191	Niger	26,312,034	26,312,034	Africa
192	Australia	27,536,874	27,536,874	Oceania
193	Venezuela	28,517,000	28,517,000	Americas
194	Cameroon	29,442,327	29,442,327	Africa
195	Nepal	29,911,840	29,911,840	Asia
196	Ivory Coast	31,719,275	31,719,275	Africa
197	Madagascar	31,727,042	31,727,042	Africa
198	Yemen	32,684,503	32,684,503	Asia
199	Ukraine	32,862,000	32,862,000	Europe
200	Ghana	33,742,380	33,742,380	Africa
201	Mozambique	34,090,466	34,090,466	Africa
202	Malaysia	34,231,700	34,231,700	Asia
203	Peru	34,350,244	34,350,244	Americas
204	Saudi Arabia	35,300,280	35,300,280	Asia
205	Angola	36,170,961	36,170,961	Africa
206	Morocco	36,828,330	36,828,330	Africa
207	Poland	37,392,000	37,392,000	Europe
208	Uzbekistan	37,859,698	37,859,698	Asia
209	Canada	41,651,653	41,651,653	Americas
210	Afghanistan	43,844,000	43,844,000	Asia
211	Uganda	45,905,417	45,905,417	Africa
212	Iraq	46,118,793	46,118,793	Asia
213	Argentina	46,735,004	46,735,004	Americas
214	Algeria	47,400,000	47,400,000	Africa
215	Spain	49,315,949	49,315,949	Europe
216	South Korea	51,159,889	51,159,889	Asia
217	Myanmar	51,316,756	51,316,756	Asia
218	Sudan	51,662,000	51,662,000	Africa
219	Colombia	53,057,212	53,057,212	Americas
220	Kenya	53,330,978	53,330,978	Africa
221	Italy	58,927,633	58,927,633	Europe
222	South Africa	63,100,945	63,100,945	Africa
223	Thailand	65,859,640	65,859,640	Asia
224	France	66,351,959	66,351,959	Europe
225	Tanzania	68,153,004	68,153,004	Africa
226	United Kingdom	69,281,437	69,281,437	Europe
227	Germany	83,491,249	83,491,249	Europe
228	Turkey	85,664,944	85,664,944	Asia
229	Iran	85,961,000	85,961,000	Asia
230	Vietnam	101,343,800	101,343,800	Asia
231	Egypt	107,271,260	107,271,260	Africa
232	Ethiopia	111,652,998	111,652,998	Africa
233	DR Congo	112,832,000	112,832,000	Africa
234	Philippines	114,123,600	114,123,600	Asia
235	Japan	123,210,000	123,210,000	Asia
236	Mexico	130,575,786	130,575,786	Americas
237	Russia	146,028,325	146,028,325	Europe
238	Bangladesh	169,828,911	169,828,911	Asia
239	Brazil	213,421,037	213,421,037	Americas
240	Nigeria	223,800,000	223,800,000	Africa
241	Pakistan	241,499,431	241,499,431	Asia
242	Indonesia	284,438,782	284,438,782	Asia
243	United States	340,110,988	340,110,988	Americas
244	China	1,408,280,000	1,408,280,000	Asia
245	India	1,417,492,000	1,417,492,000	Asia