Population Table 2009

Figures compiled by Stephen Moore using land statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Country	Surface (km2)	Arable Land (%)	Permanent Pasture (%)	Possible Population	Current Population	Times Overpopulated
Afganistan	647,500	12%	46.00%	4,506,600	33,609,937	7.82
Albania	28,748	20.1%	15%	122,466	3,639,453	31.5
Algeria	2,381,740	3.2%	14%	4,850,175	34,178,188	7.29
Andorra	468	2.1%	45%	2,647	83,888	33.24
Angola	1,246,700	2%	23%	3,740,100	12,799,293	3.59
Antarctica	20,327,000	0%	0%	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	442	18%	9%	1,432	85,632	62.67
Argentina	2,736,690	9%	52%	20,032,571	40,913,584	2.14
Armenia	28,400	17%	24%	139,728	2,967,004	22.25
Atoll of Johnston	2.8	0%	0%	0	0	0
Australia	7,686,850	6%	54%	55,345,320	21,262,641	0.4
Austria	83,870	17%	23%	398,450	8,210,281	21.37
Azerbaijan	86,100	18%	25%	444,276	8,238,672	19.43
Bahamas	13,940	1%	0%	1,673	309,156	193.69
Bahrain	665	3%	6%	704	727,785	1061.98
Bangladesh	133,910	55.4%	5%	970,419	156,050,883	168.5
Barbados	431	37%	5%	2,183	284,589	136
Bassas	0.2	0%	0%	0	0	0
Belgium	30,278	27%	20%	172,294	10,414,336	63.91
Belize	22,800	3%	2%	13,817	307,899	23.59
Benin	110,620	13%	4%	225,665	8,791,832	40.83
Bhutan	47,000	2%	6%	46,812	691,141	16.05
Belarus (Belorussia)	207,600	27%	15%	1,040,574	9,648,533	9.66
Bolivia	1,084,390	2%	24%	3,383,297	9,775,246	3.03
Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129	14%	20%	208,606	4,613,414	23.18
Botswana	585,370	1%	46%	3,276,901	1,990,876	0.63
Bouvet Island	49.0	0%	0%	0	0	0
Brazil	8,456,510	6%	22%	28,413,874	198,739,269	7.33
British Indian Ocean Territory	60	0%	0%	0	0	0
British Virgin Islands	153	20%	33%	973	24,491	26.38
Brunei	5,270	1%	1%	1,265	388,190	321.65
Burma	657,740	15%	1%	1,262,861	48,137,741	39.95
Bulgaria	110,550	30%	14%	582,908	7,204,687	12.94
Burkina Faso	273,800	18%	22%	1,303,069	15,746,232	12.56
Burundi	25,650	36%	36%	220,292	8,988,091	42.5
Cambodia	176,520	13%	11%	508,378	14,494,293	29.88
Cameroon	469,440	13%	4%	931,745	18,879,301	20.66
Canada	9,984,670	5%	3%	9,070,074	33,487,208	3.66
Capo Verde	4,033	11%	6%	8,426	429,474	54.7
Central African Republic	622,984	3%	5%	598,065	4,511,488	7.91
Chad	1,259,200	3%	36%	5,893,056	10,329,208	1.84
Chile	748,800	3%	18%	1,852,831	16,601,707	9.22
China	9,326,410	15%	43%	64,755,130	1,338,612,968	21.61
Colombia	1,038,700	2%	39%	5,111,650	45,644,023	9.36
Congo, Democratic Republic of	2,267,600	3%	7%	2,683,024	68,692,542	26.46
Congo, Republic of --	341,500	1.5%	29%	1,247,841	4,012,809	3.36
Costa Rica	50,660	4%	46%	306,392	4,253,877	14.67
Croatia	56,414	22%	26%	326,299	4,489,409	14.48
Cuba	110,860	28%	21%	641,613	11,451,652	18.41
Cyprus	9,240	11%	0%	11,986	796,470	68.46
Czech Republic	77,276	39%	11%	463,656	10,211,904	23.08
Denmark	42,394	53%	8%	308,747	5,500,510	18.58
Djibouti	21,980	0%	9%	23,844	516,055	22.78
Dominica	754	7%	3%	875	72,660	84.16
Dominican Republic	48,380	22%	43%	377,364	9,650,054	26.8
Dutch Antilles	960	10%	0%	1,152	227,049	206.55
Ecuador	276,840	6%	18%	797,299	14,573,101	19.16
Egypt	995,450	2%	0%	238,908	83,082,869	364.45
El Salvador	20,720	31%	29%	150,104	7,185,218	50.48
Estonia	43,211	12%	11%	119,522	1,299,371	11.42
Ethiopia	1,119,683	10%	20%	4,032,202	85,237,338	22.16
Europa Island	28	0%	0%	0	0	0
Finland	304,473	7%	0%	238,950	5,250,275	21.51
Fiji Islands	18,270	10%	10%	43,848	944,720	22.58
France	545,630	33%	18%	3,375,922	64,057,792	20.1
Gabon	257,667	1%	18%	593,974	1,514,993	2.7
Gambia	10,000	28%	9%	44,256	1,782,893	42.08
Georgia	69,700	12%	25%	305,370	4,615,807	15.63
Germany	349,223	33%	14%	1,979,256	82,329,758	43.81
Ghana	230,940	18%	37%	1,503,142	23,832,495	16.39
Gibraltar	6.5	0%	0%	0	28,034	infinite
Great Britain	241,590	23%	46%	2,007,033	61,113,205	32.02
Greece	130,800	20%	36%	881,330	10,737,428	12.8
Grenada	344	6%	3%	367	90,739	255.96
Greenland	2,166,086	0%	1%	259,930	57,600	0.23
Guatemala	108,430	13%	24%	484,292	13,276,517	28.9
Guinea	245,857	4%	44%	1,415,251	10,057,975	7.44
Guinea (Equatorial)	28,051	5%	4%	30,295	633,441	21.91
Guinea-Bissau	28,000	8%	38%	155,602	1,533,964	10.4
Guyana	196,850	2%	6%	194,409	772,298	4.28
Haiti	27,560	28%	18%	152,495	9,035,536	62.24
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412	0%	0%	0	0	0
Honduras	111,890	10%	14%	315,933	7,792,854	25.34
Hong Kong	1,042	5%	1%	750	7,055,071	9855.09
Howland Island	2.6	0%	0%	0	0	0
Hungary	92,340	50%	12.4%	691,442	9,905,596	15.01
India	2,973,190	49%	4%	18,848,835	1,166,079,217	64.63
Indonesia	1,826,440	11%	6%	3,769,772	240,271,522	67.58
Iran	1,636,000	10%	18%	5,473,402	66,429,284	12.66
Iraq	432,162	13%	9%	1,147,131	28,945,657	26.59
Ireland	68,890	17%	44%	500,307	4,203,200	8.74
Iceland	100,250	0%	23%	277,532	306,694	1.16
Israel	20,330	15%	6%	51,842	7,233,701	147.97
Italy	294,020	26%	15%	1,461,044	58,126,212	42.11
Ivory Coast	318,000	10%	41%	1,954,937	20,617,068	11.1
Jamaica	10,830	16%	24%	51,984	2,825,928	56.97
Jarvis Island	4.5	0%	0%	0	0	0
Jersey (Island of)	116.0	0%	0%	0	91,626	infinite
Jordan	91,971	3%	8%	125,816	6,342,948	54.76
Japan	374,744	11%	1%	544,128	127,078,679	246.79
Jan Mayen	377	0%	0%	0	0	0
Kazakhstan	2,669,800	8%	69%	24,630,507	15,399,437	0.65
Kenya	569,250	8%	37%	3,073,950	39,002,772	13.3
Kingman Reef	0.2	0%	0%	0	0	0
Kiribati	811	3%	0%	267	112,850	405.08
Korea (North)	120,410	22%	0.0%	323,662	22,665,345	74.72
Korea (South)	98,190	17%	1%	207,142	48,508,972	239.7
Kuwait	17,820	0%	8%	17,107	2,691,158	164.93
Kyrgyzstan	191,300	7%	44%	1,170,756	5431747	4.86
Laos	230,800	4%	3%	193,872	6,834,942	36.95
Latvia	63,589	28%	13%	312,858	2,231,503	7.47
Lebanon	10,230	16%	1%	21,299	4,017,095	201.72
Lesotho	30,355	11%	66%	280,007	2,130,819	7.96
Liberia	96,320	3%	59%	721,591	3,441,790	5.03
Libya	1,759,540	1%	8%	1,906,638	6,310,434	3.48
Liechtenstein	160	25%	16%	787	34,761	46.28
Lithuania	65,300	45%	7%	405,983	3,555,179	9.14
Luxembourg	2,586	27%	20%	14,585	491,775	35.34
Macau	28	0%	0%	0	559,846	infinite
Macedonia	24,856	22%	25%	140,188	2,066,718	15.45
Madagascar	581,540	5%	64%	4,815,151	20,653,556	4.5
Malawi	94,080	21%	39%	673,763	14,268,711	22.08
Maldives	300	13%	3%	576	396,334	721.1
Malaysia	328,550	5%	0%	197,130	25,715,819	136.71
Mali	1,220,000	4%	25%	4,201,680	12,666,987	3.13
Malta	316	31%	0%	1,176	405,165	361.21
Marianne - northern islands	477	21%	19%	2,290	88,662	40.58
Marshall Islands	181	11%	0%	241	64,522	283.01
Mauritania	1,030,400	0%	38%	4,723,354	3,129,486	0.7
Mauritius	2,030	49%	3%	12,672	1,284,264	106.25
Mexico	1,923,040	12%	41%	12,230,534	111,211,789	9.53
Micronesia	702	6%	0%	505	107,434	222.76
Midway	6.2	0%	0%	0	0	0
Moldova	33,371	54%	13%	268,303	4,320,748	16.88
Monaco	1.95	0%	0%	0	32,965	2878.93
Mongolia	1,554,731	1%	80%	15,067,209	3,041,142	0.21
Montenegro	13,812	14%	0%	22,707	672,180	30.36
Montserrat	102	20%	10%	367	5,097	14.55
Morocco	446,300	19%	47%	3,534,696	34,859,364	12.18
Mozambique	784,090	5%	56%	5,739,539	21,669,278	3.96
Namibia	825,418	1%	46%	4,654,367	2,108,665	0.47
Nauru	21	0%	0%	0	14,019	infinite
Navassa Island	5.4	0%	10%	6	0	0
Nepal	143,181	17%	15%	549,815	28,563,377	54.44
Nicaragua	120,254	15%	46%	880,259	5,891,199	7.01
Niger	1,266,700	11%	7%	2,801,434	15,306,252	5.86
Nigeria	910,768	33%	43%	8,308,390	149,229,090	18.83
Niue	260	12%	4%	499	1,398	2.93
Norway	307,442	3%	0%	99,611	4,660,539	44.13
New Caledonia	18,575	0%	12%	26,748	227,436	8.91
New Zealand	268,021	6%	1%	197,478	4,213,418	19.61
Netherlands (Holland)	33,883	22%	29%	207,364	16,715,999	84.48
Norfolk Island	35	0%	25%	104	2,141	21.37
Oman	212,460	0%	5%	130,535	3,418,085	28.1
Palau	458	9%	0%	495	20,796	44.06
Pakistan	778,720	24%	6%	2,803,392	176,242,949	65.89
Panama	75,990	7%	20%	248,578	3,360,474	14.3
Papua New Guinea	452,860	0.1%	0%	5,434	6,057,263	1168.13
Paraguay	397,300	7%	55%	2,955,912	6,995,655	2.48
Perù	1,280,000	3%	13%	2,485,248	29,546,963	12.6
Philippines	298,170	19%	5%	858,730	97,976,603	119.57
Poland	304,459	40%	11%	1,872,423	38,482,919	21.64
Portugal	91,951	17%	19%	397,228	10,707,924	28.25
Puerto Rico	8,870	4%	26%	31,602	3,971,020	130.33
Qatar	11,437	2%	5%	9,607	833,285	90.9
Reunion	2,502	17%	5%	6,605	802,000	127.25
Romania	230,340	39%	20%	1,630,807	22,215,421	14.28
Russia	16,995,800	7%	6%	26,860,162	140,041,247	5.54
Rwanda	24,948	46%	18%	191,601	10,473,282	57.29
S. Vincent and the Grenadines	389	18%	5%	1,074	104,574	102.08
Sahara Occidental (Western Sahara)	266,000	0%	19%	607,118	405,210	0.7
Saint Helena	413	13%	6%	937	7,637	8.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis	261	19%	3%	689	40,131	61.04
Saint Lucia	606	6%	5%	800	160,267	209.97
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242	13%	0%	378	7,051	19.57
Samoa	2,934	21%	0%	7,394	219,998	31.18
San Marino	61	17%	0%	122	30,324	255.38
Sao Tome and Príncipe	1,001	8%	1%	1,081	212,679	206.17
Saudi Arabia	2,149,690	2%	56%	14,876,715	28,686,633	2
Senegal	192,000	12%	16%	645,120	13,711,597	22.27
Serbia	77,474	0%	0%	0	7,379,339	infinite
Seychelles	455	2%	0%	118	87,476	839.5
Sierrra Leone	71,620	8%	31%	335,182	6,440,053	20.14
Singapore	682.7	1%	0%	82	4,657,542	59554.48
Slovakia	48,800	29%	11%	234,240	5,463,046	24.44
Slovenia	20,151	9%	15%	58,035	2,005,692	36.22
Solomon Islands	27,540	1%	1%	5,354	595,613	94.44
Somalia	627,337	2%	69%	5,317,810	9,832,017	1.93
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands	3,903	0%	0%	0	0	0
Spain	499,542	27%	21%	2,888,152	40,525,002	14.76
Spratly Islands	5	0%	0%	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	64,740	14%	7%	163,145	21,324,791	136.98
South Africa	1,219,912	12%	69%	11,857,545	49,052,489	4.34
Sudan	2,376,000	7%	49%	15,966,720	41,087,825	2.7
Suriname	161,470	0%	0%	0	481,267	infinite
Svalbard	61,020	0%	0%	0	2,116	infinite
Sweden	410,934	6%	1%	345,185	9,059,651	27.5
Switzerland	39,770	10%	27%	176,149	7,604,467	45.13
Swaziland	17,203	10%	62%	148,634	1,123,913	7.92
Syria	184,050	25%	45%	1,546,020	20,178,485	13.68
Taiwan	32,260	24%	0%	92,909	22,974,347	259.15
Tajikistan	142,700	7%	25%	547,968	7,349,145	14.06
Tanzania	886,037	4%	27%	3,296,058	41,048,532	13.05
Thailand	511,770	26%	2%	1,719,547	65902410	40.17
Togo	54,385	44%	4%	313,258	6,019,877	20.14
Tokelau	10.0	0%	0%	0	1,416	123.66
Tonga	718	20%	6%	2,240	120,898	56.56
Trinidad and Tobago	5,128	15%	2%	10,461	1,229,953	123.22
Tunisia	155,360	17%	31%	894,874	10,486,339	12.28
Turkey	770,760	30%	19%	4,532,069	76,805,524	17.76
Turkmenistan	488,100	5%	63%	3,982,896	4,884,887	1.29
Turks and Caicos Islands	430	2%	0%	103	22,942	232.98
Tuvalu	26	0%	0%	0	12,373	infinite
Ukraine	603,700	54%	14%	4,926,192	45,700,395	9.72
Uganda	199,710	22%	9%	742,921	32,369,558	45.66
Union of the Comoros	2,170	36%	7%	11,197	752,438	70.42
United Arab Emirates	83,600	0%	2%	20,064	4,798,491	250.64
United States of America (USA)	9,161,923	18%	26%	48,374,953	307,212,123	6.66
Uruguay	173,620	7%	77%	1,750,090	3,494,382	2.09
Uzbekistan	425,400	11%	46%	2,909,736	27,606,007	9.94
Vanuatu	12,200	2%	2%	5,856	218,519	39.1
Venezuela	882,050	3%	21%	2,540,304	26,814,843	11.06
Vatican City	0.44	0%	0%	0	0	0
Vietnam	325,360	20%	2%	858,950	86,967,524	106.1
Virgin Islands	346	6%	26%	1,317	109,825	86.63
Wake Island	6.5	0%	0%	0	0	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	274	7%	0%	230	15,289	69.62
West Bank	5,640	17%	32%	33,096	2,461,267	77.78
Yemen	527,970	3%	30%	2,085,059	23,822,783	11.94
Zambia	740,724	7%	40%	4,176,794	11,862,740	2.98
Zimbabwe	386,670	8%	13%	974,408	11,392,629	12.25
World Total	153,631,079			563,167,585	6,779,140,655	12.04

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• Interpretation of the Population Table 2009 - Summery of the Population Table 2009
• Overpopulation Calculations 2009 - Calculations for 'current population' and 'times overpopulated'