World Population 2024 Ranking List. Among the companies that made the financial times' annual. 235 rows the bric countries (brazil, russia, india and china), generally regarded as the four major emerging economies expected to dominate in the 21st century, are all in the top ten most populous countries, indicating how important the sheer size of their.

Closely following is china, with 1.425 billion residents, evidencing the massive demographic weight that asia carries in global. It is perhaps unsurprising that the majority of the most populous cities in the world are in the two most populated countries in the world, china and india.