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2023 Global Peace Index
On June 28, the 17th edition of the Global Peace Index from international think-tank, the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) was released, and things are not looking great.
The analysis showed that conflict deaths are at their highest level this century causing world peacefulness to decline.
Some key findings in the report ยป
On 15 November 2022, the worldโs population surpassed 8 billion people.
Earth’s population continues to explode ยป from 1 billion in 1820 to 2 billion in 1930, to 3 billion in 1960, to 4 billion in 1974, to 5 billion in 1987, to 6 billion in 1999, to 7 billion in 2012, and 8 billion in 2022.
Following are the 50 most populated countries using the latest figures available ยป
- India ยป 1,425,000,000 (April 2023)
- China ยป 1,413,143,000
- United States ยป 339,665,000
- Indonesia ยป 279,476,000
- Pakistan ยป 247,654,000
- Nigeria ยป 230,843,000
- Brazil ยป 218,690,000
- Bangladesh ยป 167,184,000
- Russia ยป 141,699,000
- Mexico ยป 129,876,000
- Japan ยป 123,719,000
- Ethiopia ยป 116,463,000
- Philippines ยป 116,434,000
- Democratic Republic of the Congo ยป 111,860,000
- Egypt ยป 109,547,000
- Vietnam ยป 104,799,000
- Iran ยป 87,591,000
- Germany ยป 84,220,000
- Turkiye ยป 83,594,000
- Thailand ยป 69,795,000
- France ยป 68,522,000
- United Kingdom ยป 68,139,000
- Tanzania ยป 65,643,000
- Italy ยป 61,022,000
- South Africa ยป 58,048,000
- Myanmarย ยป 57,970,000
- Kenya ยป 57,052,000
- South Korea ยป 51,967,000
- Colombia ยป 49,337,000
- Sudan ยป 49,18,000
- Uganda ยป 47,730,000
- Spain ยป 47,223,000
- Argentina ยป 46,622,000
- Algeria ยป 44,758,000
- Ukraine ยป 43,306,000
- Iraq ยป 41,266,000
- Afghanistan ยป 39,232,000
- Canada ยป 38,517,000
- Poland ยป 37,992,000
- Morocco ยป 37,067,000
- Angola ยป 35,981,000
- Saudi Arabia ยป 35,940,000
- Malaysia ยป 34,220,000
- Ghana ยป 33,846,000
- Mozambique ยป 32,514,000
- Peru ยป 32,440,000
- Yemen ยป 31,566,000
- Uzbekistan ยป 31,361,000
- Nepal ยป 30,899,000
- Venezuela ยป 30,518,000