Top 20 Most Populated Countries In The World

If China is the most populated country in the world with over 1.3 billion people, and India ranks second with more than 1.2 billion population, where would you place our country, the Philippines, with a hundred million Filipinos?
Well, let's find out the answer by looking at the list of the Top 20 Most Populated Countries in the World (year 2014) according to United States Census Bureau:

1. China - 1,355,692,576
2. India - 1,236,344,631
3. United States - 318,892,103
4. Indonesia - 253,609,643
5. Brazil - 202,656,788
6. Pakistan - 196,174,380
7. Nigeria - 177,155,754
8. Bangladesh - 166,280,712
9. Russia - 142,470,272
10. Japan - 127,103,388
11. Mexico - 120,286,655
12. Philippines - 107,668,231
13. Ethiopia - 96,633,458
14. Vietnam - 93,421,835
15. Egypt - 86,895,099
16. Turkey - 81,619,392
17. Germany - 80,996,685
18. Iran - 80,840,713
19. Congo (Kinshasa) - 77,433,744
20. Thailand - 67,741,401

You will notice among the top 20 most populated countries in the world,  11  are from Asia, one from Eurasia (Russia) and nother one is an Afro-Asiatic country (Egypt).  Here are some interesting facts of selected countries such as:

• China is the world's second largest economy, world's largest exporter and second largest importer of goods according to wikipedia article.

• India is the worst place to be born in South East Asia according to a Yahoo article.

• United States has the largest Facebook users according to checkfacebook.com.

• Congo, Democratic Republic is one of the poorest countries in the world according to aneki article.

• Only 0.4% of the population in Ethiopia has access to the internet, making it the smallest blogosphere in the world or in other words Ethiopia has the smallest number of bloggers (has less than 20 bloggers as of 2011) according to eweket article.

• German men are regarded as "world's worst lovers" according to telegraph.co.uk article

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