| APPENDIX 2-1 Surface Area and Population | ||||
| Source: World Bank Database. | ||||
| Country or Region | Surface | Mid-year | Population | Population |
| Area | Population | Growth | Density | |
| (10 000 sq.km) | (10 000 persons) | (annual %) | (persons/sq.km) | |
| World | 13409.7 | 669725 | 1.17 | 52 |
| China | 960.0 | 132466 | 0.51 | 142 |
| Bangladesh | 14.4 | 16000 | 1.41 | 1229 |
| India | 328.7 | 113996 | 1.34 | 383 |
| Indonesia | 190.5 | 22735 | 1.18 | 125 |
| Iran | 174.5 | 7196 | 1.31 | 44 |
| Israel | 2.2 | 731 | 1.78 | 338 |
| Japan | 37.8 | 12770 | -0.05 | 350 |
| Kazakhstan | 272.5 | 1567 | 1.22 | 6 |
| Korea, Dem. | 12.1 | 2382 | 0.38 | 198 |
| Korea, Rep. | 10.0 | 4861 | 0.31 | 502 |
| Malaysia | 33.0 | 2701 | 1.71 | 82 |
| Mongolia | 156.4 | 264 | 1.13 | 2 |
| Myanmar | 67.7 | 4956 | 0.88 | 76 |
| Pakistan | 79.6 | 16611 | 2.14 | 215 |
| Philippines | 30.0 | 9035 | 1.82 | 303 |
| Singapore | 0.1 | 484 | 5.32 | 6943 |
| Sri Lanka | 6.6 | 2016 | 0.73 | 312 |
| Thailand | 51.3 | 6739 | 0.61 | 132 |
| Viet Nam | 33.1 | 8621 | 1.23 | 278 |
| Egypt | 100.1 | 8153 | 1.82 | 82 |
| Nigeria | 92.4 | 15121 | 2.34 | 166 |
| South Africa | 121.9 | 4869 | 1.73 | 40 |
| Canada | 998.5 | 3331 | 1.01 | 4 |
| Mexico | 196.4 | 10635 | 1.01 | 55 |
| United States | 963.2 | 30406 | 0.92 | 33 |
| Argentina | 278.0 | 3988 | 0.99 | 15 |
| Brazil | 851.5 | 19197 | 0.97 | 23 |
| Venezuela | 91.2 | 2794 | 1.63 | 32 |
| Belarus | 20.8 | 968 | -0.22 | 48 |
| Bulgaria | 11.1 | 762 | -0.48 | 70 |
| Czech Republic | 7.9 | 1042 | 0.87 | 135 |
| France | 54.9 | 6228 | 0.55 | 114 |
| Germany | 35.7 | 8211 | -0.19 | 235 |
| Italy | 30.1 | 5983 | 0.77 | 203 |
| Netherlands | 4.2 | 1645 | 0.39 | 487 |
| Poland | 31.3 | 3813 | 0.01 | 125 |
| Romania | 23.8 | 2151 | -0.15 | 94 |
| Russian Fed. | 1709.8 | 14195 | -0.11 | 9 |
| Spain | 50.5 | 4556 | 1.50 | 91 |
| Turkey | 78.4 | 7391 | 1.24 | 96 |
| Ukraine | 60.4 | 4626 | -0.54 | 80 |
| United Kingdom | 24.4 | 6141 | 0.67 | 254 |
| Australia | 774.1 | 2143 | 1.69 | 3 |
| New Zealand | 26.8 | 427 | 0.96 | 16 |