Countries in Europe by population

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	People	Status
Jersey	103,267	Territory of United Kingdom
Isle of Man	84,118	Territory of United Kingdom
Guernsey	67,787	Territory of United Kingdom
Faroe Islands	54,900	Territory of Denmark
Åland Islands	30,836	Territory of Finland

Questions

Which country in Europe has the largest population?

Russia has the largest population in Europe: 144 million people (2025). Next come Germany (83 million people) and the United Kingdom (69 million people).

Which country in Europe has the smallest population?

The Vatican City, with 882 people (2024).

What is the typical population of a country in Europe?

The median of the 44 countries in Europe is 5.8 million people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Mid-year population estimate: everyone living there, whatever their citizenship. Source: World Bank, mostly 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank. Where the World Bank has no estimate, the population is Wikidata’s. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.