List of islands by population

This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population. It includes all islands with a population of more than 10,000,000 people. See also the list of islands and the list of islands by area. The populations given are from the Wikipedia article where a census date is not given.

Contents
1 Land masses
2 Islands
3 Footnotes
4 See also
5 External link

Land masses

  1. Africa-Eurasia - 5,000,000,000
  2. America - 900,000,000
  3. Australia1 - 20,000,000
  4. Antarctica2 - 0

Islands

  1. Java - 114,000,000
  2. Honshu - 98,352,000 (1990)
  3. Great Britain - 58,000,000 (2001)
  4. Luzon - 42,800,000 (2000)
  5. Sumatra - 40,000,000
  6. Taiwan - 22,191,000
  7. Sri Lanka - 19,608,000
  8. Mindanao - 17,600,000 (1997 est)
  9. Madagascar - 17,400,000 (2004 est)
  10. Hispaniola - 16,000,000
  11. Borneo - 16,000,000 (2000 est)
  12. Sulawesi - 14,900,000 (2000)
  13. Kyushu - 13,400,000 (1995)
  14. Salsette - 13,000,000 ?
  15. Cuba - 11,080,000

Footnotes

1 - It is generally accepted that Australia is not an island - if it were considered as such it would rank seventh.
2 - Antarctica has no permanent residents, but there are usually at least 1,000 people (mostly research personnel) living at its bases.

See also

External link

See also: List of islands by population, Africa-Eurasia, Antarctica, Australia, Borneo, Cuba, Great Britain, Hispaniola, Honshu, Island