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Population, total

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Source: World Bank208 rowsUpdated: 9/20/2026License: CC-BY-4.0
populationworld-bank

Quality

100

Attribution

World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org)

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
country_codestringISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_namestringCountry name as published by the World Bank API.
yearintegerCalendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
valueintegerIndicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: persons)

Sample rows

country_codecountry_nameyearvalue
CANCanada200030685730
CANCanada200131020855
CANCanada200231359199
CANCanada200331642461
CANCanada200431938807

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/population_total" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/population_total").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/population_total

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

Population, total