This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population. Of those, only Java (Indonesia) and Honshu (Japan) have populations over 1% of the global population.
Islands ordered by population
Due to the uncertainty of what exactly constitutes a geographic island, as opposed to an administrative region, please see comments about what is included in the figures: the statistics for some "islands" include other nearby islands.
Population over 10 million
Population 1 million to 10 million
Population 100,000 to 1,000,000
Peninsulas and other areas not regarded as islands
See also
- List of islands by area
- List of islands by population density
- List of Canadian islands by population
- List of Caribbean countries by population
- List of European islands by population
- List of Indonesian islands by population
- List of islands of South America
- List of Oceanian countries by population
- List of populated islands of the Great Lakes
Notes
References
External links
- UN Environment Programme Islands Directory
- Most populous islands Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
