Appendix 1 The Commonwealth and its members
| Member countries (as at 30 June 2005) and populations |
Population (thousands) | |
| 1 | Antigua and Barbuda | 79,000 |
| 2 | Australia | 19,881,000 |
| (external territories: Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos [Keeling] Islands, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island, and Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands) | ||
| 3 | The Bahamas | 317,000 |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 138,066,000 |
| 5 | Barbados | 271,000 |
| 6 | Belize | 274,000 |
| 7 | Botswana | 1,722,000 |
| 8 | Brunei Darussalam | 356,000 |
| 9 | Cameroon | 16,087,000 |
| 10 | Canada | 31,630,000 |
| 11 | Cyprus | 770,000 |
| 12 | Dominica | 71,000 |
| 13 | Fiji Islands | 835,000 |
| 14 | The Gambia | 1,421,000 |
| 15 | Ghana | 20,669,000 |
| 16 | Grenada | 105,000 |
| 17 | Guyana | 769,000 |
| 18 | India | 1,064,399,000 |
| 19 | Jamaica | 2,643,000 |
| 20 | Kenya | 31,916,000 |
| 21 | Kiribati | 96,000 |
| 22 | Lesotho | 1,793,000 |
| 23 | Malawi | 10,962,000 |
| 24 | Malaysia | 24,774,000 |
| 25 | Maldives | 293,000 |
| 26 | Malta | 399,000 |
| 27 | Mauritius | 1,222,000 |
| 28 | Mozambique | 18,791,000 |
| 29 | Namibia | 2,015,000 |
| 30 | Nauru | 12,000 |
| 31 | New Zealand | 4,009,000 |
| (includes the territories of Tokelau and the Ross Dependency [Antarctic]; self-governing countries in free association with New Zealand: Cook Islands and Niue) | ||
| 32 | Nigeria | 136,461,000 |
| 33 | Pakistan | 148,439,000 |
| 34 | Papua New Guinea | 5,502,000 |
| 35 | St Kitts and Nevis | 47,000 |
| 36 | St Lucia | 161,000 |
| 37 | St Vincent and the Grenadines | 109,000 |
| 38 | Samoa | 178,000 |
| 39 | Seychelles | 84,000 |
| 40 | Sierra Leone | 5,337,000 |
| 41 | Singapore | 4,250,000 |
| 42 | Solomon Islands | 457,000 |
| 43 | South Africa | 45,829,000 |
| 44 | Sri Lanka | 19,232,000 |
| 45 | Swaziland | 1,106,000 |
| 46 | Tonga | 102,000 |
| 47 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,313,000 |
| 48 | Tuvalu | 11,000 |
| 49 | Uganda | 25,280,000 |
| 50 | United Kingdom | 59,329,000 |
| (overseas territories: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, St Helena and St Helena Dependencies [Ascension and Tristan da Cunha], South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands) | ||
| 51 | United Republic of Tanzania | 35,889,000 |
| 52 | Vanuatu | 210,000 |
| 53 | Zambia | 10,403,000 |
| 2003 population figures from World Bank, except for Nauru and Tuvalu (Asian Development Bank) | ||
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