Is this its own endpoint?

No. Population is a field on country, state, city, postal, and continent.

GET /country · /state · /city · /postal · /continent

Population API

Look up a place. Read population. Same field everywhere.

population

Population estimate. Same field on /country, /state, /city, /postal, and /continent

Call a place API

Country, state, city, postal, or continent.

Read population

One field. No extra param. No extra endpoint.

Try a city

The form below hits /city. The field is on the others too.

One field.

On every place lookup. Every plan.

5
place APIs: 250
countries

Look up a place and read population. Country, state, city, postal, and continent responses all carry the same field. No separate endpoint, and no extra query param.

The number is an official estimate for that layer, refreshed on a schedule.

RESPONSE

$ curl "https://api.parseapi.com/country/us" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

// 200 · ~35ms US · ~97ms worldwide
{
  "country": "US",
  "iso3": "USA",
  "numeric": 840,
  "name": "United States",
  "full_name": "United States of America",
  "local_name": "United States",
  "demonym": "American",
  "capital": "Washington, D.C.",
  "capital_lat": 38.89,
  "capital_lon": -77.05,
  "continent": "NA",
  "region": "Americas",
  "subregion": "Northern America",
  "population": 340110988,
  "area": 9629091,
  "currency": "USD",
  "currency_name": "United States Dollar",
  "currency_symbol": "$",
  "tld": ".us",
  "calling_code": "+1",
  "emoji": "🇺🇸",
  "languages": ["en"],
  "borders": ["CA", "MX"],
  "blocs": ["G7", "NATO", "OECD"],
  "timezones": [
    "America/Adak",
    "America/Anchorage",
    "America/Boise",
    "America/Chicago",
    // ... 25 more
  ],
  "week_start": "sunday",
  "units": "imperial",
  "driving_side": "right",
  "plugs": ["A", "B"],
  "voltage": 120,
  "frequency": 60,
  "emergency": {
    "police": "911",
    "ambulance": "911",
    "fire": "911"
  },
  "postal_format": "#####",
  "postal_regex": "^(?:(\d{5})(?:[ \-](\d{4}))?)$",
  "tax": null,
  "tax_rate": null,
  "tax_id_format": null,
  "tax_id_regex": null,
  "ioc": "USA",
  "fifa": "USA",
  "plate": "USA"
}

Response fields

population: Population estimate. Same field on /country, /state, /city, /postal, and /continent

QUESTIONS

Is this its own endpoint?: No. Population is a field on country, state, city, postal, and continent.
Where does the number come from?: The official source for that layer, refreshed on a schedule.

SPEED

How long a lookup takes.

35ms

51ms

APAC

142ms

LatAm

18ms

122ms

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Coverage

One field on every place lookup. The number comes from the official source for that layer, refreshed on a schedule. There is no separate /population call.

/countryCountryOfficial estimates for 200+ countries.
/continentContinentRolled up from the country totals.
/stateStateOfficial estimates for states and districts.
/cityCityOfficial estimates for curated US, French, and Australian places.
/postalPostalUS, French, and Australian codes.

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