Kingman Reef
uninhabited (July 2004 est.)

Kiribati
100,798 (July 2004 est.)

Korea, North
22,697,553 (July 2004 est.)

Korea, South
48,598,175 (July 2004 est.)

Kuwait 2,257,549 note: includes 1,291,354 non-nationals (July 2004 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
5,081,429 (July 2004 est.)

Laos
6,068,117 (July 2004 est.)

Latvia
2,306,306 (July 2004 est.)

Lebanon
3,777,218 (July 2004 est.)

Lesotho
1,865,040
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2004 est.)