Juan de Nova Island no indigenous inhabitants note: there is a small French military garrison along with a few meteorologists; occasionally visited by scientists (July 2005 est.)

Kazakhstan
15,185,844 (July 2005 est.)

Kenya
33,829,590
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
2005 est.)

Kingman Reef
uninhabited (July 2005 est.)

Kiribati
103,092 (July 2005 est.)

Korea, North
22,912,177 (July 2005 est.)

Korea, South
48,422,644 (July 2005 est.)

Kuwait 2,335,648 note: includes 1,291,354 non-nationals (July 2005 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
5,146,281 (July 2005 est.)

Laos
6,217,141 (July 2005 est.)