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List of marsupials by population
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This is a list of estimated global populations of Marsupials species. This list is not comprehensive, as not all Marsupials have had their numbers quantified.
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Common name | Scientific name | IUCN Red List status | Trend | Global population estimate (year) | Population notes | Range | Image |
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Common wombat | Vombatus ursinus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
>915,090 (2020)[1] | Only includes subpopulations from three islands (Maria, Flinders, and Tasmania) of two subspecies (V. u. ursinus and V. u. tasmaniensis). Mainland subspecies (V. u. hirsutus) numbers are not known. | ![]() |
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Southern hairy-nosed wombat | Lasiorhinus latifrons | NT IUCN | ![]() |
1,300,000 (2016)[2][3] | ![]() |
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Northern hairy-nosed wombat | Lasiorhinus krefftii | CR IUCN | ![]() |
315 (2021)[4] | ![]() |
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Koala | Phascolarctos cinereus | VU IUCN | ![]() |
100,000–500,000[citation needed] | ![]() |
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Eastern grey kangaroo | Macropus giganteus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
>12,977,181 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | ![]() |
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Western grey kangaroo | Macropus fuliginosus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
>2,571,158 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | ![]() |
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Red kangaroo | Osphranter rufus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
>10,848,470 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | ![]() |
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Wallaroo, euro | Osphranter robustus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
>2,338,076 (2021)[5] | Population estimate is only for the areas within Australia where commercial harvesting occur. The actual national populations would be significantly higher. | ![]() |
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Antilopine kangaroo | Osphranter antilopinus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
[data missing] | ![]() |
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Tasmanian devil | Sarcophilus harrisii | EN IUCN | ![]() |
140,000[citation needed] | ![]() |
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Thylacine | Thylacinus cynocephalus | EX IUCN | 0 (1936)[6] | Last known individual died on 7 September, 1936. | ![]() |
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Brown-eared woolly opossum | Caluromys lanatus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
160,000,000 (2019)[7] | ![]() |
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Brown four-eyed opossum | Metachirus nudicaudatus | LC IUCN | ![]() |
128,000,000 (2019)[7] | ![]() |
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Gray four-eyed opossum | Philander opossum | LC IUCN | ![]() |
121,000,000 (2019)[7] | ![]() |
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Linnaeus's mouse opossum | Marmosa murina | LC IUCN | ![]() |
104,000,000 (2019)[7] | ![]() |
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