Java Program to Display All Prime Numbers from 1 to N

Last Updated : 5 Aug, 2026

Prime number generation is a fundamental programming problem used to practice loops and conditional statements. This approach iterates through numbers from 1 to N and prints only those that satisfy the conditions of a prime number.

  • Every number from 2 to N is checked individually for primality.
  • Prime numbers are widely used in mathematics, cryptography, and computer science.

Illustration:

Input: N = 11
Output: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11

Input: N = 7 Output: 2, 3, 5, 7

Approach 1

  • Firstly, consider the given number N as input.
  • Then apply a for loop in order to iterate the numbers from 1 to N.
  • At last, check if each number is a prime number and if it's a prime number then print it using brute-force method.
Java 
class gfg {

    // Function to print all the
    // prime numbers till N
    static void prime_N(int N)
    {
        // Declaring the variables
        int x, y, flg;

        // Printing display message
        System.out.println(
            "All the Prime numbers within 1 and " + N
            + " are:");

        // Using for loop for traversing all
        // the numbers from 1 to N
        for (x = 1; x <= N; x++) {

            // Omit 0 and 1 as they are
            // neither prime nor composite
            if (x == 1 || x == 0)
                continue;

            // Using flag variable to check
            // if x is prime or not
            flg = 1;

            for (y = 2; y <= x / 2; ++y) {
                if (x % y == 0) {
                    flg = 0;
                    break;
                }
            }

            // If flag is 1 then x is prime but
            // if flag is 0 then x is not prime
            if (flg == 1)
                System.out.print(x + " ");
        }
    }

    // The Driver code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int N = 45;

        prime_N(N);
    }
}

Output
All the Prime numbers within 1 and 45 are:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43

Approach 2

  • Firstly, consider the given number N as input.
  • Then apply a for loop in order to iterate the numbers from 1 to N.
  • At last, check if each number is a prime number and if it's a prime number then print it using the square root method.
Java 
class gfg {

    // Function to print all the
    // prime numbers till N
    static void prime_N(int N)
    {
        // Declaring the variables
        int x, y, flg;

        // Printing display message
        System.out.println(
            "All the Prime numbers within 1 and " + N
            + " are:");

        // Using for loop for traversing all
        // the numbers from 1 to N
        for (x = 2; x <= N; x++) {

            // Using flag variable to check
            // if x is prime or not
            flg = 1;

            for (y = 2; y * y <= x; y++) {
                if (x % y == 0) {
                    flg = 0;
                    break;
                }
            }

            // If flag is 1 then x is prime but
            // if flag is 0 then x is not prime
            if (flg == 1)
                System.out.print(x + " ");
        }
    }

    // The Driver code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int N = 45;

        prime_N(N);
    }
}

 
 


Output
All the Prime numbers within 1 and 45 are:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43

Approach 3

Java 
class SieveOfEratosthenes {
    void sieveOfEratosthenes(int n)
    {
        // Create a boolean array
        // "prime[0..n]" and
        // initialize all entries
        // it as true. A value in
        // prime[i] will finally be
        // false if i is Not a
        // prime, else true.
        boolean prime[] = new boolean[n + 1];
        for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++)
            prime[i] = true;

        for (int p = 2; p * p <= n; p++) {
            // If prime[p] is not changed, then it is a
            // prime
            if (prime[p] == true) {
                // Update all multiples of p
                for (int i = p * p; i <= n; i += p)
                    prime[i] = false;
            }
        }

        // Print all prime numbers
        for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++) {
            if (prime[i] == true)
                System.out.print(i + " ");
        }
    }

    // Driver Code
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        int N = 45;
        System.out.println(
            "All the Prime numbers within 1 and " + N
            + " are:");
        SieveOfEratosthenes g = new SieveOfEratosthenes();
        g.sieveOfEratosthenes(N);
    }
}

Output
All the Prime numbers within 1 and 45 are:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43
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