Population in Afghanistan compared to Germany: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Afghanistan and Germany: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Afghanistan	Germany	Afghanistan	Germany
1960	9,035,043	72,814,900	-	-
1961	9,214,083	73,377,632	1.98%	0.77%
1962	9,404,406	74,025,784	2.07%	0.88%
1963	9,604,487	74,714,353	2.13%	0.93%
1964	9,814,318	75,318,337	2.18%	0.81%
1965	10,036,008	75,963,695	2.26%	0.86%
1966	10,266,395	76,600,311	2.3%	0.84%
1967	10,505,959	76,951,336	2.33%	0.46%
1968	10,756,922	77,294,314	2.39%	0.45%
1969	11,017,409	77,909,682	2.42%	0.8%
1970	11,290,128	78,169,289	2.48%	0.33%
1971	11,567,667	78,312,842	2.46%	0.18%
1972	11,853,696	78,688,452	2.47%	0.48%
1973	12,157,999	78,936,666	2.57%	0.32%
1974	12,469,127	78,967,433	2.56%	0.04%
1975	12,773,954	78,673,554	2.44%	-0.37%
1976	13,059,851	78,336,950	2.24%	-0.43%
1977	13,340,756	78,159,814	2.15%	-0.23%
1978	13,611,441	78,091,820	2.03%	-0.09%
1979	13,655,567	78,126,350	0.32%	0.04%
1980	13,169,311	78,288,576	-3.56%	0.21%
1981	11,937,581	78,407,907	-9.35%	0.15%
1982	10,991,378	78,333,366	-7.93%	-0.1%
1983	10,917,982	78,128,282	-0.67%	-0.26%
1984	11,190,221	77,858,685	2.49%	-0.35%
1985	11,426,852	77,684,873	2.11%	-0.22%
1986	11,420,074	77,720,436	-0.06%	0.05%
1987	11,387,818	77,839,920	-0.28%	0.15%
1988	11,523,298	78,144,619	1.19%	0.39%
1989	11,874,088	78,751,283	3.04%	0.78%
1990	12,045,660	79,433,029	1.44%	0.87%
1991	12,238,879	80,013,896	1.6%	0.73%
1992	13,278,974	80,624,598	8.5%	0.76%
1993	14,943,172	81,156,363	12.5%	0.66%
1994	16,250,794	81,438,348	8.75%	0.35%
1995	17,065,836	81,678,051	5.02%	0.29%
1996	17,763,266	81,914,831	4.09%	0.29%
1997	18,452,091	82,034,771	3.88%	0.15%
1998	19,159,996	82,047,195	3.84%	0.02%
1999	19,887,785	82,100,243	3.8%	0.06%
2000	20,130,327	82,211,508	1.22%	0.14%
2001	20,284,307	82,349,925	0.76%	0.17%
2002	21,378,117	82,488,495	5.39%	0.17%
2003	22,733,049	82,534,176	6.34%	0.06%
2004	23,560,654	82,516,260	3.64%	-0.02%
2005	24,404,567	82,469,422	3.58%	-0.06%
2006	25,424,094	82,376,451	4.18%	-0.11%
2007	25,909,852	82,266,372	1.91%	-0.13%
2008	26,482,622	82,110,097	2.21%	-0.19%
2009	27,466,101	81,902,307	3.71%	-0.25%
2010	28,284,089	81,776,930	2.98%	-0.15%
2011	29,347,708	80,274,983	3.76%	-1.84%
2012	30,560,034	80,425,823	4.13%	0.19%
2013	31,622,704	80,645,605	3.48%	0.27%
2014	32,792,523	80,982,500	3.7%	0.42%
2015	33,831,764	81,686,611	3.17%	0.87%
2016	34,700,612	82,348,669	2.57%	0.81%
2017	35,688,935	82,657,002	2.85%	0.37%
2018	36,743,039	82,905,782	2.95%	0.3%
2019	37,856,121	83,092,962	3.03%	0.23%
2020	39,068,979	83,160,871	3.2%	0.08%
2021	40,000,412	83,196,078	2.38%	0.04%
2022	40,578,842	83,177,813	1.45%	-0.02%
2023	41,454,761	83,287,273	2.16%	0.13%
2024	42,647,492	83,516,593	2.88%	0.28%
2025	43,844,105	83,045,276	2.81%	-0.56%
2026	45,047,056	82,619,736	2.74%	-0.51%
2027	46,258,902	82,420,656	2.69%	-0.24%
2028	47,470,560	82,209,650	2.62%	-0.26%
2029	48,725,707	81,988,746	2.64%	-0.27%
2030	50,039,392	81,767,011	2.7%	-0.27%
2031	51,375,991	81,541,291	2.67%	-0.28%
2032	52,707,835	81,315,327	2.59%	-0.28%
2033	54,044,241	81,094,150	2.54%	-0.27%
2034	55,359,451	80,879,704	2.43%	-0.26%
2035	56,647,220	80,669,570	2.33%	-0.26%
2036	57,953,651	80,445,835	2.31%	-0.28%
2037	59,279,025	80,222,108	2.29%	-0.28%
2038	60,597,829	80,001,936	2.22%	-0.27%
2039	61,944,459	79,780,699	2.22%	-0.28%
2040	63,347,863	79,565,092	2.27%	-0.27%
2041	64,738,834	79,361,541	2.2%	-0.26%
2042	66,060,206	79,167,400	2.04%	-0.24%
2043	67,375,149	78,962,964	1.99%	-0.26%
2044	68,703,950	78,743,160	1.97%	-0.28%
2045	70,021,184	78,518,131	1.92%	-0.29%
2046	71,384,682	78,293,579	1.95%	-0.29%
2047	72,756,288	78,066,226	1.92%	-0.29%
2048	74,109,717	77,826,011	1.86%	-0.31%
2049	75,515,588	77,578,876	1.9%	-0.32%
2050	76,885,118	77,335,610	1.81%	-0.31%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Afghanistan increased by 9,276,518 people (a 36.5% growth), while Germany lost 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Afghanistan gained 10,359,688 (a 29.9% growth), while Germany's population increased by 271,067 (a 0.33% growth).

Afghanistan was ranked 45th most populous country in 2006 and is 36th in 2026. Germany was ranked 14th in 2006 and ranked 19th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Afghanistan's population will grow by 70.6% to 76,885,118 people with a rank change from 36th to 25th. The population of Germany will decrease by 6.4% to 77,335,610 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.