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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Afghanistan was 42,647,492 in 2024 vs 9,562,314 people in Hungary in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Afghanistan's population is 44,810,409 people compared to 9,518,980 in Hungary.

Population statistics:

  • Afghanistan's population is 4.71 times bigger than Hungary's.
  • Afghanistan is ranked the 36th most populous country in the world, while Hungary is the 98th.
  • The countries together account for 0.66% of the world: 0.54% for Afghanistan vs 0.12% for Hungary.
  • For the last 10 years, Afghanistan has had an average growth rate of +2.76% per year vs -0.29% in Hungary.
  • Since 2005, the population of Afghanistan has increased from 24.4M people to 44.8M (83.6% growth), while Hungary has declined from 10.1M to 9.52M (5.63% decline).
  • Afghanistan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 130M people, while Hungary's population already peaked in 1981 at 10.7M people and is projected to decrease to 7.37M people by 2100.

Afghanistan vs Hungary: live population counter

Afghanistan Hungary
Current population
44810409
9518980
Population rank 36/197 98/197
Percent of world population 0.54% 0.12%
One net population change
26.4 seconds
17.6 minutes
One birth every
21.5 seconds
6.02 minutes
One death every
2.19 minutes
4.09 minutes
One migration net change every
11.9 minutes
32.4 minutes
Annual migration change -44,089 +16,223
Daily growth/decline +3,268 -82
Annual growth/decline +1,192,731 -29,872
Annual growth/decline rate +2.88% -0.31%
Population growth rate rank 20/197 178/197

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

Afghanistan
Population

Growth rate
Hungary
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Afghanistan Hungary Afghanistan Hungary
1960 9,035,043 9,983,512 - -
1961 9,214,083 10,027,958 1.98% 0.45%
1962 9,404,406 10,060,825 2.07% 0.33%
1963 9,604,487 10,087,947 2.13% 0.27%
1964 9,814,318 10,119,835 2.18% 0.32%
1965 10,036,008 10,147,935 2.26% 0.28%
1966 10,266,395 10,178,653 2.3% 0.3%
1967 10,505,959 10,216,604 2.33% 0.37%
1968 10,756,922 10,255,815 2.39% 0.38%
1969 11,017,409 10,298,723 2.42% 0.42%
1970 11,290,128 10,337,910 2.48% 0.38%
1971 11,567,667 10,367,537 2.46% 0.29%
1972 11,853,696 10,398,489 2.47% 0.3%
1973 12,157,999 10,432,055 2.57% 0.32%
1974 12,469,127 10,478,720 2.56% 0.45%
1975 12,773,954 10,540,525 2.44% 0.59%
1976 13,059,851 10,598,677 2.24% 0.55%
1977 13,340,756 10,648,031 2.15% 0.47%
1978 13,611,441 10,684,822 2.03% 0.35%
1979 13,655,567 10,704,152 0.32% 0.18%
1980 13,169,311 10,711,122 -3.56% 0.07%
1981 11,937,581 10,711,848 -9.35% 0.007%
1982 10,991,378 10,705,535 -7.93% -0.06%
1983 10,917,982 10,689,463 -0.67% -0.15%
1984 11,190,221 10,668,095 2.49% -0.2%
1985 11,426,852 10,648,713 2.11% -0.18%
1986 11,420,074 10,630,564 -0.06% -0.17%
1987 11,387,818 10,612,741 -0.28% -0.17%
1988 11,523,298 10,596,487 1.19% -0.15%
1989 11,874,088 10,481,719 3.04% -1.08%
1990 12,045,660 10,373,988 1.44% -1.03%
1991 12,238,879 10,373,400 1.6% -0.006%
1992 13,278,974 10,369,341 8.5% -0.04%
1993 14,943,172 10,357,523 12.5% -0.11%
1994 16,250,794 10,343,355 8.75% -0.14%
1995 17,065,836 10,328,965 5.02% -0.14%
1996 17,763,266 10,311,238 4.09% -0.17%
1997 18,452,091 10,290,486 3.88% -0.2%
1998 19,159,996 10,266,570 3.84% -0.23%
1999 19,887,785 10,237,530 3.8% -0.28%
2000 20,130,327 10,210,971 1.22% -0.26%
2001 20,284,307 10,187,576 0.76% -0.23%
2002 21,378,117 10,158,608 5.39% -0.28%
2003 22,733,049 10,129,552 6.34% -0.29%
2004 23,560,654 10,107,146 3.64% -0.22%
2005 24,404,567 10,087,065 3.58% -0.2%
2006 25,424,094 10,071,370 4.18% -0.16%
2007 25,909,852 10,055,780 1.91% -0.15%
2008 26,482,622 10,038,188 2.21% -0.17%
2009 27,466,101 10,022,650 3.71% -0.15%
2010 28,284,089 10,000,023 2.98% -0.23%
2011 29,347,708 9,971,727 3.76% -0.28%
2012 30,560,034 9,920,362 4.13% -0.52%
2013 31,622,704 9,872,734 3.48% -0.48%
2014 32,792,523 9,833,038 3.7% -0.4%
2015 33,831,764 9,797,755 3.17% -0.36%
2016 34,700,612 9,759,755 2.57% -0.39%
2017 35,688,935 9,726,756 2.85% -0.34%
2018 36,743,039 9,706,964 2.95% -0.2%
2019 37,856,121 9,694,824 3.03% -0.13%
2020 39,068,979 9,670,419 3.2% -0.25%
2021 40,000,412 9,630,932 2.38% -0.41%
2022 40,578,842 9,605,074 1.45% -0.27%
2023 41,454,761 9,592,186 2.16% -0.13%
2024 42,647,492 9,562,314 2.88% -0.31%
2025 43,844,105 9,518,980 2.81% -0.45%
2026 45,047,056 9,473,059 2.74% -0.48%
2027 46,258,902 9,440,865 2.69% -0.34%
2028 47,470,560 9,407,907 2.62% -0.35%
2029 48,725,707 9,373,535 2.64% -0.37%
2030 50,039,392 9,337,966 2.7% -0.38%
2031 51,375,991 9,301,690 2.67% -0.39%
2032 52,707,835 9,264,741 2.59% -0.4%
2033 54,044,241 9,227,265 2.54% -0.4%
2034 55,359,451 9,189,343 2.43% -0.41%
2035 56,647,220 9,150,977 2.33% -0.42%
2036 57,953,651 9,112,647 2.31% -0.42%
2037 59,279,025 9,074,256 2.29% -0.42%
2038 60,597,829 9,036,089 2.22% -0.42%
2039 61,944,459 8,998,343 2.22% -0.42%
2040 63,347,863 8,960,956 2.27% -0.42%
2041 64,738,834 8,924,349 2.2% -0.41%
2042 66,060,206 8,888,360 2.04% -0.4%
2043 67,375,149 8,853,182 1.99% -0.4%
2044 68,703,950 8,818,771 1.97% -0.39%
2045 70,021,184 8,784,653 1.92% -0.39%
2046 71,384,682 8,750,973 1.95% -0.38%
2047 72,756,288 8,717,982 1.92% -0.38%
2048 74,109,717 8,685,744 1.86% -0.37%
2049 75,515,588 8,654,021 1.9% -0.37%
2050 76,885,118 8,622,711 1.81% -0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Afghanistan increased by 9,427,197 people (a 38.6% growth), while Hungary lost 289,310 people (a 2.87% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Afghanistan gained 10,978,645 (a 32.5% growth), while Hungary's population decreased by -278,775 (a 2.85% decline).

Afghanistan was ranked 45th most populous country in 2005 and is 36th in 2025. Hungary was ranked 81st in 2005 and ranked 98th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Afghanistan's population will grow by 71.6% to 76,885,118 people with a rank change from 36th to 25th. The population of Hungary will decrease by 9.42% to 8,622,711 people and rank change from 98th to 111th.

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