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Population in Albania compared to Brunei: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Albania was 2,714,617 in 2024 vs 462,721 people in Brunei in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Albania's population is 2,694,925 people compared to 469,088 in Brunei.

Population statistics:

  • Albania's population is 5.75 times bigger than Brunei's.
  • Albania is ranked the 141st most populous country in the world, while Brunei is the 170th.
  • The countries together account for 0.04% of the world: 0.03% for Albania vs 0.006% for Brunei.
  • For the last 10 years, Albania has had an average growth rate of -0.58% per year vs +1.08% in Brunei.
  • Since 2005, the population of Albania has decreased from 3.01M people to 2.69M (10.5% decline), while Brunei has grown from 359K to 469K (30.7% growth).
  • Brunei is projected to reach its peak in 2055 at 521K people, while Albania's population already peaked in 1990 at 3.29M people and is projected to decrease to 1.15M people by 2100.

Albania vs Brunei: live population counter

Albania Brunei
Current population
2694925
469088
Population rank 141/197 170/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.006%
One net population change
16.8 minutes
2.32 hours
One birth every
18.7 minutes
1.4 hours
One death every
23 minutes
3.65 hours
One migration net change every
21.5 minutes
1.07 years
Annual migration change -24,472 +0
Daily growth/decline -86 +10
Annual growth/decline -31,355 +3,772
Annual growth/decline rate -1.14% +0.82%
Population growth rate rank 193/197 116/197

Albania and Brunei: population history and growth rate by year chart

Albania
Population

Growth rate
Brunei
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Albania Brunei Albania Brunei
1960 1,608,800 88,347 - -
1961 1,659,800 92,517 3.17% 4.72%
1962 1,711,319 96,719 3.1% 4.54%
1963 1,762,621 101,159 3% 4.59%
1964 1,814,135 105,922 2.92% 4.71%
1965 1,864,791 110,838 2.79% 4.64%
1966 1,914,573 115,874 2.67% 4.54%
1967 1,965,598 121,017 2.67% 4.44%
1968 2,022,272 126,222 2.88% 4.3%
1969 2,081,695 131,446 2.94% 4.14%
1970 2,135,479 135,138 2.58% 2.81%
1971 2,187,853 137,921 2.45% 2.06%
1972 2,243,126 142,189 2.53% 3.09%
1973 2,296,752 147,369 2.39% 3.64%
1974 2,350,124 152,656 2.32% 3.59%
1975 2,404,831 158,070 2.33% 3.55%
1976 2,458,526 163,607 2.23% 3.5%
1977 2,513,546 169,277 2.24% 3.47%
1978 2,566,266 174,884 2.1% 3.31%
1979 2,617,832 180,422 2.01% 3.17%
1980 2,671,997 186,111 2.07% 3.15%
1981 2,726,056 191,977 2.02% 3.15%
1982 2,784,278 198,165 2.14% 3.22%
1983 2,843,960 204,741 2.14% 3.32%
1984 2,904,429 211,661 2.13% 3.38%
1985 2,964,762 218,919 2.08% 3.43%
1986 3,022,635 226,495 1.95% 3.46%
1987 3,083,605 233,860 2.02% 3.25%
1988 3,142,336 240,913 1.9% 3.02%
1989 3,227,943 248,064 2.72% 2.97%
1990 3,286,542 255,292 1.82% 2.91%
1991 3,266,790 262,596 -0.6% 2.86%
1992 3,247,039 269,839 -0.6% 2.76%
1993 3,227,287 276,971 -0.61% 2.64%
1994 3,207,536 284,091 -0.61% 2.57%
1995 3,187,784 291,195 -0.62% 2.5%
1996 3,168,033 298,276 -0.62% 2.43%
1997 3,148,281 305,341 -0.62% 2.37%
1998 3,128,530 312,385 -0.63% 2.31%
1999 3,108,778 319,411 -0.63% 2.25%
2000 3,089,027 326,424 -0.64% 2.2%
2001 3,060,173 333,345 -0.93% 2.12%
2002 3,051,010 340,099 -0.3% 2.03%
2003 3,039,616 346,637 -0.37% 1.92%
2004 3,026,939 352,911 -0.42% 1.81%
2005 3,011,487 358,916 -0.51% 1.7%
2006 2,992,547 364,663 -0.63% 1.6%
2007 2,970,017 370,873 -0.75% 1.7%
2008 2,947,314 377,793 -0.76% 1.87%
2009 2,927,519 384,952 -0.67% 1.89%
2010 2,913,021 392,332 -0.5% 1.92%
2011 2,905,195 399,389 -0.27% 1.8%
2012 2,900,401 405,557 -0.17% 1.54%
2013 2,895,092 411,202 -0.18% 1.39%
2014 2,889,104 416,750 -0.21% 1.35%
2015 2,880,703 422,212 -0.29% 1.31%
2016 2,876,101 427,564 -0.16% 1.27%
2017 2,873,457 432,772 -0.09% 1.22%
2018 2,866,376 437,810 -0.25% 1.16%
2019 2,854,191 442,680 -0.43% 1.11%
2020 2,837,849 447,404 -0.57% 1.07%
2021 2,811,666 451,721 -0.92% 0.96%
2022 2,777,689 455,370 -1.21% 0.81%
2023 2,745,972 458,949 -1.14% 0.79%
2024 2,714,617 462,721 -1.14% 0.82%
2025 2,694,925 466,324 -0.73% 0.78%
2026 2,675,010 469,766 -0.74% 0.74%
2027 2,655,754 473,148 -0.72% 0.72%
2028 2,636,738 476,428 -0.72% 0.69%
2029 2,617,526 479,491 -0.73% 0.64%
2030 2,598,055 482,438 -0.74% 0.61%
2031 2,578,605 485,308 -0.75% 0.59%
2032 2,559,433 487,943 -0.74% 0.54%
2033 2,539,878 490,424 -0.76% 0.51%
2034 2,519,713 492,887 -0.79% 0.5%
2035 2,499,557 495,286 -0.8% 0.49%
2036 2,479,237 497,544 -0.81% 0.46%
2037 2,458,376 499,693 -0.84% 0.43%
2038 2,437,333 501,910 -0.86% 0.44%
2039 2,415,720 504,061 -0.89% 0.43%
2040 2,393,840 505,968 -0.91% 0.38%
2041 2,372,118 507,800 -0.91% 0.36%
2042 2,350,472 509,531 -0.91% 0.34%
2043 2,328,984 511,124 -0.91% 0.31%
2044 2,307,685 512,586 -0.91% 0.29%
2045 2,286,312 514,047 -0.93% 0.29%
2046 2,264,596 515,409 -0.95% 0.26%
2047 2,243,130 516,596 -0.95% 0.23%
2048 2,221,710 517,693 -0.95% 0.21%
2049 2,200,033 518,684 -0.98% 0.19%
2050 2,178,271 519,542 -0.99% 0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Albania decreased by 130,784 people (a 4.34% decline), while Brunei gained 63,296 people (a 17.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Albania lost -185,778 (a 6.45% decline), while Brunei's population increased by 46,876 (a 11.1% growth).

Albania was ranked 132nd most populous country in 2005 and is 141st in 2025. Brunei was ranked 169th in 2005 and ranked 170th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Albania's population will shrink by 19.2% to 2,178,271 people with a rank change from 141st to 146th. The population of Brunei will increase by 10.8% to 519,542 people and rank change from 170th to 171st.

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