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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Albania was 2,714,617 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Albania's population is 2,694,925 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 26.6 times bigger than Albania's.
  • Albania is ranked the 141st most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.03% for Albania vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Albania has had an average growth rate of -0.58% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Albania has decreased from 3.01M people to 2.69M (10.5% decline), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 38.9% of the population in Albania and 22.9% in Thailand.

Albania vs Thailand: live population counter

Albania Thailand
Current population
2694925
71619867
Population rank 141/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.87%
One net population change
16.8 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
18.7 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
23 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
21.5 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -24,472 +23,321
Daily growth/decline -86 -94
Annual growth/decline -31,355 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate -1.14% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 193/197 170/197

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

Albania
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Albania Thailand Albania Thailand
1960 1,608,800 26,851,747 - -
1961 1,659,800 27,650,334 3.17% 2.97%
1962 1,711,319 28,481,040 3.1% 3%
1963 1,762,621 29,342,322 3% 3.02%
1964 1,814,135 30,232,141 2.92% 3.03%
1965 1,864,791 31,149,337 2.79% 3.03%
1966 1,914,573 32,086,071 2.67% 3.01%
1967 1,965,598 33,037,801 2.67% 2.97%
1968 2,022,272 34,002,560 2.88% 2.92%
1969 2,081,695 34,973,782 2.94% 2.86%
1970 2,135,479 35,954,408 2.58% 2.8%
1971 2,187,853 36,937,387 2.45% 2.73%
1972 2,243,126 37,933,929 2.53% 2.7%
1973 2,296,752 38,947,787 2.39% 2.67%
1974 2,350,124 39,952,891 2.32% 2.58%
1975 2,404,831 40,940,005 2.33% 2.47%
1976 2,458,526 41,896,504 2.23% 2.34%
1977 2,513,546 42,843,974 2.24% 2.26%
1978 2,566,266 43,788,976 2.1% 2.21%
1979 2,617,832 44,718,434 2.01% 2.12%
1980 2,671,997 45,650,022 2.07% 2.08%
1981 2,726,056 46,575,855 2.02% 2.03%
1982 2,784,278 47,494,577 2.14% 1.97%
1983 2,843,960 48,423,309 2.14% 1.96%
1984 2,904,429 49,351,708 2.13% 1.92%
1985 2,964,762 50,270,753 2.08% 1.86%
1986 3,022,635 51,177,834 1.95% 1.8%
1987 3,083,605 52,074,105 2.02% 1.75%
1988 3,142,336 52,969,595 1.9% 1.72%
1989 3,227,943 53,848,956 2.72% 1.66%
1990 3,286,542 54,738,329 1.82% 1.65%
1991 3,266,790 55,637,434 -0.6% 1.64%
1992 3,247,039 56,528,834 -0.6% 1.6%
1993 3,227,287 57,408,198 -0.61% 1.56%
1994 3,207,536 58,260,854 -0.61% 1.49%
1995 3,187,784 59,098,232 -0.62% 1.44%
1996 3,168,033 59,920,064 -0.62% 1.39%
1997 3,148,281 60,724,584 -0.62% 1.34%
1998 3,128,530 61,522,630 -0.63% 1.31%
1999 3,108,778 62,299,043 -0.63% 1.26%
2000 3,089,027 63,007,815 -0.64% 1.14%
2001 3,060,173 63,651,141 -0.93% 1.02%
2002 3,051,010 64,266,437 -0.3% 0.97%
2003 3,039,616 64,868,166 -0.37% 0.94%
2004 3,026,939 65,452,047 -0.42% 0.9%
2005 3,011,487 66,017,420 -0.51% 0.86%
2006 2,992,547 66,567,687 -0.63% 0.83%
2007 2,970,017 67,102,394 -0.75% 0.8%
2008 2,947,314 67,619,830 -0.76% 0.77%
2009 2,927,519 68,121,080 -0.67% 0.74%
2010 2,913,021 68,579,447 -0.5% 0.67%
2011 2,905,195 69,007,208 -0.27% 0.62%
2012 2,900,401 69,436,098 -0.17% 0.62%
2013 2,895,092 69,845,114 -0.18% 0.59%
2014 2,889,104 70,216,367 -0.21% 0.53%
2015 2,880,703 70,540,795 -0.29% 0.46%
2016 2,876,101 70,859,841 -0.16% 0.45%
2017 2,873,457 71,160,187 -0.09% 0.42%
2018 2,866,376 71,376,079 -0.25% 0.3%
2019 2,854,191 71,522,271 -0.43% 0.2%
2020 2,837,849 71,641,484 -0.57% 0.17%
2021 2,811,666 71,727,332 -0.92% 0.12%
2022 2,777,689 71,735,329 -1.21% 0.01%
2023 2,745,972 71,702,435 -1.14% -0.05%
2024 2,714,617 71,668,011 -1.14% -0.05%
2025 2,694,925 71,619,867 -0.73% -0.07%
2026 2,675,010 71,559,621 -0.74% -0.08%
2027 2,655,754 71,488,156 -0.72% -0.1%
2028 2,636,738 71,406,996 -0.72% -0.11%
2029 2,617,526 71,316,195 -0.73% -0.13%
2030 2,598,055 71,215,017 -0.74% -0.14%
2031 2,578,605 71,104,025 -0.75% -0.16%
2032 2,559,433 70,982,286 -0.74% -0.17%
2033 2,539,878 70,847,947 -0.76% -0.19%
2034 2,519,713 70,701,651 -0.79% -0.21%
2035 2,499,557 70,540,884 -0.8% -0.23%
2036 2,479,237 70,366,496 -0.81% -0.25%
2037 2,458,376 70,180,031 -0.84% -0.26%
2038 2,437,333 69,979,034 -0.86% -0.29%
2039 2,415,720 69,763,928 -0.89% -0.31%
2040 2,393,840 69,535,003 -0.91% -0.33%
2041 2,372,118 69,288,477 -0.91% -0.35%
2042 2,350,472 69,025,348 -0.91% -0.38%
2043 2,328,984 68,748,075 -0.91% -0.4%
2044 2,307,685 68,456,533 -0.91% -0.42%
2045 2,286,312 68,150,148 -0.93% -0.45%
2046 2,264,596 67,827,309 -0.95% -0.47%
2047 2,243,130 67,489,358 -0.95% -0.5%
2048 2,221,710 67,136,737 -0.95% -0.52%
2049 2,200,033 66,767,316 -0.98% -0.55%
2050 2,178,271 66,382,732 -0.99% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Albania decreased by 130,784 people (a 4.34% decline), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Albania lost -185,778 (a 6.45% decline), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Albania was ranked 132nd most populous country in 2005 and is 141st in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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