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Population in Argentina compared to Spain: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Argentina was 45,696,159 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Argentina's population is 45,973,765 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 1.06 times bigger than Argentina's.
  • Argentina is ranked the 35th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 1.15% of the world: 0.56% for Argentina vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Argentina has had an average growth rate of +0.64% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Argentina has increased from 39.2M people to 46M (17.2% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Argentina is projected to reach its peak in 2050 at 48.3M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Argentina vs Spain: live population counter

Argentina Spain
Current population
45973765
48786181
Population rank 35/197 32/197
Percent of world population 0.56% 0.59%
One net population change
3.33 minutes
1.14 minutes
One birth every
1.04 minutes
1.62 minutes
One death every
1.51 minutes
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
2.54 hours
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change +3,454 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +432 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +157,758 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +0.35% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 143/197 108/197

Argentina and Spain: population history and growth rate by year chart

Argentina
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Argentina Spain Argentina Spain
1960 20,386,045 30,455,000 - -
1961 20,726,276 30,739,250 1.67% 0.93%
1962 21,072,538 31,023,366 1.67% 0.92%
1963 21,421,705 31,296,651 1.66% 0.88%
1964 21,769,453 31,609,195 1.62% 1%
1965 22,112,629 31,954,292 1.58% 1.09%
1966 22,453,893 32,283,194 1.54% 1.03%
1967 22,799,059 32,682,947 1.54% 1.24%
1968 23,150,583 33,113,134 1.54% 1.32%
1969 23,508,711 33,441,054 1.55% 0.99%
1970 23,878,327 33,814,531 1.57% 1.12%
1971 24,257,208 34,224,490 1.59% 1.21%
1972 24,644,328 34,604,469 1.6% 1.11%
1973 25,046,005 34,988,947 1.63% 1.11%
1974 25,461,351 35,373,335 1.66% 1.1%
1975 25,874,107 35,757,900 1.62% 1.09%
1976 26,282,283 36,137,812 1.58% 1.06%
1977 26,701,805 36,511,638 1.6% 1.03%
1978 27,132,158 36,864,898 1.61% 0.97%
1979 27,568,895 37,191,330 1.61% 0.89%
1980 28,011,596 37,491,165 1.61% 0.81%
1981 28,463,959 37,758,631 1.61% 0.71%
1982 28,924,262 37,986,012 1.62% 0.6%
1983 29,391,332 38,171,525 1.61% 0.49%
1984 29,863,093 38,330,364 1.61% 0.42%
1985 30,336,441 38,469,512 1.59% 0.36%
1986 30,811,980 38,584,624 1.57% 0.3%
1987 31,291,762 38,684,815 1.56% 0.26%
1988 31,780,532 38,766,939 1.56% 0.21%
1989 32,270,948 38,827,764 1.54% 0.16%
1990 32,755,901 38,867,322 1.5% 0.1%
1991 33,230,294 38,966,376 1.45% 0.25%
1992 33,693,527 39,157,685 1.39% 0.49%
1993 34,152,717 39,361,262 1.36% 0.52%
1994 34,613,491 39,549,108 1.35% 0.48%
1995 35,070,020 39,724,050 1.32% 0.44%
1996 35,513,793 39,889,852 1.27% 0.42%
1997 35,947,791 40,057,389 1.22% 0.42%
1998 36,372,860 40,223,509 1.18% 0.41%
1999 36,794,682 40,386,875 1.16% 0.41%
2000 37,213,984 40,567,864 1.14% 0.45%
2001 37,624,825 40,850,412 1.1% 0.7%
2002 38,029,349 41,431,558 1.08% 1.42%
2003 38,424,282 42,187,645 1.04% 1.82%
2004 38,815,916 42,921,895 1.02% 1.74%
2005 39,216,789 43,653,155 1.03% 1.7%
2006 39,622,115 44,397,319 1.03% 1.7%
2007 40,016,763 45,226,803 1% 1.87%
2008 40,424,148 45,954,106 1.02% 1.61%
2009 40,854,831 46,362,946 1.07% 0.89%
2010 41,288,694 46,576,897 1.06% 0.46%
2011 41,730,660 46,742,697 1.07% 0.36%
2012 42,161,721 46,773,055 1.03% 0.06%
2013 42,582,455 46,604,197 1% -0.36%
2014 43,024,071 46,460,733 1.04% -0.31%
2015 43,477,012 46,422,303 1.05% -0.08%
2016 43,900,313 46,458,139 0.97% 0.08%
2017 44,288,894 46,571,232 0.89% 0.24%
2018 44,654,882 46,782,011 0.83% 0.45%
2019 44,973,465 47,118,501 0.71% 0.72%
2020 45,191,965 47,359,424 0.49% 0.51%
2021 45,312,281 47,443,821 0.27% 0.18%
2022 45,407,904 47,786,102 0.21% 0.72%
2023 45,538,401 48,347,910 0.29% 1.18%
2024 45,696,159 48,807,137 0.35% 0.95%
2025 45,851,384 48,786,181 0.34% -0.04%
2026 46,003,737 48,746,279 0.33% -0.08%
2027 46,153,348 48,696,847 0.33% -0.1%
2028 46,299,948 48,642,132 0.32% -0.11%
2029 46,443,774 48,578,166 0.31% -0.13%
2030 46,585,029 48,501,513 0.3% -0.16%
2031 46,723,742 48,412,854 0.3% -0.18%
2032 46,859,882 48,321,195 0.29% -0.19%
2033 46,993,528 48,230,054 0.29% -0.19%
2034 47,124,543 48,136,421 0.28% -0.19%
2035 47,251,997 48,036,650 0.27% -0.21%
2036 47,375,364 47,929,957 0.26% -0.22%
2037 47,494,519 47,819,257 0.25% -0.23%
2038 47,608,792 47,706,580 0.24% -0.24%
2039 47,716,834 47,588,878 0.23% -0.25%
2040 47,817,648 47,463,597 0.21% -0.26%
2041 47,910,494 47,332,618 0.19% -0.28%
2042 47,994,515 47,194,588 0.18% -0.29%
2043 48,069,559 47,052,293 0.16% -0.3%
2044 48,135,530 46,902,636 0.14% -0.32%
2045 48,191,844 46,738,565 0.12% -0.35%
2046 48,237,681 46,564,383 0.1% -0.37%
2047 48,272,493 46,381,681 0.07% -0.39%
2048 48,296,034 46,190,642 0.05% -0.41%
2049 48,308,275 45,985,428 0.03% -0.44%
2050 48,308,953 45,769,362 0.001% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Argentina increased by 4,260,223 people (a 10.9% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Argentina gained 2,496,753 (a 5.74% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Argentina was ranked 30th most populous country in 2005 and is 35th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Argentina's population will grow by 5.08% to 48,308,953 people with a rank change from 35th to 44th. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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