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Population in Australia compared to Brazil: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Australia was 27,204,809 in 2024 vs 211,998,573 people in Brazil in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Australia's population is 27,677,455 people compared to 213,415,080 in Brazil.

Population statistics:

  • Brazil's population is 7.71 times bigger than Australia's.
  • Australia is ranked the 55th most populous country in the world, while Brazil is the 7th.
  • The countries together account for 2.92% of the world: 0.33% for Australia vs 2.58% for Brazil.
  • For the last 10 years, Australia has had an average growth rate of +1.49% per year vs +0.6% in Brazil.
  • Since 2005, the population of Australia has increased from 20.2M people to 27.7M (37.2% growth), while Brazil has grown from 185M to 213M (15.6% growth).
  • Australia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 43.9M people compared to the peak of 219M people in 2042 for Brazil.

Australia vs Brazil: live population counter

Australia Brazil
Current population
27677455
213415080
Population rank 55/197 7/197
Percent of world population 0.33% 2.58%
One net population change
57.1 seconds
36.8 seconds
One birth every
1.83 minutes
12.1 seconds
One death every
2.86 minutes
21.1 seconds
One migration net change every
3.79 minutes
2.33 minutes
Annual migration change +138,510 -225,510
Daily growth/decline +1,512 +2,350
Annual growth/decline +552,032 +857,844
Annual growth/decline rate +2.07% +0.41%
Population growth rate rank 51/197 141/197

Australia and Brazil: population history and growth rate by year chart

Australia
Population

Growth rate
Brazil
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Australia Brazil Australia Brazil
1960 10,276,477 72,388,126 - -
1961 10,483,000 74,605,447 2.01% 3.06%
1962 10,742,000 76,865,323 2.47% 3.03%
1963 10,950,000 79,164,235 1.94% 2.99%
1964 11,167,000 81,488,595 1.98% 2.94%
1965 11,388,000 83,817,583 1.98% 2.86%
1966 11,651,000 86,139,359 2.31% 2.77%
1967 11,799,000 88,446,124 1.27% 2.68%
1968 12,009,000 90,741,240 1.78% 2.59%
1969 12,263,000 93,045,777 2.12% 2.54%
1970 12,507,000 95,375,651 1.99% 2.5%
1971 12,937,000 97,739,273 3.44% 2.48%
1972 13,177,000 100,146,797 1.86% 2.46%
1973 13,380,000 102,600,976 1.54% 2.45%
1974 13,723,000 105,089,675 2.56% 2.43%
1975 13,893,000 107,619,565 1.24% 2.41%
1976 14,033,000 110,213,349 1.01% 2.41%
1977 14,192,000 112,875,292 1.13% 2.42%
1978 14,358,000 115,600,942 1.17% 2.41%
1979 14,514,000 118,380,821 1.09% 2.4%
1980 14,692,000 121,207,461 1.23% 2.39%
1981 14,923,260 124,063,109 1.57% 2.36%
1982 15,184,247 126,923,155 1.75% 2.31%
1983 15,393,472 129,790,077 1.38% 2.26%
1984 15,579,391 132,658,864 1.21% 2.21%
1985 15,788,312 135,515,595 1.34% 2.15%
1986 16,018,350 138,336,370 1.46% 2.08%
1987 16,263,874 141,104,944 1.53% 2%
1988 16,532,164 143,826,357 1.65% 1.93%
1989 16,814,416 146,502,972 1.71% 1.86%
1990 17,065,128 149,143,223 1.49% 1.8%
1991 17,284,036 151,724,256 1.28% 1.73%
1992 17,478,635 154,275,079 1.13% 1.68%
1993 17,634,808 156,794,577 0.89% 1.63%
1994 17,805,468 159,265,006 0.97% 1.58%
1995 18,004,882 161,735,073 1.12% 1.55%
1996 18,224,767 164,202,549 1.22% 1.53%
1997 18,423,037 166,661,659 1.09% 1.5%
1998 18,607,584 169,159,655 1% 1.5%
1999 18,812,264 171,641,543 1.1% 1.47%
2000 19,028,802 174,018,282 1.15% 1.38%
2001 19,274,701 176,301,203 1.29% 1.31%
2002 19,495,210 178,503,484 1.14% 1.25%
2003 19,720,737 180,622,688 1.16% 1.19%
2004 19,932,722 182,675,143 1.07% 1.14%
2005 20,176,844 184,688,101 1.22% 1.1%
2006 20,450,966 186,653,106 1.36% 1.06%
2007 20,827,622 188,552,320 1.84% 1.02%
2008 21,249,199 190,367,302 2.02% 0.96%
2009 21,691,653 192,079,951 2.08% 0.9%
2010 22,031,750 193,701,929 1.57% 0.84%
2011 22,340,024 195,284,734 1.4% 0.82%
2012 22,733,465 196,876,111 1.76% 0.81%
2013 23,128,129 198,478,299 1.74% 0.81%
2014 23,475,686 200,085,127 1.5% 0.81%
2015 23,815,995 201,675,532 1.45% 0.79%
2016 24,190,907 203,218,114 1.57% 0.76%
2017 24,592,588 204,703,445 1.66% 0.73%
2018 24,963,258 206,107,261 1.51% 0.69%
2019 25,334,826 207,455,459 1.49% 0.65%
2020 25,649,248 208,660,842 1.24% 0.58%
2021 25,685,412 209,550,294 0.14% 0.43%
2022 26,014,399 210,306,415 1.28% 0.36%
2023 26,652,777 211,140,729 2.45% 0.4%
2024 27,204,809 211,998,573 2.07% 0.41%
2025 27,470,426 212,812,405 0.98% 0.38%
2026 27,728,157 213,562,674 0.94% 0.35%
2027 27,979,877 214,261,037 0.91% 0.33%
2028 28,228,958 214,911,388 0.89% 0.3%
2029 28,471,054 215,515,178 0.86% 0.28%
2030 28,707,292 216,074,424 0.83% 0.26%
2031 28,940,769 216,587,355 0.81% 0.24%
2032 29,169,013 217,055,392 0.79% 0.22%
2033 29,392,748 217,479,394 0.77% 0.2%
2034 29,614,137 217,860,892 0.75% 0.18%
2035 29,835,307 218,199,715 0.75% 0.16%
2036 30,056,752 218,495,215 0.74% 0.14%
2037 30,273,692 218,747,246 0.72% 0.12%
2038 30,488,994 218,955,573 0.71% 0.1%
2039 30,703,245 219,118,385 0.7% 0.07%
2040 30,916,122 219,237,085 0.69% 0.05%
2041 31,132,858 219,307,158 0.7% 0.03%
2042 31,352,893 219,319,771 0.71% 0.006%
2043 31,572,750 219,276,528 0.7% -0.02%
2044 31,790,565 219,179,002 0.69% -0.04%
2045 32,009,555 219,026,208 0.69% -0.07%
2046 32,232,946 218,821,045 0.7% -0.09%
2047 32,452,651 218,565,379 0.68% -0.12%
2048 32,672,016 218,258,225 0.68% -0.14%
2049 32,891,546 217,897,833 0.67% -0.17%
2050 33,105,190 217,489,309 0.65% -0.19%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Australia increased by 3,639,151 people (a 18% growth), while Brazil gained 16,987,431 people (a 9.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Australia gained 3,861,460 (a 16.2% growth), while Brazil's population increased by 11,739,548 (a 5.82% growth).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2005 and is 55th in 2025. Brazil was ranked 5th in 2005 and ranked 7th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Australia's population will grow by 19.6% to 33,105,190 people with a rank change from 55th to 59th. The population of Brazil will increase by 1.91% to 217,489,309 people and rank change from 7th to 9th.

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