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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Australia	Greece	Australia	Greece
1960	10,276,477	8,331,725	-	-
1961	10,483,000	8,398,050	2.01%	0.8%
1962	10,742,000	8,448,233	2.47%	0.6%
1963	10,950,000	8,479,625	1.94%	0.37%
1964	11,167,000	8,510,429	1.98%	0.36%
1965	11,388,000	8,550,333	1.98%	0.47%
1966	11,651,000	8,613,651	2.31%	0.74%
1967	11,799,000	8,684,088	1.27%	0.82%
1968	12,009,000	8,740,765	1.78%	0.65%
1969	12,263,000	8,772,764	2.12%	0.37%
1970	12,507,000	8,792,806	1.99%	0.23%
1971	12,937,000	8,831,036	3.44%	0.43%
1972	13,177,000	8,888,628	1.86%	0.65%
1973	13,380,000	8,929,086	1.54%	0.46%
1974	13,723,000	8,962,022	2.56%	0.37%
1975	13,893,000	9,046,541	1.24%	0.94%
1976	14,033,000	9,188,150	1.01%	1.57%
1977	14,192,000	9,308,479	1.13%	1.31%
1978	14,358,000	9,429,959	1.17%	1.31%
1979	14,514,000	9,548,258	1.09%	1.25%
1980	14,692,000	9,642,505	1.23%	0.99%
1981	14,923,260	9,729,350	1.57%	0.9%
1982	15,184,247	9,789,513	1.75%	0.62%
1983	15,393,472	9,846,627	1.38%	0.58%
1984	15,579,391	9,895,801	1.21%	0.5%
1985	15,788,312	9,934,300	1.34%	0.39%
1986	16,018,350	9,967,213	1.46%	0.33%
1987	16,263,874	10,000,595	1.53%	0.33%
1988	16,532,164	10,036,983	1.65%	0.36%
1989	16,814,416	10,089,498	1.71%	0.52%
1990	17,065,128	10,196,792	1.49%	1.06%
1991	17,284,036	10,319,927	1.28%	1.21%
1992	17,478,635	10,399,061	1.13%	0.77%
1993	17,634,808	10,460,415	0.89%	0.59%
1994	17,805,468	10,512,922	0.97%	0.5%
1995	18,004,882	10,562,153	1.12%	0.47%
1996	18,224,767	10,608,800	1.22%	0.44%
1997	18,423,037	10,661,259	1.09%	0.49%
1998	18,607,584	10,720,509	1%	0.56%
1999	18,812,264	10,761,698	1.1%	0.38%
2000	19,028,802	10,805,808	1.15%	0.41%
2001	19,274,701	10,862,132	1.29%	0.52%
2002	19,495,210	10,902,022	1.14%	0.37%
2003	19,720,737	10,928,070	1.16%	0.24%
2004	19,932,722	10,955,141	1.07%	0.25%
2005	20,176,844	10,987,314	1.22%	0.29%
2006	20,450,966	11,020,362	1.36%	0.3%
2007	20,827,622	11,048,473	1.84%	0.26%
2008	21,249,199	11,077,841	2.02%	0.27%
2009	21,691,653	11,107,017	2.08%	0.26%
2010	22,031,750	11,121,341	1.57%	0.13%
2011	22,340,024	11,104,899	1.4%	-0.15%
2012	22,733,465	11,045,011	1.76%	-0.54%
2013	23,128,129	10,965,211	1.74%	-0.72%
2014	23,475,686	10,892,413	1.5%	-0.66%
2015	23,815,995	10,820,883	1.45%	-0.66%
2016	24,190,907	10,775,971	1.57%	-0.42%
2017	24,592,588	10,754,679	1.66%	-0.2%
2018	24,963,258	10,732,882	1.51%	-0.2%
2019	25,334,826	10,721,582	1.49%	-0.11%
2020	25,649,248	10,698,599	1.24%	-0.21%
2021	25,685,412	10,569,207	0.14%	-1.21%
2022	26,014,399	10,436,882	1.28%	-1.25%
2023	26,652,777	10,405,588	2.45%	-0.3%
2024	27,204,809	10,388,805	2.07%	-0.16%
2025	27,470,426	10,276,140	0.98%	-1.08%
2026	27,728,157	10,232,997	0.94%	-0.42%
2027	27,979,877	10,188,386	0.91%	-0.44%
2028	28,228,958	10,143,203	0.89%	-0.44%
2029	28,471,054	10,097,603	0.86%	-0.45%
2030	28,707,292	10,051,921	0.83%	-0.45%
2031	28,940,769	10,006,045	0.81%	-0.46%
2032	29,169,013	9,959,048	0.79%	-0.47%
2033	29,392,748	9,911,765	0.77%	-0.47%
2034	29,614,137	9,865,342	0.75%	-0.47%
2035	29,835,307	9,818,783	0.75%	-0.47%
2036	30,056,752	9,772,426	0.74%	-0.47%
2037	30,273,692	9,726,502	0.72%	-0.47%
2038	30,488,994	9,680,639	0.71%	-0.47%
2039	30,703,245	9,635,315	0.7%	-0.47%
2040	30,916,122	9,590,401	0.69%	-0.47%
2041	31,132,858	9,545,637	0.7%	-0.47%
2042	31,352,893	9,501,568	0.71%	-0.46%
2043	31,572,750	9,457,398	0.7%	-0.46%
2044	31,790,565	9,411,943	0.69%	-0.48%
2045	32,009,555	9,365,737	0.69%	-0.49%
2046	32,232,946	9,319,023	0.7%	-0.5%
2047	32,452,651	9,269,970	0.68%	-0.53%
2048	32,672,016	9,218,699	0.68%	-0.55%
2049	32,891,546	9,165,668	0.67%	-0.58%
2050	33,105,190	9,111,122	0.65%	-0.6%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Australia increased by 3,639,151 people (a 18% growth), while Greece lost 166,431 people (a 1.51% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Australia gained 3,861,460 (a 16.2% growth), while Greece's population decreased by -544,743 (a 5.03% decline).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2005 and is 55th in 2025. Greece was ranked 74th in 2005 and ranked 95th 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 Greece will decrease by 11.3% to 9,111,122 people and rank change from 95th to 106th.