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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Australia	India	Australia	India
1960	10,276,477	435,990,338	-	-
1961	10,483,000	446,564,729	2.01%	2.43%
1962	10,742,000	457,283,090	2.47%	2.4%
1963	10,950,000	468,138,575	1.94%	2.37%
1964	11,167,000	479,229,598	1.98%	2.37%
1965	11,388,000	490,140,146	1.98%	2.28%
1966	11,651,000	500,740,247	2.31%	2.16%
1967	11,799,000	511,606,372	1.27%	2.17%
1968	12,009,000	522,716,889	1.78%	2.17%
1969	12,263,000	533,880,544	2.12%	2.14%
1970	12,507,000	545,864,268	1.99%	2.24%
1971	12,937,000	558,096,387	3.44%	2.24%
1972	13,177,000	570,482,142	1.86%	2.22%
1973	13,380,000	583,465,598	1.54%	2.28%
1974	13,723,000	597,041,391	2.56%	2.33%
1975	13,893,000	611,309,535	1.24%	2.39%
1976	14,033,000	625,861,883	1.01%	2.38%
1977	14,192,000	640,801,103	1.13%	2.39%
1978	14,358,000	655,728,229	1.17%	2.33%
1979	14,514,000	671,155,747	1.09%	2.35%
1980	14,692,000	687,354,025	1.23%	2.41%
1981	14,923,260	703,696,250	1.57%	2.38%
1982	15,184,247	720,313,473	1.75%	2.36%
1983	15,393,472	737,372,681	1.38%	2.37%
1984	15,579,391	754,875,449	1.21%	2.37%
1985	15,788,312	772,647,793	1.34%	2.35%
1986	16,018,350	790,689,978	1.46%	2.34%
1987	16,263,874	808,931,270	1.53%	2.31%
1988	16,532,164	827,342,990	1.65%	2.28%
1989	16,814,416	846,039,529	1.71%	2.26%
1990	17,065,128	864,972,221	1.49%	2.24%
1991	17,284,036	883,927,600	1.28%	2.19%
1992	17,478,635	902,957,070	1.13%	2.15%
1993	17,634,808	922,118,387	0.89%	2.12%
1994	17,805,468	941,163,767	0.97%	2.07%
1995	18,004,882	960,301,044	1.12%	2.03%
1996	18,224,767	979,678,458	1.22%	2.02%
1997	18,423,037	999,133,762	1.09%	1.99%
1998	18,607,584	1,018,665,080	1%	1.95%
1999	18,812,264	1,038,225,823	1.1%	1.92%
2000	19,028,802	1,057,922,733	1.15%	1.9%
2001	19,274,701	1,077,898,575	1.29%	1.89%
2002	19,495,210	1,097,600,380	1.14%	1.83%
2003	19,720,737	1,116,803,006	1.16%	1.75%
2004	19,932,722	1,135,991,513	1.07%	1.72%
2005	20,176,844	1,154,676,322	1.22%	1.64%
2006	20,450,966	1,172,878,890	1.36%	1.58%
2007	20,827,622	1,190,676,021	1.84%	1.52%
2008	21,249,199	1,207,930,964	2.02%	1.45%
2009	21,691,653	1,225,524,753	2.08%	1.46%
2010	22,031,750	1,243,481,564	1.57%	1.47%
2011	22,340,024	1,261,224,954	1.4%	1.43%
2012	22,733,465	1,278,674,502	1.76%	1.38%
2013	23,128,129	1,295,829,511	1.74%	1.34%
2014	23,475,686	1,312,277,191	1.5%	1.27%
2015	23,815,995	1,328,024,498	1.45%	1.2%
2016	24,190,907	1,343,944,296	1.57%	1.2%
2017	24,592,588	1,359,657,400	1.66%	1.17%
2018	24,963,258	1,374,659,064	1.51%	1.1%
2019	25,334,826	1,389,030,312	1.49%	1.05%
2020	25,649,248	1,402,617,695	1.24%	0.98%
2021	25,685,412	1,414,203,896	0.14%	0.83%
2022	26,018,721	1,425,423,212	1.3%	0.79%
2023	26,659,922	1,438,069,596	2.46%	0.89%
2024	27,196,812	1,450,935,791	2.01%	0.89%
2025	27,462,351	1,463,865,531	0.98%	0.89%
2026	27,720,006	1,476,625,576	0.94%	0.87%
2027	27,971,653	1,489,164,679	0.91%	0.85%
2028	28,220,660	1,501,432,748	0.89%	0.82%
2029	28,462,685	1,513,423,737	0.86%	0.8%
2030	28,698,853	1,525,138,852	0.83%	0.77%
2031	28,932,262	1,536,540,604	0.81%	0.75%
2032	29,160,438	1,547,607,126	0.79%	0.72%
2033	29,384,107	1,558,324,087	0.77%	0.69%
2034	29,605,432	1,568,688,356	0.75%	0.67%
2035	29,826,537	1,578,694,799	0.75%	0.64%
2036	30,047,917	1,588,325,366	0.74%	0.61%
2037	30,264,792	1,597,537,009	0.72%	0.58%
2038	30,480,032	1,606,300,646	0.71%	0.55%
2039	30,694,219	1,614,639,243	0.7%	0.52%
2040	30,907,034	1,622,580,052	0.69%	0.49%
2041	31,123,706	1,630,119,374	0.7%	0.46%
2042	31,343,677	1,637,235,363	0.71%	0.44%
2043	31,563,469	1,643,915,269	0.7%	0.41%
2044	31,781,220	1,650,186,610	0.69%	0.38%
2045	32,000,146	1,656,067,585	0.69%	0.36%
2046	32,223,471	1,661,548,400	0.7%	0.33%
2047	32,443,112	1,666,628,151	0.68%	0.31%
2048	32,662,412	1,671,309,727	0.68%	0.28%
2049	32,881,878	1,675,619,893	0.67%	0.26%
2050	33,095,459	1,679,589,268	0.65%	0.24%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Australia increased by 3,739,941 people (a 18.3% growth), while India gained 171,065,406 people (a 14.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Australia gained 3,531,849 (a 14.6% growth), while India's population increased by 132,818,319 (a 9.88% growth).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2006 and is 55th in 2026. India was ranked 2nd in 2006 and ranked 1st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Australia's population will grow by 19.4% to 33,095,459 people with a rank change from 55th to 59th. The population of India will increase by 13.7% to 1,679,589,268 people and will still be ranked 1st.