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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Australia was 27,204,809 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Australia's population is 27,677,455 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Australia's population is 1.19 times bigger than Taiwan's.
  • Australia is ranked the 55th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.62% of the world: 0.33% for Australia vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Australia has had an average growth rate of +1.49% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Australia has increased from 20.2M people to 27.7M (37.2% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Australia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 43.9M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

Australia vs Taiwan: live population counter

Australia Taiwan
Current population
27677455
23308308
Population rank 55/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.33% 0.28%
One net population change
57.1 seconds
7.75 minutes
One birth every
1.83 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
2.86 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
3.79 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +138,510 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +1,512 +186
Annual growth/decline +552,032 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +2.07% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 51/197 150/197

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

Australia
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Australia Taiwan Australia Taiwan
1960 10,276,477 - - -
1961 10,483,000 11,030,385 2.01% -
1962 10,742,000 11,392,513 2.47% 3.28%
1963 10,950,000 11,762,101 1.94% 3.24%
1964 11,167,000 12,137,143 1.98% 3.19%
1965 11,388,000 12,511,863 1.98% 3.09%
1966 11,651,000 12,874,153 2.31% 2.9%
1967 11,799,000 13,210,344 1.27% 2.61%
1968 12,009,000 13,548,537 1.78% 2.56%
1969 12,263,000 14,068,984 2.12% 3.84%
1970 12,507,000 14,582,944 1.99% 3.65%
1971 12,937,000 14,913,564 3.44% 2.27%
1972 13,177,000 15,220,495 1.86% 2.06%
1973 13,380,000 15,505,121 1.54% 1.87%
1974 13,723,000 15,784,817 2.56% 1.8%
1975 13,893,000 16,075,128 1.24% 1.84%
1976 14,033,000 16,401,413 1.01% 2.03%
1977 14,192,000 16,730,895 1.13% 2.01%
1978 14,358,000 17,042,272 1.17% 1.86%
1979 14,514,000 17,372,779 1.09% 1.94%
1980 14,692,000 17,704,538 1.23% 1.91%
1981 14,923,260 18,029,982 1.57% 1.84%
1982 15,184,247 18,354,855 1.75% 1.8%
1983 15,393,472 18,653,146 1.38% 1.63%
1984 15,579,391 18,929,866 1.21% 1.48%
1985 15,788,312 19,191,510 1.34% 1.38%
1986 16,018,350 19,411,454 1.46% 1.15%
1987 16,263,874 19,617,046 1.53% 1.06%
1988 16,532,164 19,839,704 1.65% 1.14%
1989 16,814,416 20,055,492 1.71% 1.09%
1990 17,065,128 20,278,946 1.49% 1.11%
1991 17,284,036 20,503,568 1.28% 1.11%
1992 17,478,635 20,704,227 1.13% 0.98%
1993 17,634,808 20,899,019 0.89% 0.94%
1994 17,805,468 21,086,645 0.97% 0.9%
1995 18,004,882 21,267,653 1.12% 0.86%
1996 18,224,767 21,441,432 1.22% 0.82%
1997 18,423,037 21,634,124 1.09% 0.9%
1998 18,607,584 21,835,703 1% 0.93%
1999 18,812,264 22,010,489 1.1% 0.8%
2000 19,028,802 22,184,530 1.15% 0.79%
2001 19,274,701 22,341,120 1.29% 0.71%
2002 19,495,210 22,463,172 1.14% 0.55%
2003 19,720,737 22,562,663 1.16% 0.44%
2004 19,932,722 22,646,836 1.07% 0.37%
2005 20,176,844 22,729,753 1.22% 0.37%
2006 20,450,966 22,823,455 1.36% 0.41%
2007 20,827,622 22,917,444 1.84% 0.41%
2008 21,249,199 22,997,696 2.02% 0.35%
2009 21,691,653 23,078,402 2.08% 0.35%
2010 22,031,750 23,140,948 1.57% 0.27%
2011 22,340,024 23,193,518 1.4% 0.23%
2012 22,733,465 23,270,367 1.76% 0.33%
2013 23,128,129 23,344,670 1.74% 0.32%
2014 23,475,686 23,403,635 1.5% 0.25%
2015 23,815,995 23,462,914 1.45% 0.25%
2016 24,190,907 23,515,945 1.57% 0.23%
2017 24,592,588 23,555,522 1.66% 0.17%
2018 24,963,258 23,580,080 1.51% 0.1%
2019 25,334,826 23,596,027 1.49% 0.07%
2020 25,649,248 23,582,179 1.24% -0.06%
2021 25,685,412 23,468,275 0.14% -0.48%
2022 26,014,399 23,319,977 1.28% -0.63%
2023 26,652,777 23,342,541 2.45% 0.1%
2024 27,204,809 23,410,331 2.07% 0.29%
2025 27,470,426 23,308,308 0.98% -0.44%
2026 27,728,157 23,205,944 0.94% -0.44%
2027 27,979,877 23,102,120 0.91% -0.45%
2028 28,228,958 22,996,693 0.89% -0.46%
2029 28,471,054 22,890,335 0.86% -0.46%
2030 28,707,292 22,781,040 0.83% -0.48%
2031 28,940,769 22,667,327 0.81% -0.5%
2032 29,169,013 22,549,689 0.79% -0.52%
2033 29,392,748 22,428,721 0.77% -0.54%
2034 29,614,137 22,302,402 0.75% -0.56%
2035 29,835,307 22,170,689 0.75% -0.59%
2036 30,056,752 22,034,775 0.74% -0.61%
2037 30,273,692 21,893,029 0.72% -0.64%
2038 30,488,994 21,746,001 0.71% -0.67%
2039 30,703,245 21,594,236 0.7% -0.7%
2040 30,916,122 21,436,947 0.69% -0.73%
2041 31,132,858 21,274,187 0.7% -0.76%
2042 31,352,893 21,105,682 0.71% -0.79%
2043 31,572,750 20,932,105 0.7% -0.82%
2044 31,790,565 20,754,623 0.69% -0.85%
2045 32,009,555 20,571,741 0.69% -0.88%
2046 32,232,946 20,384,903 0.7% -0.91%
2047 32,452,651 20,194,425 0.68% -0.93%
2048 32,672,016 19,999,753 0.68% -0.96%
2049 32,891,546 19,801,293 0.67% -0.99%
2050 33,105,190 19,598,997 0.65% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Australia increased by 3,639,151 people (a 18% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Australia gained 3,861,460 (a 16.2% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2005 and is 55th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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