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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Australia was 27,204,809 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Australia's population is 27,677,455 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 3.1 times bigger than Australia's.
  • Australia is ranked the 55th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.37% of the world: 0.33% for Australia vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Australia has had an average growth rate of +1.49% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Australia has increased from 20.2M people to 27.7M (37.2% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Australia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 43.9M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Australia vs Turkey: live population counter

Australia Turkey
Current population
27677455
85914550
Population rank 55/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.33% 1.04%
One net population change
57.1 seconds
2.73 minutes
One birth every
1.83 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
2.86 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
3.79 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +138,510 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +1,512 +528
Annual growth/decline +552,032 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +2.07% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 51/197 153/197

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

Australia
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Australia Turkey Australia Turkey
1960 10,276,477 28,329,898 - -
1961 10,483,000 29,119,238 2.01% 2.79%
1962 10,742,000 29,916,147 2.47% 2.74%
1963 10,950,000 30,726,841 1.94% 2.71%
1964 11,167,000 31,543,072 1.98% 2.66%
1965 11,388,000 32,345,220 1.98% 2.54%
1966 11,651,000 33,177,672 2.31% 2.57%
1967 11,799,000 34,050,421 1.27% 2.63%
1968 12,009,000 34,921,684 1.78% 2.56%
1969 12,263,000 35,787,774 2.12% 2.48%
1970 12,507,000 36,638,465 1.99% 2.38%
1971 12,937,000 37,518,611 3.44% 2.4%
1972 13,177,000 38,430,221 1.86% 2.43%
1973 13,380,000 39,329,533 1.54% 2.34%
1974 13,723,000 40,210,234 2.56% 2.24%
1975 13,893,000 41,053,126 1.24% 2.1%
1976 14,033,000 41,899,984 1.01% 2.06%
1977 14,192,000 42,773,298 1.13% 2.08%
1978 14,358,000 43,645,306 1.17% 2.04%
1979 14,514,000 44,510,429 1.09% 1.98%
1980 14,692,000 45,408,815 1.23% 2.02%
1981 14,923,260 46,321,190 1.57% 2.01%
1982 15,184,247 47,322,096 1.75% 2.16%
1983 15,393,472 48,447,410 1.38% 2.38%
1984 15,579,391 49,574,069 1.21% 2.33%
1985 15,788,312 50,687,115 1.34% 2.25%
1986 16,018,350 51,777,772 1.46% 2.15%
1987 16,263,874 52,843,670 1.53% 2.06%
1988 16,532,164 53,909,626 1.65% 2.02%
1989 16,814,416 54,976,723 1.71% 1.98%
1990 17,065,128 56,015,628 1.49% 1.89%
1991 17,284,036 57,009,887 1.28% 1.77%
1992 17,478,635 57,990,118 1.13% 1.72%
1993 17,634,808 58,999,167 0.89% 1.74%
1994 17,805,468 60,033,836 0.97% 1.75%
1995 18,004,882 61,024,503 1.12% 1.65%
1996 18,224,767 61,951,134 1.22% 1.52%
1997 18,423,037 62,852,966 1.09% 1.46%
1998 18,607,584 63,734,383 1% 1.4%
1999 18,812,264 64,591,923 1.1% 1.35%
2000 19,028,802 65,425,961 1.15% 1.29%
2001 19,274,701 66,245,128 1.29% 1.25%
2002 19,495,210 67,048,795 1.14% 1.21%
2003 19,720,737 67,831,730 1.16% 1.17%
2004 19,932,722 68,592,617 1.07% 1.12%
2005 20,176,844 69,329,557 1.22% 1.07%
2006 20,450,966 70,045,349 1.36% 1.03%
2007 20,827,622 70,158,112 1.84% 0.16%
2008 21,249,199 71,051,678 2.02% 1.27%
2009 21,691,653 72,039,206 2.08% 1.39%
2010 22,031,750 73,142,150 1.57% 1.53%
2011 22,340,024 74,223,629 1.4% 1.48%
2012 22,733,465 75,175,827 1.76% 1.28%
2013 23,128,129 76,147,624 1.74% 1.29%
2014 23,475,686 77,181,884 1.5% 1.36%
2015 23,815,995 78,218,479 1.45% 1.34%
2016 24,190,907 79,277,962 1.57% 1.35%
2017 24,592,588 80,312,698 1.66% 1.31%
2018 24,963,258 81,407,204 1.51% 1.36%
2019 25,334,826 82,579,440 1.49% 1.44%
2020 25,649,248 83,384,680 1.24% 0.98%
2021 25,685,412 84,147,318 0.14% 0.91%
2022 26,014,399 84,979,913 1.28% 0.99%
2023 26,652,777 85,325,965 2.45% 0.41%
2024 27,204,809 85,518,661 2.07% 0.23%
2025 27,470,426 85,725,557 0.98% 0.24%
2026 27,728,157 85,960,835 0.94% 0.27%
2027 27,979,877 86,227,115 0.91% 0.31%
2028 28,228,958 86,502,744 0.89% 0.32%
2029 28,471,054 86,771,652 0.86% 0.31%
2030 28,707,292 87,037,680 0.83% 0.31%
2031 28,940,769 87,297,191 0.81% 0.3%
2032 29,169,013 87,537,075 0.79% 0.27%
2033 29,392,748 87,762,403 0.77% 0.26%
2034 29,614,137 87,974,138 0.75% 0.24%
2035 29,835,307 88,172,739 0.75% 0.23%
2036 30,056,752 88,364,318 0.74% 0.22%
2037 30,273,692 88,545,669 0.72% 0.21%
2038 30,488,994 88,707,268 0.71% 0.18%
2039 30,703,245 88,849,956 0.7% 0.16%
2040 30,916,122 88,975,510 0.69% 0.14%
2041 31,132,858 89,083,304 0.7% 0.12%
2042 31,352,893 89,177,769 0.71% 0.11%
2043 31,572,750 89,254,147 0.7% 0.09%
2044 31,790,565 89,311,458 0.69% 0.06%
2045 32,009,555 89,349,806 0.69% 0.04%
2046 32,232,946 89,375,429 0.7% 0.03%
2047 32,452,651 89,383,765 0.68% 0.009%
2048 32,672,016 89,361,174 0.68% -0.03%
2049 32,891,546 89,306,566 0.67% -0.06%
2050 33,105,190 89,218,346 0.65% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Australia increased by 3,639,151 people (a 18% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Australia gained 3,861,460 (a 16.2% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2005 and is 55th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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