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Population in Bahrain compared to Thailand: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bahrain was 1,588,670 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bahrain's population is 1,650,128 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 43.4 times bigger than Bahrain's.
  • Bahrain is ranked the 151st most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.89% of the world: 0.02% for Bahrain vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Bahrain has had an average growth rate of +2.2% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bahrain has increased from 889K people to 1.65M (85.7% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Bahrain is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 3.05M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Bahrain vs Thailand: live population counter

Bahrain Thailand
Current population
1650128
71619867
Population rank 151/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.87%
One net population change
45.3 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
26.7 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
2.66 hours
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
23.2 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change +22,699 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +32 -94
Annual growth/decline +11,611 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +0.74% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 120/197 170/197

Bahrain and Thailand: population history and growth rate by year chart

Bahrain
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bahrain Thailand Bahrain Thailand
1960 165,477 26,851,747 - -
1961 172,346 27,650,334 4.15% 2.97%
1962 179,349 28,481,040 4.06% 3%
1963 186,501 29,342,322 3.99% 3.02%
1964 193,816 30,232,141 3.92% 3.03%
1965 200,866 31,149,337 3.64% 3.03%
1966 207,543 32,086,071 3.32% 3.01%
1967 214,189 33,037,801 3.2% 2.97%
1968 219,337 34,002,560 2.4% 2.92%
1969 222,469 34,973,782 1.43% 2.86%
1970 224,809 35,954,408 1.05% 2.8%
1971 230,733 36,937,387 2.64% 2.73%
1972 242,113 37,933,929 4.93% 2.7%
1973 255,320 38,947,787 5.45% 2.67%
1974 269,038 39,952,891 5.37% 2.58%
1975 283,243 40,940,005 5.28% 2.47%
1976 297,863 41,896,504 5.16% 2.34%
1977 312,823 42,843,974 5.02% 2.26%
1978 328,046 43,788,976 4.87% 2.21%
1979 343,457 44,718,434 4.7% 2.12%
1980 358,978 45,650,022 4.52% 2.08%
1981 373,524 46,575,855 4.05% 2.03%
1982 386,983 47,494,577 3.6% 1.97%
1983 400,707 48,423,309 3.55% 1.96%
1984 415,154 49,351,708 3.61% 1.92%
1985 430,358 50,270,753 3.66% 1.86%
1986 446,286 51,177,834 3.7% 1.8%
1987 462,854 52,074,105 3.71% 1.75%
1988 479,929 52,969,595 3.69% 1.72%
1989 497,327 53,848,956 3.63% 1.66%
1990 514,797 54,738,329 3.51% 1.65%
1991 503,052 55,637,434 -2.28% 1.64%
1992 516,458 56,528,834 2.66% 1.6%
1993 530,225 57,408,198 2.67% 1.56%
1994 544,366 58,260,854 2.67% 1.49%
1995 558,879 59,098,232 2.67% 1.44%
1996 573,792 59,920,064 2.67% 1.39%
1997 589,115 60,724,584 2.67% 1.34%
1998 604,842 61,522,630 2.67% 1.31%
1999 620,989 62,299,043 2.67% 1.26%
2000 637,582 63,007,815 2.67% 1.14%
2001 661,316 63,651,141 3.72% 1.02%
2002 710,553 64,266,437 7.45% 0.97%
2003 764,517 64,868,166 7.59% 0.94%
2004 823,741 65,452,047 7.75% 0.9%
2005 888,822 66,017,420 7.9% 0.86%
2006 960,424 66,567,687 8.06% 0.83%
2007 1,039,295 67,102,394 8.21% 0.8%
2008 1,103,496 67,619,830 6.18% 0.77%
2009 1,178,415 68,121,080 6.79% 0.74%
2010 1,228,543 68,579,447 4.25% 0.67%
2011 1,195,020 69,007,208 -2.73% 0.62%
2012 1,208,964 69,436,098 1.17% 0.62%
2013 1,253,191 69,845,114 3.66% 0.59%
2014 1,314,562 70,216,367 4.9% 0.53%
2015 1,370,322 70,540,795 4.24% 0.46%
2016 1,423,726 70,859,841 3.9% 0.45%
2017 1,501,116 71,160,187 5.44% 0.42%
2018 1,503,091 71,376,079 0.13% 0.3%
2019 1,483,756 71,522,271 -1.29% 0.2%
2020 1,472,204 71,641,484 -0.78% 0.17%
2021 1,504,365 71,727,332 2.18% 0.12%
2022 1,524,693 71,735,329 1.35% 0.01%
2023 1,577,059 71,702,435 3.43% -0.05%
2024 1,588,670 71,668,011 0.74% -0.05%
2025 1,624,531 71,619,867 2.26% -0.07%
2026 1,656,397 71,559,621 1.96% -0.08%
2027 1,683,692 71,488,156 1.65% -0.1%
2028 1,706,754 71,406,996 1.37% -0.11%
2029 1,726,868 71,316,195 1.18% -0.13%
2030 1,745,013 71,215,017 1.05% -0.14%
2031 1,762,760 71,104,025 1.02% -0.16%
2032 1,780,658 70,982,286 1.02% -0.17%
2033 1,798,708 70,847,947 1.01% -0.19%
2034 1,816,921 70,701,651 1.01% -0.21%
2035 1,835,293 70,540,884 1.01% -0.23%
2036 1,853,822 70,366,496 1.01% -0.25%
2037 1,872,468 70,180,031 1.01% -0.26%
2038 1,891,215 69,979,034 1% -0.29%
2039 1,910,026 69,763,928 0.99% -0.31%
2040 1,928,909 69,535,003 0.99% -0.33%
2041 1,947,825 69,288,477 0.98% -0.35%
2042 1,966,723 69,025,348 0.97% -0.38%
2043 1,985,577 68,748,075 0.96% -0.4%
2044 2,004,365 68,456,533 0.95% -0.42%
2045 2,023,058 68,150,148 0.93% -0.45%
2046 2,041,627 67,827,309 0.92% -0.47%
2047 2,060,095 67,489,358 0.9% -0.5%
2048 2,078,453 67,136,737 0.89% -0.52%
2049 2,096,741 66,767,316 0.88% -0.55%
2050 2,114,988 66,382,732 0.87% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bahrain increased by 481,500 people (a 54.2% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bahrain gained 279,806 (a 20.4% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Bahrain was ranked 156th most populous country in 2005 and is 151st in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Bahrain's population will grow by 28.2% to 2,114,988 people with a rank change from 151st to 147th. The population of Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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