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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bahrain was 1,588,670 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bahrain's population is 1,650,128 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 52.1 times bigger than Bahrain's.
  • Bahrain is ranked the 151st most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.06% of the world: 0.02% for Bahrain vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Bahrain has had an average growth rate of +2.2% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bahrain has increased from 889K people to 1.65M (85.7% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Bahrain is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 3.05M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Bahrain vs Turkey: live population counter

Bahrain Turkey
Current population
1650128
85914550
Population rank 151/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 1.04%
One net population change
45.3 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
26.7 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
2.66 hours
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
23.2 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +22,699 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +32 +528
Annual growth/decline +11,611 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +0.74% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 120/197 153/197

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

Bahrain
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bahrain Turkey Bahrain Turkey
1960 165,477 28,329,898 - -
1961 172,346 29,119,238 4.15% 2.79%
1962 179,349 29,916,147 4.06% 2.74%
1963 186,501 30,726,841 3.99% 2.71%
1964 193,816 31,543,072 3.92% 2.66%
1965 200,866 32,345,220 3.64% 2.54%
1966 207,543 33,177,672 3.32% 2.57%
1967 214,189 34,050,421 3.2% 2.63%
1968 219,337 34,921,684 2.4% 2.56%
1969 222,469 35,787,774 1.43% 2.48%
1970 224,809 36,638,465 1.05% 2.38%
1971 230,733 37,518,611 2.64% 2.4%
1972 242,113 38,430,221 4.93% 2.43%
1973 255,320 39,329,533 5.45% 2.34%
1974 269,038 40,210,234 5.37% 2.24%
1975 283,243 41,053,126 5.28% 2.1%
1976 297,863 41,899,984 5.16% 2.06%
1977 312,823 42,773,298 5.02% 2.08%
1978 328,046 43,645,306 4.87% 2.04%
1979 343,457 44,510,429 4.7% 1.98%
1980 358,978 45,408,815 4.52% 2.02%
1981 373,524 46,321,190 4.05% 2.01%
1982 386,983 47,322,096 3.6% 2.16%
1983 400,707 48,447,410 3.55% 2.38%
1984 415,154 49,574,069 3.61% 2.33%
1985 430,358 50,687,115 3.66% 2.25%
1986 446,286 51,777,772 3.7% 2.15%
1987 462,854 52,843,670 3.71% 2.06%
1988 479,929 53,909,626 3.69% 2.02%
1989 497,327 54,976,723 3.63% 1.98%
1990 514,797 56,015,628 3.51% 1.89%
1991 503,052 57,009,887 -2.28% 1.77%
1992 516,458 57,990,118 2.66% 1.72%
1993 530,225 58,999,167 2.67% 1.74%
1994 544,366 60,033,836 2.67% 1.75%
1995 558,879 61,024,503 2.67% 1.65%
1996 573,792 61,951,134 2.67% 1.52%
1997 589,115 62,852,966 2.67% 1.46%
1998 604,842 63,734,383 2.67% 1.4%
1999 620,989 64,591,923 2.67% 1.35%
2000 637,582 65,425,961 2.67% 1.29%
2001 661,316 66,245,128 3.72% 1.25%
2002 710,553 67,048,795 7.45% 1.21%
2003 764,517 67,831,730 7.59% 1.17%
2004 823,741 68,592,617 7.75% 1.12%
2005 888,822 69,329,557 7.9% 1.07%
2006 960,424 70,045,349 8.06% 1.03%
2007 1,039,295 70,158,112 8.21% 0.16%
2008 1,103,496 71,051,678 6.18% 1.27%
2009 1,178,415 72,039,206 6.79% 1.39%
2010 1,228,543 73,142,150 4.25% 1.53%
2011 1,195,020 74,223,629 -2.73% 1.48%
2012 1,208,964 75,175,827 1.17% 1.28%
2013 1,253,191 76,147,624 3.66% 1.29%
2014 1,314,562 77,181,884 4.9% 1.36%
2015 1,370,322 78,218,479 4.24% 1.34%
2016 1,423,726 79,277,962 3.9% 1.35%
2017 1,501,116 80,312,698 5.44% 1.31%
2018 1,503,091 81,407,204 0.13% 1.36%
2019 1,483,756 82,579,440 -1.29% 1.44%
2020 1,472,204 83,384,680 -0.78% 0.98%
2021 1,504,365 84,147,318 2.18% 0.91%
2022 1,524,693 84,979,913 1.35% 0.99%
2023 1,577,059 85,325,965 3.43% 0.41%
2024 1,588,670 85,518,661 0.74% 0.23%
2025 1,624,531 85,725,557 2.26% 0.24%
2026 1,656,397 85,960,835 1.96% 0.27%
2027 1,683,692 86,227,115 1.65% 0.31%
2028 1,706,754 86,502,744 1.37% 0.32%
2029 1,726,868 86,771,652 1.18% 0.31%
2030 1,745,013 87,037,680 1.05% 0.31%
2031 1,762,760 87,297,191 1.02% 0.3%
2032 1,780,658 87,537,075 1.02% 0.27%
2033 1,798,708 87,762,403 1.01% 0.26%
2034 1,816,921 87,974,138 1.01% 0.24%
2035 1,835,293 88,172,739 1.01% 0.23%
2036 1,853,822 88,364,318 1.01% 0.22%
2037 1,872,468 88,545,669 1.01% 0.21%
2038 1,891,215 88,707,268 1% 0.18%
2039 1,910,026 88,849,956 0.99% 0.16%
2040 1,928,909 88,975,510 0.99% 0.14%
2041 1,947,825 89,083,304 0.98% 0.12%
2042 1,966,723 89,177,769 0.97% 0.11%
2043 1,985,577 89,254,147 0.96% 0.09%
2044 2,004,365 89,311,458 0.95% 0.06%
2045 2,023,058 89,349,806 0.93% 0.04%
2046 2,041,627 89,375,429 0.92% 0.03%
2047 2,060,095 89,383,765 0.9% 0.009%
2048 2,078,453 89,361,174 0.89% -0.03%
2049 2,096,741 89,306,566 0.88% -0.06%
2050 2,114,988 89,218,346 0.87% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bahrain increased by 481,500 people (a 54.2% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bahrain gained 279,806 (a 20.4% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Bahrain was ranked 156th most populous country in 2005 and is 151st 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) Bahrain's population will grow by 28.2% to 2,114,988 people with a rank change from 151st to 147th. The population of Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

Biggest cities by population

Bahrain
City Population
Manama 298K
Riffa 115K
Isa Town 61.3K
Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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