Population in Belarus compared to Ghana: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Belarus and Ghana: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Belarus	Ghana	Belarus	Ghana
1960	8,198,000	6,961,215	-	-
1961	8,271,216	7,162,667	0.89%	2.89%
1962	8,351,928	7,337,375	0.98%	2.44%
1963	8,437,232	7,514,714	1.02%	2.42%
1964	8,524,224	7,695,739	1.03%	2.41%
1965	8,610,000	7,882,606	1.01%	2.43%
1966	8,696,496	8,074,521	1%	2.43%
1967	8,785,648	8,271,913	1.03%	2.44%
1968	8,874,552	8,475,729	1.01%	2.46%
1969	8,960,304	8,690,383	0.97%	2.53%
1970	9,040,000	8,925,813	0.89%	2.71%
1971	9,115,576	9,176,264	0.84%	2.81%
1972	9,188,968	9,438,187	0.81%	2.85%
1973	9,257,272	9,714,617	0.74%	2.93%
1974	9,317,584	10,000,523	0.65%	2.94%
1975	9,367,000	10,294,308	0.53%	2.94%
1976	9,411,000	10,594,913	0.47%	2.92%
1977	9,463,000	10,911,871	0.55%	2.99%
1978	9,525,000	11,248,450	0.66%	3.08%
1979	9,584,000	11,597,255	0.62%	3.1%
1980	9,643,000	11,941,448	0.62%	2.97%
1981	9,710,000	12,281,712	0.69%	2.85%
1982	9,776,000	12,643,819	0.68%	2.95%
1983	9,843,000	13,029,836	0.69%	3.05%
1984	9,910,000	13,370,590	0.68%	2.62%
1985	9,975,000	13,661,229	0.66%	2.17%
1986	10,043,000	13,965,217	0.68%	2.23%
1987	10,111,000	14,289,108	0.68%	2.32%
1988	10,140,000	14,636,568	0.29%	2.43%
1989	10,170,000	15,006,813	0.3%	2.53%
1990	10,189,348	15,394,648	0.19%	2.58%
1991	10,194,050	15,787,496	0.05%	2.55%
1992	10,216,470	16,184,855	0.22%	2.52%
1993	10,239,050	16,589,519	0.22%	2.5%
1994	10,226,955	16,993,190	-0.12%	2.43%
1995	10,193,831	17,399,017	-0.32%	2.39%
1996	10,159,569	17,810,181	-0.34%	2.36%
1997	10,117,433	18,238,958	-0.41%	2.41%
1998	10,071,963	18,688,036	-0.45%	2.46%
1999	10,026,738	19,149,864	-0.45%	2.47%
2000	9,979,610	19,637,087	-0.47%	2.54%
2001	9,928,549	20,167,069	-0.51%	2.7%
2002	9,865,548	20,729,388	-0.63%	2.79%
2003	9,796,749	21,296,705	-0.7%	2.74%
2004	9,730,146	21,868,298	-0.68%	2.68%
2005	9,663,915	22,449,438	-0.68%	2.66%
2006	9,604,924	23,040,702	-0.61%	2.63%
2007	9,560,953	23,642,279	-0.46%	2.61%
2008	9,527,985	24,249,946	-0.34%	2.57%
2009	9,504,583	24,862,664	-0.25%	2.53%
2010	9,483,836	25,474,995	-0.22%	2.46%
2011	9,461,643	26,095,088	-0.23%	2.43%
2012	9,446,836	26,734,268	-0.16%	2.45%
2013	9,443,211	27,386,193	-0.04%	2.44%
2014	9,448,515	28,041,592	0.06%	2.39%
2015	9,461,076	28,696,068	0.13%	2.33%
2016	9,469,379	29,356,742	0.09%	2.3%
2017	9,458,989	30,008,354	-0.11%	2.22%
2018	9,438,785	30,637,585	-0.21%	2.1%
2019	9,419,758	31,258,945	-0.2%	2.03%
2020	9,379,952	31,887,809	-0.42%	2.01%
2021	9,302,585	32,518,665	-0.82%	1.98%
2022	9,228,071	33,149,152	-0.8%	1.94%
2023	9,178,298	33,787,914	-0.54%	1.93%
2024	9,133,712	34,427,414	-0.49%	1.89%
2025	9,074,112	35,064,273	-0.65%	1.85%
2026	9,013,013	35,697,555	-0.67%	1.81%
2027	8,951,103	36,328,265	-0.69%	1.77%
2028	8,888,816	36,959,310	-0.7%	1.74%
2029	8,825,470	37,589,709	-0.71%	1.71%
2030	8,761,505	38,222,075	-0.72%	1.68%
2031	8,697,799	38,856,804	-0.73%	1.66%
2032	8,634,092	39,492,788	-0.73%	1.64%
2033	8,570,188	40,132,720	-0.74%	1.62%
2034	8,506,564	40,774,152	-0.74%	1.6%
2035	8,443,463	41,412,555	-0.74%	1.57%
2036	8,380,891	42,047,450	-0.74%	1.53%
2037	8,318,818	42,682,177	-0.74%	1.51%
2038	8,256,896	43,314,971	-0.74%	1.48%
2039	8,194,864	43,942,852	-0.75%	1.45%
2040	8,133,047	44,568,346	-0.75%	1.42%
2041	8,071,502	45,190,628	-0.76%	1.4%
2042	8,010,552	45,808,597	-0.76%	1.37%
2043	7,950,255	46,421,960	-0.75%	1.34%
2044	7,889,949	47,030,351	-0.76%	1.31%
2045	7,829,484	47,634,271	-0.77%	1.28%
2046	7,768,823	48,231,602	-0.77%	1.25%
2047	7,707,590	48,823,456	-0.79%	1.23%
2048	7,645,086	49,408,506	-0.81%	1.2%
2049	7,581,407	49,984,435	-0.83%	1.17%
2050	7,516,925	50,553,041	-0.85%	1.14%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Ghana gained 6,246,630 people (a 27.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Ghana's population increased by 6,876,906 (a 24% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Ghana was ranked 49th in 2005 and ranked 47th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Belarus' population will shrink by 17.2% to 7,516,925 people with a rank change from 101st to 114th. The population of Ghana will increase by 42.1% to 50,553,041 people and rank change from 47th to 42nd.