Population in Belarus compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Belarus and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Belarus	Papua New Guinea	Belarus	Papua New Guinea
1960	8,198,000	1,995,110	-	-
1961	8,271,216	2,046,127	0.89%	2.56%
1962	8,351,928	2,093,919	0.98%	2.34%
1963	8,437,232	2,141,376	1.02%	2.27%
1964	8,524,224	2,188,325	1.03%	2.19%
1965	8,610,000	2,235,820	1.01%	2.17%
1966	8,696,496	2,285,774	1%	2.23%
1967	8,785,648	2,337,532	1.03%	2.26%
1968	8,874,552	2,390,803	1.01%	2.28%
1969	8,960,304	2,446,927	0.97%	2.35%
1970	9,040,000	2,505,628	0.89%	2.4%
1971	9,115,576	2,566,421	0.84%	2.43%
1972	9,188,968	2,628,432	0.81%	2.42%
1973	9,257,272	2,690,629	0.74%	2.37%
1974	9,317,584	2,752,671	0.65%	2.31%
1975	9,367,000	2,814,820	0.53%	2.26%
1976	9,411,000	2,877,327	0.47%	2.22%
1977	9,463,000	2,940,327	0.55%	2.19%
1978	9,525,000	3,003,714	0.66%	2.16%
1979	9,584,000	3,067,341	0.62%	2.12%
1980	9,643,000	3,131,512	0.62%	2.09%
1981	9,710,000	3,197,019	0.69%	2.09%
1982	9,776,000	3,264,291	0.68%	2.1%
1983	9,843,000	3,333,633	0.69%	2.12%
1984	9,910,000	3,405,198	0.68%	2.15%
1985	9,975,000	3,478,936	0.66%	2.17%
1986	10,043,000	3,554,793	0.68%	2.18%
1987	10,111,000	3,632,543	0.68%	2.19%
1988	10,140,000	3,711,880	0.29%	2.18%
1989	10,170,000	3,796,078	0.3%	2.27%
1990	10,189,348	3,896,481	0.19%	2.64%
1991	10,194,050	4,021,837	0.05%	3.22%
1992	10,216,470	4,166,699	0.22%	3.6%
1993	10,239,050	4,320,872	0.22%	3.7%
1994	10,226,955	4,480,208	-0.12%	3.69%
1995	10,193,831	4,644,278	-0.32%	3.66%
1996	10,159,569	4,813,361	-0.34%	3.64%
1997	10,117,433	4,987,883	-0.41%	3.63%
1998	10,071,963	5,166,390	-0.45%	3.58%
1999	10,026,738	5,349,333	-0.45%	3.54%
2000	9,979,610	5,537,064	-0.47%	3.51%
2001	9,928,549	5,728,435	-0.51%	3.46%
2002	9,865,548	5,924,003	-0.63%	3.41%
2003	9,796,749	6,123,997	-0.7%	3.38%
2004	9,730,146	6,328,041	-0.68%	3.33%
2005	9,663,915	6,535,905	-0.68%	3.28%
2006	9,604,924	6,747,720	-0.61%	3.24%
2007	9,560,953	6,963,345	-0.46%	3.2%
2008	9,527,985	7,183,002	-0.34%	3.15%
2009	9,504,583	7,406,438	-0.25%	3.11%
2010	9,483,836	7,633,523	-0.22%	3.07%
2011	9,461,643	7,859,346	-0.23%	2.96%
2012	9,446,836	8,081,390	-0.16%	2.83%
2013	9,443,211	8,302,698	-0.04%	2.74%
2014	9,448,515	8,523,441	0.06%	2.66%
2015	9,461,076	8,743,246	0.13%	2.58%
2016	9,469,379	8,961,718	0.09%	2.5%
2017	9,458,989	9,178,714	-0.11%	2.42%
2018	9,438,785	9,394,513	-0.21%	2.35%
2019	9,419,758	9,609,010	-0.2%	2.28%
2020	9,379,952	9,815,746	-0.42%	2.15%
2021	9,302,585	10,012,896	-0.82%	2.01%
2022	9,228,071	10,203,169	-0.8%	1.9%
2023	9,178,298	10,389,635	-0.54%	1.83%
2024	9,133,712	10,576,502	-0.49%	1.8%
2025	9,074,112	10,762,813	-0.65%	1.76%
2026	9,013,013	10,947,845	-0.67%	1.72%
2027	8,951,103	11,131,268	-0.69%	1.68%
2028	8,888,816	11,312,895	-0.7%	1.63%
2029	8,825,470	11,492,799	-0.71%	1.59%
2030	8,761,505	11,671,420	-0.72%	1.55%
2031	8,697,799	11,848,221	-0.73%	1.51%
2032	8,634,092	12,023,121	-0.73%	1.48%
2033	8,570,188	12,196,639	-0.74%	1.44%
2034	8,506,564	12,369,248	-0.74%	1.42%
2035	8,443,463	12,540,596	-0.74%	1.39%
2036	8,380,891	12,710,682	-0.74%	1.36%
2037	8,318,818	12,879,737	-0.74%	1.33%
2038	8,256,896	13,047,122	-0.74%	1.3%
2039	8,194,864	13,212,668	-0.75%	1.27%
2040	8,133,047	13,376,156	-0.75%	1.24%
2041	8,071,502	13,537,361	-0.76%	1.21%
2042	8,010,552	13,696,139	-0.76%	1.17%
2043	7,950,255	13,853,410	-0.75%	1.15%
2044	7,889,949	14,009,926	-0.76%	1.13%
2045	7,829,484	14,165,578	-0.77%	1.11%
2046	7,768,823	14,318,889	-0.77%	1.08%
2047	7,707,590	14,469,210	-0.79%	1.05%
2048	7,645,086	14,617,364	-0.81%	1.02%
2049	7,581,407	14,763,600	-0.83%	1%
2050	7,516,925	14,906,584	-0.85%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th 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 Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.