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	9,132,629	10,576,502	-0.5%	1.8%
2025	9,073,036	10,762,813	-0.65%	1.76%
2026	9,011,944	10,947,845	-0.67%	1.72%
2027	8,950,041	11,131,268	-0.69%	1.68%
2028	8,887,762	11,312,895	-0.7%	1.63%
2029	8,824,424	11,492,799	-0.71%	1.59%
2030	8,760,466	11,671,420	-0.72%	1.55%
2031	8,696,768	11,848,221	-0.73%	1.51%
2032	8,633,068	12,023,121	-0.73%	1.48%
2033	8,569,172	12,196,639	-0.74%	1.44%
2034	8,505,555	12,369,248	-0.74%	1.42%
2035	8,442,461	12,540,596	-0.74%	1.39%
2036	8,379,897	12,710,682	-0.74%	1.36%
2037	8,317,831	12,879,737	-0.74%	1.33%
2038	8,255,917	13,047,122	-0.74%	1.3%
2039	8,193,893	13,212,668	-0.75%	1.27%
2040	8,132,083	13,376,156	-0.75%	1.24%
2041	8,070,545	13,537,361	-0.76%	1.21%
2042	8,009,602	13,696,139	-0.76%	1.17%
2043	7,949,312	13,853,410	-0.75%	1.15%
2044	7,889,014	14,009,926	-0.76%	1.13%
2045	7,828,555	14,165,578	-0.77%	1.11%
2046	7,767,902	14,318,889	-0.77%	1.08%
2047	7,706,676	14,469,210	-0.79%	1.05%
2048	7,644,179	14,617,364	-0.81%	1.02%
2049	7,580,508	14,763,600	-0.83%	1%
2050	7,516,034	14,906,584	-0.85%	0.97%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Belarus decreased by 135,545 people (a 1.41% decline), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,213,998 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Belarus lost -457,435 (a 4.83% decline), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 1,988,131 (a 22.2% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2006 and is 101st in 2026. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2006 and ranked 89th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Belarus' population will shrink by 16.6% to 7,516,034 people with a rank change from 101st to 114th. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.1% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 89th to 85th.