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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Belarus	Poland	Belarus	Poland
1960	8,198,000	29,637,450	-	-
1961	8,271,216	29,964,000	0.89%	1.1%
1962	8,351,928	30,308,500	0.98%	1.15%
1963	8,437,232	30,712,000	1.02%	1.33%
1964	8,524,224	31,139,450	1.03%	1.39%
1965	8,610,000	31,444,950	1.01%	0.98%
1966	8,696,496	31,681,000	1%	0.75%
1967	8,785,648	31,987,155	1.03%	0.97%
1968	8,874,552	32,294,655	1.01%	0.96%
1969	8,960,304	32,548,300	0.97%	0.79%
1970	9,040,000	32,664,300	0.89%	0.36%
1971	9,115,576	32,783,500	0.84%	0.36%
1972	9,188,968	33,055,650	0.81%	0.83%
1973	9,257,272	33,357,200	0.74%	0.91%
1974	9,317,584	33,678,899	0.65%	0.96%
1975	9,367,000	34,015,199	0.53%	1%
1976	9,411,000	34,356,300	0.47%	1%
1977	9,463,000	34,689,050	0.55%	0.97%
1978	9,525,000	34,965,600	0.66%	0.8%
1979	9,584,000	35,247,217	0.62%	0.81%
1980	9,643,000	35,574,150	0.62%	0.93%
1981	9,710,000	35,898,587	0.69%	0.91%
1982	9,776,000	36,230,481	0.68%	0.92%
1983	9,843,000	36,571,808	0.69%	0.94%
1984	9,910,000	36,904,134	0.68%	0.91%
1985	9,975,000	37,201,885	0.66%	0.81%
1986	10,043,000	37,456,119	0.68%	0.68%
1987	10,111,000	37,668,045	0.68%	0.57%
1988	10,140,000	37,824,487	0.29%	0.42%
1989	10,170,000	37,961,529	0.3%	0.36%
1990	10,189,348	38,110,782	0.19%	0.39%
1991	10,194,050	38,246,193	0.05%	0.36%
1992	10,216,470	38,363,667	0.22%	0.31%
1993	10,239,050	38,461,408	0.22%	0.25%
1994	10,226,955	38,542,652	-0.12%	0.21%
1995	10,193,831	38,594,998	-0.32%	0.14%
1996	10,159,569	38,624,370	-0.34%	0.08%
1997	10,117,433	38,649,660	-0.41%	0.07%
1998	10,071,963	38,663,481	-0.45%	0.04%
1999	10,026,738	38,660,271	-0.45%	-0.008%
2000	9,979,610	38,258,629	-0.47%	-1.04%
2001	9,928,549	38,248,076	-0.51%	-0.03%
2002	9,865,548	38,230,364	-0.63%	-0.05%
2003	9,796,749	38,204,570	-0.7%	-0.07%
2004	9,730,146	38,182,222	-0.68%	-0.06%
2005	9,663,915	38,165,445	-0.68%	-0.04%
2006	9,604,924	38,141,267	-0.61%	-0.06%
2007	9,560,953	38,120,560	-0.46%	-0.05%
2008	9,527,985	38,125,759	-0.34%	0.01%
2009	9,504,583	38,151,603	-0.25%	0.07%
2010	9,483,836	38,042,794	-0.22%	-0.29%
2011	9,461,643	38,063,255	-0.23%	0.05%
2012	9,446,836	38,063,164	-0.16%	-0%
2013	9,443,211	38,040,196	-0.04%	-0.06%
2014	9,448,515	38,011,735	0.06%	-0.07%
2015	9,461,076	37,986,412	0.13%	-0.07%
2016	9,469,379	37,970,087	0.09%	-0.04%
2017	9,458,989	37,974,826	-0.11%	0.01%
2018	9,438,785	37,974,750	-0.21%	-0%
2019	9,419,758	37,965,475	-0.2%	-0.02%
2020	9,379,952	37,515,748	-0.42%	-1.18%
2021	9,302,585	36,981,559	-0.82%	-1.42%
2022	9,228,071	36,821,749	-0.8%	-0.43%
2023	9,178,298	36,687,353	-0.54%	-0.36%
2024	9,133,712	36,554,707	-0.49%	-0.36%
2025	9,074,112	36,176,920	-0.65%	-1.03%
2026	9,013,013	35,894,534	-0.67%	-0.78%
2027	8,951,103	35,753,988	-0.69%	-0.39%
2028	8,888,816	35,605,295	-0.7%	-0.42%
2029	8,825,470	35,447,860	-0.71%	-0.44%
2030	8,761,505	35,283,068	-0.72%	-0.46%
2031	8,697,799	35,111,838	-0.73%	-0.49%
2032	8,634,092	34,934,626	-0.73%	-0.5%
2033	8,570,188	34,753,118	-0.74%	-0.52%
2034	8,506,564	34,567,292	-0.74%	-0.53%
2035	8,443,463	34,377,478	-0.74%	-0.55%
2036	8,380,891	34,183,187	-0.74%	-0.57%
2037	8,318,818	33,984,777	-0.74%	-0.58%
2038	8,256,896	33,782,992	-0.74%	-0.59%
2039	8,194,864	33,577,269	-0.75%	-0.61%
2040	8,133,047	33,368,049	-0.75%	-0.62%
2041	8,071,502	33,156,329	-0.76%	-0.63%
2042	8,010,552	32,941,367	-0.76%	-0.65%
2043	7,950,255	32,722,775	-0.75%	-0.66%
2044	7,889,949	32,501,991	-0.76%	-0.67%
2045	7,829,484	32,278,695	-0.77%	-0.69%
2046	7,768,823	32,052,771	-0.77%	-0.7%
2047	7,707,590	31,824,481	-0.79%	-0.71%
2048	7,645,086	31,593,911	-0.81%	-0.72%
2049	7,581,407	31,360,713	-0.83%	-0.74%
2050	7,516,925	31,124,396	-0.85%	-0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.