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	9,132,629	36,559,233	-0.5%	-0.35%
2025	9,073,036	36,181,399	-0.65%	-1.03%
2026	9,011,944	35,898,979	-0.67%	-0.78%
2027	8,950,041	35,758,415	-0.69%	-0.39%
2028	8,887,762	35,609,703	-0.7%	-0.42%
2029	8,824,424	35,452,249	-0.71%	-0.44%
2030	8,760,466	35,287,436	-0.72%	-0.46%
2031	8,696,768	35,116,185	-0.73%	-0.49%
2032	8,633,068	34,938,952	-0.73%	-0.5%
2033	8,569,172	34,757,421	-0.74%	-0.52%
2034	8,505,555	34,571,572	-0.74%	-0.53%
2035	8,442,461	34,381,734	-0.74%	-0.55%
2036	8,379,897	34,187,419	-0.74%	-0.57%
2037	8,317,831	33,988,985	-0.74%	-0.58%
2038	8,255,917	33,787,175	-0.74%	-0.59%
2039	8,193,893	33,581,427	-0.75%	-0.61%
2040	8,132,083	33,372,181	-0.75%	-0.62%
2041	8,070,545	33,160,435	-0.76%	-0.63%
2042	8,009,602	32,945,446	-0.76%	-0.65%
2043	7,949,312	32,726,827	-0.75%	-0.66%
2044	7,889,014	32,506,015	-0.76%	-0.67%
2045	7,828,555	32,282,692	-0.77%	-0.69%
2046	7,767,902	32,056,740	-0.77%	-0.7%
2047	7,706,676	31,828,421	-0.79%	-0.71%
2048	7,644,179	31,597,823	-0.81%	-0.72%
2049	7,580,508	31,364,596	-0.83%	-0.74%
2050	7,516,034	31,128,250	-0.85%	-0.75%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Belarus decreased by 135,545 people (a 1.41% decline), while Poland lost 171,180 people (a 0.45% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Belarus lost -457,435 (a 4.83% decline), while Poland's population decreased by -2,071,108 (a 5.45% decline).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2006 and is 101st in 2026. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2006 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 13.3% to 31,128,250 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.