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Population in Belarus compared to Saudi Arabia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Belarus was 9,133,712 in 2024 vs 35,300,280 people in Saudi Arabia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Belarus' population is 9,074,112 people compared to 36,428,123 in Saudi Arabia.

Population statistics:

  • Saudi Arabia's population is 4.01 times bigger than Belarus'.
  • Belarus is ranked the 101st most populous country in the world, while Saudi Arabia is the 44th.
  • The countries together account for 0.55% of the world: 0.11% for Belarus vs 0.44% for Saudi Arabia.
  • For the last 10 years, Belarus has had an average growth rate of -0.3% per year vs +2.3% in Saudi Arabia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Belarus has decreased from 9.66M people to 9.07M (6.1% decline), while Saudi Arabia has grown from 20.6M to 36.4M (77.2% growth).
  • Saudi Arabia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 73.8M people, while Belarus' population already peaked in 1993 at 10.2M people and is projected to decrease to 4.39M people by 2100.

Belarus vs Saudi Arabia: live population counter

Belarus Saudi Arabia
Current population
9074112
36428123
Population rank 101/197 44/197
Percent of world population 0.11% 0.44%
One net population change
11.8 minutes
19.7 seconds
One birth every
8.02 minutes
57 seconds
One death every
4.29 minutes
6.66 minutes
One migration net change every
2.81 hours
4.3 minutes
Annual migration change -3,119 +122,170
Daily growth/decline -122 +4,377
Annual growth/decline -44,586 +1,597,549
Annual growth/decline rate -0.49% +4.74%
Population growth rate rank 185/197 3/197

Belarus and Saudi Arabia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Belarus
Population

Growth rate
Saudi Arabia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Belarus Saudi Arabia Belarus Saudi Arabia
1960 8,198,000 2,435,403 - -
1961 8,271,216 2,526,347 0.89% 3.73%
1962 8,351,928 2,620,910 0.98% 3.74%
1963 8,437,232 2,719,341 1.02% 3.76%
1964 8,524,224 2,821,968 1.03% 3.77%
1965 8,610,000 2,928,771 1.01% 3.78%
1966 8,696,496 3,039,887 1% 3.79%
1967 8,785,648 3,157,242 1.03% 3.86%
1968 8,874,552 3,282,711 1.01% 3.97%
1969 8,960,304 3,417,114 0.97% 4.09%
1970 9,040,000 3,562,470 0.89% 4.25%
1971 9,115,576 3,724,031 0.84% 4.54%
1972 9,188,968 3,905,722 0.81% 4.88%
1973 9,257,272 4,106,344 0.74% 5.14%
1974 9,317,584 4,323,632 0.65% 5.29%
1975 9,367,000 4,556,287 0.53% 5.38%
1976 9,411,000 4,807,933 0.47% 5.52%
1977 9,463,000 5,083,048 0.55% 5.72%
1978 9,525,000 5,381,902 0.66% 5.88%
1979 9,584,000 5,703,698 0.62% 5.98%
1980 9,643,000 6,047,997 0.62% 6.04%
1981 9,710,000 6,420,551 0.69% 6.16%
1982 9,776,000 6,824,486 0.68% 6.29%
1983 9,843,000 7,252,941 0.69% 6.28%
1984 9,910,000 7,697,307 0.68% 6.13%
1985 9,975,000 8,151,779 0.66% 5.9%
1986 10,043,000 8,628,639 0.68% 5.85%
1987 10,111,000 9,130,194 0.68% 5.81%
1988 10,140,000 9,629,165 0.29% 5.47%
1989 10,170,000 10,128,394 0.3% 5.18%
1990 10,189,348 10,640,691 0.19% 5.06%
1991 10,194,050 11,160,744 0.05% 4.89%
1992 10,216,470 11,686,676 0.22% 4.71%
1993 10,239,050 12,215,862 0.22% 4.53%
1994 10,226,955 12,750,040 -0.12% 4.37%
1995 10,193,831 13,289,245 -0.32% 4.23%
1996 10,159,569 13,831,009 -0.34% 4.08%
1997 10,117,433 14,374,943 -0.41% 3.93%
1998 10,071,963 14,922,185 -0.45% 3.81%
1999 10,026,738 15,472,075 -0.45% 3.69%
2000 9,979,610 16,177,722 -0.47% 4.56%
2001 9,928,549 17,041,397 -0.51% 5.34%
2002 9,865,548 17,910,910 -0.63% 5.1%
2003 9,796,749 18,786,767 -0.7% 4.89%
2004 9,730,146 19,669,480 -0.68% 4.7%
2005 9,663,915 20,559,890 -0.68% 4.53%
2006 9,604,924 21,459,144 -0.61% 4.37%
2007 9,560,953 22,368,313 -0.46% 4.24%
2008 9,527,985 23,287,877 -0.34% 4.11%
2009 9,504,583 24,217,654 -0.25% 3.99%
2010 9,483,836 23,978,487 -0.22% -0.99%
2011 9,461,643 25,091,867 -0.23% 4.64%
2012 9,446,836 26,168,861 -0.16% 4.29%
2013 9,443,211 27,624,004 -0.04% 5.56%
2014 9,448,515 28,309,273 0.06% 2.48%
2015 9,461,076 29,816,382 0.13% 5.32%
2016 9,469,379 30,954,198 0.09% 3.82%
2017 9,458,989 30,977,355 -0.11% 0.07%
2018 9,438,785 30,196,281 -0.21% -2.52%
2019 9,419,758 30,063,799 -0.2% -0.44%
2020 9,379,952 31,552,510 -0.42% 4.95%
2021 9,302,585 30,784,383 -0.82% -2.43%
2022 9,228,071 32,175,224 -0.8% 4.52%
2023 9,178,298 33,702,731 -0.54% 4.75%
2024 9,133,712 35,300,280 -0.49% 4.74%
2025 9,074,112 35,927,625 -0.65% 1.78%
2026 9,013,013 36,550,694 -0.67% 1.73%
2027 8,951,103 37,167,513 -0.69% 1.69%
2028 8,888,816 37,775,810 -0.7% 1.64%
2029 8,825,470 38,364,377 -0.71% 1.56%
2030 8,761,505 38,918,375 -0.72% 1.44%
2031 8,697,799 39,450,880 -0.73% 1.37%
2032 8,634,092 39,983,934 -0.73% 1.35%
2033 8,570,188 40,517,599 -0.74% 1.33%
2034 8,506,564 41,052,423 -0.74% 1.32%
2035 8,443,463 41,588,429 -0.74% 1.31%
2036 8,380,891 42,125,184 -0.74% 1.29%
2037 8,318,818 42,661,908 -0.74% 1.27%
2038 8,256,896 43,198,420 -0.74% 1.26%
2039 8,194,864 43,734,316 -0.75% 1.24%
2040 8,133,047 44,269,571 -0.75% 1.22%
2041 8,071,502 44,804,338 -0.76% 1.21%
2042 8,010,552 45,338,111 -0.76% 1.19%
2043 7,950,255 45,870,896 -0.75% 1.18%
2044 7,889,949 46,403,116 -0.76% 1.16%
2045 7,829,484 46,934,822 -0.77% 1.15%
2046 7,768,823 47,465,267 -0.77% 1.13%
2047 7,707,590 47,993,976 -0.79% 1.11%
2048 7,645,086 48,521,364 -0.81% 1.1%
2049 7,581,407 49,047,461 -0.83% 1.08%
2050 7,516,925 49,572,202 -0.85% 1.07%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Saudi Arabia gained 9,256,492 people (a 45% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Saudi Arabia's population increased by 6,611,741 (a 22.2% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Saudi Arabia was ranked 51st in 2005 and ranked 44th 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 Saudi Arabia will increase by 36.1% to 49,572,202 people and rank change from 44th to 43rd.

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