Population in Belarus compared to Sri Lanka: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Belarus and Sri Lanka: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Belarus	Sri Lanka	Belarus	Sri Lanka
1960	8,198,000	9,661,389	-	-
1961	8,271,216	9,899,372	0.89%	2.46%
1962	8,351,928	10,143,754	0.98%	2.47%
1963	8,437,232	10,395,040	1.02%	2.48%
1964	8,524,224	10,653,397	1.03%	2.49%
1965	8,610,000	10,916,965	1.01%	2.47%
1966	8,696,496	11,183,928	1%	2.45%
1967	8,785,648	11,457,328	1.03%	2.44%
1968	8,874,552	11,736,088	1.01%	2.43%
1969	8,960,304	12,013,858	0.97%	2.37%
1970	9,040,000	12,287,110	0.89%	2.27%
1971	9,115,576	12,551,910	0.84%	2.16%
1972	9,188,968	12,809,205	0.81%	2.05%
1973	9,257,272	13,060,916	0.74%	1.97%
1974	9,317,584	13,305,693	0.65%	1.87%
1975	9,367,000	13,548,984	0.53%	1.83%
1976	9,411,000	13,796,770	0.47%	1.83%
1977	9,463,000	14,049,371	0.55%	1.83%
1978	9,525,000	14,310,128	0.66%	1.86%
1979	9,584,000	14,579,614	0.62%	1.88%
1980	9,643,000	14,847,974	0.62%	1.84%
1981	9,710,000	15,099,414	0.69%	1.69%
1982	9,776,000	15,286,567	0.68%	1.24%
1983	9,843,000	15,388,794	0.69%	0.67%
1984	9,910,000	15,441,860	0.68%	0.34%
1985	9,975,000	15,544,154	0.66%	0.66%
1986	10,043,000	15,731,256	0.68%	1.2%
1987	10,111,000	15,916,576	0.68%	1.18%
1988	10,140,000	16,078,621	0.29%	1.02%
1989	10,170,000	16,248,557	0.3%	1.06%
1990	10,189,348	16,352,458	0.19%	0.64%
1991	10,194,050	16,475,354	0.05%	0.75%
1992	10,216,470	16,739,284	0.22%	1.6%
1993	10,239,050	17,025,918	0.22%	1.71%
1994	10,226,955	17,275,773	-0.12%	1.47%
1995	10,193,831	17,564,068	-0.32%	1.67%
1996	10,159,569	17,905,018	-0.34%	1.94%
1997	10,117,433	18,248,200	-0.41%	1.92%
1998	10,071,963	18,596,003	-0.45%	1.91%
1999	10,026,738	18,944,731	-0.45%	1.88%
2000	9,979,610	19,293,054	-0.47%	1.84%
2001	9,928,549	19,600,362	-0.51%	1.59%
2002	9,865,548	19,805,752	-0.63%	1.05%
2003	9,796,749	19,951,521	-0.7%	0.74%
2004	9,730,146	20,087,605	-0.68%	0.68%
2005	9,663,915	20,216,524	-0.68%	0.64%
2006	9,604,924	20,352,411	-0.61%	0.67%
2007	9,560,953	20,492,545	-0.46%	0.69%
2008	9,527,985	20,629,378	-0.34%	0.67%
2009	9,504,583	20,756,435	-0.25%	0.62%
2010	9,483,836	20,879,089	-0.22%	0.59%
2011	9,461,643	21,009,048	-0.23%	0.62%
2012	9,446,836	21,169,458	-0.16%	0.76%
2013	9,443,211	20,585,000	-0.04%	-2.76%
2014	9,448,515	20,778,000	0.06%	0.94%
2015	9,461,076	20,970,000	0.13%	0.92%
2016	9,469,379	21,209,000	0.09%	1.14%
2017	9,458,989	21,453,000	-0.11%	1.15%
2018	9,438,785	21,670,000	-0.21%	1.01%
2019	9,419,758	21,803,000	-0.2%	0.61%
2020	9,379,952	21,919,000	-0.42%	0.53%
2021	9,302,585	22,156,000	-0.82%	1.08%
2022	9,228,071	22,181,000	-0.8%	0.11%
2023	9,178,298	22,037,000	-0.54%	-0.65%
2024	9,133,712	21,916,000	-0.49%	-0.55%
2025	9,074,112	22,035,440	-0.65%	0.54%
2026	9,013,013	22,148,172	-0.67%	0.51%
2027	8,951,103	22,255,601	-0.69%	0.49%
2028	8,888,816	22,357,682	-0.7%	0.46%
2029	8,825,470	22,453,922	-0.71%	0.43%
2030	8,761,505	22,546,245	-0.72%	0.41%
2031	8,697,799	22,635,106	-0.73%	0.39%
2032	8,634,092	22,720,118	-0.73%	0.38%
2033	8,570,188	22,802,043	-0.74%	0.36%
2034	8,506,564	22,879,527	-0.74%	0.34%
2035	8,443,463	22,952,739	-0.74%	0.32%
2036	8,380,891	23,022,027	-0.74%	0.3%
2037	8,318,818	23,088,877	-0.74%	0.29%
2038	8,256,896	23,152,480	-0.74%	0.28%
2039	8,194,864	23,211,633	-0.75%	0.26%
2040	8,133,047	23,265,986	-0.75%	0.23%
2041	8,071,502	23,315,260	-0.76%	0.21%
2042	8,010,552	23,359,578	-0.76%	0.19%
2043	7,950,255	23,398,752	-0.75%	0.17%
2044	7,889,949	23,433,096	-0.76%	0.15%
2045	7,829,484	23,464,943	-0.77%	0.14%
2046	7,768,823	23,492,738	-0.77%	0.12%
2047	7,707,590	23,512,629	-0.79%	0.08%
2048	7,645,086	23,525,953	-0.81%	0.06%
2049	7,581,407	23,533,940	-0.83%	0.03%
2050	7,516,925	23,538,230	-0.85%	0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Sri Lanka gained 753,476 people (a 3.73% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Sri Lanka's population increased by 1,155,995 (a 5.51% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Sri Lanka was ranked 53rd in 2005 and ranked 63rd 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 Sri Lanka will increase by 6.38% to 23,538,230 people and rank change from 63rd to 70th.