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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Belarus	Syria	Belarus	Syria
1960	8,198,000	4,673,500	-	-
1961	8,271,216	4,815,466	0.89%	3.04%
1962	8,351,928	4,959,340	0.98%	2.99%
1963	8,437,232	5,110,467	1.02%	3.05%
1964	8,524,224	5,269,087	1.03%	3.1%
1965	8,610,000	5,435,267	1.01%	3.15%
1966	8,696,496	5,609,047	1%	3.2%
1967	8,785,648	5,790,198	1.03%	3.23%
1968	8,874,552	5,978,742	1.01%	3.26%
1969	8,960,304	6,175,166	0.97%	3.29%
1970	9,040,000	6,380,609	0.89%	3.33%
1971	9,115,576	6,598,094	0.84%	3.41%
1972	9,188,968	6,826,024	0.81%	3.45%
1973	9,257,272	7,060,321	0.74%	3.43%
1974	9,317,584	7,302,160	0.65%	3.43%
1975	9,367,000	7,554,364	0.53%	3.45%
1976	9,411,000	7,817,320	0.47%	3.48%
1977	9,463,000	8,090,501	0.55%	3.49%
1978	9,525,000	8,372,759	0.66%	3.49%
1979	9,584,000	8,661,909	0.62%	3.45%
1980	9,643,000	8,957,663	0.62%	3.41%
1981	9,710,000	9,260,189	0.69%	3.38%
1982	9,776,000	9,572,511	0.68%	3.37%
1983	9,843,000	9,904,809	0.69%	3.47%
1984	9,910,000	10,258,398	0.68%	3.57%
1985	9,975,000	10,625,672	0.66%	3.58%
1986	10,043,000	11,002,844	0.68%	3.55%
1987	10,111,000	11,388,923	0.68%	3.51%
1988	10,140,000	11,782,264	0.29%	3.45%
1989	10,170,000	12,179,060	0.3%	3.37%
1990	10,189,348	12,579,208	0.19%	3.29%
1991	10,194,050	12,980,821	0.05%	3.19%
1992	10,216,470	13,385,571	0.22%	3.12%
1993	10,239,050	13,795,686	0.22%	3.06%
1994	10,226,955	14,208,583	-0.12%	2.99%
1995	10,193,831	14,616,801	-0.32%	2.87%
1996	10,159,569	15,018,104	-0.34%	2.75%
1997	10,117,433	15,417,542	-0.41%	2.66%
1998	10,071,963	15,820,413	-0.45%	2.61%
1999	10,026,738	16,228,061	-0.45%	2.58%
2000	9,979,610	16,637,888	-0.47%	2.53%
2001	9,928,549	17,051,338	-0.51%	2.48%
2002	9,865,548	17,468,332	-0.63%	2.45%
2003	9,796,749	17,889,296	-0.7%	2.41%
2004	9,730,146	18,336,875	-0.68%	2.5%
2005	9,663,915	18,814,091	-0.68%	2.6%
2006	9,604,924	19,637,022	-0.61%	4.37%
2007	9,560,953	20,884,125	-0.46%	6.35%
2008	9,527,985	21,636,564	-0.34%	3.6%
2009	9,504,583	21,976,969	-0.25%	1.57%
2010	9,483,836	22,482,421	-0.22%	2.3%
2011	9,461,643	22,878,098	-0.23%	1.76%
2012	9,446,836	22,759,763	-0.16%	-0.52%
2013	9,443,211	21,666,917	-0.04%	-4.8%
2014	9,448,515	20,273,659	0.06%	-6.43%
2015	9,461,076	19,424,618	0.13%	-4.19%
2016	9,469,379	19,193,834	0.09%	-1.19%
2017	9,458,989	19,224,668	-0.11%	0.16%
2018	9,438,785	19,577,845	-0.21%	1.84%
2019	9,419,758	20,353,534	-0.2%	3.96%
2020	9,379,952	21,049,429	-0.42%	3.42%
2021	9,302,585	21,628,839	-0.82%	2.75%
2022	9,228,071	22,462,173	-0.8%	3.85%
2023	9,178,298	23,594,623	-0.54%	5.04%
2024	9,132,629	24,672,760	-0.5%	4.57%
2025	9,073,036	25,620,422	-0.65%	3.84%
2026	9,011,944	26,472,499	-0.67%	3.33%
2027	8,950,041	27,261,544	-0.69%	2.98%
2028	8,887,762	28,006,558	-0.7%	2.73%
2029	8,824,424	28,719,309	-0.71%	2.54%
2030	8,760,466	29,395,545	-0.72%	2.35%
2031	8,696,768	30,029,824	-0.73%	2.16%
2032	8,633,068	30,633,661	-0.73%	2.01%
2033	8,569,172	31,212,478	-0.74%	1.89%
2034	8,505,555	31,768,138	-0.74%	1.78%
2035	8,442,461	32,294,792	-0.74%	1.66%
2036	8,379,897	32,788,153	-0.74%	1.53%
2037	8,317,831	33,258,407	-0.74%	1.43%
2038	8,255,917	33,710,718	-0.74%	1.36%
2039	8,193,893	34,131,238	-0.75%	1.25%
2040	8,132,083	34,533,185	-0.75%	1.18%
2041	8,070,545	34,916,936	-0.76%	1.11%
2042	8,009,602	35,279,863	-0.76%	1.04%
2043	7,949,312	35,623,325	-0.75%	0.97%
2044	7,889,014	35,944,394	-0.76%	0.9%
2045	7,828,555	36,265,295	-0.77%	0.89%
2046	7,767,902	36,583,260	-0.77%	0.88%
2047	7,706,676	36,878,640	-0.79%	0.81%
2048	7,644,179	37,171,029	-0.81%	0.79%
2049	7,580,508	37,477,690	-0.83%	0.83%
2050	7,516,034	37,793,378	-0.85%	0.84%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Belarus decreased by 135,545 people (a 1.41% decline), while Syria lost 443,188 people (a 2.26% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Belarus lost -457,435 (a 4.83% decline), while Syria's population increased by 7,287,288 (a 38% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2006 and is 101st in 2026. Syria was ranked 58th in 2006 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 42.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.