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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Belarus	Ukraine	Belarus	Ukraine
1960	8,198,000	42,824,093	-	-
1961	8,271,216	43,399,766	0.89%	1.34%
1962	8,351,928	43,943,674	0.98%	1.25%
1963	8,437,232	44,462,372	1.02%	1.18%
1964	8,524,224	44,951,156	1.03%	1.1%
1965	8,610,000	45,386,892	1.01%	0.97%
1966	8,696,496	45,802,519	1%	0.92%
1967	8,785,648	46,215,988	1.03%	0.9%
1968	8,874,552	46,614,325	1.01%	0.86%
1969	8,960,304	46,976,256	0.97%	0.78%
1970	9,040,000	47,261,306	0.89%	0.61%
1971	9,115,576	47,573,287	0.84%	0.66%
1972	9,188,968	47,946,893	0.81%	0.79%
1973	9,257,272	48,277,121	0.74%	0.69%
1974	9,317,584	48,576,570	0.65%	0.62%
1975	9,367,000	48,865,229	0.53%	0.59%
1976	9,411,000	49,120,842	0.47%	0.52%
1977	9,463,000	49,336,481	0.55%	0.44%
1978	9,525,000	49,521,243	0.66%	0.37%
1979	9,584,000	49,721,381	0.62%	0.4%
1980	9,643,000	49,955,152	0.62%	0.47%
1981	9,710,000	50,189,281	0.69%	0.47%
1982	9,776,000	50,402,724	0.68%	0.43%
1983	9,843,000	50,637,029	0.69%	0.46%
1984	9,910,000	50,887,599	0.68%	0.49%
1985	9,975,000	51,108,770	0.66%	0.43%
1986	10,043,000	51,318,745	0.68%	0.41%
1987	10,111,000	51,515,732	0.68%	0.38%
1988	10,140,000	51,724,853	0.29%	0.41%
1989	10,170,000	51,917,817	0.3%	0.37%
1990	10,189,348	52,054,092	0.19%	0.26%
1991	10,194,050	52,170,961	0.05%	0.22%
1992	10,216,470	52,323,671	0.22%	0.29%
1993	10,239,050	52,350,126	0.22%	0.05%
1994	10,226,955	52,075,998	-0.12%	-0.52%
1995	10,193,831	51,665,539	-0.32%	-0.79%
1996	10,159,569	51,226,109	-0.34%	-0.85%
1997	10,117,433	50,786,885	-0.41%	-0.86%
1998	10,071,963	50,379,731	-0.45%	-0.8%
1999	10,026,738	49,976,446	-0.45%	-0.8%
2000	9,979,610	49,556,660	-0.47%	-0.84%
2001	9,928,549	49,106,855	-0.51%	-0.91%
2002	9,865,548	48,677,281	-0.63%	-0.87%
2003	9,796,749	48,315,136	-0.7%	-0.74%
2004	9,730,146	47,979,507	-0.68%	-0.69%
2005	9,663,915	47,585,556	-0.68%	-0.82%
2006	9,604,924	47,278,694	-0.61%	-0.64%
2007	9,560,953	47,062,798	-0.46%	-0.46%
2008	9,527,985	46,819,175	-0.34%	-0.52%
2009	9,504,583	46,623,731	-0.25%	-0.42%
2010	9,483,836	46,456,003	-0.22%	-0.36%
2011	9,461,643	46,307,853	-0.23%	-0.32%
2012	9,446,836	46,210,056	-0.16%	-0.21%
2013	9,443,211	46,126,770	-0.04%	-0.18%
2014	9,448,515	45,972,380	0.06%	-0.33%
2015	9,461,076	45,784,896	0.13%	-0.41%
2016	9,469,379	45,616,832	0.09%	-0.37%
2017	9,458,989	45,436,041	-0.11%	-0.4%
2018	9,438,785	45,208,907	-0.21%	-0.5%
2019	9,419,758	44,957,458	-0.2%	-0.56%
2020	9,379,952	44,680,014	-0.42%	-0.62%
2021	9,302,585	44,298,640	-0.82%	-0.85%
2022	9,228,071	41,048,766	-0.8%	-7.34%
2023	9,178,298	37,732,836	-0.54%	-8.08%
2024	9,133,712	37,860,221	-0.49%	0.34%
2025	9,074,112	38,980,379	-0.65%	2.96%
2026	9,013,013	39,535,850	-0.67%	1.43%
2027	8,951,103	39,245,208	-0.69%	-0.74%
2028	8,888,816	38,952,086	-0.7%	-0.75%
2029	8,825,470	38,654,416	-0.71%	-0.76%
2030	8,761,505	38,353,848	-0.72%	-0.78%
2031	8,697,799	38,050,624	-0.73%	-0.79%
2032	8,634,092	37,746,688	-0.73%	-0.8%
2033	8,570,188	37,442,088	-0.74%	-0.81%
2034	8,506,564	37,135,839	-0.74%	-0.82%
2035	8,443,463	36,828,149	-0.74%	-0.83%
2036	8,380,891	36,519,767	-0.74%	-0.84%
2037	8,318,818	36,209,679	-0.74%	-0.85%
2038	8,256,896	35,897,705	-0.74%	-0.86%
2039	8,194,864	35,584,263	-0.75%	-0.87%
2040	8,133,047	35,270,911	-0.75%	-0.88%
2041	8,071,502	34,957,580	-0.76%	-0.89%
2042	8,010,552	34,641,778	-0.76%	-0.9%
2043	7,950,255	34,324,132	-0.75%	-0.92%
2044	7,889,949	34,004,074	-0.76%	-0.93%
2045	7,829,484	33,680,448	-0.77%	-0.95%
2046	7,768,823	33,351,499	-0.77%	-0.98%
2047	7,707,590	33,017,828	-0.79%	-1%
2048	7,645,086	32,680,968	-0.81%	-1.02%
2049	7,581,407	32,338,515	-0.83%	-1.05%
2050	7,516,925	31,990,136	-0.85%	-1.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th 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 Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.