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Population in Bhutan compared to Germany: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bhutan was 791,524 in 2024 vs 83,510,950 people in Germany in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bhutan's population is 801,123 people compared to 83,039,665 in Germany.

Population statistics:

  • Germany's population is 103.7 times bigger than Bhutan's.
  • Bhutan is ranked the 163rd most populous country in the world, while Germany is the 19th.
  • The countries together account for 1.01% of the world: 0.01% for Bhutan vs 1% for Germany.
  • For the last 10 years, Bhutan has had an average growth rate of +0.8% per year vs +0.32% in Germany.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bhutan has increased from 662K people to 801K (21% growth), while Germany has grown from 82.5M to 83M (0.69% growth).
  • Bhutan is projected to reach its peak in 2052 at 884K people, while Germany's population already peaked in 2023 at 83.9M people and is projected to decrease to 70M people by 2100.

Bhutan vs Germany: live population counter

Bhutan Germany
Current population
801123
83039665
Population rank 163/197 19/197
Percent of world population 0.01% 1%
One net population change
1.7 hours
1.34 minutes
One birth every
52.8 minutes
45.3 seconds
One death every
1.82 hours
30.6 seconds
One migration net change every
1.32 days
14.2 minutes
Annual migration change -277 +36,954
Daily growth/decline +14 -1,071
Annual growth/decline +5,139 -390,973
Annual growth/decline rate +0.65% -0.47%
Population growth rate rank 123/197 184/197

Bhutan and Germany: population history and growth rate by year chart

Bhutan
Population

Growth rate
Germany
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bhutan Germany Bhutan Germany
1960 224,084 72,814,900 - -
1961 230,602 73,377,632 2.91% 0.77%
1962 237,636 74,025,784 3.05% 0.88%
1963 245,156 74,714,353 3.16% 0.93%
1964 252,987 75,318,337 3.19% 0.81%
1965 261,200 75,963,695 3.25% 0.86%
1966 269,820 76,600,311 3.3% 0.84%
1967 278,852 76,951,336 3.35% 0.46%
1968 288,311 77,294,314 3.39% 0.45%
1969 298,214 77,909,682 3.43% 0.8%
1970 308,528 78,169,289 3.46% 0.33%
1971 319,211 78,312,842 3.46% 0.18%
1972 330,264 78,688,452 3.46% 0.48%
1973 341,705 78,936,666 3.46% 0.32%
1974 353,538 78,967,433 3.46% 0.04%
1975 365,791 78,673,554 3.47% -0.37%
1976 378,490 78,336,950 3.47% -0.43%
1977 391,639 78,159,814 3.47% -0.23%
1978 405,243 78,091,820 3.47% -0.09%
1979 419,200 78,126,350 3.44% 0.04%
1980 433,404 78,288,576 3.39% 0.21%
1981 447,836 78,407,907 3.33% 0.15%
1982 462,485 78,333,366 3.27% -0.1%
1983 477,460 78,128,282 3.24% -0.26%
1984 492,784 77,858,685 3.21% -0.35%
1985 508,392 77,684,873 3.17% -0.22%
1986 524,324 77,720,436 3.13% 0.05%
1987 540,557 77,839,920 3.1% 0.15%
1988 556,986 78,144,619 3.04% 0.39%
1989 573,586 78,751,283 2.98% 0.78%
1990 589,287 79,433,029 2.74% 0.87%
1991 599,784 80,013,896 1.78% 0.73%
1992 577,774 80,624,598 -3.67% 0.76%
1993 554,673 81,156,363 -4% 0.66%
1994 554,497 81,438,348 -0.03% 0.35%
1995 547,989 81,678,051 -1.17% 0.29%
1996 548,784 81,914,831 0.15% 0.29%
1997 558,697 82,034,771 1.81% 0.15%
1998 569,435 82,047,195 1.92% 0.02%
1999 582,579 82,100,243 2.31% 0.06%
2000 596,863 82,211,508 2.45% 0.14%
2001 610,794 82,349,925 2.33% 0.17%
2002 624,409 82,488,495 2.23% 0.17%
2003 637,663 82,534,176 2.12% 0.06%
2004 650,544 82,516,260 2.02% -0.02%
2005 661,865 82,469,422 1.74% -0.06%
2006 670,799 82,376,451 1.35% -0.11%
2007 678,641 82,266,372 1.17% -0.13%
2008 686,351 82,110,097 1.14% -0.19%
2009 693,988 81,902,307 1.11% -0.25%
2010 701,632 81,776,930 1.1% -0.15%
2011 709,377 80,274,983 1.1% -1.84%
2012 717,279 80,425,823 1.11% 0.19%
2013 725,273 80,645,605 1.11% 0.27%
2014 733,139 80,982,500 1.08% 0.42%
2015 740,618 81,686,611 1.02% 0.87%
2016 747,866 82,348,669 0.98% 0.81%
2017 754,335 82,657,002 0.86% 0.37%
2018 759,759 82,905,782 0.72% 0.3%
2019 764,824 83,092,962 0.67% 0.23%
2020 770,006 83,160,871 0.68% 0.08%
2021 775,442 83,196,078 0.71% 0.04%
2022 780,914 83,797,985 0.71% 0.72%
2023 786,385 83,901,923 0.7% 0.12%
2024 791,524 83,510,950 0.65% -0.47%
2025 796,681 83,039,665 0.65% -0.56%
2026 802,211 82,614,154 0.69% -0.51%
2027 807,265 82,415,087 0.63% -0.24%
2028 811,835 82,204,095 0.57% -0.26%
2029 816,265 81,983,207 0.55% -0.27%
2030 820,693 81,761,486 0.54% -0.27%
2031 825,464 81,535,782 0.58% -0.28%
2032 830,347 81,309,833 0.59% -0.28%
2033 834,984 81,088,671 0.56% -0.27%
2034 839,045 80,874,239 0.49% -0.26%
2035 843,199 80,664,119 0.5% -0.26%
2036 847,699 80,440,400 0.53% -0.28%
2037 851,844 80,216,687 0.49% -0.28%
2038 855,558 79,996,530 0.44% -0.27%
2039 858,918 79,775,309 0.39% -0.28%
2040 862,126 79,559,716 0.37% -0.27%
2041 865,152 79,356,179 0.35% -0.26%
2042 868,152 79,162,051 0.35% -0.24%
2043 871,100 78,957,628 0.34% -0.26%
2044 873,733 78,737,840 0.3% -0.28%
2045 876,178 78,512,825 0.28% -0.29%
2046 878,161 78,288,289 0.23% -0.29%
2047 879,450 78,060,952 0.15% -0.29%
2048 880,488 77,820,753 0.12% -0.31%
2049 881,433 77,573,634 0.11% -0.32%
2050 882,337 77,330,385 0.1% -0.31%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bhutan increased by 78,753 people (a 11.9% growth), while Germany lost 782,811 people (a 0.95% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bhutan gained 60,505 (a 8.17% growth), while Germany's population increased by 1,353,054 (a 1.66% growth).

Bhutan was ranked 161st most populous country in 2005 and is 163rd in 2025. Germany was ranked 13th in 2005 and ranked 19th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Bhutan's population will grow by 10.1% to 882,337 people and will still be ranked 163rd. The population of Germany will decrease by 6.88% to 77,330,385 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.

Biggest cities by population

Bhutan
City Population
Thimphu 115K
Paro 2.36K

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