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Population in Brazil compared to Spain: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Brazil was 211,998,573 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Brazil's population is 213,415,080 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Brazil's population is 4.37 times bigger than Spain's.
  • Brazil is ranked the 7th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 3.17% of the world: 2.58% for Brazil vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Brazil has had an average growth rate of +0.6% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Brazil has increased from 185M people to 213M (15.6% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Brazil is projected to reach its peak in 2042 at 219M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Brazil vs Spain: live population counter

Brazil Spain
Current population
213415080
48786181
Population rank 7/197 32/197
Percent of world population 2.58% 0.59%
One net population change
36.8 seconds
1.14 minutes
One birth every
12.1 seconds
1.62 minutes
One death every
21.1 seconds
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
2.33 minutes
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change -225,510 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +2,350 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +857,844 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +0.41% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 141/197 108/197

Brazil and Spain: population history and growth rate by year chart

Brazil
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Brazil Spain Brazil Spain
1960 72,388,126 30,455,000 - -
1961 74,605,447 30,739,250 3.06% 0.93%
1962 76,865,323 31,023,366 3.03% 0.92%
1963 79,164,235 31,296,651 2.99% 0.88%
1964 81,488,595 31,609,195 2.94% 1%
1965 83,817,583 31,954,292 2.86% 1.09%
1966 86,139,359 32,283,194 2.77% 1.03%
1967 88,446,124 32,682,947 2.68% 1.24%
1968 90,741,240 33,113,134 2.59% 1.32%
1969 93,045,777 33,441,054 2.54% 0.99%
1970 95,375,651 33,814,531 2.5% 1.12%
1971 97,739,273 34,224,490 2.48% 1.21%
1972 100,146,797 34,604,469 2.46% 1.11%
1973 102,600,976 34,988,947 2.45% 1.11%
1974 105,089,675 35,373,335 2.43% 1.1%
1975 107,619,565 35,757,900 2.41% 1.09%
1976 110,213,349 36,137,812 2.41% 1.06%
1977 112,875,292 36,511,638 2.42% 1.03%
1978 115,600,942 36,864,898 2.41% 0.97%
1979 118,380,821 37,191,330 2.4% 0.89%
1980 121,207,461 37,491,165 2.39% 0.81%
1981 124,063,109 37,758,631 2.36% 0.71%
1982 126,923,155 37,986,012 2.31% 0.6%
1983 129,790,077 38,171,525 2.26% 0.49%
1984 132,658,864 38,330,364 2.21% 0.42%
1985 135,515,595 38,469,512 2.15% 0.36%
1986 138,336,370 38,584,624 2.08% 0.3%
1987 141,104,944 38,684,815 2% 0.26%
1988 143,826,357 38,766,939 1.93% 0.21%
1989 146,502,972 38,827,764 1.86% 0.16%
1990 149,143,223 38,867,322 1.8% 0.1%
1991 151,724,256 38,966,376 1.73% 0.25%
1992 154,275,079 39,157,685 1.68% 0.49%
1993 156,794,577 39,361,262 1.63% 0.52%
1994 159,265,006 39,549,108 1.58% 0.48%
1995 161,735,073 39,724,050 1.55% 0.44%
1996 164,202,549 39,889,852 1.53% 0.42%
1997 166,661,659 40,057,389 1.5% 0.42%
1998 169,159,655 40,223,509 1.5% 0.41%
1999 171,641,543 40,386,875 1.47% 0.41%
2000 174,018,282 40,567,864 1.38% 0.45%
2001 176,301,203 40,850,412 1.31% 0.7%
2002 178,503,484 41,431,558 1.25% 1.42%
2003 180,622,688 42,187,645 1.19% 1.82%
2004 182,675,143 42,921,895 1.14% 1.74%
2005 184,688,101 43,653,155 1.1% 1.7%
2006 186,653,106 44,397,319 1.06% 1.7%
2007 188,552,320 45,226,803 1.02% 1.87%
2008 190,367,302 45,954,106 0.96% 1.61%
2009 192,079,951 46,362,946 0.9% 0.89%
2010 193,701,929 46,576,897 0.84% 0.46%
2011 195,284,734 46,742,697 0.82% 0.36%
2012 196,876,111 46,773,055 0.81% 0.06%
2013 198,478,299 46,604,197 0.81% -0.36%
2014 200,085,127 46,460,733 0.81% -0.31%
2015 201,675,532 46,422,303 0.79% -0.08%
2016 203,218,114 46,458,139 0.76% 0.08%
2017 204,703,445 46,571,232 0.73% 0.24%
2018 206,107,261 46,782,011 0.69% 0.45%
2019 207,455,459 47,118,501 0.65% 0.72%
2020 208,660,842 47,359,424 0.58% 0.51%
2021 209,550,294 47,443,821 0.43% 0.18%
2022 210,306,415 47,786,102 0.36% 0.72%
2023 211,140,729 48,347,910 0.4% 1.18%
2024 211,998,573 48,807,137 0.41% 0.95%
2025 212,812,405 48,786,181 0.38% -0.04%
2026 213,562,674 48,746,279 0.35% -0.08%
2027 214,261,037 48,696,847 0.33% -0.1%
2028 214,911,388 48,642,132 0.3% -0.11%
2029 215,515,178 48,578,166 0.28% -0.13%
2030 216,074,424 48,501,513 0.26% -0.16%
2031 216,587,355 48,412,854 0.24% -0.18%
2032 217,055,392 48,321,195 0.22% -0.19%
2033 217,479,394 48,230,054 0.2% -0.19%
2034 217,860,892 48,136,421 0.18% -0.19%
2035 218,199,715 48,036,650 0.16% -0.21%
2036 218,495,215 47,929,957 0.14% -0.22%
2037 218,747,246 47,819,257 0.12% -0.23%
2038 218,955,573 47,706,580 0.1% -0.24%
2039 219,118,385 47,588,878 0.07% -0.25%
2040 219,237,085 47,463,597 0.05% -0.26%
2041 219,307,158 47,332,618 0.03% -0.28%
2042 219,319,771 47,194,588 0.006% -0.29%
2043 219,276,528 47,052,293 -0.02% -0.3%
2044 219,179,002 46,902,636 -0.04% -0.32%
2045 219,026,208 46,738,565 -0.07% -0.35%
2046 218,821,045 46,564,383 -0.09% -0.37%
2047 218,565,379 46,381,681 -0.12% -0.39%
2048 218,258,225 46,190,642 -0.14% -0.41%
2049 217,897,833 45,985,428 -0.17% -0.44%
2050 217,489,309 45,769,362 -0.19% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Brazil increased by 16,987,431 people (a 9.2% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Brazil gained 11,739,548 (a 5.82% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Brazil was ranked 5th most populous country in 2005 and is 7th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Brazil's population will grow by 1.91% to 217,489,309 people with a rank change from 7th to 9th. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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