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Population in Brunei compared to Iraq: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Brunei was 462,721 in 2024 vs 46,042,015 people in Iraq in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Brunei's population is 469,088 people compared to 47,813,338 in Iraq.

Population statistics:

  • Iraq's population is 101.9 times bigger than Brunei's.
  • Brunei is ranked the 170th most populous country in the world, while Iraq is the 34th.
  • The countries together account for 0.58% of the world: 0.006% for Brunei vs 0.58% for Iraq.
  • For the last 10 years, Brunei has had an average growth rate of +1.08% per year vs +2.45% in Iraq.
  • Since 2005, the population of Brunei has increased from 359K people to 469K (30.7% growth), while Iraq has grown from 28.4M to 47.8M (68.3% growth).
  • Brunei is projected to reach its peak in 2055 at 521K people compared to the peak of 101M people in 2100 for Iraq.

Brunei vs Iraq: live population counter

Brunei Iraq
Current population
469088
47813338
Population rank 170/197 34/197
Percent of world population 0.006% 0.58%
One net population change
2.32 hours
32.6 seconds
One birth every
1.4 hours
27.2 seconds
One death every
3.65 hours
2.82 minutes
One migration net change every
1.07 years
29.6 minutes
Annual migration change +0 -17,735
Daily growth/decline +10 +2,652
Annual growth/decline +3,772 +967,966
Annual growth/decline rate +0.82% +2.15%
Population growth rate rank 116/197 48/197

Brunei and Iraq: population history and growth rate by year chart

Brunei
Population

Growth rate
Iraq
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Brunei Iraq Brunei Iraq
1960 88,347 7,022,052 - -
1961 92,517 7,194,553 4.72% 2.46%
1962 96,719 7,413,875 4.54% 3.05%
1963 101,159 7,667,928 4.59% 3.43%
1964 105,922 7,929,566 4.71% 3.41%
1965 110,838 8,202,140 4.64% 3.44%
1966 115,874 8,485,104 4.54% 3.45%
1967 121,017 8,778,869 4.44% 3.46%
1968 126,222 9,085,016 4.3% 3.49%
1969 131,446 9,403,356 4.14% 3.5%
1970 135,138 9,735,611 2.81% 3.53%
1971 137,921 10,077,809 2.06% 3.51%
1972 142,189 10,430,164 3.09% 3.5%
1973 147,369 10,795,869 3.64% 3.51%
1974 152,656 11,167,761 3.59% 3.44%
1975 158,070 11,543,639 3.55% 3.37%
1976 163,607 11,927,651 3.5% 3.33%
1977 169,277 12,331,046 3.47% 3.38%
1978 174,884 12,753,355 3.31% 3.42%
1979 180,422 13,170,365 3.17% 3.27%
1980 186,111 13,591,992 3.15% 3.2%
1981 191,977 14,006,381 3.15% 3.05%
1982 198,165 14,406,083 3.22% 2.85%
1983 204,741 14,840,555 3.32% 3.02%
1984 211,661 15,310,733 3.38% 3.17%
1985 218,919 15,683,430 3.43% 2.43%
1986 226,495 16,074,145 3.46% 2.49%
1987 233,860 16,521,049 3.25% 2.78%
1988 240,913 16,908,819 3.02% 2.35%
1989 248,064 17,364,542 2.97% 2.7%
1990 255,292 17,581,206 2.91% 1.25%
1991 262,596 17,767,253 2.86% 1.06%
1992 269,839 18,300,845 2.76% 3%
1993 276,971 19,201,195 2.64% 4.92%
1994 284,091 20,139,807 2.57% 4.89%
1995 291,195 20,825,860 2.5% 3.41%
1996 298,276 21,501,321 2.43% 3.24%
1997 305,341 22,176,593 2.37% 3.14%
1998 312,385 22,884,399 2.31% 3.19%
1999 319,411 23,636,527 2.25% 3.29%
2000 326,424 24,424,056 2.2% 3.33%
2001 333,345 25,197,840 2.12% 3.17%
2002 340,099 26,006,559 2.03% 3.21%
2003 346,637 26,802,659 1.92% 3.06%
2004 352,911 27,577,878 1.81% 2.89%
2005 358,916 28,407,448 1.7% 3.01%
2006 364,663 28,616,515 1.6% 0.74%
2007 370,873 28,391,607 1.7% -0.79%
2008 377,793 28,971,036 1.87% 2.04%
2009 384,952 30,058,206 1.89% 3.75%
2010 392,332 31,045,366 1.92% 3.28%
2011 399,389 32,161,424 1.8% 3.59%
2012 405,557 33,654,842 1.54% 4.64%
2013 411,202 35,281,989 1.39% 4.83%
2014 416,750 36,550,059 1.35% 3.59%
2015 422,212 37,560,535 1.31% 2.76%
2016 427,564 38,469,627 1.27% 2.42%
2017 432,772 39,337,353 1.22% 2.26%
2018 437,810 40,265,624 1.16% 2.36%
2019 442,680 41,192,171 1.11% 2.3%
2020 447,404 42,116,605 1.07% 2.24%
2021 451,721 43,071,211 0.96% 2.27%
2022 455,370 44,070,551 0.81% 2.32%
2023 458,949 45,074,049 0.79% 2.28%
2024 462,721 46,042,015 0.82% 2.15%
2025 466,324 47,020,778 0.78% 2.13%
2026 469,766 48,007,435 0.74% 2.1%
2027 473,148 48,987,424 0.72% 2.04%
2028 476,428 49,960,955 0.69% 1.99%
2029 479,491 50,943,339 0.64% 1.97%
2030 482,438 51,937,208 0.61% 1.95%
2031 485,308 52,934,373 0.59% 1.92%
2032 487,943 53,953,395 0.54% 1.93%
2033 490,424 54,985,129 0.51% 1.91%
2034 492,887 56,012,641 0.5% 1.87%
2035 495,286 57,035,917 0.49% 1.83%
2036 497,544 58,071,740 0.46% 1.82%
2037 499,693 59,109,258 0.43% 1.79%
2038 501,910 60,132,232 0.44% 1.73%
2039 504,061 61,174,679 0.43% 1.73%
2040 505,968 62,223,208 0.38% 1.71%
2041 507,800 63,249,167 0.36% 1.65%
2042 509,531 64,260,847 0.34% 1.6%
2043 511,124 65,257,000 0.31% 1.55%
2044 512,586 66,237,772 0.29% 1.5%
2045 514,047 67,204,176 0.29% 1.46%
2046 515,409 68,150,060 0.26% 1.41%
2047 516,596 69,098,087 0.23% 1.39%
2048 517,693 70,050,118 0.21% 1.38%
2049 518,684 70,999,566 0.19% 1.36%
2050 519,542 71,928,759 0.17% 1.31%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Brunei increased by 63,296 people (a 17.6% growth), while Iraq gained 9,153,087 people (a 32.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Brunei gained 46,876 (a 11.1% growth), while Iraq's population increased by 10,252,803 (a 27.3% growth).

Brunei was ranked 169th most populous country in 2005 and is 170th in 2025. Iraq was ranked 38th in 2005 and ranked 34th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Brunei's population will grow by 10.8% to 519,542 people with a rank change from 170th to 171st. The population of Iraq will increase by 50.4% to 71,928,759 people and rank change from 34th to 28th.

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