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Population in Canada compared to Iran: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Canada was 41,288,599 in 2024 vs 91,567,738 people in Iran in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Canada's population is 41,972,421 people compared to 93,020,793 in Iran.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 2.22 times bigger than Canada's.
  • Canada is ranked the 38th most populous country in the world, while Iran is the 17th.
  • The countries together account for 1.63% of the world: 0.51% for Canada vs 1.13% for Iran.
  • For the last 10 years, Canada has had an average growth rate of +1.5% per year vs +1.19% in Iran.
  • Since 2005, the population of Canada has increased from 32.2M people to 42M (30.2% growth), while Iran has grown from 71.8M to 93M (29.5% growth).
  • Canada is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 55.7M people compared to the peak of 102M people in 2053 for Iran.

Canada vs Iran: live population counter

Canada Iran
Current population
41972421
93020793
Population rank 38/197 17/197
Percent of world population 0.51% 1.13%
One net population change
26.2 seconds
32.9 seconds
One birth every
1.49 minutes
26.9 seconds
One death every
1.62 minutes
1.24 minutes
One migration net change every
1.43 minutes
2.76 minutes
Annual migration change +368,599 +190,156
Daily growth/decline +3,302 +2,627
Annual growth/decline +1,205,115 +959,031
Annual growth/decline rate +3.01% +1.06%
Population growth rate rank 15/197 100/197

Canada and Iran: population history and growth rate by year chart

Canada
Population

Growth rate
Iran
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Canada Iran Canada Iran
1960 17,909,356 21,470,434 - -
1961 18,271,000 22,125,726 2.02% 3.05%
1962 18,614,000 22,807,907 1.88% 3.08%
1963 18,964,000 23,519,005 1.88% 3.12%
1964 19,325,000 24,262,859 1.9% 3.16%
1965 19,678,000 25,036,978 1.83% 3.19%
1966 20,048,000 25,829,270 1.88% 3.16%
1967 20,412,000 26,628,432 1.82% 3.09%
1968 20,744,000 27,437,391 1.63% 3.04%
1969 21,028,000 28,273,482 1.37% 3.05%
1970 21,324,000 29,145,100 1.41% 3.08%
1971 21,962,032 30,029,071 2.99% 3.03%
1972 22,218,463 30,921,179 1.17% 2.97%
1973 22,491,777 31,839,838 1.23% 2.97%
1974 22,807,969 32,796,463 1.41% 3%
1975 23,143,275 33,802,973 1.47% 3.07%
1976 23,449,808 34,837,271 1.32% 3.06%
1977 23,725,843 35,933,181 1.18% 3.15%
1978 23,963,203 37,126,535 1% 3.32%
1979 24,201,544 38,424,952 0.99% 3.5%
1980 24,515,667 39,842,324 1.3% 3.69%
1981 24,819,915 41,989,312 1.24% 5.39%
1982 25,116,942 44,272,141 1.2% 5.44%
1983 25,366,451 46,029,535 0.99% 3.97%
1984 25,607,053 47,793,998 0.95% 3.83%
1985 25,842,116 49,582,289 0.92% 3.74%
1986 26,100,278 51,446,045 1% 3.76%
1987 26,446,601 53,323,493 1.33% 3.65%
1988 26,791,747 55,072,694 1.31% 3.28%
1989 27,276,781 56,704,914 1.81% 2.96%
1990 27,691,138 58,380,092 1.52% 2.95%
1991 28,037,420 59,986,931 1.25% 2.75%
1992 28,371,264 61,184,983 1.19% 2%
1993 28,684,764 61,403,543 1.1% 0.36%
1994 29,000,663 61,520,598 1.1% 0.19%
1995 29,302,311 62,205,567 1.04% 1.11%
1996 29,610,218 62,881,300 1.05% 1.09%
1997 29,905,948 63,639,638 1% 1.21%
1998 30,155,173 64,519,859 0.83% 1.38%
1999 30,401,286 65,445,391 0.82% 1.43%
2000 30,685,730 66,418,659 0.94% 1.49%
2001 31,020,855 67,452,005 1.09% 1.56%
2002 31,359,199 68,011,317 1.09% 0.83%
2003 31,642,461 68,769,340 0.9% 1.11%
2004 31,938,807 70,256,316 0.94% 2.16%
2005 32,242,732 71,828,455 0.95% 2.24%
2006 32,571,193 73,392,747 1.02% 2.18%
2007 32,888,886 74,602,648 0.98% 1.65%
2008 33,247,298 75,514,204 1.09% 1.22%
2009 33,630,069 76,457,825 1.15% 1.25%
2010 34,005,902 77,420,842 1.12% 1.26%
2011 34,339,221 78,383,598 0.98% 1.24%
2012 34,713,395 79,370,580 1.09% 1.26%
2013 35,080,992 80,414,686 1.06% 1.32%
2014 35,434,066 81,502,045 1.01% 1.35%
2015 35,704,498 82,619,362 0.76% 1.37%
2016 36,110,803 83,812,228 1.14% 1.44%
2017 36,545,075 85,026,754 1.2% 1.45%
2018 37,072,620 86,117,998 1.44% 1.28%
2019 37,618,495 87,051,648 1.47% 1.08%
2020 38,028,638 87,723,443 1.09% 0.77%
2021 38,239,864 88,455,488 0.56% 0.83%
2022 38,935,934 89,524,246 1.82% 1.21%
2023 40,083,484 90,608,707 2.95% 1.21%
2024 41,288,599 91,567,738 3.01% 1.06%
2025 41,687,850 92,417,685 0.97% 0.93%
2026 42,042,113 93,168,494 0.85% 0.81%
2027 42,368,857 93,838,646 0.78% 0.72%
2028 42,683,927 94,440,024 0.74% 0.64%
2029 42,986,030 94,985,102 0.71% 0.58%
2030 43,276,190 95,486,672 0.68% 0.53%
2031 43,559,839 95,960,723 0.66% 0.5%
2032 43,833,228 96,415,457 0.63% 0.47%
2033 44,089,067 96,850,659 0.58% 0.45%
2034 44,336,794 97,271,044 0.56% 0.43%
2035 44,574,481 97,679,258 0.54% 0.42%
2036 44,802,196 98,075,324 0.51% 0.41%
2037 45,029,252 98,458,805 0.51% 0.39%
2038 45,250,482 98,828,318 0.49% 0.38%
2039 45,461,809 99,182,806 0.47% 0.36%
2040 45,661,339 99,524,286 0.44% 0.34%
2041 45,855,081 99,853,719 0.42% 0.33%
2042 46,046,286 100,167,076 0.42% 0.31%
2043 46,232,447 100,462,092 0.4% 0.29%
2044 46,413,908 100,737,592 0.39% 0.27%
2045 46,594,973 100,990,622 0.39% 0.25%
2046 46,768,120 101,219,689 0.37% 0.23%
2047 46,930,946 101,424,009 0.35% 0.2%
2048 47,092,745 101,601,932 0.34% 0.18%
2049 47,246,217 101,748,544 0.33% 0.14%
2050 47,396,788 101,862,002 0.32% 0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Canada increased by 3,461,766 people (a 10.7% growth), while Iran gained 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Canada gained 6,267,923 (a 17.6% growth), while Iran's population increased by 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth).

Canada was ranked 35th most populous country in 2005 and is 38th in 2025. Iran was ranked 17th in 2005 and still ranked 17th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Canada's population will grow by 12.9% to 47,396,788 people with a rank change from 38th to 45th. The population of Iran will increase by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people and rank change from 17th to 18th.

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