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Population in Chad compared to Curacao: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Chad was 20,299,123 in 2024 vs 155,900 people in Curacao in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Chad's population is 21,450,865 people compared to 155,910 in Curacao.

Population statistics:

  • Chad's population is 137.6 times bigger than Curacao's.
  • Chad is ranked the 64th most populous country in the world, while Curacao is the 179th.
  • The countries together account for 0.26% of the world: 0.26% for Chad vs 0.002% for Curacao.
  • For the last 10 years, Chad has had an average growth rate of +3.65% per year vs +0.14% in Curacao.
  • Since 2005, the population of Chad has increased from 10.3M people to 21.5M (107.7% growth), while Curacao has grown from 138K to 156K (13.3% growth).
  • Chad is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 69.5M people, while Curacao's population already peaked in 2017 at 160K people and is projected to decrease to 101K people by 2100.

Chad vs Curacao: live population counter

Chad Curacao
Current population
21450865
155910
Population rank 64/197 179/197
Percent of world population 0.26% 0.002%
One net population change
32.2 seconds
3.65 days
One birth every
38.5 seconds
7.5 hours
One death every
2.47 minutes
5.8 hours
One migration net change every
2.58 minutes
17.1 hours
Annual migration change +204,040 +513
Daily growth/decline +2,685 +0
Annual growth/decline +980,059 +100
Annual growth/decline rate +5.07% +0.06%
Population growth rate rank 2/197 160/197

Chad and Curacao: population history and growth rate by year chart

Chad
Population

Growth rate
Curacao
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Chad Curacao Chad Curacao
1960 3,049,838 124,826 - -
1961 3,111,947 126,125 2.04% 1.04%
1962 3,175,598 128,414 2.05% 1.81%
1963 3,240,905 130,860 2.06% 1.9%
1964 3,307,479 133,148 2.05% 1.75%
1965 3,374,220 135,266 2.02% 1.59%
1966 3,440,903 136,682 1.98% 1.05%
1967 3,508,512 138,140 1.96% 1.07%
1968 3,578,231 140,298 1.99% 1.56%
1969 3,651,113 142,581 2.04% 1.63%
1970 3,727,828 144,739 2.1% 1.51%
1971 3,807,316 147,389 2.13% 1.83%
1972 3,893,252 147,710 2.26% 0.22%
1973 3,985,909 146,912 2.38% -0.54%
1974 4,078,356 148,351 2.32% 0.98%
1975 4,167,234 149,129 2.18% 0.52%
1976 4,251,297 149,399 2.02% 0.18%
1977 4,331,667 149,459 1.89% 0.04%
1978 4,411,366 148,341 1.84% -0.75%
1979 4,505,384 147,851 2.13% -0.33%
1980 4,515,453 148,041 0.22% 0.13%
1981 4,520,959 148,629 0.12% 0.4%
1982 4,738,483 150,101 4.81% 0.99%
1983 4,979,130 151,159 5.08% 0.7%
1984 5,045,145 151,940 1.33% 0.52%
1985 5,096,269 152,711 1.01% 0.51%
1986 5,251,069 152,662 3.04% -0.03%
1987 5,438,309 151,456 3.57% -0.79%
1988 5,625,602 149,254 3.44% -1.45%
1989 5,819,586 146,937 3.45% -1.55%
1990 5,982,833 145,400 2.81% -1.05%
1991 6,205,676 144,403 3.72% -0.69%
1992 6,474,656 143,912 4.33% -0.34%
1993 6,629,146 144,299 2.39% 0.27%
1994 6,783,450 144,630 2.33% 0.23%
1995 7,089,064 145,139 4.51% 0.35%
1996 7,410,108 146,306 4.53% 0.8%
1997 7,670,366 146,956 3.51% 0.44%
1998 7,938,840 144,472 3.5% -1.69%
1999 8,222,705 139,428 3.58% -3.49%
2000 8,512,093 133,860 3.52% -3.99%
2001 8,804,124 129,047 3.43% -3.6%
2002 9,116,192 129,205 3.54% 0.12%
2003 9,487,833 131,897 4.08% 2.08%
2004 9,920,036 134,192 4.56% 1.74%
2005 10,328,092 137,658 4.11% 2.58%
2006 10,706,424 141,239 3.66% 2.6%
2007 11,081,660 144,056 3.5% 1.99%
2008 11,476,296 145,880 3.56% 1.27%
2009 11,893,754 146,833 3.64% 0.65%
2010 12,312,575 148,703 3.52% 1.27%
2011 12,754,997 150,831 3.59% 1.43%
2012 13,210,998 152,088 3.58% 0.83%
2013 13,691,079 153,822 3.63% 1.14%
2014 14,188,678 155,909 3.63% 1.36%
2015 14,647,621 157,980 3.23% 1.33%
2016 15,114,655 159,664 3.19% 1.07%
2017 15,622,759 160,175 3.36% 0.32%
2018 16,156,531 159,336 3.42% -0.52%
2019 16,685,223 157,441 3.27% -1.19%
2020 17,224,679 154,947 3.23% -1.58%
2021 17,828,273 152,369 3.5% -1.66%
2022 18,455,316 149,996 3.52% -1.56%
2023 19,319,064 155,800 4.68% 3.87%
2024 20,299,123 155,900 5.07% 0.06%
2025 21,003,694 155,910 3.47% 0.007%
2026 21,560,377 155,878 2.65% -0.02%
2027 22,175,373 155,806 2.85% -0.05%
2028 22,847,740 155,710 3.03% -0.06%
2029 23,526,035 155,558 2.97% -0.1%
2030 24,207,481 155,356 2.9% -0.13%
2031 24,897,231 155,112 2.85% -0.16%
2032 25,596,224 154,845 2.81% -0.17%
2033 26,297,830 154,546 2.74% -0.19%
2034 26,997,395 154,200 2.66% -0.22%
2035 27,697,268 153,844 2.59% -0.23%
2036 28,410,489 153,444 2.58% -0.26%
2037 29,132,961 153,028 2.54% -0.27%
2038 29,856,451 152,600 2.48% -0.28%
2039 30,584,696 152,140 2.44% -0.3%
2040 31,307,329 151,635 2.36% -0.33%
2041 32,035,111 151,130 2.32% -0.33%
2042 32,777,662 150,608 2.32% -0.35%
2043 33,525,238 150,071 2.28% -0.36%
2044 34,272,313 149,519 2.23% -0.37%
2045 35,026,384 148,941 2.2% -0.39%
2046 35,788,056 148,367 2.17% -0.39%
2047 36,546,910 147,763 2.12% -0.41%
2048 37,317,460 147,130 2.11% -0.43%
2049 38,088,916 146,495 2.07% -0.43%
2050 38,857,671 145,829 2.02% -0.45%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Chad increased by 4,319,529 people (a 41.8% growth), while Curacao gained 20,322 people (a 14.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Chad gained 6,803,244 (a 46.4% growth), while Curacao's population decreased by -2,070 (a 1.31% decline).

Chad was ranked 78th most populous country in 2005 and is 64th in 2025. Curacao was ranked 179th in 2005 and still ranked 179th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Chad's population will grow by 81.1% to 38,857,671 people with a rank change from 64th to 52nd. The population of Curacao will decrease by 6.47% to 145,829 people and rank change from 179th to 180th.

Biggest cities by population

Chad
City Population
N'Djamena 1.09M
Sarh 108K
Abeche 76.5K
Bongor 27.8K
Bol 11.7K
Curacao
City Population
Willemstad 150K
Barber 2.42K

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