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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Chad was 20,299,123 in 2024 vs 116,538,258 people in Egypt in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Chad's population is 21,450,865 people compared to 119,759,833 in Egypt.

Population statistics:

  • Egypt's population is 5.58 times bigger than Chad's.
  • Chad is ranked the 64th most populous country in the world, while Egypt is the 13th.
  • The countries together account for 1.71% of the world: 0.26% for Chad vs 1.45% for Egypt.
  • For the last 10 years, Chad has had an average growth rate of +3.65% per year vs +1.84% in Egypt.
  • Since 2005, the population of Chad has increased from 10.3M people to 21.5M (107.7% growth), while Egypt has grown from 81.1M to 120M (47.7% growth).
  • Chad is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 69.5M people compared to the peak of 202M people in 2100 for Egypt.

Chad vs Egypt: live population counter

Chad Egypt
Current population
21450865
119759833
Population rank 64/197 13/197
Percent of world population 0.26% 1.45%
One net population change
32.2 seconds
15.7 seconds
One birth every
38.5 seconds
13.1 seconds
One death every
2.47 minutes
50.4 seconds
One migration net change every
2.58 minutes
4.24 minutes
Annual migration change +204,040 +123,884
Daily growth/decline +2,685 +5,486
Annual growth/decline +980,059 +2,002,486
Annual growth/decline rate +5.07% +1.75%
Population growth rate rank 2/197 66/197

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

Chad
Population

Growth rate
Egypt
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Chad Egypt Chad Egypt
1960 3,049,838 26,896,479 - -
1961 3,111,947 27,600,898 2.04% 2.62%
1962 3,175,598 28,337,013 2.05% 2.67%
1963 3,240,905 29,091,869 2.06% 2.66%
1964 3,307,479 29,858,922 2.05% 2.64%
1965 3,374,220 30,629,174 2.02% 2.58%
1966 3,440,903 31,406,541 1.98% 2.54%
1967 3,508,512 32,196,360 1.96% 2.51%
1968 3,578,231 32,998,319 1.99% 2.49%
1969 3,651,113 33,811,615 2.04% 2.46%
1970 3,727,828 34,623,990 2.1% 2.4%
1971 3,807,316 35,433,368 2.13% 2.34%
1972 3,893,252 36,258,328 2.26% 2.33%
1973 3,985,909 37,102,043 2.38% 2.33%
1974 4,078,356 37,969,667 2.32% 2.34%
1975 4,167,234 38,875,327 2.18% 2.39%
1976 4,251,297 39,795,557 2.02% 2.37%
1977 4,331,667 40,748,870 1.89% 2.4%
1978 4,411,366 41,761,431 1.84% 2.48%
1979 4,505,384 42,818,628 2.13% 2.53%
1980 4,515,453 43,950,413 0.22% 2.64%
1981 4,520,959 45,147,224 0.12% 2.72%
1982 4,738,483 46,407,611 4.81% 2.79%
1983 4,979,130 47,786,402 5.08% 2.97%
1984 5,045,145 49,247,334 1.33% 3.06%
1985 5,096,269 50,734,968 1.01% 3.02%
1986 5,251,069 52,206,295 3.04% 2.9%
1987 5,438,309 53,674,435 3.57% 2.81%
1988 5,625,602 55,187,681 3.44% 2.82%
1989 5,819,586 56,710,642 3.45% 2.76%
1990 5,982,833 58,396,618 2.81% 2.97%
1991 6,205,676 60,028,997 3.72% 2.8%
1992 6,474,656 61,480,660 4.33% 2.42%
1993 6,629,146 62,915,681 2.39% 2.33%
1994 6,783,450 64,285,589 2.33% 2.18%
1995 7,089,064 65,652,622 4.51% 2.13%
1996 7,410,108 67,028,048 4.53% 2.1%
1997 7,670,366 68,431,740 3.51% 2.09%
1998 7,938,840 69,943,294 3.5% 2.21%
1999 8,222,705 71,520,954 3.58% 2.26%
2000 8,512,093 73,083,284 3.52% 2.18%
2001 8,804,124 74,652,029 3.43% 2.15%
2002 9,116,192 76,239,137 3.54% 2.13%
2003 9,487,833 77,853,548 4.08% 2.12%
2004 9,920,036 79,477,443 4.56% 2.09%
2005 10,328,092 81,101,004 4.11% 2.04%
2006 10,706,424 82,700,403 3.66% 1.97%
2007 11,081,660 84,276,225 3.5% 1.91%
2008 11,476,296 85,864,789 3.56% 1.88%
2009 11,893,754 87,501,636 3.64% 1.91%
2010 12,312,575 89,196,072 3.52% 1.94%
2011 12,754,997 91,093,059 3.59% 2.13%
2012 13,210,998 93,161,001 3.58% 2.27%
2013 13,691,079 95,333,553 3.63% 2.33%
2014 14,188,678 97,528,654 3.63% 2.3%
2015 14,647,621 99,597,342 3.23% 2.12%
2016 15,114,655 101,644,589 3.19% 2.06%
2017 15,622,759 103,696,057 3.36% 2.02%
2018 16,156,531 105,682,094 3.42% 1.92%
2019 16,685,223 107,553,158 3.27% 1.77%
2020 17,224,679 109,315,124 3.23% 1.64%
2021 17,828,273 110,957,008 3.5% 1.5%
2022 18,455,316 112,618,250 3.52% 1.5%
2023 19,319,064 114,535,772 4.68% 1.7%
2024 20,299,123 116,538,258 5.07% 1.75%
2025 21,003,694 118,365,997 3.47% 1.57%
2026 21,560,377 120,101,181 2.65% 1.47%
2027 22,175,373 121,847,622 2.85% 1.45%
2028 22,847,740 123,608,457 3.03% 1.45%
2029 23,526,035 125,373,058 2.97% 1.43%
2030 24,207,481 127,139,323 2.9% 1.41%
2031 24,897,231 128,912,256 2.85% 1.39%
2032 25,596,224 130,695,084 2.81% 1.38%
2033 26,297,830 132,485,612 2.74% 1.37%
2034 26,997,395 134,287,838 2.66% 1.36%
2035 27,697,268 136,097,214 2.59% 1.35%
2036 28,410,489 137,913,263 2.58% 1.33%
2037 29,132,961 139,738,699 2.54% 1.32%
2038 29,856,451 141,565,835 2.48% 1.31%
2039 30,584,696 143,393,267 2.44% 1.29%
2040 31,307,329 145,213,662 2.36% 1.27%
2041 32,035,111 147,018,554 2.32% 1.24%
2042 32,777,662 148,800,785 2.32% 1.21%
2043 33,525,238 150,547,655 2.28% 1.17%
2044 34,272,313 152,255,332 2.23% 1.13%
2045 35,026,384 153,919,190 2.2% 1.09%
2046 35,788,056 155,535,951 2.17% 1.05%
2047 36,546,910 157,114,404 2.12% 1.01%
2048 37,317,460 158,657,392 2.11% 0.98%
2049 38,088,916 160,161,615 2.07% 0.95%
2050 38,857,671 161,630,197 2.02% 0.92%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Chad increased by 4,319,529 people (a 41.8% growth), while Egypt gained 18,496,338 people (a 22.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Chad gained 6,803,244 (a 46.4% growth), while Egypt's population increased by 20,162,491 (a 20.2% growth).

Chad was ranked 78th most populous country in 2005 and is 64th in 2025. Egypt was ranked 14th in 2005 and ranked 13th 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 Egypt will increase by 35% to 161,630,197 people and rank change from 13th to 11th.

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