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Population in Chad compared to the Marshall Islands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Chad was 20,299,123 in 2024 vs 37,548 people in the Marshall Islands in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Chad's population is 21,450,865 people compared to 36,281 in the Marshall Islands.

Population statistics:

  • Chad's population is 591 times bigger than the Marshall Islands'.
  • Chad is ranked the 64th most populous country in the world, while the Marshall Islands is the 192nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.26% of the world: 0.26% for Chad vs 0.0004% for the Marshall Islands.
  • For the last 10 years, Chad has had an average growth rate of +3.65% per year vs -2.69% in the Marshall Islands.
  • Since 2005, the population of Chad has increased from 10.3M people to 21.5M (107.7% growth), while the Marshall Islands has declined from 51.9K to 36.3K (30.1% decline).
  • Chad is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 69.5M people, while the Marshall Islands' population already peaked in 2010 at 52K people and is projected to decrease to 23.8K people by 2100.

Chad vs Marshall Islands: live population counter

Chad Marshall Islands
Current population
21450865
36281
Population rank 64/197 192/197
Percent of world population 0.26% 0.0004%
One net population change
32.2 seconds
6.85 hours
One birth every
38.5 seconds
10.7 hours
One death every
2.47 minutes
1.35 days
One migration net change every
2.58 minutes
4.96 hours
Annual migration change +204,040 -1,765
Daily growth/decline +2,685 -4
Annual growth/decline +980,059 -1,279
Annual growth/decline rate +5.07% -3.29%
Population growth rate rank 2/197 197/197

Chad and the Marshall Islands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Chad
Population

Growth rate
Marshall Islands
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Chad Marshall Islands Chad Marshall Islands
1960 3,049,838 14,703 - -
1961 3,111,947 15,219 2.04% 3.51%
1962 3,175,598 15,755 2.05% 3.52%
1963 3,240,905 16,302 2.06% 3.47%
1964 3,307,479 16,852 2.05% 3.37%
1965 3,374,220 17,402 2.02% 3.26%
1966 3,440,903 17,927 1.98% 3.02%
1967 3,508,512 18,655 1.96% 4.06%
1968 3,578,231 19,862 1.99% 6.47%
1969 3,651,113 21,305 2.04% 7.27%
1970 3,727,828 22,530 2.1% 5.75%
1971 3,807,316 23,366 2.13% 3.71%
1972 3,893,252 23,992 2.26% 2.68%
1973 3,985,909 24,581 2.38% 2.45%
1974 4,078,356 25,296 2.32% 2.91%
1975 4,167,234 26,154 2.18% 3.39%
1976 4,251,297 27,021 2.02% 3.31%
1977 4,331,667 27,906 1.89% 3.28%
1978 4,411,366 28,809 1.84% 3.24%
1979 4,505,384 29,738 2.13% 3.22%
1980 4,515,453 30,774 0.22% 3.48%
1981 4,520,959 32,017 0.12% 4.04%
1982 4,738,483 33,397 4.81% 4.31%
1983 4,979,130 34,811 5.08% 4.23%
1984 5,045,145 36,264 1.33% 4.17%
1985 5,096,269 37,761 1.01% 4.13%
1986 5,251,069 39,286 3.04% 4.04%
1987 5,438,309 40,828 3.57% 3.93%
1988 5,625,602 42,321 3.44% 3.66%
1989 5,819,586 43,586 3.45% 2.99%
1990 5,982,833 44,629 2.81% 2.39%
1991 6,205,676 45,568 3.72% 2.1%
1992 6,474,656 46,388 4.33% 1.8%
1993 6,629,146 47,093 2.39% 1.52%
1994 6,783,450 47,712 2.33% 1.31%
1995 7,089,064 48,266 4.51% 1.16%
1996 7,410,108 48,775 4.53% 1.05%
1997 7,670,366 49,259 3.51% 0.99%
1998 7,938,840 49,717 3.5% 0.93%
1999 8,222,705 50,202 3.58% 0.98%
2000 8,512,093 50,706 3.52% 1%
2001 8,804,124 51,123 3.43% 0.82%
2002 9,116,192 51,425 3.54% 0.59%
2003 9,487,833 51,639 4.08% 0.42%
2004 9,920,036 51,791 4.56% 0.29%
2005 10,328,092 51,906 4.11% 0.22%
2006 10,706,424 51,992 3.66% 0.17%
2007 11,081,660 52,035 3.5% 0.08%
2008 11,476,296 52,030 3.56% -0.01%
2009 11,893,754 52,019 3.64% -0.02%
2010 12,312,575 52,044 3.52% 0.05%
2011 12,754,997 51,907 3.59% -0.26%
2012 13,210,998 51,419 3.58% -0.94%
2013 13,691,079 50,681 3.63% -1.44%
2014 14,188,678 49,796 3.63% -1.75%
2015 14,647,621 48,800 3.23% -2%
2016 15,114,655 47,709 3.19% -2.24%
2017 15,622,759 46,529 3.36% -2.47%
2018 16,156,531 45,285 3.42% -2.67%
2019 16,685,223 44,007 3.27% -2.82%
2020 17,224,679 42,706 3.23% -2.96%
2021 17,828,273 41,367 3.5% -3.14%
2022 18,455,316 40,077 3.52% -3.12%
2023 19,319,064 38,827 4.68% -3.12%
2024 20,299,123 37,548 5.07% -3.29%
2025 21,003,694 36,281 3.47% -3.37%
2026 21,560,377 35,078 2.65% -3.32%
2027 22,175,373 33,976 2.85% -3.14%
2028 22,847,740 32,977 3.03% -2.94%
2029 23,526,035 32,054 2.97% -2.8%
2030 24,207,481 31,191 2.9% -2.69%
2031 24,897,231 30,420 2.85% -2.47%
2032 25,596,224 29,740 2.81% -2.23%
2033 26,297,830 29,142 2.74% -2.01%
2034 26,997,395 28,608 2.66% -1.83%
2035 27,697,268 28,147 2.59% -1.61%
2036 28,410,489 27,751 2.58% -1.41%
2037 29,132,961 27,405 2.54% -1.25%
2038 29,856,451 27,092 2.48% -1.14%
2039 30,584,696 26,836 2.44% -0.94%
2040 31,307,329 26,598 2.36% -0.89%
2041 32,035,111 26,396 2.32% -0.76%
2042 32,777,662 26,217 2.32% -0.68%
2043 33,525,238 26,054 2.28% -0.62%
2044 34,272,313 25,913 2.23% -0.54%
2045 35,026,384 25,777 2.2% -0.52%
2046 35,788,056 25,653 2.17% -0.48%
2047 36,546,910 25,543 2.12% -0.43%
2048 37,317,460 25,429 2.11% -0.45%
2049 38,088,916 25,311 2.07% -0.46%
2050 38,857,671 25,195 2.02% -0.46%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Chad increased by 4,319,529 people (a 41.8% growth), while the Marshall Islands lost 3,106 people (a 5.98% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Chad gained 6,803,244 (a 46.4% growth), while the Marshall Islands' population decreased by -12,519 (a 25.7% decline).

Chad was ranked 78th most populous country in 2005 and is 64th in 2025. The Marshall Islands was ranked 188th in 2005 and ranked 192nd 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 the Marshall Islands will decrease by 30.6% to 25,195 people and rank change from 192nd to 193rd.

Biggest cities by population

Chad
City Population
N'Djamena 1.09M
Sarh 108K
Abeche 76.5K
Bongor 27.8K
Bol 11.7K

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