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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Chad was 20,299,123 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Chad's population is 21,450,865 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 4.01 times bigger than Chad's.
  • Chad is ranked the 64th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.3% of the world: 0.26% for Chad vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Chad has had an average growth rate of +3.65% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Chad has increased from 10.3M people to 21.5M (107.7% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Chad is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 69.5M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Chad vs Turkey: live population counter

Chad Turkey
Current population
21450865
85914550
Population rank 64/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.26% 1.04%
One net population change
32.2 seconds
2.73 minutes
One birth every
38.5 seconds
33 seconds
One death every
2.47 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
2.58 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +204,040 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +2,685 +528
Annual growth/decline +980,059 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +5.07% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 2/197 153/197

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

Chad
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Chad Turkey Chad Turkey
1960 3,049,838 28,329,898 - -
1961 3,111,947 29,119,238 2.04% 2.79%
1962 3,175,598 29,916,147 2.05% 2.74%
1963 3,240,905 30,726,841 2.06% 2.71%
1964 3,307,479 31,543,072 2.05% 2.66%
1965 3,374,220 32,345,220 2.02% 2.54%
1966 3,440,903 33,177,672 1.98% 2.57%
1967 3,508,512 34,050,421 1.96% 2.63%
1968 3,578,231 34,921,684 1.99% 2.56%
1969 3,651,113 35,787,774 2.04% 2.48%
1970 3,727,828 36,638,465 2.1% 2.38%
1971 3,807,316 37,518,611 2.13% 2.4%
1972 3,893,252 38,430,221 2.26% 2.43%
1973 3,985,909 39,329,533 2.38% 2.34%
1974 4,078,356 40,210,234 2.32% 2.24%
1975 4,167,234 41,053,126 2.18% 2.1%
1976 4,251,297 41,899,984 2.02% 2.06%
1977 4,331,667 42,773,298 1.89% 2.08%
1978 4,411,366 43,645,306 1.84% 2.04%
1979 4,505,384 44,510,429 2.13% 1.98%
1980 4,515,453 45,408,815 0.22% 2.02%
1981 4,520,959 46,321,190 0.12% 2.01%
1982 4,738,483 47,322,096 4.81% 2.16%
1983 4,979,130 48,447,410 5.08% 2.38%
1984 5,045,145 49,574,069 1.33% 2.33%
1985 5,096,269 50,687,115 1.01% 2.25%
1986 5,251,069 51,777,772 3.04% 2.15%
1987 5,438,309 52,843,670 3.57% 2.06%
1988 5,625,602 53,909,626 3.44% 2.02%
1989 5,819,586 54,976,723 3.45% 1.98%
1990 5,982,833 56,015,628 2.81% 1.89%
1991 6,205,676 57,009,887 3.72% 1.77%
1992 6,474,656 57,990,118 4.33% 1.72%
1993 6,629,146 58,999,167 2.39% 1.74%
1994 6,783,450 60,033,836 2.33% 1.75%
1995 7,089,064 61,024,503 4.51% 1.65%
1996 7,410,108 61,951,134 4.53% 1.52%
1997 7,670,366 62,852,966 3.51% 1.46%
1998 7,938,840 63,734,383 3.5% 1.4%
1999 8,222,705 64,591,923 3.58% 1.35%
2000 8,512,093 65,425,961 3.52% 1.29%
2001 8,804,124 66,245,128 3.43% 1.25%
2002 9,116,192 67,048,795 3.54% 1.21%
2003 9,487,833 67,831,730 4.08% 1.17%
2004 9,920,036 68,592,617 4.56% 1.12%
2005 10,328,092 69,329,557 4.11% 1.07%
2006 10,706,424 70,045,349 3.66% 1.03%
2007 11,081,660 70,158,112 3.5% 0.16%
2008 11,476,296 71,051,678 3.56% 1.27%
2009 11,893,754 72,039,206 3.64% 1.39%
2010 12,312,575 73,142,150 3.52% 1.53%
2011 12,754,997 74,223,629 3.59% 1.48%
2012 13,210,998 75,175,827 3.58% 1.28%
2013 13,691,079 76,147,624 3.63% 1.29%
2014 14,188,678 77,181,884 3.63% 1.36%
2015 14,647,621 78,218,479 3.23% 1.34%
2016 15,114,655 79,277,962 3.19% 1.35%
2017 15,622,759 80,312,698 3.36% 1.31%
2018 16,156,531 81,407,204 3.42% 1.36%
2019 16,685,223 82,579,440 3.27% 1.44%
2020 17,224,679 83,384,680 3.23% 0.98%
2021 17,828,273 84,147,318 3.5% 0.91%
2022 18,455,316 84,979,913 3.52% 0.99%
2023 19,319,064 85,325,965 4.68% 0.41%
2024 20,299,123 85,518,661 5.07% 0.23%
2025 21,003,694 85,725,557 3.47% 0.24%
2026 21,560,377 85,960,835 2.65% 0.27%
2027 22,175,373 86,227,115 2.85% 0.31%
2028 22,847,740 86,502,744 3.03% 0.32%
2029 23,526,035 86,771,652 2.97% 0.31%
2030 24,207,481 87,037,680 2.9% 0.31%
2031 24,897,231 87,297,191 2.85% 0.3%
2032 25,596,224 87,537,075 2.81% 0.27%
2033 26,297,830 87,762,403 2.74% 0.26%
2034 26,997,395 87,974,138 2.66% 0.24%
2035 27,697,268 88,172,739 2.59% 0.23%
2036 28,410,489 88,364,318 2.58% 0.22%
2037 29,132,961 88,545,669 2.54% 0.21%
2038 29,856,451 88,707,268 2.48% 0.18%
2039 30,584,696 88,849,956 2.44% 0.16%
2040 31,307,329 88,975,510 2.36% 0.14%
2041 32,035,111 89,083,304 2.32% 0.12%
2042 32,777,662 89,177,769 2.32% 0.11%
2043 33,525,238 89,254,147 2.28% 0.09%
2044 34,272,313 89,311,458 2.23% 0.06%
2045 35,026,384 89,349,806 2.2% 0.04%
2046 35,788,056 89,375,429 2.17% 0.03%
2047 36,546,910 89,383,765 2.12% 0.009%
2048 37,317,460 89,361,174 2.11% -0.03%
2049 38,088,916 89,306,566 2.07% -0.06%
2050 38,857,671 89,218,346 2.02% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Chad increased by 4,319,529 people (a 41.8% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Chad gained 6,803,244 (a 46.4% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Chad was ranked 78th most populous country in 2005 and is 64th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

Biggest cities by population

Chad
City Population
N'Djamena 1.09M
Sarh 108K
Abeche 76.5K
Bongor 27.8K
Bol 11.7K
Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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