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Population in Colombia compared to East Timor: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Colombia was 52,886,363 in 2024 vs 1,400,638 people in East Timor in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Colombia's population is 53,835,787 people compared to 1,433,311 in East Timor.

Population statistics:

  • Colombia's population is 37.6 times bigger than East Timor's.
  • Colombia is ranked the 28th most populous country in the world, while East Timor is the 152nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.67% of the world: 0.65% for Colombia vs 0.02% for East Timor.
  • For the last 10 years, Colombia has had an average growth rate of +1.25% per year vs +1.74% in East Timor.
  • Since 2005, the population of Colombia has increased from 42.1M people to 53.8M (27.8% growth), while East Timor has grown from 948K to 1.43M (51.1% growth).
  • Colombia is projected to reach its peak in 2050 at 59.4M people compared to the peak of 2.09M people in 2076 for East Timor.

Colombia vs East Timor: live population counter

Colombia East Timor
Current population
53835787
1433311
Population rank 28/197 152/197
Percent of world population 0.65% 0.02%
One net population change
55.8 seconds
32.1 minutes
One birth every
44.7 seconds
17.2 minutes
One death every
1.86 minutes
52.2 minutes
One migration net change every
3.71 minutes
3.43 hours
Annual migration change +141,643 -2,552
Daily growth/decline +1,549 +45
Annual growth/decline +565,211 +16,352
Annual growth/decline rate +1.08% +1.18%
Population growth rate rank 98/197 93/197

Colombia and East Timor: population history and growth rate by year chart

Colombia
Population

Growth rate
East Timor
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Colombia East Timor Colombia East Timor
1960 15,606,209 468,118 - -
1961 16,095,203 475,291 3.13% 1.53%
1962 16,599,029 482,774 3.13% 1.57%
1963 17,113,823 490,564 3.1% 1.61%
1964 17,637,411 498,659 3.06% 1.65%
1965 18,169,050 507,034 3.01% 1.68%
1966 18,702,688 515,696 2.94% 1.71%
1967 19,235,618 524,648 2.85% 1.74%
1968 19,766,796 533,875 2.76% 1.76%
1969 20,291,942 543,356 2.66% 1.78%
1970 20,811,782 553,069 2.56% 1.79%
1971 21,319,096 562,966 2.44% 1.79%
1972 21,819,563 572,962 2.35% 1.78%
1973 22,325,374 582,855 2.32% 1.73%
1974 22,833,469 590,827 2.28% 1.37%
1975 23,344,644 598,158 2.24% 1.24%
1976 23,858,810 607,620 2.2% 1.58%
1977 24,393,494 618,315 2.24% 1.76%
1978 24,950,337 628,775 2.28% 1.69%
1979 25,515,626 638,719 2.27% 1.58%
1980 26,104,498 649,871 2.31% 1.75%
1981 26,713,267 660,493 2.33% 1.63%
1982 27,338,331 669,149 2.34% 1.31%
1983 27,988,173 677,707 2.38% 1.28%
1984 28,642,690 686,777 2.34% 1.34%
1985 29,268,470 696,665 2.18% 1.44%
1986 29,879,112 707,185 2.09% 1.51%
1987 30,499,467 718,476 2.08% 1.6%
1988 31,130,524 730,745 2.07% 1.71%
1989 31,776,279 744,856 2.07% 1.93%
1990 32,440,069 760,345 2.09% 2.08%
1991 33,098,372 778,278 2.03% 2.36%
1992 33,760,571 799,318 2% 2.7%
1993 34,441,473 821,437 2.02% 2.77%
1994 35,127,410 844,493 1.99% 2.81%
1995 35,804,662 868,146 1.93% 2.8%
1996 36,462,745 892,282 1.84% 2.78%
1997 37,121,149 917,184 1.81% 2.79%
1998 37,792,165 942,530 1.81% 2.76%
1999 38,454,863 834,697 1.75% -11.4%
2000 39,089,934 745,088 1.65% -10.7%
2001 39,709,262 812,249 1.58% 9.01%
2002 40,324,680 879,159 1.55% 8.24%
2003 40,937,429 916,878 1.52% 4.29%
2004 41,543,171 929,074 1.48% 1.33%
2005 42,128,977 948,311 1.41% 2.07%
2006 42,691,084 976,597 1.33% 2.98%
2007 43,235,374 1,004,889 1.27% 2.9%
2008 43,758,808 1,032,429 1.21% 2.74%
2009 44,271,541 1,058,782 1.17% 2.55%
2010 44,777,319 1,084,679 1.14% 2.45%
2011 45,259,614 1,110,207 1.08% 2.35%
2012 45,715,810 1,134,885 1.01% 2.22%
2013 46,151,584 1,158,695 0.95% 2.1%
2014 46,565,429 1,181,903 0.9% 2%
2015 46,969,940 1,205,131 0.87% 1.97%
2016 47,437,512 1,228,312 1% 1.92%
2017 48,131,078 1,251,703 1.46% 1.9%
2018 49,024,465 1,275,959 1.86% 1.94%
2019 49,907,985 1,300,945 1.8% 1.96%
2020 50,629,997 1,326,053 1.45% 1.93%
2021 51,188,173 1,350,139 1.1% 1.82%
2022 51,737,944 1,369,295 1.07% 1.42%
2023 52,321,152 1,384,286 1.13% 1.09%
2024 52,886,363 1,400,638 1.08% 1.18%
2025 53,425,632 1,418,519 1.02% 1.28%
2026 53,936,234 1,436,934 0.96% 1.3%
2027 54,422,275 1,456,334 0.9% 1.35%
2028 54,885,123 1,476,850 0.85% 1.41%
2029 55,322,627 1,498,119 0.8% 1.44%
2030 55,736,477 1,519,802 0.75% 1.45%
2031 56,125,966 1,540,659 0.7% 1.37%
2032 56,490,496 1,559,710 0.65% 1.24%
2033 56,832,264 1,578,114 0.61% 1.18%
2034 57,151,619 1,597,444 0.56% 1.22%
2035 57,445,755 1,618,799 0.51% 1.34%
2036 57,716,869 1,639,721 0.47% 1.29%
2037 57,965,300 1,659,327 0.43% 1.2%
2038 58,190,082 1,678,953 0.39% 1.18%
2039 58,394,310 1,698,891 0.35% 1.19%
2040 58,576,452 1,718,249 0.31% 1.14%
2041 58,736,886 1,736,476 0.27% 1.06%
2042 58,878,126 1,755,847 0.24% 1.12%
2043 59,000,362 1,776,066 0.21% 1.15%
2044 59,104,592 1,793,758 0.18% 1%
2045 59,190,826 1,809,637 0.15% 0.89%
2046 59,259,758 1,825,551 0.12% 0.88%
2047 59,313,132 1,841,558 0.09% 0.88%
2048 59,351,262 1,858,311 0.06% 0.91%
2049 59,375,012 1,873,846 0.04% 0.84%
2050 59,385,355 1,889,246 0.02% 0.82%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Colombia increased by 4,840,963 people (a 11.5% growth), while East Timor gained 256,820 people (a 27.1% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Colombia gained 6,865,847 (a 14.6% growth), while East Timor's population increased by 228,180 (a 18.9% growth).

Colombia was ranked 29th most populous country in 2005 and is 28th in 2025. East Timor was ranked 154th in 2005 and ranked 152nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Colombia's population will grow by 10.3% to 59,385,355 people with a rank change from 28th to 34th. The population of East Timor will increase by 31.8% to 1,889,246 people and rank change from 152nd to 149th.

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