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Population in Colombia compared to Syria: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Colombia was 52,886,363 in 2024 vs 24,672,760 people in Syria in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Colombia's population is 53,835,787 people compared to 26,304,877 in Syria.

Population statistics:

  • Colombia's population is 2.05 times bigger than Syria's.
  • Colombia is ranked the 28th most populous country in the world, while Syria is the 57th.
  • The countries together account for 0.97% of the world: 0.65% for Colombia vs 0.32% for Syria.
  • For the last 10 years, Colombia has had an average growth rate of +1.25% per year vs +1.25% in Syria.
  • Since 2005, the population of Colombia has increased from 42.1M people to 53.8M (27.8% growth), while Syria has grown from 18.8M to 26.3M (39.8% growth).
  • Colombia is projected to reach its peak in 2050 at 59.4M people compared to the peak of 44.1M people in 2086 for Syria.

Colombia vs Syria: live population counter

Colombia Syria
Current population
53835787
26304877
Population rank 28/197 57/197
Percent of world population 0.65% 0.32%
One net population change
55.8 seconds
29.3 seconds
One birth every
44.7 seconds
1.01 minutes
One death every
1.86 minutes
4.42 minutes
One migration net change every
3.71 minutes
57.7 seconds
Annual migration change +141,643 +546,494
Daily growth/decline +1,549 +2,954
Annual growth/decline +565,211 +1,078,137
Annual growth/decline rate +1.08% +4.57%
Population growth rate rank 98/197 5/197

Colombia and Syria: population history and growth rate by year chart

Colombia
Population

Growth rate
Syria
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Colombia Syria Colombia Syria
1960 15,606,209 4,673,500 - -
1961 16,095,203 4,815,466 3.13% 3.04%
1962 16,599,029 4,959,340 3.13% 2.99%
1963 17,113,823 5,110,467 3.1% 3.05%
1964 17,637,411 5,269,087 3.06% 3.1%
1965 18,169,050 5,435,267 3.01% 3.15%
1966 18,702,688 5,609,047 2.94% 3.2%
1967 19,235,618 5,790,198 2.85% 3.23%
1968 19,766,796 5,978,742 2.76% 3.26%
1969 20,291,942 6,175,166 2.66% 3.29%
1970 20,811,782 6,380,609 2.56% 3.33%
1971 21,319,096 6,598,094 2.44% 3.41%
1972 21,819,563 6,826,024 2.35% 3.45%
1973 22,325,374 7,060,321 2.32% 3.43%
1974 22,833,469 7,302,160 2.28% 3.43%
1975 23,344,644 7,554,364 2.24% 3.45%
1976 23,858,810 7,817,320 2.2% 3.48%
1977 24,393,494 8,090,501 2.24% 3.49%
1978 24,950,337 8,372,759 2.28% 3.49%
1979 25,515,626 8,661,909 2.27% 3.45%
1980 26,104,498 8,957,663 2.31% 3.41%
1981 26,713,267 9,260,189 2.33% 3.38%
1982 27,338,331 9,572,511 2.34% 3.37%
1983 27,988,173 9,904,809 2.38% 3.47%
1984 28,642,690 10,258,398 2.34% 3.57%
1985 29,268,470 10,625,672 2.18% 3.58%
1986 29,879,112 11,002,844 2.09% 3.55%
1987 30,499,467 11,388,923 2.08% 3.51%
1988 31,130,524 11,782,264 2.07% 3.45%
1989 31,776,279 12,179,060 2.07% 3.37%
1990 32,440,069 12,579,208 2.09% 3.29%
1991 33,098,372 12,980,821 2.03% 3.19%
1992 33,760,571 13,385,571 2% 3.12%
1993 34,441,473 13,795,686 2.02% 3.06%
1994 35,127,410 14,208,583 1.99% 2.99%
1995 35,804,662 14,616,801 1.93% 2.87%
1996 36,462,745 15,018,104 1.84% 2.75%
1997 37,121,149 15,417,542 1.81% 2.66%
1998 37,792,165 15,820,413 1.81% 2.61%
1999 38,454,863 16,228,061 1.75% 2.58%
2000 39,089,934 16,637,888 1.65% 2.53%
2001 39,709,262 17,051,338 1.58% 2.48%
2002 40,324,680 17,468,332 1.55% 2.45%
2003 40,937,429 17,889,296 1.52% 2.41%
2004 41,543,171 18,336,875 1.48% 2.5%
2005 42,128,977 18,814,091 1.41% 2.6%
2006 42,691,084 19,637,022 1.33% 4.37%
2007 43,235,374 20,884,125 1.27% 6.35%
2008 43,758,808 21,636,564 1.21% 3.6%
2009 44,271,541 21,976,969 1.17% 1.57%
2010 44,777,319 22,482,421 1.14% 2.3%
2011 45,259,614 22,878,098 1.08% 1.76%
2012 45,715,810 22,759,763 1.01% -0.52%
2013 46,151,584 21,666,917 0.95% -4.8%
2014 46,565,429 20,273,659 0.9% -6.43%
2015 46,969,940 19,424,618 0.87% -4.19%
2016 47,437,512 19,193,834 1% -1.19%
2017 48,131,078 19,224,668 1.46% 0.16%
2018 49,024,465 19,577,845 1.86% 1.84%
2019 49,907,985 20,353,534 1.8% 3.96%
2020 50,629,997 21,049,429 1.45% 3.42%
2021 51,188,173 21,628,839 1.1% 2.75%
2022 51,737,944 22,462,173 1.07% 3.85%
2023 52,321,152 23,594,623 1.13% 5.04%
2024 52,886,363 24,672,760 1.08% 4.57%
2025 53,425,632 25,620,422 1.02% 3.84%
2026 53,936,234 26,472,499 0.96% 3.33%
2027 54,422,275 27,261,544 0.9% 2.98%
2028 54,885,123 28,006,558 0.85% 2.73%
2029 55,322,627 28,719,309 0.8% 2.54%
2030 55,736,477 29,395,545 0.75% 2.35%
2031 56,125,966 30,029,824 0.7% 2.16%
2032 56,490,496 30,633,661 0.65% 2.01%
2033 56,832,264 31,212,478 0.61% 1.89%
2034 57,151,619 31,768,138 0.56% 1.78%
2035 57,445,755 32,294,792 0.51% 1.66%
2036 57,716,869 32,788,153 0.47% 1.53%
2037 57,965,300 33,258,407 0.43% 1.43%
2038 58,190,082 33,710,718 0.39% 1.36%
2039 58,394,310 34,131,238 0.35% 1.25%
2040 58,576,452 34,533,185 0.31% 1.18%
2041 58,736,886 34,916,936 0.27% 1.11%
2042 58,878,126 35,279,863 0.24% 1.04%
2043 59,000,362 35,623,325 0.21% 0.97%
2044 59,104,592 35,944,394 0.18% 0.9%
2045 59,190,826 36,265,295 0.15% 0.89%
2046 59,259,758 36,583,260 0.12% 0.88%
2047 59,313,132 36,878,640 0.09% 0.81%
2048 59,351,262 37,171,029 0.06% 0.79%
2049 59,375,012 37,477,690 0.04% 0.83%
2050 59,385,355 37,793,378 0.02% 0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Colombia increased by 4,840,963 people (a 11.5% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Colombia gained 6,865,847 (a 14.6% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Colombia was ranked 29th most populous country in 2005 and is 28th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.

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