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Population in Comoros compared to Tanzania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Comoros was 866,628 in 2024 vs 68,560,157 people in Tanzania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Comoros' population is 895,828 people compared to 72,166,806 in Tanzania.

Population statistics:

  • Tanzania's population is 80.6 times bigger than Comoros'.
  • Comoros is ranked the 160th most populous country in the world, while Tanzania is the 20th.
  • The countries together account for 0.88% of the world: 0.01% for Comoros vs 0.87% for Tanzania.
  • For the last 10 years, Comoros has had an average growth rate of +2.01% per year vs +3.13% in Tanzania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Comoros has increased from 593K people to 896K (51.1% growth), while Tanzania has grown from 39.2M to 72.2M (84.2% growth).
  • Comoros is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 1.91M people compared to the peak of 263M people in 2100 for Tanzania.

Comoros vs Tanzania: live population counter

Comoros Tanzania
Current population
895828
72166806
Population rank 160/197 20/197
Percent of world population 0.01% 0.87%
One net population change
32.4 minutes
16.2 seconds
One birth every
21.6 minutes
13.4 seconds
One death every
1.43 hours
1.36 minutes
One migration net change every
4.27 hours
17.6 minutes
Annual migration change -2,051 -29,865
Daily growth/decline +44 +5,322
Annual growth/decline +16,241 +1,942,551
Annual growth/decline rate +1.91% +2.92%
Population growth rate rank 58/197 19/197

Comoros and Tanzania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Comoros
Population

Growth rate
Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Comoros Tanzania Comoros Tanzania
1960 197,700 9,901,419 - -
1961 201,201 10,187,886 1.77% 2.89%
1962 204,702 10,487,756 1.74% 2.94%
1963 208,185 10,799,528 1.7% 2.97%
1964 211,644 11,127,826 1.66% 3.04%
1965 214,967 11,470,728 1.57% 3.08%
1966 218,663 11,827,459 1.72% 3.11%
1967 223,859 12,200,109 2.38% 3.15%
1968 230,244 12,602,076 2.85% 3.29%
1969 237,001 13,036,700 2.93% 3.45%
1970 244,185 13,492,677 3.03% 3.5%
1971 251,865 13,971,451 3.15% 3.55%
1972 260,077 14,479,308 3.26% 3.63%
1973 268,820 15,010,101 3.36% 3.67%
1974 278,075 15,561,630 3.44% 3.67%
1975 287,692 16,138,361 3.46% 3.71%
1976 297,538 16,736,211 3.42% 3.7%
1977 307,579 17,352,929 3.37% 3.68%
1978 317,688 17,976,566 3.29% 3.59%
1979 327,791 18,592,038 3.18% 3.42%
1980 337,721 19,189,769 3.03% 3.21%
1981 347,382 19,784,703 2.86% 3.1%
1982 357,139 20,398,571 2.81% 3.1%
1983 367,233 21,079,874 2.83% 3.34%
1984 377,637 21,779,066 2.83% 3.32%
1985 388,352 22,501,693 2.84% 3.32%
1986 399,318 23,258,959 2.82% 3.37%
1987 410,439 24,030,378 2.78% 3.32%
1988 421,687 24,769,686 2.74% 3.08%
1989 433,103 25,438,759 2.71% 2.7%
1990 444,596 26,110,207 2.65% 2.64%
1991 455,556 26,780,436 2.47% 2.57%
1992 465,113 27,457,588 2.1% 2.53%
1993 473,682 28,332,692 1.84% 3.19%
1994 482,142 29,442,356 1.79% 3.92%
1995 490,586 30,383,497 1.75% 3.2%
1996 499,107 30,945,762 1.74% 1.85%
1997 507,777 31,578,089 1.74% 2.04%
1998 516,597 32,420,458 1.74% 2.67%
1999 525,886 33,300,330 1.8% 2.71%
2000 536,080 34,260,139 1.94% 2.88%
2001 547,220 35,198,299 2.08% 2.74%
2002 558,923 36,121,304 2.14% 2.62%
2003 569,798 37,089,555 1.95% 2.68%
2004 580,704 38,109,668 1.91% 2.75%
2005 592,677 39,182,076 2.06% 2.81%
2006 604,753 40,294,902 2.04% 2.84%
2007 616,927 41,435,512 2.01% 2.83%
2008 629,307 42,570,728 2.01% 2.74%
2009 641,947 43,633,982 2.01% 2.5%
2010 654,836 44,758,488 2.01% 2.58%
2011 668,056 46,029,367 2.02% 2.84%
2012 681,630 47,374,260 2.03% 2.92%
2013 696,192 48,824,128 2.14% 3.06%
2014 711,503 50,351,512 2.2% 3.13%
2015 726,682 52,020,962 2.13% 3.32%
2016 741,741 53,824,013 2.07% 3.47%
2017 756,669 55,652,890 2.01% 3.4%
2018 771,590 57,437,145 1.97% 3.21%
2019 786,578 59,174,891 1.94% 3.03%
2020 802,163 60,972,798 1.98% 3.04%
2021 818,174 62,830,412 2% 3.05%
2022 834,188 64,711,821 1.96% 2.99%
2023 850,387 66,617,606 1.94% 2.95%
2024 866,628 68,560,157 1.91% 2.92%
2025 882,845 70,545,858 1.87% 2.9%
2026 899,008 72,563,773 1.83% 2.86%
2027 915,176 74,604,804 1.8% 2.81%
2028 931,430 76,670,483 1.78% 2.77%
2029 947,803 78,773,192 1.76% 2.74%
2030 964,266 80,913,118 1.74% 2.72%
2031 980,769 83,087,927 1.71% 2.69%
2032 997,341 85,293,126 1.69% 2.65%
2033 1,014,064 87,520,491 1.68% 2.61%
2034 1,030,864 89,788,673 1.66% 2.59%
2035 1,047,760 92,091,418 1.64% 2.56%
2036 1,064,847 94,420,808 1.63% 2.53%
2037 1,081,999 96,775,766 1.61% 2.49%
2038 1,099,147 99,156,465 1.58% 2.46%
2039 1,116,418 101,567,525 1.57% 2.43%
2040 1,133,776 103,999,350 1.55% 2.39%
2041 1,151,146 106,448,475 1.53% 2.35%
2042 1,168,504 108,926,272 1.51% 2.33%
2043 1,185,954 111,433,788 1.49% 2.3%
2044 1,203,535 113,966,263 1.48% 2.27%
2045 1,221,066 116,525,463 1.46% 2.25%
2046 1,238,454 119,109,670 1.42% 2.22%
2047 1,255,711 121,721,018 1.39% 2.19%
2048 1,273,035 124,351,294 1.38% 2.16%
2049 1,290,365 126,981,394 1.36% 2.12%
2050 1,307,552 129,621,083 1.33% 2.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Comoros increased by 134,005 people (a 22.6% growth), while Tanzania gained 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Comoros gained 169,146 (a 23.3% growth), while Tanzania's population increased by 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth).

Comoros was ranked 163rd most populous country in 2005 and is 160th in 2025. Tanzania was ranked 31st in 2005 and ranked 20th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Comoros' population will grow by 46% to 1,307,552 people with a rank change from 160th to 157th. The population of Tanzania will increase by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people and rank change from 20th to 15th.

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