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Population in Curacao compared to Italy: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Curacao was 155,900 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Curacao's population is 155,910 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 377 times bigger than Curacao's.
  • Curacao is ranked the 179th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.71% of the world: 0.002% for Curacao vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Curacao has had an average growth rate of +0.14% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Curacao has increased from 138K people to 156K (13.3% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 19.1% of the population in Curacao and 29.6% in Italy.

Curacao vs Italy: live population counter

Curacao Italy
Current population
155910
58790597
Population rank 179/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.002% 0.71%
One net population change
3.65 days
1.18 hours
One birth every
7.5 hours
1.39 minutes
One death every
5.8 hours
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
17.1 hours
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change +513 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +0 -20
Annual growth/decline +100 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +0.06% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 160/197 166/197

Curacao and Italy: population history and growth rate by year chart

Curacao
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Curacao Italy Curacao Italy
1960 124,826 50,199,700 - -
1961 126,125 50,536,350 1.04% 0.67%
1962 128,414 50,879,450 1.81% 0.68%
1963 130,860 51,252,000 1.9% 0.73%
1964 133,148 51,675,350 1.75% 0.83%
1965 135,266 52,112,350 1.59% 0.85%
1966 136,682 52,519,000 1.05% 0.78%
1967 138,140 52,900,500 1.07% 0.73%
1968 140,298 53,235,750 1.56% 0.63%
1969 142,581 53,537,950 1.63% 0.57%
1970 144,739 53,821,850 1.51% 0.53%
1971 147,389 54,073,490 1.83% 0.47%
1972 147,710 54,381,345 0.22% 0.57%
1973 146,912 54,751,406 -0.54% 0.68%
1974 148,351 55,110,868 0.98% 0.66%
1975 149,129 55,441,001 0.52% 0.6%
1976 149,399 55,718,260 0.18% 0.5%
1977 149,459 55,955,411 0.04% 0.43%
1978 148,341 56,155,143 -0.75% 0.36%
1979 147,851 56,317,749 -0.33% 0.29%
1980 148,041 56,433,883 0.13% 0.21%
1981 148,629 56,501,675 0.4% 0.12%
1982 150,101 56,543,548 0.99% 0.07%
1983 151,159 56,564,074 0.7% 0.04%
1984 151,940 56,576,718 0.52% 0.02%
1985 152,711 56,593,071 0.51% 0.03%
1986 152,662 56,596,155 -0.03% 0.005%
1987 151,456 56,601,931 -0.79% 0.01%
1988 149,254 56,629,288 -1.45% 0.05%
1989 146,937 56,671,781 -1.55% 0.08%
1990 145,400 56,719,240 -1.05% 0.08%
1991 144,403 56,758,521 -0.69% 0.07%
1992 143,912 56,797,087 -0.34% 0.07%
1993 144,299 56,831,821 0.27% 0.06%
1994 144,630 56,843,400 0.23% 0.02%
1995 145,139 56,844,303 0.35% 0.002%
1996 146,306 56,860,281 0.8% 0.03%
1997 146,956 56,890,372 0.44% 0.05%
1998 144,472 56,906,744 -1.69% 0.03%
1999 139,428 56,916,317 -3.49% 0.02%
2000 133,860 56,942,108 -3.99% 0.05%
2001 129,047 56,976,981 -3.6% 0.06%
2002 129,205 57,089,824 0.12% 0.2%
2003 131,897 57,399,184 2.08% 0.54%
2004 134,192 57,828,179 1.74% 0.75%
2005 137,658 58,166,682 2.58% 0.59%
2006 141,239 58,399,861 2.6% 0.4%
2007 144,056 58,756,247 1.99% 0.61%
2008 145,880 59,211,181 1.27% 0.77%
2009 146,833 59,555,454 0.65% 0.58%
2010 148,703 59,819,407 1.27% 0.44%
2011 150,831 60,026,841 1.43% 0.35%
2012 152,088 60,191,247 0.83% 0.27%
2013 153,822 60,311,613 1.14% 0.2%
2014 155,909 60,320,707 1.36% 0.02%
2015 157,980 60,229,605 1.33% -0.15%
2016 159,664 60,115,223 1.07% -0.19%
2017 160,175 60,002,252 0.32% -0.19%
2018 159,336 60,148,658 -0.52% 0.24%
2019 157,441 59,729,081 -1.19% -0.7%
2020 154,947 59,438,851 -1.58% -0.49%
2021 152,369 59,133,173 -1.66% -0.51%
2022 149,996 59,013,667 -1.56% -0.2%
2023 155,800 58,993,475 3.87% -0.03%
2024 155,900 58,986,023 0.06% -0.01%
2025 155,910 58,790,597 0.007% -0.33%
2026 155,878 58,571,823 -0.02% -0.37%
2027 155,806 58,335,864 -0.05% -0.4%
2028 155,710 58,094,373 -0.06% -0.41%
2029 155,558 57,851,042 -0.1% -0.42%
2030 155,356 57,597,622 -0.13% -0.44%
2031 155,112 57,333,277 -0.16% -0.46%
2032 154,845 57,071,235 -0.17% -0.46%
2033 154,546 56,812,747 -0.19% -0.45%
2034 154,200 56,548,816 -0.22% -0.46%
2035 153,844 56,279,536 -0.23% -0.48%
2036 153,444 56,009,844 -0.26% -0.48%
2037 153,028 55,737,477 -0.27% -0.49%
2038 152,600 55,460,735 -0.28% -0.5%
2039 152,140 55,177,508 -0.3% -0.51%
2040 151,635 54,889,107 -0.33% -0.52%
2041 151,130 54,601,628 -0.33% -0.52%
2042 150,608 54,307,412 -0.35% -0.54%
2043 150,071 53,997,106 -0.36% -0.57%
2044 149,519 53,679,603 -0.37% -0.59%
2045 148,941 53,357,669 -0.39% -0.6%
2046 148,367 53,025,288 -0.39% -0.62%
2047 147,763 52,680,150 -0.41% -0.65%
2048 147,130 52,324,241 -0.43% -0.68%
2049 146,495 51,959,050 -0.43% -0.7%
2050 145,829 51,579,060 -0.45% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Curacao increased by 20,322 people (a 14.8% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Curacao lost -2,070 (a 1.31% decline), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Curacao was ranked 179th most populous country in 2005 and is still 179th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Curacao's population will shrink by 6.47% to 145,829 people with a rank change from 179th to 180th. The population of Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

Biggest cities by population

Curacao
City Population
Willemstad 150K
Barber 2.42K
Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K

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