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Population in Curacao compared to Saudi Arabia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Curacao was 155,900 in 2024 vs 35,300,280 people in Saudi Arabia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Curacao's population is 155,910 people compared to 36,428,123 in Saudi Arabia.

Population statistics:

  • Saudi Arabia's population is 233.6 times bigger than Curacao's.
  • Curacao is ranked the 179th most populous country in the world, while Saudi Arabia is the 44th.
  • The countries together account for 0.44% of the world: 0.002% for Curacao vs 0.44% for Saudi Arabia.
  • For the last 10 years, Curacao has had an average growth rate of +0.14% per year vs +2.3% in Saudi Arabia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Curacao has increased from 138K people to 156K (13.3% growth), while Saudi Arabia has grown from 20.6M to 36.4M (77.2% growth).
  • Saudi Arabia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 73.8M people, while Curacao's population already peaked in 2017 at 160K people and is projected to decrease to 101K people by 2100.

Curacao vs Saudi Arabia: live population counter

Curacao Saudi Arabia
Current population
155910
36428123
Population rank 179/197 44/197
Percent of world population 0.002% 0.44%
One net population change
3.65 days
19.7 seconds
One birth every
7.5 hours
57 seconds
One death every
5.8 hours
6.66 minutes
One migration net change every
17.1 hours
4.3 minutes
Annual migration change +513 +122,170
Daily growth/decline +0 +4,377
Annual growth/decline +100 +1,597,549
Annual growth/decline rate +0.06% +4.74%
Population growth rate rank 160/197 3/197

Curacao and Saudi Arabia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Curacao
Population

Growth rate
Saudi Arabia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Curacao Saudi Arabia Curacao Saudi Arabia
1960 124,826 2,435,403 - -
1961 126,125 2,526,347 1.04% 3.73%
1962 128,414 2,620,910 1.81% 3.74%
1963 130,860 2,719,341 1.9% 3.76%
1964 133,148 2,821,968 1.75% 3.77%
1965 135,266 2,928,771 1.59% 3.78%
1966 136,682 3,039,887 1.05% 3.79%
1967 138,140 3,157,242 1.07% 3.86%
1968 140,298 3,282,711 1.56% 3.97%
1969 142,581 3,417,114 1.63% 4.09%
1970 144,739 3,562,470 1.51% 4.25%
1971 147,389 3,724,031 1.83% 4.54%
1972 147,710 3,905,722 0.22% 4.88%
1973 146,912 4,106,344 -0.54% 5.14%
1974 148,351 4,323,632 0.98% 5.29%
1975 149,129 4,556,287 0.52% 5.38%
1976 149,399 4,807,933 0.18% 5.52%
1977 149,459 5,083,048 0.04% 5.72%
1978 148,341 5,381,902 -0.75% 5.88%
1979 147,851 5,703,698 -0.33% 5.98%
1980 148,041 6,047,997 0.13% 6.04%
1981 148,629 6,420,551 0.4% 6.16%
1982 150,101 6,824,486 0.99% 6.29%
1983 151,159 7,252,941 0.7% 6.28%
1984 151,940 7,697,307 0.52% 6.13%
1985 152,711 8,151,779 0.51% 5.9%
1986 152,662 8,628,639 -0.03% 5.85%
1987 151,456 9,130,194 -0.79% 5.81%
1988 149,254 9,629,165 -1.45% 5.47%
1989 146,937 10,128,394 -1.55% 5.18%
1990 145,400 10,640,691 -1.05% 5.06%
1991 144,403 11,160,744 -0.69% 4.89%
1992 143,912 11,686,676 -0.34% 4.71%
1993 144,299 12,215,862 0.27% 4.53%
1994 144,630 12,750,040 0.23% 4.37%
1995 145,139 13,289,245 0.35% 4.23%
1996 146,306 13,831,009 0.8% 4.08%
1997 146,956 14,374,943 0.44% 3.93%
1998 144,472 14,922,185 -1.69% 3.81%
1999 139,428 15,472,075 -3.49% 3.69%
2000 133,860 16,177,722 -3.99% 4.56%
2001 129,047 17,041,397 -3.6% 5.34%
2002 129,205 17,910,910 0.12% 5.1%
2003 131,897 18,786,767 2.08% 4.89%
2004 134,192 19,669,480 1.74% 4.7%
2005 137,658 20,559,890 2.58% 4.53%
2006 141,239 21,459,144 2.6% 4.37%
2007 144,056 22,368,313 1.99% 4.24%
2008 145,880 23,287,877 1.27% 4.11%
2009 146,833 24,217,654 0.65% 3.99%
2010 148,703 23,978,487 1.27% -0.99%
2011 150,831 25,091,867 1.43% 4.64%
2012 152,088 26,168,861 0.83% 4.29%
2013 153,822 27,624,004 1.14% 5.56%
2014 155,909 28,309,273 1.36% 2.48%
2015 157,980 29,816,382 1.33% 5.32%
2016 159,664 30,954,198 1.07% 3.82%
2017 160,175 30,977,355 0.32% 0.07%
2018 159,336 30,196,281 -0.52% -2.52%
2019 157,441 30,063,799 -1.19% -0.44%
2020 154,947 31,552,510 -1.58% 4.95%
2021 152,369 30,784,383 -1.66% -2.43%
2022 149,996 32,175,224 -1.56% 4.52%
2023 155,800 33,702,731 3.87% 4.75%
2024 155,900 35,300,280 0.06% 4.74%
2025 155,910 35,927,625 0.007% 1.78%
2026 155,878 36,550,694 -0.02% 1.73%
2027 155,806 37,167,513 -0.05% 1.69%
2028 155,710 37,775,810 -0.06% 1.64%
2029 155,558 38,364,377 -0.1% 1.56%
2030 155,356 38,918,375 -0.13% 1.44%
2031 155,112 39,450,880 -0.16% 1.37%
2032 154,845 39,983,934 -0.17% 1.35%
2033 154,546 40,517,599 -0.19% 1.33%
2034 154,200 41,052,423 -0.22% 1.32%
2035 153,844 41,588,429 -0.23% 1.31%
2036 153,444 42,125,184 -0.26% 1.29%
2037 153,028 42,661,908 -0.27% 1.27%
2038 152,600 43,198,420 -0.28% 1.26%
2039 152,140 43,734,316 -0.3% 1.24%
2040 151,635 44,269,571 -0.33% 1.22%
2041 151,130 44,804,338 -0.33% 1.21%
2042 150,608 45,338,111 -0.35% 1.19%
2043 150,071 45,870,896 -0.36% 1.18%
2044 149,519 46,403,116 -0.37% 1.16%
2045 148,941 46,934,822 -0.39% 1.15%
2046 148,367 47,465,267 -0.39% 1.13%
2047 147,763 47,993,976 -0.41% 1.11%
2048 147,130 48,521,364 -0.43% 1.1%
2049 146,495 49,047,461 -0.43% 1.08%
2050 145,829 49,572,202 -0.45% 1.07%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Curacao increased by 20,322 people (a 14.8% growth), while Saudi Arabia gained 9,256,492 people (a 45% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Curacao lost -2,070 (a 1.31% decline), while Saudi Arabia's population increased by 6,611,741 (a 22.2% growth).

Curacao was ranked 179th most populous country in 2005 and is still 179th in 2025. Saudi Arabia was ranked 51st in 2005 and ranked 44th 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 Saudi Arabia will increase by 36.1% to 49,572,202 people and rank change from 44th to 43rd.

Biggest cities by population

Curacao
City Population
Willemstad 150K
Barber 2.42K

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