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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Curacao was 155,900 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Curacao's population is 155,910 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 551 times bigger than Curacao's.
  • Curacao is ranked the 179th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.04% of the world: 0.002% for Curacao vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Curacao has had an average growth rate of +0.14% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Curacao has increased from 138K people to 156K (13.3% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Turkey is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 89.4M people, while Curacao's population already peaked in 2017 at 160K people and is projected to decrease to 101K people by 2100.

Curacao vs Turkey: live population counter

Curacao Turkey
Current population
155910
85914550
Population rank 179/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.002% 1.04%
One net population change
3.65 days
2.73 minutes
One birth every
7.5 hours
33 seconds
One death every
5.8 hours
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
17.1 hours
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +513 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +0 +528
Annual growth/decline +100 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +0.06% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 160/197 153/197

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

Curacao
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Curacao Turkey Curacao Turkey
1960 124,826 28,329,898 - -
1961 126,125 29,119,238 1.04% 2.79%
1962 128,414 29,916,147 1.81% 2.74%
1963 130,860 30,726,841 1.9% 2.71%
1964 133,148 31,543,072 1.75% 2.66%
1965 135,266 32,345,220 1.59% 2.54%
1966 136,682 33,177,672 1.05% 2.57%
1967 138,140 34,050,421 1.07% 2.63%
1968 140,298 34,921,684 1.56% 2.56%
1969 142,581 35,787,774 1.63% 2.48%
1970 144,739 36,638,465 1.51% 2.38%
1971 147,389 37,518,611 1.83% 2.4%
1972 147,710 38,430,221 0.22% 2.43%
1973 146,912 39,329,533 -0.54% 2.34%
1974 148,351 40,210,234 0.98% 2.24%
1975 149,129 41,053,126 0.52% 2.1%
1976 149,399 41,899,984 0.18% 2.06%
1977 149,459 42,773,298 0.04% 2.08%
1978 148,341 43,645,306 -0.75% 2.04%
1979 147,851 44,510,429 -0.33% 1.98%
1980 148,041 45,408,815 0.13% 2.02%
1981 148,629 46,321,190 0.4% 2.01%
1982 150,101 47,322,096 0.99% 2.16%
1983 151,159 48,447,410 0.7% 2.38%
1984 151,940 49,574,069 0.52% 2.33%
1985 152,711 50,687,115 0.51% 2.25%
1986 152,662 51,777,772 -0.03% 2.15%
1987 151,456 52,843,670 -0.79% 2.06%
1988 149,254 53,909,626 -1.45% 2.02%
1989 146,937 54,976,723 -1.55% 1.98%
1990 145,400 56,015,628 -1.05% 1.89%
1991 144,403 57,009,887 -0.69% 1.77%
1992 143,912 57,990,118 -0.34% 1.72%
1993 144,299 58,999,167 0.27% 1.74%
1994 144,630 60,033,836 0.23% 1.75%
1995 145,139 61,024,503 0.35% 1.65%
1996 146,306 61,951,134 0.8% 1.52%
1997 146,956 62,852,966 0.44% 1.46%
1998 144,472 63,734,383 -1.69% 1.4%
1999 139,428 64,591,923 -3.49% 1.35%
2000 133,860 65,425,961 -3.99% 1.29%
2001 129,047 66,245,128 -3.6% 1.25%
2002 129,205 67,048,795 0.12% 1.21%
2003 131,897 67,831,730 2.08% 1.17%
2004 134,192 68,592,617 1.74% 1.12%
2005 137,658 69,329,557 2.58% 1.07%
2006 141,239 70,045,349 2.6% 1.03%
2007 144,056 70,158,112 1.99% 0.16%
2008 145,880 71,051,678 1.27% 1.27%
2009 146,833 72,039,206 0.65% 1.39%
2010 148,703 73,142,150 1.27% 1.53%
2011 150,831 74,223,629 1.43% 1.48%
2012 152,088 75,175,827 0.83% 1.28%
2013 153,822 76,147,624 1.14% 1.29%
2014 155,909 77,181,884 1.36% 1.36%
2015 157,980 78,218,479 1.33% 1.34%
2016 159,664 79,277,962 1.07% 1.35%
2017 160,175 80,312,698 0.32% 1.31%
2018 159,336 81,407,204 -0.52% 1.36%
2019 157,441 82,579,440 -1.19% 1.44%
2020 154,947 83,384,680 -1.58% 0.98%
2021 152,369 84,147,318 -1.66% 0.91%
2022 149,996 84,979,913 -1.56% 0.99%
2023 155,800 85,325,965 3.87% 0.41%
2024 155,900 85,518,661 0.06% 0.23%
2025 155,910 85,725,557 0.007% 0.24%
2026 155,878 85,960,835 -0.02% 0.27%
2027 155,806 86,227,115 -0.05% 0.31%
2028 155,710 86,502,744 -0.06% 0.32%
2029 155,558 86,771,652 -0.1% 0.31%
2030 155,356 87,037,680 -0.13% 0.31%
2031 155,112 87,297,191 -0.16% 0.3%
2032 154,845 87,537,075 -0.17% 0.27%
2033 154,546 87,762,403 -0.19% 0.26%
2034 154,200 87,974,138 -0.22% 0.24%
2035 153,844 88,172,739 -0.23% 0.23%
2036 153,444 88,364,318 -0.26% 0.22%
2037 153,028 88,545,669 -0.27% 0.21%
2038 152,600 88,707,268 -0.28% 0.18%
2039 152,140 88,849,956 -0.3% 0.16%
2040 151,635 88,975,510 -0.33% 0.14%
2041 151,130 89,083,304 -0.33% 0.12%
2042 150,608 89,177,769 -0.35% 0.11%
2043 150,071 89,254,147 -0.36% 0.09%
2044 149,519 89,311,458 -0.37% 0.06%
2045 148,941 89,349,806 -0.39% 0.04%
2046 148,367 89,375,429 -0.39% 0.03%
2047 147,763 89,383,765 -0.41% 0.009%
2048 147,130 89,361,174 -0.43% -0.03%
2049 146,495 89,306,566 -0.43% -0.06%
2050 145,829 89,218,346 -0.45% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Curacao increased by 20,322 people (a 14.8% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Curacao lost -2,070 (a 1.31% decline), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Curacao was ranked 179th most populous country in 2005 and is still 179th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

Biggest cities by population

Curacao
City Population
Willemstad 150K
Barber 2.42K
Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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