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Population in Curacao compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Curacao was 155,900 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Curacao's population is 155,910 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • The United Kingdom's population is 449 times bigger than Curacao's.
  • Curacao is ranked the 179th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.85% of the world: 0.002% for Curacao vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Curacao has had an average growth rate of +0.14% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Curacao has increased from 138K people to 156K (13.3% growth), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • The United Kingdom is projected to reach its peak in 2072 at 76.2M people, while Curacao's population already peaked in 2017 at 160K people and is projected to decrease to 101K people by 2100.

Curacao vs United Kingdom: live population counter

Curacao United Kingdom
Current population
155910
69945462
Population rank 179/197 22/197
Percent of world population 0.002% 0.85%
One net population change
3.65 days
43 seconds
One birth every
7.5 hours
45.9 seconds
One death every
5.8 hours
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
17.1 hours
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change +513 +417,114
Daily growth/decline +0 +2,011
Annual growth/decline +100 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate +0.06% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 160/197 99/197

Curacao and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Curacao
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Curacao United Kingdom Curacao United Kingdom
1960 124,826 52,400,000 - -
1961 126,125 52,800,000 1.04% 0.76%
1962 128,414 53,250,000 1.81% 0.85%
1963 130,860 53,650,000 1.9% 0.75%
1964 133,148 54,000,000 1.75% 0.65%
1965 135,266 54,348,050 1.59% 0.64%
1966 136,682 54,648,500 1.05% 0.55%
1967 138,140 54,943,600 1.07% 0.54%
1968 140,298 55,211,700 1.56% 0.49%
1969 142,581 55,441,750 1.63% 0.42%
1970 144,739 55,663,250 1.51% 0.4%
1971 147,389 55,896,223 1.83% 0.42%
1972 147,710 56,086,065 0.22% 0.34%
1973 146,912 56,194,527 -0.54% 0.19%
1974 148,351 56,229,974 0.98% 0.06%
1975 149,129 56,225,800 0.52% -0.007%
1976 149,399 56,211,968 0.18% -0.02%
1977 149,459 56,193,492 0.04% -0.03%
1978 148,341 56,196,504 -0.75% 0.005%
1979 147,851 56,246,951 -0.33% 0.09%
1980 148,041 56,314,216 0.13% 0.12%
1981 148,629 56,333,829 0.4% 0.03%
1982 150,101 56,313,641 0.99% -0.04%
1983 151,159 56,332,848 0.7% 0.03%
1984 151,940 56,422,072 0.52% 0.16%
1985 152,711 56,550,268 0.51% 0.23%
1986 152,662 56,681,396 -0.03% 0.23%
1987 151,456 56,802,050 -0.79% 0.21%
1988 149,254 56,928,327 -1.45% 0.22%
1989 146,937 57,076,711 -1.55% 0.26%
1990 145,400 57,247,586 -1.05% 0.3%
1991 144,403 57,424,897 -0.69% 0.31%
1992 143,912 57,580,402 -0.34% 0.27%
1993 144,299 57,718,614 0.27% 0.24%
1994 144,630 57,865,745 0.23% 0.25%
1995 145,139 58,019,030 0.35% 0.26%
1996 146,306 58,166,950 0.8% 0.25%
1997 146,956 58,316,954 0.44% 0.26%
1998 144,472 58,487,141 -1.69% 0.29%
1999 139,428 58,682,466 -3.49% 0.33%
2000 133,860 58,892,514 -3.99% 0.36%
2001 129,047 59,119,673 -3.6% 0.39%
2002 129,205 59,370,479 0.12% 0.42%
2003 131,897 59,647,577 2.08% 0.47%
2004 134,192 59,987,905 1.74% 0.57%
2005 137,658 60,401,206 2.58% 0.69%
2006 141,239 60,846,820 2.6% 0.74%
2007 144,056 61,322,463 1.99% 0.78%
2008 145,880 61,806,995 1.27% 0.79%
2009 146,833 62,276,270 0.65% 0.76%
2010 148,703 62,766,365 1.27% 0.79%
2011 150,831 63,258,810 1.43% 0.78%
2012 152,088 63,711,000 0.83% 0.71%
2013 153,822 64,139,000 1.14% 0.67%
2014 155,909 64,620,000 1.36% 0.75%
2015 157,980 65,088,000 1.33% 0.72%
2016 159,664 65,607,000 1.07% 0.8%
2017 160,175 65,966,000 0.32% 0.55%
2018 159,336 66,289,000 -0.52% 0.49%
2019 157,441 66,631,000 -1.19% 0.52%
2020 154,947 66,744,000 -1.58% 0.17%
2021 152,369 66,984,000 -1.66% 0.36%
2022 149,996 67,604,000 -1.56% 0.93%
2023 155,800 68,492,000 3.87% 1.31%
2024 155,900 69,226,000 0.06% 1.07%
2025 155,910 69,639,673 0.007% 0.6%
2026 155,878 70,020,350 -0.02% 0.55%
2027 155,806 70,382,853 -0.05% 0.52%
2028 155,710 70,732,699 -0.06% 0.5%
2029 155,558 71,061,482 -0.1% 0.46%
2030 155,356 71,377,535 -0.13% 0.44%
2031 155,112 71,678,351 -0.16% 0.42%
2032 154,845 71,959,934 -0.17% 0.39%
2033 154,546 72,234,509 -0.19% 0.38%
2034 154,200 72,497,650 -0.22% 0.36%
2035 153,844 72,749,096 -0.23% 0.35%
2036 153,444 72,990,847 -0.26% 0.33%
2037 153,028 73,218,850 -0.27% 0.31%
2038 152,600 73,441,349 -0.28% 0.3%
2039 152,140 73,658,392 -0.3% 0.3%
2040 151,635 73,868,334 -0.33% 0.29%
2041 151,130 74,074,316 -0.33% 0.28%
2042 150,608 74,275,779 -0.35% 0.27%
2043 150,071 74,475,035 -0.36% 0.27%
2044 149,519 74,667,284 -0.37% 0.26%
2045 148,941 74,848,605 -0.39% 0.24%
2046 148,367 75,020,949 -0.39% 0.23%
2047 147,763 75,184,478 -0.41% 0.22%
2048 147,130 75,337,543 -0.43% 0.2%
2049 146,495 75,476,141 -0.43% 0.18%
2050 145,829 75,600,588 -0.45% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Curacao increased by 20,322 people (a 14.8% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Curacao lost -2,070 (a 1.31% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Curacao was ranked 179th most populous country in 2005 and is still 179th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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