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Population in the Czech Republic compared to Latvia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of the Czech Republic was 10,882,164 in 2024 vs 1,862,441 people in Latvia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Czech Republic's population is 10,753,822 people compared to 1,844,219 in Latvia.

Population statistics:

  • The Czech Republic's population is 5.83 times bigger than Latvia's.
  • The Czech Republic is ranked the 91st most populous country in the world, while Latvia is the 149th.
  • The countries together account for 0.15% of the world: 0.13% for the Czech Republic vs 0.02% for Latvia.
  • For the last 10 years, the Czech Republic has had an average growth rate of +0.32% per year vs -0.7% in Latvia.
  • Since 2005, the population of the Czech Republic has increased from 10.2M people to 10.8M (5.31% growth), while Latvia has declined from 2.24M to 1.84M (17.6% decline).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 17.3% of the population in the Czech Republic and 36.3% in Latvia.

Czech Republic vs Latvia: live population counter

Czech Republic Latvia
Current population
10753822
1844219
Population rank 91/197 149/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 0.02%
One net population change
29 minutes
35 minutes
One birth every
5.76 minutes
36.4 minutes
One death every
4.65 minutes
18.8 minutes
One migration net change every
6.1 minutes
3.94 hours
Annual migration change -86,169 -2,225
Daily growth/decline +50 -41
Annual growth/decline +18,122 -15,004
Annual growth/decline rate +0.17% -0.8%
Population growth rate rank 156/197 190/197

the Czech Republic and Latvia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Czech Republic
Population

Growth rate
Latvia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Czech Republic Latvia Czech Republic Latvia
1960 9,602,006 2,120,979 - -
1961 9,586,651 2,152,681 -0.16% 1.49%
1962 9,624,660 2,181,586 0.4% 1.34%
1963 9,670,685 2,210,919 0.48% 1.34%
1964 9,727,804 2,240,623 0.59% 1.34%
1965 9,779,358 2,265,919 0.53% 1.13%
1966 9,821,040 2,283,217 0.43% 0.76%
1967 9,852,899 2,301,220 0.32% 0.79%
1968 9,876,346 2,323,619 0.24% 0.97%
1969 9,896,580 2,343,173 0.2% 0.84%
1970 9,858,071 2,359,164 -0.39% 0.68%
1971 9,826,815 2,376,389 -0.32% 0.73%
1972 9,867,632 2,395,674 0.42% 0.81%
1973 9,922,266 2,415,819 0.55% 0.84%
1974 9,988,459 2,437,186 0.67% 0.88%
1975 10,058,620 2,456,130 0.7% 0.78%
1976 10,125,939 2,470,989 0.67% 0.6%
1977 10,186,755 2,485,073 0.6% 0.57%
1978 10,242,098 2,497,921 0.54% 0.52%
1979 10,292,341 2,505,953 0.49% 0.32%
1980 10,304,193 2,511,701 0.12% 0.23%
1981 10,300,591 2,519,421 -0.03% 0.31%
1982 10,314,826 2,531,080 0.14% 0.46%
1983 10,323,856 2,546,011 0.09% 0.59%
1984 10,330,213 2,562,047 0.06% 0.63%
1985 10,337,118 2,578,873 0.07% 0.66%
1986 10,342,227 2,599,892 0.05% 0.82%
1987 10,347,318 2,626,583 0.05% 1.03%
1988 10,355,276 2,653,434 0.08% 1.02%
1989 10,361,068 2,666,955 0.06% 0.51%
1990 10,333,355 2,663,151 -0.27% -0.14%
1991 10,308,578 2,650,581 -0.24% -0.47%
1992 10,319,123 2,614,338 0.1% -1.37%
1993 10,329,855 2,563,290 0.1% -1.95%
1994 10,333,587 2,520,742 0.04% -1.66%
1995 10,327,253 2,485,056 -0.06% -1.42%
1996 10,315,241 2,457,222 -0.12% -1.12%
1997 10,304,131 2,432,851 -0.11% -0.99%
1998 10,294,373 2,410,019 -0.09% -0.94%
1999 10,283,860 2,390,482 -0.1% -0.81%
2000 10,255,063 2,367,550 -0.28% -0.96%
2001 10,216,605 2,337,170 -0.38% -1.28%
2002 10,196,916 2,310,173 -0.19% -1.16%
2003 10,193,998 2,287,955 -0.03% -0.96%
2004 10,197,101 2,263,122 0.03% -1.09%
2005 10,211,216 2,238,799 0.14% -1.07%
2006 10,238,905 2,218,357 0.27% -0.91%
2007 10,298,828 2,200,325 0.59% -0.81%
2008 10,384,603 2,177,322 0.83% -1.05%
2009 10,443,936 2,141,669 0.57% -1.64%
2010 10,474,410 2,097,555 0.29% -2.06%
2011 10,496,088 2,059,709 0.21% -1.8%
2012 10,510,785 2,034,319 0.14% -1.23%
2013 10,514,272 2,012,647 0.03% -1.07%
2014 10,525,347 1,993,782 0.11% -0.94%
2015 10,546,059 1,977,527 0.2% -0.82%
2016 10,566,332 1,959,537 0.19% -0.91%
2017 10,594,438 1,942,248 0.27% -0.88%
2018 10,629,928 1,927,174 0.33% -0.78%
2019 10,671,870 1,913,822 0.39% -0.69%
2020 10,697,858 1,900,449 0.24% -0.7%
2021 10,505,772 1,884,490 -1.8% -0.84%
2022 10,672,118 1,879,383 1.58% -0.27%
2023 10,864,042 1,877,445 1.8% -0.1%
2024 10,882,164 1,862,441 0.17% -0.8%
2025 10,753,822 1,844,219 -1.18% -0.98%
2026 10,671,254 1,826,681 -0.77% -0.95%
2027 10,648,879 1,812,384 -0.21% -0.78%
2028 10,623,904 1,797,965 -0.23% -0.8%
2029 10,596,362 1,783,455 -0.26% -0.81%
2030 10,567,167 1,768,667 -0.28% -0.83%
2031 10,536,602 1,753,985 -0.29% -0.83%
2032 10,504,828 1,739,582 -0.3% -0.82%
2033 10,472,203 1,725,261 -0.31% -0.82%
2034 10,439,141 1,711,332 -0.32% -0.81%
2035 10,405,856 1,697,827 -0.32% -0.79%
2036 10,372,835 1,684,492 -0.32% -0.79%
2037 10,339,980 1,671,323 -0.32% -0.78%
2038 10,307,577 1,658,336 -0.31% -0.78%
2039 10,275,882 1,645,282 -0.31% -0.79%
2040 10,244,966 1,632,376 -0.3% -0.78%
2041 10,214,805 1,619,616 -0.29% -0.78%
2042 10,185,286 1,607,019 -0.29% -0.78%
2043 10,156,643 1,594,558 -0.28% -0.78%
2044 10,128,611 1,582,077 -0.28% -0.78%
2045 10,100,890 1,569,454 -0.27% -0.8%
2046 10,073,030 1,556,840 -0.28% -0.8%
2047 10,045,121 1,544,315 -0.28% -0.8%
2048 10,017,123 1,531,684 -0.28% -0.82%
2049 9,988,795 1,518,941 -0.28% -0.83%
2050 9,959,445 1,506,179 -0.29% -0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Czech Republic increased by 334,843 people (a 3.28% growth), while Latvia lost 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Czech Republic gained 207,763 (a 1.97% growth), while Latvia's population decreased by -133,308 (a 6.74% decline).

The Czech Republic was ranked 80th most populous country in 2005 and is 91st in 2025. Latvia was ranked 139th in 2005 and ranked 149th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) the Czech Republic's population will shrink by 7.39% to 9,959,445 people with a rank change from 91st to 98th. The population of Latvia will decrease by 18.3% to 1,506,179 people and rank change from 149th to 153rd.

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