Population in the Dominican Republic compared to Somalia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

the Dominican Republic and Somalia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Dominican Republic	Somalia	Dominican Republic	Somalia
1960	3,268,336	2,876,331	-	-
1961	3,373,233	2,952,054	3.21%	2.63%
1962	3,479,936	3,030,091	3.16%	2.64%
1963	3,588,287	3,110,361	3.11%	2.65%
1964	3,698,559	3,192,796	3.07%	2.65%
1965	3,808,963	3,277,874	2.99%	2.66%
1966	3,921,847	3,365,106	2.96%	2.66%
1967	4,038,928	3,454,537	2.99%	2.66%
1968	4,157,189	3,546,590	2.93%	2.66%
1969	4,277,035	3,641,015	2.88%	2.66%
1970	4,399,290	3,738,448	2.86%	2.68%
1971	4,524,234	3,837,691	2.84%	2.65%
1972	4,651,883	3,939,436	2.82%	2.65%
1973	4,782,227	4,045,592	2.8%	2.69%
1974	4,914,197	4,151,842	2.76%	2.63%
1975	5,046,776	4,257,535	2.7%	2.55%
1976	5,180,404	4,365,812	2.65%	2.54%
1977	5,315,443	4,484,050	2.61%	2.71%
1978	5,451,882	4,814,892	2.57%	7.38%
1979	5,589,690	5,449,117	2.53%	13.2%
1980	5,729,037	5,936,154	2.49%	8.94%
1981	5,868,453	5,982,849	2.43%	0.79%
1982	6,007,114	6,003,840	2.36%	0.35%
1983	6,147,248	6,198,430	2.33%	3.24%
1984	6,289,040	6,428,389	2.31%	3.71%
1985	6,430,404	6,693,289	2.25%	4.12%
1986	6,571,208	6,974,788	2.19%	4.21%
1987	6,712,515	7,228,302	2.15%	3.63%
1988	6,855,734	7,235,360	2.13%	0.1%
1989	7,002,295	7,114,817	2.14%	-1.67%
1990	7,151,166	7,082,811	2.13%	-0.45%
1991	7,299,853	6,813,760	2.08%	-3.8%
1992	7,447,474	6,495,107	2.02%	-4.68%
1993	7,594,572	6,681,399	1.98%	2.87%
1994	7,741,694	7,026,797	1.94%	5.17%
1995	7,888,115	7,285,007	1.89%	3.67%
1996	8,032,894	7,554,474	1.84%	3.7%
1997	8,174,078	7,824,525	1.76%	3.57%
1998	8,310,362	8,155,417	1.67%	4.23%
1999	8,446,208	8,492,059	1.63%	4.13%
2000	8,584,190	8,838,713	1.63%	4.08%
2001	8,720,283	9,198,493	1.59%	4.07%
2002	8,852,235	9,550,063	1.51%	3.82%
2003	8,980,620	9,909,157	1.45%	3.76%
2004	9,104,892	10,280,998	1.38%	3.75%
2005	9,225,034	10,644,228	1.32%	3.53%
2006	9,341,183	10,975,502	1.26%	3.11%
2007	9,455,658	11,322,582	1.23%	3.16%
2008	9,573,130	11,663,084	1.24%	3.01%
2009	9,695,265	11,961,201	1.28%	2.56%
2010	9,820,175	12,261,756	1.29%	2.51%
2011	9,945,621	12,348,830	1.28%	0.71%
2012	10,070,411	12,461,160	1.25%	0.91%
2013	10,193,833	12,869,594	1.23%	3.28%
2014	10,315,528	13,339,491	1.19%	3.65%
2015	10,434,829	13,806,963	1.16%	3.5%
2016	10,551,430	14,348,740	1.12%	3.92%
2017	10,666,843	14,916,629	1.09%	3.96%
2018	10,782,053	15,452,487	1.08%	3.59%
2019	10,894,043	16,030,971	1.04%	3.74%
2020	11,008,300	16,651,191	1.05%	3.87%
2021	11,123,476	17,271,431	1.05%	3.72%
2022	11,230,734	17,801,897	0.96%	3.07%
2023	11,331,265	18,358,615	0.9%	3.13%
2024	11,427,557	19,009,151	0.85%	3.54%
2025	11,520,480	19,654,737	0.81%	3.4%
2026	11,609,496	20,305,905	0.77%	3.31%
2027	11,695,935	20,959,056	0.74%	3.22%
2028	11,779,929	21,601,810	0.72%	3.07%
2029	11,860,814	22,247,714	0.69%	2.99%
2030	11,938,853	22,915,042	0.66%	3%
2031	12,014,148	23,589,793	0.63%	2.94%
2032	12,086,669	24,258,789	0.6%	2.84%
2033	12,156,523	24,921,830	0.58%	2.73%
2034	12,224,121	25,593,666	0.56%	2.7%
2035	12,289,431	26,294,943	0.53%	2.74%
2036	12,352,228	27,009,199	0.51%	2.72%
2037	12,412,542	27,731,170	0.49%	2.67%
2038	12,470,656	28,455,755	0.47%	2.61%
2039	12,526,156	29,167,897	0.45%	2.5%
2040	12,579,320	29,896,286	0.42%	2.5%
2041	12,630,679	30,635,956	0.41%	2.47%
2042	12,680,019	31,350,028	0.39%	2.33%
2043	12,727,289	32,057,980	0.37%	2.26%
2044	12,772,651	32,780,417	0.36%	2.25%
2045	12,816,003	33,510,163	0.34%	2.23%
2046	12,856,883	34,248,030	0.32%	2.2%
2047	12,895,158	34,996,366	0.3%	2.19%
2048	12,931,165	35,743,960	0.28%	2.14%
2049	12,964,841	36,474,683	0.26%	2.04%
2050	12,996,290	37,206,497	0.24%	2.01%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Dominican Republic increased by 1,209,795 people (a 13.1% growth), while Somalia gained 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Dominican Republic gained 1,157,155 (a 11.1% growth), while Somalia's population increased by 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth).

The Dominican Republic was ranked 85th most populous country in 2005 and is 84th in 2025. Somalia was ranked 75th in 2005 and ranked 66th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) the Dominican Republic's population will grow by 12.1% to 12,996,290 people with a rank change from 84th to 90th. The population of Somalia will increase by 84.4% to 37,206,497 people and rank change from 66th to 57th.