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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of the Dominican Republic was 11,427,557 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Dominican Republic's population is 11,591,984 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 6.18 times bigger than the Dominican Republic's.
  • The Dominican Republic is ranked the 84th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.01% of the world: 0.14% for the Dominican Republic vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, the Dominican Republic has had an average growth rate of +1.04% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of the Dominican Republic has increased from 9.23M people to 11.6M (25.7% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • The Dominican Republic is projected to reach its peak in 2061 at 13.2M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Dominican Republic vs Thailand: live population counter

Dominican Republic Thailand
Current population
11591984
71619867
Population rank 84/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.14% 0.87%
One net population change
5.46 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
2.59 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
7.42 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
15.1 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -34,806 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +264 -94
Annual growth/decline +96,292 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +0.85% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 114/197 170/197

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

Dominican Republic
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Dominican Republic Thailand Dominican Republic Thailand
1960 3,268,336 26,851,747 - -
1961 3,373,233 27,650,334 3.21% 2.97%
1962 3,479,936 28,481,040 3.16% 3%
1963 3,588,287 29,342,322 3.11% 3.02%
1964 3,698,559 30,232,141 3.07% 3.03%
1965 3,808,963 31,149,337 2.99% 3.03%
1966 3,921,847 32,086,071 2.96% 3.01%
1967 4,038,928 33,037,801 2.99% 2.97%
1968 4,157,189 34,002,560 2.93% 2.92%
1969 4,277,035 34,973,782 2.88% 2.86%
1970 4,399,290 35,954,408 2.86% 2.8%
1971 4,524,234 36,937,387 2.84% 2.73%
1972 4,651,883 37,933,929 2.82% 2.7%
1973 4,782,227 38,947,787 2.8% 2.67%
1974 4,914,197 39,952,891 2.76% 2.58%
1975 5,046,776 40,940,005 2.7% 2.47%
1976 5,180,404 41,896,504 2.65% 2.34%
1977 5,315,443 42,843,974 2.61% 2.26%
1978 5,451,882 43,788,976 2.57% 2.21%
1979 5,589,690 44,718,434 2.53% 2.12%
1980 5,729,037 45,650,022 2.49% 2.08%
1981 5,868,453 46,575,855 2.43% 2.03%
1982 6,007,114 47,494,577 2.36% 1.97%
1983 6,147,248 48,423,309 2.33% 1.96%
1984 6,289,040 49,351,708 2.31% 1.92%
1985 6,430,404 50,270,753 2.25% 1.86%
1986 6,571,208 51,177,834 2.19% 1.8%
1987 6,712,515 52,074,105 2.15% 1.75%
1988 6,855,734 52,969,595 2.13% 1.72%
1989 7,002,295 53,848,956 2.14% 1.66%
1990 7,151,166 54,738,329 2.13% 1.65%
1991 7,299,853 55,637,434 2.08% 1.64%
1992 7,447,474 56,528,834 2.02% 1.6%
1993 7,594,572 57,408,198 1.98% 1.56%
1994 7,741,694 58,260,854 1.94% 1.49%
1995 7,888,115 59,098,232 1.89% 1.44%
1996 8,032,894 59,920,064 1.84% 1.39%
1997 8,174,078 60,724,584 1.76% 1.34%
1998 8,310,362 61,522,630 1.67% 1.31%
1999 8,446,208 62,299,043 1.63% 1.26%
2000 8,584,190 63,007,815 1.63% 1.14%
2001 8,720,283 63,651,141 1.59% 1.02%
2002 8,852,235 64,266,437 1.51% 0.97%
2003 8,980,620 64,868,166 1.45% 0.94%
2004 9,104,892 65,452,047 1.38% 0.9%
2005 9,225,034 66,017,420 1.32% 0.86%
2006 9,341,183 66,567,687 1.26% 0.83%
2007 9,455,658 67,102,394 1.23% 0.8%
2008 9,573,130 67,619,830 1.24% 0.77%
2009 9,695,265 68,121,080 1.28% 0.74%
2010 9,820,175 68,579,447 1.29% 0.67%
2011 9,945,621 69,007,208 1.28% 0.62%
2012 10,070,411 69,436,098 1.25% 0.62%
2013 10,193,833 69,845,114 1.23% 0.59%
2014 10,315,528 70,216,367 1.19% 0.53%
2015 10,434,829 70,540,795 1.16% 0.46%
2016 10,551,430 70,859,841 1.12% 0.45%
2017 10,666,843 71,160,187 1.09% 0.42%
2018 10,782,053 71,376,079 1.08% 0.3%
2019 10,894,043 71,522,271 1.04% 0.2%
2020 11,008,300 71,641,484 1.05% 0.17%
2021 11,123,476 71,727,332 1.05% 0.12%
2022 11,230,734 71,735,329 0.96% 0.01%
2023 11,331,265 71,702,435 0.9% -0.05%
2024 11,427,557 71,668,011 0.85% -0.05%
2025 11,520,480 71,619,867 0.81% -0.07%
2026 11,609,496 71,559,621 0.77% -0.08%
2027 11,695,935 71,488,156 0.74% -0.1%
2028 11,779,929 71,406,996 0.72% -0.11%
2029 11,860,814 71,316,195 0.69% -0.13%
2030 11,938,853 71,215,017 0.66% -0.14%
2031 12,014,148 71,104,025 0.63% -0.16%
2032 12,086,669 70,982,286 0.6% -0.17%
2033 12,156,523 70,847,947 0.58% -0.19%
2034 12,224,121 70,701,651 0.56% -0.21%
2035 12,289,431 70,540,884 0.53% -0.23%
2036 12,352,228 70,366,496 0.51% -0.25%
2037 12,412,542 70,180,031 0.49% -0.26%
2038 12,470,656 69,979,034 0.47% -0.29%
2039 12,526,156 69,763,928 0.45% -0.31%
2040 12,579,320 69,535,003 0.42% -0.33%
2041 12,630,679 69,288,477 0.41% -0.35%
2042 12,680,019 69,025,348 0.39% -0.38%
2043 12,727,289 68,748,075 0.37% -0.4%
2044 12,772,651 68,456,533 0.36% -0.42%
2045 12,816,003 68,150,148 0.34% -0.45%
2046 12,856,883 67,827,309 0.32% -0.47%
2047 12,895,158 67,489,358 0.3% -0.5%
2048 12,931,165 67,136,737 0.28% -0.52%
2049 12,964,841 66,767,316 0.26% -0.55%
2050 12,996,290 66,382,732 0.24% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Dominican Republic increased by 1,209,795 people (a 13.1% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Dominican Republic gained 1,157,155 (a 11.1% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

The Dominican Republic was ranked 85th most populous country in 2005 and is 84th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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