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Population in East Timor compared to Iran: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of East Timor was 1,400,638 in 2024 vs 91,567,738 people in Iran in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current East Timor's population is 1,433,311 people compared to 93,020,793 in Iran.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 64.9 times bigger than East Timor's.
  • East Timor is ranked the 152nd most populous country in the world, while Iran is the 17th.
  • The countries together account for 1.14% of the world: 0.02% for East Timor vs 1.13% for Iran.
  • For the last 10 years, East Timor has had an average growth rate of +1.74% per year vs +1.19% in Iran.
  • Since 2005, the population of East Timor has increased from 948K people to 1.43M (51.1% growth), while Iran has grown from 71.8M to 93M (29.5% growth).
  • East Timor is projected to reach its peak in 2076 at 2.09M people compared to the peak of 102M people in 2053 for Iran.

East Timor vs Iran: live population counter

East Timor Iran
Current population
1433311
93020793
Population rank 152/197 17/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 1.13%
One net population change
32.1 minutes
32.9 seconds
One birth every
17.2 minutes
26.9 seconds
One death every
52.2 minutes
1.24 minutes
One migration net change every
3.43 hours
2.76 minutes
Annual migration change -2,552 +190,156
Daily growth/decline +45 +2,627
Annual growth/decline +16,352 +959,031
Annual growth/decline rate +1.18% +1.06%
Population growth rate rank 93/197 100/197

East Timor and Iran: population history and growth rate by year chart

East Timor
Population

Growth rate
Iran
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
East Timor Iran East Timor Iran
1960 468,118 21,470,434 - -
1961 475,291 22,125,726 1.53% 3.05%
1962 482,774 22,807,907 1.57% 3.08%
1963 490,564 23,519,005 1.61% 3.12%
1964 498,659 24,262,859 1.65% 3.16%
1965 507,034 25,036,978 1.68% 3.19%
1966 515,696 25,829,270 1.71% 3.16%
1967 524,648 26,628,432 1.74% 3.09%
1968 533,875 27,437,391 1.76% 3.04%
1969 543,356 28,273,482 1.78% 3.05%
1970 553,069 29,145,100 1.79% 3.08%
1971 562,966 30,029,071 1.79% 3.03%
1972 572,962 30,921,179 1.78% 2.97%
1973 582,855 31,839,838 1.73% 2.97%
1974 590,827 32,796,463 1.37% 3%
1975 598,158 33,802,973 1.24% 3.07%
1976 607,620 34,837,271 1.58% 3.06%
1977 618,315 35,933,181 1.76% 3.15%
1978 628,775 37,126,535 1.69% 3.32%
1979 638,719 38,424,952 1.58% 3.5%
1980 649,871 39,842,324 1.75% 3.69%
1981 660,493 41,989,312 1.63% 5.39%
1982 669,149 44,272,141 1.31% 5.44%
1983 677,707 46,029,535 1.28% 3.97%
1984 686,777 47,793,998 1.34% 3.83%
1985 696,665 49,582,289 1.44% 3.74%
1986 707,185 51,446,045 1.51% 3.76%
1987 718,476 53,323,493 1.6% 3.65%
1988 730,745 55,072,694 1.71% 3.28%
1989 744,856 56,704,914 1.93% 2.96%
1990 760,345 58,380,092 2.08% 2.95%
1991 778,278 59,986,931 2.36% 2.75%
1992 799,318 61,184,983 2.7% 2%
1993 821,437 61,403,543 2.77% 0.36%
1994 844,493 61,520,598 2.81% 0.19%
1995 868,146 62,205,567 2.8% 1.11%
1996 892,282 62,881,300 2.78% 1.09%
1997 917,184 63,639,638 2.79% 1.21%
1998 942,530 64,519,859 2.76% 1.38%
1999 834,697 65,445,391 -11.4% 1.43%
2000 745,088 66,418,659 -10.7% 1.49%
2001 812,249 67,452,005 9.01% 1.56%
2002 879,159 68,011,317 8.24% 0.83%
2003 916,878 68,769,340 4.29% 1.11%
2004 929,074 70,256,316 1.33% 2.16%
2005 948,311 71,828,455 2.07% 2.24%
2006 976,597 73,392,747 2.98% 2.18%
2007 1,004,889 74,602,648 2.9% 1.65%
2008 1,032,429 75,514,204 2.74% 1.22%
2009 1,058,782 76,457,825 2.55% 1.25%
2010 1,084,679 77,420,842 2.45% 1.26%
2011 1,110,207 78,383,598 2.35% 1.24%
2012 1,134,885 79,370,580 2.22% 1.26%
2013 1,158,695 80,414,686 2.1% 1.32%
2014 1,181,903 81,502,045 2% 1.35%
2015 1,205,131 82,619,362 1.97% 1.37%
2016 1,228,312 83,812,228 1.92% 1.44%
2017 1,251,703 85,026,754 1.9% 1.45%
2018 1,275,959 86,117,998 1.94% 1.28%
2019 1,300,945 87,051,648 1.96% 1.08%
2020 1,326,053 87,723,443 1.93% 0.77%
2021 1,350,139 88,455,488 1.82% 0.83%
2022 1,369,295 89,524,246 1.42% 1.21%
2023 1,384,286 90,608,707 1.09% 1.21%
2024 1,400,638 91,567,738 1.18% 1.06%
2025 1,418,519 92,417,685 1.28% 0.93%
2026 1,436,934 93,168,494 1.3% 0.81%
2027 1,456,334 93,838,646 1.35% 0.72%
2028 1,476,850 94,440,024 1.41% 0.64%
2029 1,498,119 94,985,102 1.44% 0.58%
2030 1,519,802 95,486,672 1.45% 0.53%
2031 1,540,659 95,960,723 1.37% 0.5%
2032 1,559,710 96,415,457 1.24% 0.47%
2033 1,578,114 96,850,659 1.18% 0.45%
2034 1,597,444 97,271,044 1.22% 0.43%
2035 1,618,799 97,679,258 1.34% 0.42%
2036 1,639,721 98,075,324 1.29% 0.41%
2037 1,659,327 98,458,805 1.2% 0.39%
2038 1,678,953 98,828,318 1.18% 0.38%
2039 1,698,891 99,182,806 1.19% 0.36%
2040 1,718,249 99,524,286 1.14% 0.34%
2041 1,736,476 99,853,719 1.06% 0.33%
2042 1,755,847 100,167,076 1.12% 0.31%
2043 1,776,066 100,462,092 1.15% 0.29%
2044 1,793,758 100,737,592 1% 0.27%
2045 1,809,637 100,990,622 0.89% 0.25%
2046 1,825,551 101,219,689 0.88% 0.23%
2047 1,841,558 101,424,009 0.88% 0.2%
2048 1,858,311 101,601,932 0.91% 0.18%
2049 1,873,846 101,748,544 0.84% 0.14%
2050 1,889,246 101,862,002 0.82% 0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of East Timor increased by 256,820 people (a 27.1% growth), while Iran gained 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, East Timor gained 228,180 (a 18.9% growth), while Iran's population increased by 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth).

East Timor was ranked 154th most populous country in 2005 and is 152nd in 2025. Iran was ranked 17th in 2005 and still ranked 17th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) East Timor's population will grow by 31.8% to 1,889,246 people with a rank change from 152nd to 149th. The population of Iran will increase by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people and rank change from 17th to 18th.

Biggest cities by population

East Timor
City Population
Dili 222K
Maliana 15.8K
Baucau 15K
Ainaro 5.45K
Iran
City Population
Tehran 8.69M
Mashhad 3M
Isfahan 1.96M
Karaj 1.59M
Shiraz 1.57M
Tabriz 1.56M
Qom 1.2M
Ahvaz 1.18M
Kermanshah 947K
Urmia 736K

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