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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of East Timor was 1,400,638 in 2024 vs 123,975,371 people in Japan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current East Timor's population is 1,433,311 people compared to 123,324,642 in Japan.

Population statistics:

  • Japan's population is 86 times bigger than East Timor's.
  • East Timor is ranked the 152nd most populous country in the world, while Japan is the 12th.
  • The countries together account for 1.51% of the world: 0.02% for East Timor vs 1.49% for Japan.
  • For the last 10 years, East Timor has had an average growth rate of +1.74% per year vs -0.25% in Japan.
  • Since 2005, the population of East Timor has increased from 948K people to 1.43M (51.1% growth), while Japan has declined from 128M to 123M (3.48% decline).
  • East Timor is projected to reach its peak in 2076 at 2.09M people, while Japan's population already peaked in 2010 at 128M people and is projected to decrease to 77M people by 2100.

East Timor vs Japan: live population counter

East Timor Japan
Current population
1433311
123324642
Population rank 152/197 12/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 1.49%
One net population change
32.1 minutes
58.3 seconds
One birth every
17.2 minutes
42.2 seconds
One death every
52.2 minutes
19.5 seconds
One migration net change every
3.43 hours
3.43 minutes
Annual migration change -2,552 +153,357
Daily growth/decline +45 -1,483
Annual growth/decline +16,352 -541,279
Annual growth/decline rate +1.18% -0.43%
Population growth rate rank 93/197 182/197

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

East Timor
Population

Growth rate
Japan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
East Timor Japan East Timor Japan
1960 468,118 93,216,000 - -
1961 475,291 94,055,000 1.53% 0.9%
1962 482,774 94,933,000 1.57% 0.93%
1963 490,564 95,900,000 1.61% 1.02%
1964 498,659 96,903,000 1.65% 1.05%
1965 507,034 97,952,000 1.68% 1.08%
1966 515,696 98,851,000 1.71% 0.92%
1967 524,648 99,879,000 1.74% 1.04%
1968 533,875 101,011,000 1.76% 1.13%
1969 543,356 102,219,000 1.78% 1.2%
1970 553,069 103,403,000 1.79% 1.16%
1971 562,966 105,697,000 1.79% 2.22%
1972 572,962 107,188,000 1.78% 1.41%
1973 582,855 108,707,000 1.73% 1.42%
1974 590,827 110,162,000 1.37% 1.34%
1975 598,158 111,573,000 1.24% 1.28%
1976 607,620 112,775,000 1.58% 1.08%
1977 618,315 113,872,000 1.76% 0.97%
1978 628,775 114,913,000 1.69% 0.91%
1979 638,719 115,890,000 1.58% 0.85%
1980 649,871 116,807,000 1.75% 0.79%
1981 660,493 117,661,000 1.63% 0.73%
1982 669,149 118,480,000 1.31% 0.7%
1983 677,707 119,307,000 1.28% 0.7%
1984 686,777 120,083,000 1.34% 0.65%
1985 696,665 120,837,000 1.44% 0.63%
1986 707,185 121,482,000 1.51% 0.53%
1987 718,476 122,069,000 1.6% 0.48%
1988 730,745 122,578,000 1.71% 0.42%
1989 744,856 123,069,000 1.93% 0.4%
1990 760,345 123,478,000 2.08% 0.33%
1991 778,278 123,964,000 2.36% 0.39%
1992 799,318 124,425,000 2.7% 0.37%
1993 821,437 124,829,000 2.77% 0.32%
1994 844,493 125,178,000 2.81% 0.28%
1995 868,146 125,472,000 2.8% 0.23%
1996 892,282 125,757,000 2.78% 0.23%
1997 917,184 126,057,000 2.79% 0.24%
1998 942,530 126,400,000 2.76% 0.27%
1999 834,697 126,631,000 -11.4% 0.18%
2000 745,088 126,843,000 -10.7% 0.17%
2001 812,249 127,149,000 9.01% 0.24%
2002 879,159 127,445,000 8.24% 0.23%
2003 916,878 127,718,000 4.29% 0.21%
2004 929,074 127,761,000 1.33% 0.03%
2005 948,311 127,773,000 2.07% 0.009%
2006 976,597 127,854,000 2.98% 0.06%
2007 1,004,889 128,001,000 2.9% 0.11%
2008 1,032,429 128,063,000 2.74% 0.05%
2009 1,058,782 128,047,000 2.55% -0.01%
2010 1,084,679 128,070,000 2.45% 0.02%
2011 1,110,207 127,833,000 2.35% -0.19%
2012 1,134,885 127,629,000 2.22% -0.16%
2013 1,158,695 127,445,000 2.1% -0.14%
2014 1,181,903 127,276,000 2% -0.13%
2015 1,205,131 127,141,000 1.97% -0.11%
2016 1,228,312 127,076,000 1.92% -0.05%
2017 1,251,703 126,972,000 1.9% -0.08%
2018 1,275,959 126,811,000 1.94% -0.13%
2019 1,300,945 126,633,000 1.96% -0.14%
2020 1,326,053 126,261,000 1.93% -0.29%
2021 1,350,139 125,681,593 1.82% -0.46%
2022 1,369,295 125,124,989 1.42% -0.44%
2023 1,384,286 124,516,650 1.09% -0.49%
2024 1,400,638 123,975,371 1.18% -0.43%
2025 1,418,519 123,324,642 1.28% -0.52%
2026 1,436,934 122,647,678 1.3% -0.55%
2027 1,456,334 121,951,038 1.35% -0.57%
2028 1,476,850 121,241,776 1.41% -0.58%
2029 1,498,119 120,524,230 1.44% -0.59%
2030 1,519,802 119,798,959 1.45% -0.6%
2031 1,540,659 119,065,610 1.37% -0.61%
2032 1,559,710 118,326,333 1.24% -0.62%
2033 1,578,114 117,583,337 1.18% -0.63%
2034 1,597,444 116,836,274 1.22% -0.64%
2035 1,618,799 116,084,328 1.34% -0.64%
2036 1,639,721 115,332,395 1.29% -0.65%
2037 1,659,327 114,582,890 1.2% -0.65%
2038 1,678,953 113,837,760 1.18% -0.65%
2039 1,698,891 113,097,352 1.19% -0.65%
2040 1,718,249 112,359,802 1.14% -0.65%
2041 1,736,476 111,622,622 1.06% -0.66%
2042 1,755,847 110,891,223 1.12% -0.66%
2043 1,776,066 110,169,955 1.15% -0.65%
2044 1,793,758 109,455,823 1% -0.65%
2045 1,809,637 108,747,012 0.89% -0.65%
2046 1,825,551 108,044,346 0.88% -0.65%
2047 1,841,558 107,350,486 0.88% -0.64%
2048 1,858,311 106,665,616 0.91% -0.64%
2049 1,873,846 105,986,908 0.84% -0.64%
2050 1,889,246 105,312,022 0.82% -0.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of East Timor increased by 256,820 people (a 27.1% growth), while Japan lost 632,000 people (a 0.49% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, East Timor gained 228,180 (a 18.9% growth), while Japan's population decreased by -3,816,358 (a 3% decline).

East Timor was ranked 154th most populous country in 2005 and is 152nd in 2025. Japan was ranked 10th in 2005 and ranked 12th 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 Japan will decrease by 14.6% to 105,312,022 people and rank change from 12th to 17th.

Biggest cities by population

East Timor
City Population
Dili 222K
Maliana 15.8K
Baucau 15K
Ainaro 5.45K
Japan
City Population
Tokyo 14.3M
Yokohama 3.76M
Osaka 2.75M
Nagoya 2.33M
Sapporo 1.96M
Fukuoka 1.6M
Kawasaki 1.54M
Kobe 1.52M
Kyoto 1.46M
Saitama 1.33M

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