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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of East Timor was 1,400,638 in 2024 vs 143,533,851 people in Russia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current East Timor's population is 1,433,311 people compared to 142,718,132 in Russia.

Population statistics:

  • Russia's population is 99.6 times bigger than East Timor's.
  • East Timor is ranked the 152nd most populous country in the world, while Russia is the 9th.
  • The countries together account for 1.74% of the world: 0.02% for East Timor vs 1.73% for Russia.
  • For the last 10 years, East Timor has had an average growth rate of +1.74% per year vs -0.02% in Russia.
  • Since 2005, the population of East Timor has increased from 948K people to 1.43M (51.1% growth), while Russia has declined from 144M to 143M (0.56% decline).
  • East Timor is projected to reach its peak in 2076 at 2.09M people, while Russia's population already peaked in 1992 at 149M people and is projected to decrease to 125M people by 2100.

East Timor vs Russia: live population counter

East Timor Russia
Current population
1433311
142718132
Population rank 152/197 9/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 1.73%
One net population change
32.1 minutes
1.8 minutes
One birth every
17.2 minutes
25.5 seconds
One death every
52.2 minutes
18.1 seconds
One migration net change every
3.43 hours
2.95 minutes
Annual migration change -2,552 -178,042
Daily growth/decline +45 -801
Annual growth/decline +16,352 -292,279
Annual growth/decline rate +1.18% -0.2%
Population growth rate rank 93/197 177/197

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

East Timor
Population

Growth rate
Russia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
East Timor Russia East Timor Russia
1960 468,118 119,897,000 - -
1961 475,291 121,236,000 1.53% 1.12%
1962 482,774 122,591,000 1.57% 1.12%
1963 490,564 123,960,000 1.61% 1.12%
1964 498,659 125,345,000 1.65% 1.12%
1965 507,034 126,745,000 1.68% 1.12%
1966 515,696 127,468,000 1.71% 0.57%
1967 524,648 128,196,000 1.74% 0.57%
1968 533,875 128,928,000 1.76% 0.57%
1969 543,356 129,664,000 1.78% 0.57%
1970 553,069 130,404,000 1.79% 0.57%
1971 562,966 131,155,000 1.79% 0.58%
1972 572,962 131,909,000 1.78% 0.57%
1973 582,855 132,669,000 1.73% 0.58%
1974 590,827 133,432,000 1.37% 0.58%
1975 598,158 134,200,000 1.24% 0.58%
1976 607,620 135,147,000 1.58% 0.71%
1977 618,315 136,100,000 1.76% 0.71%
1978 628,775 137,060,000 1.69% 0.71%
1979 638,719 138,027,000 1.58% 0.71%
1980 649,871 139,010,000 1.75% 0.71%
1981 660,493 139,941,000 1.63% 0.67%
1982 669,149 140,823,000 1.31% 0.63%
1983 677,707 141,668,000 1.28% 0.6%
1984 686,777 142,745,000 1.34% 0.76%
1985 696,665 143,858,000 1.44% 0.78%
1986 707,185 144,894,000 1.51% 0.72%
1987 718,476 145,908,000 1.6% 0.7%
1988 730,745 146,857,000 1.71% 0.65%
1989 744,856 147,721,000 1.93% 0.59%
1990 760,345 147,969,406 2.08% 0.17%
1991 778,278 148,394,216 2.36% 0.29%
1992 799,318 148,538,197 2.7% 0.1%
1993 821,437 148,458,777 2.77% -0.05%
1994 844,493 148,407,912 2.81% -0.03%
1995 868,146 148,375,787 2.8% -0.02%
1996 892,282 148,160,129 2.78% -0.15%
1997 917,184 147,915,361 2.79% -0.17%
1998 942,530 147,670,784 2.76% -0.17%
1999 834,697 147,214,776 -11.4% -0.31%
2000 745,088 146,596,869 -10.7% -0.42%
2001 812,249 145,976,482 9.01% -0.42%
2002 879,159 145,306,497 8.24% -0.46%
2003 916,878 144,648,618 4.29% -0.45%
2004 929,074 144,067,316 1.33% -0.4%
2005 948,311 143,518,814 2.07% -0.38%
2006 976,597 143,049,637 2.98% -0.33%
2007 1,004,889 142,805,114 2.9% -0.17%
2008 1,032,429 142,742,366 2.74% -0.04%
2009 1,058,782 142,785,348 2.55% 0.03%
2010 1,084,679 142,849,468 2.45% 0.04%
2011 1,110,207 143,018,195 2.35% 0.12%
2012 1,134,885 143,378,447 2.22% 0.25%
2013 1,158,695 143,805,638 2.1% 0.3%
2014 1,181,903 144,237,223 2% 0.3%
2015 1,205,131 144,640,716 1.97% 0.28%
2016 1,228,312 145,015,460 1.92% 0.26%
2017 1,251,703 145,293,260 1.9% 0.19%
2018 1,275,959 145,398,106 1.94% 0.07%
2019 1,300,945 145,453,291 1.96% 0.04%
2020 1,326,053 145,245,148 1.93% -0.14%
2021 1,350,139 144,746,762 1.82% -0.34%
2022 1,369,295 144,236,933 1.42% -0.35%
2023 1,384,286 143,826,130 1.09% -0.28%
2024 1,400,638 143,533,851 1.18% -0.2%
2025 1,418,519 142,718,132 1.28% -0.57%
2026 1,436,934 142,120,553 1.3% -0.42%
2027 1,456,334 141,773,330 1.35% -0.24%
2028 1,476,850 141,402,326 1.41% -0.26%
2029 1,498,119 141,021,009 1.44% -0.27%
2030 1,519,802 140,628,883 1.45% -0.28%
2031 1,540,659 140,218,596 1.37% -0.29%
2032 1,559,710 139,807,207 1.24% -0.29%
2033 1,578,114 139,414,947 1.18% -0.28%
2034 1,597,444 139,034,543 1.22% -0.27%
2035 1,618,799 138,666,694 1.34% -0.26%
2036 1,639,721 138,311,757 1.29% -0.26%
2037 1,659,327 137,968,177 1.2% -0.25%
2038 1,678,953 137,643,032 1.18% -0.24%
2039 1,698,891 137,336,299 1.19% -0.22%
2040 1,718,249 137,053,347 1.14% -0.21%
2041 1,736,476 136,795,588 1.06% -0.19%
2042 1,755,847 136,558,692 1.12% -0.17%
2043 1,776,066 136,335,849 1.15% -0.16%
2044 1,793,758 136,124,845 1% -0.15%
2045 1,809,637 135,933,758 0.89% -0.14%
2046 1,825,551 135,756,848 0.88% -0.13%
2047 1,841,558 135,574,181 0.88% -0.13%
2048 1,858,311 135,372,557 0.91% -0.15%
2049 1,873,846 135,156,911 0.84% -0.16%
2050 1,889,246 134,923,391 0.82% -0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of East Timor increased by 256,820 people (a 27.1% growth), while Russia gained 1,121,902 people (a 0.78% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, East Timor gained 228,180 (a 18.9% growth), while Russia's population decreased by -1,922,584 (a 1.33% decline).

East Timor was ranked 154th most populous country in 2005 and is 152nd in 2025. Russia was ranked 9th in 2005 and still ranked 9th 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 Russia will decrease by 5.46% to 134,923,391 people and rank change from 9th to 13th.

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