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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of East Timor was 1,400,638 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current East Timor's population is 1,433,311 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 34 times bigger than East Timor's.
  • East Timor is ranked the 152nd most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.61% of the world: 0.02% for East Timor vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, East Timor has had an average growth rate of +1.74% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of East Timor has increased from 948K people to 1.43M (51.1% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • East Timor is projected to reach its peak in 2076 at 2.09M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

East Timor vs Spain: live population counter

East Timor Spain
Current population
1433311
48786181
Population rank 152/197 32/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.59%
One net population change
32.1 minutes
1.14 minutes
One birth every
17.2 minutes
1.62 minutes
One death every
52.2 minutes
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
3.43 hours
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change -2,552 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +45 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +16,352 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +1.18% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 93/197 108/197

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

East Timor
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
East Timor Spain East Timor Spain
1960 468,118 30,455,000 - -
1961 475,291 30,739,250 1.53% 0.93%
1962 482,774 31,023,366 1.57% 0.92%
1963 490,564 31,296,651 1.61% 0.88%
1964 498,659 31,609,195 1.65% 1%
1965 507,034 31,954,292 1.68% 1.09%
1966 515,696 32,283,194 1.71% 1.03%
1967 524,648 32,682,947 1.74% 1.24%
1968 533,875 33,113,134 1.76% 1.32%
1969 543,356 33,441,054 1.78% 0.99%
1970 553,069 33,814,531 1.79% 1.12%
1971 562,966 34,224,490 1.79% 1.21%
1972 572,962 34,604,469 1.78% 1.11%
1973 582,855 34,988,947 1.73% 1.11%
1974 590,827 35,373,335 1.37% 1.1%
1975 598,158 35,757,900 1.24% 1.09%
1976 607,620 36,137,812 1.58% 1.06%
1977 618,315 36,511,638 1.76% 1.03%
1978 628,775 36,864,898 1.69% 0.97%
1979 638,719 37,191,330 1.58% 0.89%
1980 649,871 37,491,165 1.75% 0.81%
1981 660,493 37,758,631 1.63% 0.71%
1982 669,149 37,986,012 1.31% 0.6%
1983 677,707 38,171,525 1.28% 0.49%
1984 686,777 38,330,364 1.34% 0.42%
1985 696,665 38,469,512 1.44% 0.36%
1986 707,185 38,584,624 1.51% 0.3%
1987 718,476 38,684,815 1.6% 0.26%
1988 730,745 38,766,939 1.71% 0.21%
1989 744,856 38,827,764 1.93% 0.16%
1990 760,345 38,867,322 2.08% 0.1%
1991 778,278 38,966,376 2.36% 0.25%
1992 799,318 39,157,685 2.7% 0.49%
1993 821,437 39,361,262 2.77% 0.52%
1994 844,493 39,549,108 2.81% 0.48%
1995 868,146 39,724,050 2.8% 0.44%
1996 892,282 39,889,852 2.78% 0.42%
1997 917,184 40,057,389 2.79% 0.42%
1998 942,530 40,223,509 2.76% 0.41%
1999 834,697 40,386,875 -11.4% 0.41%
2000 745,088 40,567,864 -10.7% 0.45%
2001 812,249 40,850,412 9.01% 0.7%
2002 879,159 41,431,558 8.24% 1.42%
2003 916,878 42,187,645 4.29% 1.82%
2004 929,074 42,921,895 1.33% 1.74%
2005 948,311 43,653,155 2.07% 1.7%
2006 976,597 44,397,319 2.98% 1.7%
2007 1,004,889 45,226,803 2.9% 1.87%
2008 1,032,429 45,954,106 2.74% 1.61%
2009 1,058,782 46,362,946 2.55% 0.89%
2010 1,084,679 46,576,897 2.45% 0.46%
2011 1,110,207 46,742,697 2.35% 0.36%
2012 1,134,885 46,773,055 2.22% 0.06%
2013 1,158,695 46,604,197 2.1% -0.36%
2014 1,181,903 46,460,733 2% -0.31%
2015 1,205,131 46,422,303 1.97% -0.08%
2016 1,228,312 46,458,139 1.92% 0.08%
2017 1,251,703 46,571,232 1.9% 0.24%
2018 1,275,959 46,782,011 1.94% 0.45%
2019 1,300,945 47,118,501 1.96% 0.72%
2020 1,326,053 47,359,424 1.93% 0.51%
2021 1,350,139 47,443,821 1.82% 0.18%
2022 1,369,295 47,786,102 1.42% 0.72%
2023 1,384,286 48,347,910 1.09% 1.18%
2024 1,400,638 48,807,137 1.18% 0.95%
2025 1,418,519 48,786,181 1.28% -0.04%
2026 1,436,934 48,746,279 1.3% -0.08%
2027 1,456,334 48,696,847 1.35% -0.1%
2028 1,476,850 48,642,132 1.41% -0.11%
2029 1,498,119 48,578,166 1.44% -0.13%
2030 1,519,802 48,501,513 1.45% -0.16%
2031 1,540,659 48,412,854 1.37% -0.18%
2032 1,559,710 48,321,195 1.24% -0.19%
2033 1,578,114 48,230,054 1.18% -0.19%
2034 1,597,444 48,136,421 1.22% -0.19%
2035 1,618,799 48,036,650 1.34% -0.21%
2036 1,639,721 47,929,957 1.29% -0.22%
2037 1,659,327 47,819,257 1.2% -0.23%
2038 1,678,953 47,706,580 1.18% -0.24%
2039 1,698,891 47,588,878 1.19% -0.25%
2040 1,718,249 47,463,597 1.14% -0.26%
2041 1,736,476 47,332,618 1.06% -0.28%
2042 1,755,847 47,194,588 1.12% -0.29%
2043 1,776,066 47,052,293 1.15% -0.3%
2044 1,793,758 46,902,636 1% -0.32%
2045 1,809,637 46,738,565 0.89% -0.35%
2046 1,825,551 46,564,383 0.88% -0.37%
2047 1,841,558 46,381,681 0.88% -0.39%
2048 1,858,311 46,190,642 0.91% -0.41%
2049 1,873,846 45,985,428 0.84% -0.44%
2050 1,889,246 45,769,362 0.82% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of East Timor increased by 256,820 people (a 27.1% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, East Timor gained 228,180 (a 18.9% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

East Timor was ranked 154th most populous country in 2005 and is 152nd in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd 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 Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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