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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of East Timor was 1,400,638 in 2024 vs 24,672,760 people in Syria in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current East Timor's population is 1,433,311 people compared to 26,304,877 in Syria.

Population statistics:

  • Syria's population is 18.4 times bigger than East Timor's.
  • East Timor is ranked the 152nd most populous country in the world, while Syria is the 57th.
  • The countries together account for 0.34% of the world: 0.02% for East Timor vs 0.32% for Syria.
  • For the last 10 years, East Timor has had an average growth rate of +1.74% per year vs +1.25% in Syria.
  • Since 2005, the population of East Timor has increased from 948K people to 1.43M (51.1% growth), while Syria has grown from 18.8M to 26.3M (39.8% growth).
  • East Timor is projected to reach its peak in 2076 at 2.09M people compared to the peak of 44.1M people in 2086 for Syria.

East Timor vs Syria: live population counter

East Timor Syria
Current population
1433311
26304877
Population rank 152/197 57/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.32%
One net population change
32.1 minutes
29.3 seconds
One birth every
17.2 minutes
1.01 minutes
One death every
52.2 minutes
4.42 minutes
One migration net change every
3.43 hours
57.7 seconds
Annual migration change -2,552 +546,494
Daily growth/decline +45 +2,954
Annual growth/decline +16,352 +1,078,137
Annual growth/decline rate +1.18% +4.57%
Population growth rate rank 93/197 5/197

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

East Timor
Population

Growth rate
Syria
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
East Timor Syria East Timor Syria
1960 468,118 4,673,500 - -
1961 475,291 4,815,466 1.53% 3.04%
1962 482,774 4,959,340 1.57% 2.99%
1963 490,564 5,110,467 1.61% 3.05%
1964 498,659 5,269,087 1.65% 3.1%
1965 507,034 5,435,267 1.68% 3.15%
1966 515,696 5,609,047 1.71% 3.2%
1967 524,648 5,790,198 1.74% 3.23%
1968 533,875 5,978,742 1.76% 3.26%
1969 543,356 6,175,166 1.78% 3.29%
1970 553,069 6,380,609 1.79% 3.33%
1971 562,966 6,598,094 1.79% 3.41%
1972 572,962 6,826,024 1.78% 3.45%
1973 582,855 7,060,321 1.73% 3.43%
1974 590,827 7,302,160 1.37% 3.43%
1975 598,158 7,554,364 1.24% 3.45%
1976 607,620 7,817,320 1.58% 3.48%
1977 618,315 8,090,501 1.76% 3.49%
1978 628,775 8,372,759 1.69% 3.49%
1979 638,719 8,661,909 1.58% 3.45%
1980 649,871 8,957,663 1.75% 3.41%
1981 660,493 9,260,189 1.63% 3.38%
1982 669,149 9,572,511 1.31% 3.37%
1983 677,707 9,904,809 1.28% 3.47%
1984 686,777 10,258,398 1.34% 3.57%
1985 696,665 10,625,672 1.44% 3.58%
1986 707,185 11,002,844 1.51% 3.55%
1987 718,476 11,388,923 1.6% 3.51%
1988 730,745 11,782,264 1.71% 3.45%
1989 744,856 12,179,060 1.93% 3.37%
1990 760,345 12,579,208 2.08% 3.29%
1991 778,278 12,980,821 2.36% 3.19%
1992 799,318 13,385,571 2.7% 3.12%
1993 821,437 13,795,686 2.77% 3.06%
1994 844,493 14,208,583 2.81% 2.99%
1995 868,146 14,616,801 2.8% 2.87%
1996 892,282 15,018,104 2.78% 2.75%
1997 917,184 15,417,542 2.79% 2.66%
1998 942,530 15,820,413 2.76% 2.61%
1999 834,697 16,228,061 -11.4% 2.58%
2000 745,088 16,637,888 -10.7% 2.53%
2001 812,249 17,051,338 9.01% 2.48%
2002 879,159 17,468,332 8.24% 2.45%
2003 916,878 17,889,296 4.29% 2.41%
2004 929,074 18,336,875 1.33% 2.5%
2005 948,311 18,814,091 2.07% 2.6%
2006 976,597 19,637,022 2.98% 4.37%
2007 1,004,889 20,884,125 2.9% 6.35%
2008 1,032,429 21,636,564 2.74% 3.6%
2009 1,058,782 21,976,969 2.55% 1.57%
2010 1,084,679 22,482,421 2.45% 2.3%
2011 1,110,207 22,878,098 2.35% 1.76%
2012 1,134,885 22,759,763 2.22% -0.52%
2013 1,158,695 21,666,917 2.1% -4.8%
2014 1,181,903 20,273,659 2% -6.43%
2015 1,205,131 19,424,618 1.97% -4.19%
2016 1,228,312 19,193,834 1.92% -1.19%
2017 1,251,703 19,224,668 1.9% 0.16%
2018 1,275,959 19,577,845 1.94% 1.84%
2019 1,300,945 20,353,534 1.96% 3.96%
2020 1,326,053 21,049,429 1.93% 3.42%
2021 1,350,139 21,628,839 1.82% 2.75%
2022 1,369,295 22,462,173 1.42% 3.85%
2023 1,384,286 23,594,623 1.09% 5.04%
2024 1,400,638 24,672,760 1.18% 4.57%
2025 1,418,519 25,620,422 1.28% 3.84%
2026 1,436,934 26,472,499 1.3% 3.33%
2027 1,456,334 27,261,544 1.35% 2.98%
2028 1,476,850 28,006,558 1.41% 2.73%
2029 1,498,119 28,719,309 1.44% 2.54%
2030 1,519,802 29,395,545 1.45% 2.35%
2031 1,540,659 30,029,824 1.37% 2.16%
2032 1,559,710 30,633,661 1.24% 2.01%
2033 1,578,114 31,212,478 1.18% 1.89%
2034 1,597,444 31,768,138 1.22% 1.78%
2035 1,618,799 32,294,792 1.34% 1.66%
2036 1,639,721 32,788,153 1.29% 1.53%
2037 1,659,327 33,258,407 1.2% 1.43%
2038 1,678,953 33,710,718 1.18% 1.36%
2039 1,698,891 34,131,238 1.19% 1.25%
2040 1,718,249 34,533,185 1.14% 1.18%
2041 1,736,476 34,916,936 1.06% 1.11%
2042 1,755,847 35,279,863 1.12% 1.04%
2043 1,776,066 35,623,325 1.15% 0.97%
2044 1,793,758 35,944,394 1% 0.9%
2045 1,809,637 36,265,295 0.89% 0.89%
2046 1,825,551 36,583,260 0.88% 0.88%
2047 1,841,558 36,878,640 0.88% 0.81%
2048 1,858,311 37,171,029 0.91% 0.79%
2049 1,873,846 37,477,690 0.84% 0.83%
2050 1,889,246 37,793,378 0.82% 0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of East Timor increased by 256,820 people (a 27.1% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, East Timor gained 228,180 (a 18.9% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

East Timor was ranked 154th most populous country in 2005 and is 152nd in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.

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