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Population in Egypt compared to India: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Egypt was 116,538,258 in 2024 vs 1,450,935,791 people in India in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Egypt's population is 119,759,833 people compared to 1,474,115,403 in India.

Population statistics:

  • India's population is 12.3 times bigger than Egypt's.
  • Egypt is ranked the 13th most populous country in the world, while India is the 1st.
  • The countries together account for 19.3% of the world: 1.45% for Egypt vs 17.8% for India.
  • For the last 10 years, Egypt has had an average growth rate of +1.84% per year vs +1.03% in India.
  • Since 2005, the population of Egypt has increased from 81.1M people to 120M (47.7% growth), while India has grown from 1.15B to 1.47B (27.7% growth).
  • Egypt is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 202M people compared to the peak of 1.7B people in 2061 for India.

Egypt vs India: live population counter

Egypt India
Current population
119759833
1474115403
Population rank 13/197 1/197
Percent of world population 1.45% 17.8%
One net population change
15.7 seconds
2.45 seconds
One birth every
13.1 seconds
1.36 seconds
One death every
50.4 seconds
3.32 seconds
One migration net change every
4.24 minutes
50 seconds
Annual migration change +123,884 -630,830
Daily growth/decline +5,486 +35,250
Annual growth/decline +2,002,486 +12,866,195
Annual growth/decline rate +1.75% +0.89%
Population growth rate rank 66/197 109/197

Egypt and India: population history and growth rate by year chart

Egypt
Population

Growth rate
India
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Egypt India Egypt India
1960 26,896,479 435,990,338 - -
1961 27,600,898 446,564,729 2.62% 2.43%
1962 28,337,013 457,283,090 2.67% 2.4%
1963 29,091,869 468,138,575 2.66% 2.37%
1964 29,858,922 479,229,598 2.64% 2.37%
1965 30,629,174 490,140,146 2.58% 2.28%
1966 31,406,541 500,740,247 2.54% 2.16%
1967 32,196,360 511,606,372 2.51% 2.17%
1968 32,998,319 522,716,889 2.49% 2.17%
1969 33,811,615 533,880,544 2.46% 2.14%
1970 34,623,990 545,864,268 2.4% 2.24%
1971 35,433,368 558,096,387 2.34% 2.24%
1972 36,258,328 570,482,142 2.33% 2.22%
1973 37,102,043 583,465,598 2.33% 2.28%
1974 37,969,667 597,041,391 2.34% 2.33%
1975 38,875,327 611,309,535 2.39% 2.39%
1976 39,795,557 625,861,883 2.37% 2.38%
1977 40,748,870 640,801,103 2.4% 2.39%
1978 41,761,431 655,728,229 2.48% 2.33%
1979 42,818,628 671,155,747 2.53% 2.35%
1980 43,950,413 687,354,025 2.64% 2.41%
1981 45,147,224 703,696,250 2.72% 2.38%
1982 46,407,611 720,313,473 2.79% 2.36%
1983 47,786,402 737,372,681 2.97% 2.37%
1984 49,247,334 754,875,449 3.06% 2.37%
1985 50,734,968 772,647,793 3.02% 2.35%
1986 52,206,295 790,689,978 2.9% 2.34%
1987 53,674,435 808,931,270 2.81% 2.31%
1988 55,187,681 827,342,990 2.82% 2.28%
1989 56,710,642 846,039,529 2.76% 2.26%
1990 58,396,618 864,972,221 2.97% 2.24%
1991 60,028,997 883,927,600 2.8% 2.19%
1992 61,480,660 902,957,070 2.42% 2.15%
1993 62,915,681 922,118,387 2.33% 2.12%
1994 64,285,589 941,163,767 2.18% 2.07%
1995 65,652,622 960,301,044 2.13% 2.03%
1996 67,028,048 979,678,458 2.1% 2.02%
1997 68,431,740 999,133,762 2.09% 1.99%
1998 69,943,294 1,018,665,080 2.21% 1.95%
1999 71,520,954 1,038,225,823 2.26% 1.92%
2000 73,083,284 1,057,922,733 2.18% 1.9%
2001 74,652,029 1,077,898,575 2.15% 1.89%
2002 76,239,137 1,097,600,380 2.13% 1.83%
2003 77,853,548 1,116,803,006 2.12% 1.75%
2004 79,477,443 1,135,991,513 2.09% 1.72%
2005 81,101,004 1,154,676,322 2.04% 1.64%
2006 82,700,403 1,172,878,890 1.97% 1.58%
2007 84,276,225 1,190,676,021 1.91% 1.52%
2008 85,864,789 1,207,930,964 1.88% 1.45%
2009 87,501,636 1,225,524,753 1.91% 1.46%
2010 89,196,072 1,243,481,564 1.94% 1.47%
2011 91,093,059 1,261,224,954 2.13% 1.43%
2012 93,161,001 1,278,674,502 2.27% 1.38%
2013 95,333,553 1,295,829,511 2.33% 1.34%
2014 97,528,654 1,312,277,191 2.3% 1.27%
2015 99,597,342 1,328,024,498 2.12% 1.2%
2016 101,644,589 1,343,944,296 2.06% 1.2%
2017 103,696,057 1,359,657,400 2.02% 1.17%
2018 105,682,094 1,374,659,064 1.92% 1.1%
2019 107,553,158 1,389,030,312 1.77% 1.05%
2020 109,315,124 1,402,617,695 1.64% 0.98%
2021 110,957,008 1,414,203,896 1.5% 0.83%
2022 112,618,250 1,425,423,212 1.5% 0.79%
2023 114,535,772 1,438,069,596 1.7% 0.89%
2024 116,538,258 1,450,935,791 1.75% 0.89%
2025 118,365,997 1,463,865,531 1.57% 0.89%
2026 120,101,181 1,476,625,576 1.47% 0.87%
2027 121,847,622 1,489,164,679 1.45% 0.85%
2028 123,608,457 1,501,432,748 1.45% 0.82%
2029 125,373,058 1,513,423,737 1.43% 0.8%
2030 127,139,323 1,525,138,852 1.41% 0.77%
2031 128,912,256 1,536,540,604 1.39% 0.75%
2032 130,695,084 1,547,607,126 1.38% 0.72%
2033 132,485,612 1,558,324,087 1.37% 0.69%
2034 134,287,838 1,568,688,356 1.36% 0.67%
2035 136,097,214 1,578,694,799 1.35% 0.64%
2036 137,913,263 1,588,325,366 1.33% 0.61%
2037 139,738,699 1,597,537,009 1.32% 0.58%
2038 141,565,835 1,606,300,646 1.31% 0.55%
2039 143,393,267 1,614,639,243 1.29% 0.52%
2040 145,213,662 1,622,580,052 1.27% 0.49%
2041 147,018,554 1,630,119,374 1.24% 0.46%
2042 148,800,785 1,637,235,363 1.21% 0.44%
2043 150,547,655 1,643,915,269 1.17% 0.41%
2044 152,255,332 1,650,186,610 1.13% 0.38%
2045 153,919,190 1,656,067,585 1.09% 0.36%
2046 155,535,951 1,661,548,400 1.05% 0.33%
2047 157,114,404 1,666,628,151 1.01% 0.31%
2048 158,657,392 1,671,309,727 0.98% 0.28%
2049 160,161,615 1,675,619,893 0.95% 0.26%
2050 161,630,197 1,679,589,268 0.92% 0.24%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Egypt increased by 18,496,338 people (a 22.8% growth), while India gained 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Egypt gained 20,162,491 (a 20.2% growth), while India's population increased by 146,090,905 (a 11% growth).

Egypt was ranked 14th most populous country in 2005 and is 13th in 2025. India was ranked 2nd in 2005 and ranked 1st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Egypt's population will grow by 35% to 161,630,197 people with a rank change from 13th to 11th. The population of India will increase by 13.9% to 1,679,589,268 people and will still be ranked 1st.

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