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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Egypt was 116,538,258 in 2024 vs 143,533,851 people in Russia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Egypt's population is 119,759,833 people compared to 142,718,132 in Russia.

Population statistics:

  • Russia's population is 1.19 times bigger than Egypt's.
  • Egypt is ranked the 13th most populous country in the world, while Russia is the 9th.
  • The countries together account for 3.18% of the world: 1.45% for Egypt vs 1.73% for Russia.
  • For the last 10 years, Egypt has had an average growth rate of +1.84% per year vs -0.02% in Russia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Egypt has increased from 81.1M people to 120M (47.7% growth), while Russia has declined from 144M to 143M (0.56% decline).
  • Egypt is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 202M people, while Russia's population already peaked in 1992 at 149M people and is projected to decrease to 125M people by 2100.

Egypt vs Russia: live population counter

Egypt Russia
Current population
119759833
142718132
Population rank 13/197 9/197
Percent of world population 1.45% 1.73%
One net population change
15.7 seconds
1.8 minutes
One birth every
13.1 seconds
25.5 seconds
One death every
50.4 seconds
18.1 seconds
One migration net change every
4.24 minutes
2.95 minutes
Annual migration change +123,884 -178,042
Daily growth/decline +5,486 -801
Annual growth/decline +2,002,486 -292,279
Annual growth/decline rate +1.75% -0.2%
Population growth rate rank 66/197 177/197

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

Egypt
Population

Growth rate
Russia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Egypt Russia Egypt Russia
1960 26,896,479 119,897,000 - -
1961 27,600,898 121,236,000 2.62% 1.12%
1962 28,337,013 122,591,000 2.67% 1.12%
1963 29,091,869 123,960,000 2.66% 1.12%
1964 29,858,922 125,345,000 2.64% 1.12%
1965 30,629,174 126,745,000 2.58% 1.12%
1966 31,406,541 127,468,000 2.54% 0.57%
1967 32,196,360 128,196,000 2.51% 0.57%
1968 32,998,319 128,928,000 2.49% 0.57%
1969 33,811,615 129,664,000 2.46% 0.57%
1970 34,623,990 130,404,000 2.4% 0.57%
1971 35,433,368 131,155,000 2.34% 0.58%
1972 36,258,328 131,909,000 2.33% 0.57%
1973 37,102,043 132,669,000 2.33% 0.58%
1974 37,969,667 133,432,000 2.34% 0.58%
1975 38,875,327 134,200,000 2.39% 0.58%
1976 39,795,557 135,147,000 2.37% 0.71%
1977 40,748,870 136,100,000 2.4% 0.71%
1978 41,761,431 137,060,000 2.48% 0.71%
1979 42,818,628 138,027,000 2.53% 0.71%
1980 43,950,413 139,010,000 2.64% 0.71%
1981 45,147,224 139,941,000 2.72% 0.67%
1982 46,407,611 140,823,000 2.79% 0.63%
1983 47,786,402 141,668,000 2.97% 0.6%
1984 49,247,334 142,745,000 3.06% 0.76%
1985 50,734,968 143,858,000 3.02% 0.78%
1986 52,206,295 144,894,000 2.9% 0.72%
1987 53,674,435 145,908,000 2.81% 0.7%
1988 55,187,681 146,857,000 2.82% 0.65%
1989 56,710,642 147,721,000 2.76% 0.59%
1990 58,396,618 147,969,406 2.97% 0.17%
1991 60,028,997 148,394,216 2.8% 0.29%
1992 61,480,660 148,538,197 2.42% 0.1%
1993 62,915,681 148,458,777 2.33% -0.05%
1994 64,285,589 148,407,912 2.18% -0.03%
1995 65,652,622 148,375,787 2.13% -0.02%
1996 67,028,048 148,160,129 2.1% -0.15%
1997 68,431,740 147,915,361 2.09% -0.17%
1998 69,943,294 147,670,784 2.21% -0.17%
1999 71,520,954 147,214,776 2.26% -0.31%
2000 73,083,284 146,596,869 2.18% -0.42%
2001 74,652,029 145,976,482 2.15% -0.42%
2002 76,239,137 145,306,497 2.13% -0.46%
2003 77,853,548 144,648,618 2.12% -0.45%
2004 79,477,443 144,067,316 2.09% -0.4%
2005 81,101,004 143,518,814 2.04% -0.38%
2006 82,700,403 143,049,637 1.97% -0.33%
2007 84,276,225 142,805,114 1.91% -0.17%
2008 85,864,789 142,742,366 1.88% -0.04%
2009 87,501,636 142,785,348 1.91% 0.03%
2010 89,196,072 142,849,468 1.94% 0.04%
2011 91,093,059 143,018,195 2.13% 0.12%
2012 93,161,001 143,378,447 2.27% 0.25%
2013 95,333,553 143,805,638 2.33% 0.3%
2014 97,528,654 144,237,223 2.3% 0.3%
2015 99,597,342 144,640,716 2.12% 0.28%
2016 101,644,589 145,015,460 2.06% 0.26%
2017 103,696,057 145,293,260 2.02% 0.19%
2018 105,682,094 145,398,106 1.92% 0.07%
2019 107,553,158 145,453,291 1.77% 0.04%
2020 109,315,124 145,245,148 1.64% -0.14%
2021 110,957,008 144,746,762 1.5% -0.34%
2022 112,618,250 144,236,933 1.5% -0.35%
2023 114,535,772 143,826,130 1.7% -0.28%
2024 116,538,258 143,533,851 1.75% -0.2%
2025 118,365,997 142,718,132 1.57% -0.57%
2026 120,101,181 142,120,553 1.47% -0.42%
2027 121,847,622 141,773,330 1.45% -0.24%
2028 123,608,457 141,402,326 1.45% -0.26%
2029 125,373,058 141,021,009 1.43% -0.27%
2030 127,139,323 140,628,883 1.41% -0.28%
2031 128,912,256 140,218,596 1.39% -0.29%
2032 130,695,084 139,807,207 1.38% -0.29%
2033 132,485,612 139,414,947 1.37% -0.28%
2034 134,287,838 139,034,543 1.36% -0.27%
2035 136,097,214 138,666,694 1.35% -0.26%
2036 137,913,263 138,311,757 1.33% -0.26%
2037 139,738,699 137,968,177 1.32% -0.25%
2038 141,565,835 137,643,032 1.31% -0.24%
2039 143,393,267 137,336,299 1.29% -0.22%
2040 145,213,662 137,053,347 1.27% -0.21%
2041 147,018,554 136,795,588 1.24% -0.19%
2042 148,800,785 136,558,692 1.21% -0.17%
2043 150,547,655 136,335,849 1.17% -0.16%
2044 152,255,332 136,124,845 1.13% -0.15%
2045 153,919,190 135,933,758 1.09% -0.14%
2046 155,535,951 135,756,848 1.05% -0.13%
2047 157,114,404 135,574,181 1.01% -0.13%
2048 158,657,392 135,372,557 0.98% -0.15%
2049 160,161,615 135,156,911 0.95% -0.16%
2050 161,630,197 134,923,391 0.92% -0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Egypt increased by 18,496,338 people (a 22.8% growth), while Russia gained 1,121,902 people (a 0.78% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Egypt gained 20,162,491 (a 20.2% growth), while Russia's population decreased by -1,922,584 (a 1.33% decline).

Egypt was ranked 14th most populous country in 2005 and is 13th 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) Egypt's population will grow by 35% to 161,630,197 people with a rank change from 13th to 11th. 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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