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Population in Egypt compared to South Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Egypt was 116,538,258 in 2024 vs 51,751,065 people in South Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Egypt's population is 119,759,833 people compared to 51,700,480 in South Korea.

Population statistics:

  • Egypt's population is 2.32 times bigger than South Korea's.
  • Egypt is ranked the 13th most populous country in the world, while South Korea is the 31st.
  • The countries together account for 2.07% of the world: 1.45% for Egypt vs 0.63% for South Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Egypt has had an average growth rate of +1.84% per year vs +0.24% in South Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Egypt has increased from 81.1M people to 120M (47.7% growth), while South Korea has grown from 48.2M to 51.7M (7.3% growth).
  • Egypt is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 202M people, while South Korea's population already peaked in 2020 at 51.8M people and is projected to decrease to 21.9M people by 2100.

Egypt vs South Korea: live population counter

Egypt South Korea
Current population
119759833
51700480
Population rank 13/197 31/197
Percent of world population 1.45% 0.63%
One net population change
15.7 seconds
13.7 minutes
One birth every
13.1 seconds
2.26 minutes
One death every
50.4 seconds
1.69 minutes
One migration net change every
4.24 minutes
6.92 minutes
Annual migration change +123,884 +75,963
Daily growth/decline +5,486 +105
Annual growth/decline +2,002,486 +38,446
Annual growth/decline rate +1.75% +0.07%
Population growth rate rank 66/197 159/197

Egypt and South Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Egypt
Population

Growth rate
South Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Egypt South Korea Egypt South Korea
1960 26,896,479 25,012,374 - -
1961 27,600,898 25,765,673 2.62% 3.01%
1962 28,337,013 26,513,030 2.67% 2.9%
1963 29,091,869 27,261,747 2.66% 2.82%
1964 29,858,922 27,984,155 2.64% 2.65%
1965 30,629,174 28,704,674 2.58% 2.57%
1966 31,406,541 29,435,571 2.54% 2.55%
1967 32,196,360 30,130,983 2.51% 2.36%
1968 32,998,319 30,838,302 2.49% 2.35%
1969 33,811,615 31,544,266 2.46% 2.29%
1970 34,623,990 32,240,827 2.4% 2.21%
1971 35,433,368 32,882,704 2.34% 1.99%
1972 36,258,328 33,505,406 2.33% 1.89%
1973 37,102,043 34,103,149 2.33% 1.78%
1974 37,969,667 34,692,266 2.34% 1.73%
1975 38,875,327 35,280,725 2.39% 1.7%
1976 39,795,557 35,848,523 2.37% 1.61%
1977 40,748,870 36,411,795 2.4% 1.57%
1978 41,761,431 36,969,185 2.48% 1.53%
1979 42,818,628 37,534,236 2.53% 1.53%
1980 43,950,413 38,123,775 2.64% 1.57%
1981 45,147,224 38,723,248 2.72% 1.57%
1982 46,407,611 39,326,352 2.79% 1.56%
1983 47,786,402 39,910,403 2.97% 1.49%
1984 49,247,334 40,405,956 3.06% 1.24%
1985 50,734,968 40,805,744 3.02% 0.99%
1986 52,206,295 41,213,674 2.9% 1%
1987 53,674,435 41,621,690 2.81% 0.99%
1988 55,187,681 42,031,247 2.82% 0.98%
1989 56,710,642 42,449,038 2.76% 0.99%
1990 58,396,618 42,869,283 2.97% 0.99%
1991 60,028,997 43,295,704 2.8% 0.99%
1992 61,480,660 43,747,962 2.42% 1.04%
1993 62,915,681 44,194,628 2.33% 1.02%
1994 64,285,589 44,641,540 2.18% 1.01%
1995 65,652,622 45,092,991 2.13% 1.01%
1996 67,028,048 45,524,681 2.1% 0.96%
1997 68,431,740 45,953,580 2.09% 0.94%
1998 69,943,294 46,286,503 2.21% 0.72%
1999 71,520,954 46,616,677 2.26% 0.71%
2000 73,083,284 47,008,111 2.18% 0.84%
2001 74,652,029 47,370,164 2.15% 0.77%
2002 76,239,137 47,644,736 2.13% 0.58%
2003 77,853,548 47,892,330 2.12% 0.52%
2004 79,477,443 48,082,519 2.09% 0.4%
2005 81,101,004 48,184,561 2.04% 0.21%
2006 82,700,403 48,438,292 1.97% 0.53%
2007 84,276,225 48,683,638 1.91% 0.51%
2008 85,864,789 49,054,708 1.88% 0.76%
2009 87,501,636 49,307,835 1.91% 0.52%
2010 89,196,072 49,554,112 1.94% 0.5%
2011 91,093,059 49,936,638 2.13% 0.77%
2012 93,161,001 50,199,853 2.27% 0.53%
2013 95,333,553 50,428,893 2.33% 0.46%
2014 97,528,654 50,746,659 2.3% 0.63%
2015 99,597,342 51,014,947 2.12% 0.53%
2016 101,644,589 51,217,803 2.06% 0.4%
2017 103,696,057 51,361,911 2.02% 0.28%
2018 105,682,094 51,585,058 1.92% 0.43%
2019 107,553,158 51,764,822 1.77% 0.35%
2020 109,315,124 51,836,239 1.64% 0.14%
2021 110,957,008 51,769,539 1.5% -0.13%
2022 112,618,250 51,672,569 1.5% -0.19%
2023 114,535,772 51,712,619 1.7% 0.08%
2024 116,538,258 51,751,065 1.75% 0.07%
2025 118,365,997 51,700,480 1.57% -0.1%
2026 120,101,181 51,633,793 1.47% -0.13%
2027 121,847,622 51,552,198 1.45% -0.16%
2028 123,608,457 51,456,707 1.45% -0.19%
2029 125,373,058 51,347,230 1.43% -0.21%
2030 127,139,323 51,221,713 1.41% -0.24%
2031 128,912,256 51,081,220 1.39% -0.27%
2032 130,695,084 50,924,233 1.38% -0.31%
2033 132,485,612 50,747,132 1.37% -0.35%
2034 134,287,838 50,549,508 1.36% -0.39%
2035 136,097,214 50,333,286 1.35% -0.43%
2036 137,913,263 50,098,951 1.33% -0.47%
2037 139,738,699 49,845,669 1.32% -0.51%
2038 141,565,835 49,573,234 1.31% -0.55%
2039 143,393,267 49,283,770 1.29% -0.58%
2040 145,213,662 48,980,369 1.27% -0.62%
2041 147,018,554 48,661,905 1.24% -0.65%
2042 148,800,785 48,331,004 1.21% -0.68%
2043 150,547,655 47,990,085 1.17% -0.71%
2044 152,255,332 47,634,183 1.13% -0.74%
2045 153,919,190 47,263,526 1.09% -0.78%
2046 155,535,951 46,881,228 1.05% -0.81%
2047 157,114,404 46,482,133 1.01% -0.85%
2048 158,657,392 46,063,595 0.98% -0.9%
2049 160,161,615 45,626,805 0.95% -0.95%
2050 161,630,197 45,172,356 0.92% -1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Egypt increased by 18,496,338 people (a 22.8% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Egypt gained 20,162,491 (a 20.2% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Egypt was ranked 14th most populous country in 2005 and is 13th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.

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