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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Egypt was 116,538,258 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Egypt's population is 119,759,833 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Egypt's population is 2.45 times bigger than Spain's.
  • Egypt is ranked the 13th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 2.04% of the world: 1.45% for Egypt vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Egypt has had an average growth rate of +1.84% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Egypt has increased from 81.1M people to 120M (47.7% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Egypt is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 202M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Egypt vs Spain: live population counter

Egypt Spain
Current population
119759833
48786181
Population rank 13/197 32/197
Percent of world population 1.45% 0.59%
One net population change
15.7 seconds
1.14 minutes
One birth every
13.1 seconds
1.62 minutes
One death every
50.4 seconds
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
4.24 minutes
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change +123,884 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +5,486 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +2,002,486 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +1.75% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 66/197 108/197

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

Egypt
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Egypt Spain Egypt Spain
1960 26,896,479 30,455,000 - -
1961 27,600,898 30,739,250 2.62% 0.93%
1962 28,337,013 31,023,366 2.67% 0.92%
1963 29,091,869 31,296,651 2.66% 0.88%
1964 29,858,922 31,609,195 2.64% 1%
1965 30,629,174 31,954,292 2.58% 1.09%
1966 31,406,541 32,283,194 2.54% 1.03%
1967 32,196,360 32,682,947 2.51% 1.24%
1968 32,998,319 33,113,134 2.49% 1.32%
1969 33,811,615 33,441,054 2.46% 0.99%
1970 34,623,990 33,814,531 2.4% 1.12%
1971 35,433,368 34,224,490 2.34% 1.21%
1972 36,258,328 34,604,469 2.33% 1.11%
1973 37,102,043 34,988,947 2.33% 1.11%
1974 37,969,667 35,373,335 2.34% 1.1%
1975 38,875,327 35,757,900 2.39% 1.09%
1976 39,795,557 36,137,812 2.37% 1.06%
1977 40,748,870 36,511,638 2.4% 1.03%
1978 41,761,431 36,864,898 2.48% 0.97%
1979 42,818,628 37,191,330 2.53% 0.89%
1980 43,950,413 37,491,165 2.64% 0.81%
1981 45,147,224 37,758,631 2.72% 0.71%
1982 46,407,611 37,986,012 2.79% 0.6%
1983 47,786,402 38,171,525 2.97% 0.49%
1984 49,247,334 38,330,364 3.06% 0.42%
1985 50,734,968 38,469,512 3.02% 0.36%
1986 52,206,295 38,584,624 2.9% 0.3%
1987 53,674,435 38,684,815 2.81% 0.26%
1988 55,187,681 38,766,939 2.82% 0.21%
1989 56,710,642 38,827,764 2.76% 0.16%
1990 58,396,618 38,867,322 2.97% 0.1%
1991 60,028,997 38,966,376 2.8% 0.25%
1992 61,480,660 39,157,685 2.42% 0.49%
1993 62,915,681 39,361,262 2.33% 0.52%
1994 64,285,589 39,549,108 2.18% 0.48%
1995 65,652,622 39,724,050 2.13% 0.44%
1996 67,028,048 39,889,852 2.1% 0.42%
1997 68,431,740 40,057,389 2.09% 0.42%
1998 69,943,294 40,223,509 2.21% 0.41%
1999 71,520,954 40,386,875 2.26% 0.41%
2000 73,083,284 40,567,864 2.18% 0.45%
2001 74,652,029 40,850,412 2.15% 0.7%
2002 76,239,137 41,431,558 2.13% 1.42%
2003 77,853,548 42,187,645 2.12% 1.82%
2004 79,477,443 42,921,895 2.09% 1.74%
2005 81,101,004 43,653,155 2.04% 1.7%
2006 82,700,403 44,397,319 1.97% 1.7%
2007 84,276,225 45,226,803 1.91% 1.87%
2008 85,864,789 45,954,106 1.88% 1.61%
2009 87,501,636 46,362,946 1.91% 0.89%
2010 89,196,072 46,576,897 1.94% 0.46%
2011 91,093,059 46,742,697 2.13% 0.36%
2012 93,161,001 46,773,055 2.27% 0.06%
2013 95,333,553 46,604,197 2.33% -0.36%
2014 97,528,654 46,460,733 2.3% -0.31%
2015 99,597,342 46,422,303 2.12% -0.08%
2016 101,644,589 46,458,139 2.06% 0.08%
2017 103,696,057 46,571,232 2.02% 0.24%
2018 105,682,094 46,782,011 1.92% 0.45%
2019 107,553,158 47,118,501 1.77% 0.72%
2020 109,315,124 47,359,424 1.64% 0.51%
2021 110,957,008 47,443,821 1.5% 0.18%
2022 112,618,250 47,786,102 1.5% 0.72%
2023 114,535,772 48,347,910 1.7% 1.18%
2024 116,538,258 48,807,137 1.75% 0.95%
2025 118,365,997 48,786,181 1.57% -0.04%
2026 120,101,181 48,746,279 1.47% -0.08%
2027 121,847,622 48,696,847 1.45% -0.1%
2028 123,608,457 48,642,132 1.45% -0.11%
2029 125,373,058 48,578,166 1.43% -0.13%
2030 127,139,323 48,501,513 1.41% -0.16%
2031 128,912,256 48,412,854 1.39% -0.18%
2032 130,695,084 48,321,195 1.38% -0.19%
2033 132,485,612 48,230,054 1.37% -0.19%
2034 134,287,838 48,136,421 1.36% -0.19%
2035 136,097,214 48,036,650 1.35% -0.21%
2036 137,913,263 47,929,957 1.33% -0.22%
2037 139,738,699 47,819,257 1.32% -0.23%
2038 141,565,835 47,706,580 1.31% -0.24%
2039 143,393,267 47,588,878 1.29% -0.25%
2040 145,213,662 47,463,597 1.27% -0.26%
2041 147,018,554 47,332,618 1.24% -0.28%
2042 148,800,785 47,194,588 1.21% -0.29%
2043 150,547,655 47,052,293 1.17% -0.3%
2044 152,255,332 46,902,636 1.13% -0.32%
2045 153,919,190 46,738,565 1.09% -0.35%
2046 155,535,951 46,564,383 1.05% -0.37%
2047 157,114,404 46,381,681 1.01% -0.39%
2048 158,657,392 46,190,642 0.98% -0.41%
2049 160,161,615 45,985,428 0.95% -0.44%
2050 161,630,197 45,769,362 0.92% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Egypt increased by 18,496,338 people (a 22.8% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Egypt gained 20,162,491 (a 20.2% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

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