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Population in Equatorial Guinea compared to Italy: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Equatorial Guinea was 1,892,516 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Equatorial Guinea's population is 1,975,406 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 29.8 times bigger than Equatorial Guinea's.
  • Equatorial Guinea is ranked the 148th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.74% of the world: 0.02% for Equatorial Guinea vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Equatorial Guinea has had an average growth rate of +3.15% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Equatorial Guinea has increased from 947K people to 1.98M (108.5% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Equatorial Guinea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 5M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Equatorial Guinea vs Italy: live population counter

Equatorial Guinea Italy
Current population
1975406
58790597
Population rank 148/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.71%
One net population change
11.7 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
9.61 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
36.1 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
2.25 hours
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change +3,891 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +123 -20
Annual growth/decline +44,967 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +2.43% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 32/197 166/197

Equatorial Guinea and Italy: population history and growth rate by year chart

Equatorial Guinea
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Equatorial Guinea Italy Equatorial Guinea Italy
1960 269,807 50,199,700 - -
1961 274,896 50,536,350 1.89% 0.67%
1962 280,286 50,879,450 1.96% 0.68%
1963 285,965 51,252,000 2.03% 0.73%
1964 291,942 51,675,350 2.09% 0.83%
1965 298,238 52,112,350 2.16% 0.85%
1966 304,859 52,519,000 2.22% 0.78%
1967 311,805 52,900,500 2.28% 0.73%
1968 318,849 53,235,750 2.26% 0.63%
1969 322,517 53,537,950 1.15% 0.57%
1970 320,803 53,821,850 -0.53% 0.53%
1971 315,940 54,073,490 -1.52% 0.47%
1972 309,468 54,381,345 -2.05% 0.57%
1973 302,281 54,751,406 -2.32% 0.68%
1974 294,953 55,110,868 -2.42% 0.66%
1975 287,901 55,441,001 -2.39% 0.6%
1976 281,031 55,718,260 -2.39% 0.5%
1977 276,779 55,955,411 -1.51% 0.43%
1978 276,531 56,155,143 -0.09% 0.36%
1979 279,846 56,317,749 1.2% 0.29%
1980 288,644 56,433,883 3.14% 0.21%
1981 303,252 56,501,675 5.06% 0.12%
1982 322,216 56,543,548 6.25% 0.07%
1983 343,421 56,564,074 6.58% 0.04%
1984 364,899 56,576,718 6.25% 0.02%
1985 385,547 56,593,071 5.66% 0.03%
1986 404,728 56,596,155 4.98% 0.005%
1987 422,522 56,601,931 4.4% 0.01%
1988 439,651 56,629,288 4.05% 0.05%
1989 456,808 56,671,781 3.9% 0.08%
1990 474,274 56,719,240 3.82% 0.08%
1991 492,217 56,758,521 3.78% 0.07%
1992 510,770 56,797,087 3.77% 0.07%
1993 530,023 56,831,821 3.77% 0.06%
1994 550,138 56,843,400 3.8% 0.02%
1995 571,264 56,844,303 3.84% 0.002%
1996 593,492 56,860,281 3.89% 0.03%
1997 616,893 56,890,372 3.94% 0.05%
1998 641,474 56,906,744 3.98% 0.03%
1999 667,214 56,916,317 4.01% 0.02%
2000 703,279 56,942,108 5.41% 0.05%
2001 749,836 56,976,981 6.62% 0.06%
2002 797,957 57,089,824 6.42% 0.2%
2003 847,862 57,399,184 6.25% 0.54%
2004 899,917 57,828,179 6.14% 0.75%
2005 947,367 58,166,682 5.27% 0.59%
2006 990,343 58,399,861 4.54% 0.4%
2007 1,036,044 58,756,247 4.61% 0.61%
2008 1,084,530 59,211,181 4.68% 0.77%
2009 1,135,673 59,555,454 4.72% 0.58%
2010 1,189,085 59,819,407 4.7% 0.44%
2011 1,241,835 60,026,841 4.44% 0.35%
2012 1,293,483 60,191,247 4.16% 0.27%
2013 1,346,218 60,311,613 4.08% 0.2%
2014 1,399,828 60,320,707 3.98% 0.02%
2015 1,453,923 60,229,605 3.86% -0.15%
2016 1,508,186 60,115,223 3.73% -0.19%
2017 1,562,396 60,002,252 3.59% -0.19%
2018 1,616,422 60,148,658 3.46% 0.24%
2019 1,670,177 59,729,081 3.33% -0.7%
2020 1,716,468 59,438,851 2.77% -0.49%
2021 1,758,786 59,133,173 2.47% -0.51%
2022 1,803,545 59,013,667 2.54% -0.2%
2023 1,847,549 58,993,475 2.44% -0.03%
2024 1,892,516 58,986,023 2.43% -0.01%
2025 1,938,427 58,790,597 2.43% -0.33%
2026 1,984,463 58,571,823 2.37% -0.37%
2027 2,030,749 58,335,864 2.33% -0.4%
2028 2,077,253 58,094,373 2.29% -0.41%
2029 2,123,699 57,851,042 2.24% -0.42%
2030 2,170,434 57,597,622 2.2% -0.44%
2031 2,218,077 57,333,277 2.2% -0.46%
2032 2,267,025 57,071,235 2.21% -0.46%
2033 2,315,991 56,812,747 2.16% -0.45%
2034 2,364,847 56,548,816 2.11% -0.46%
2035 2,414,263 56,279,536 2.09% -0.48%
2036 2,463,880 56,009,844 2.06% -0.48%
2037 2,513,955 55,737,477 2.03% -0.49%
2038 2,564,843 55,460,735 2.02% -0.5%
2039 2,615,417 55,177,508 1.97% -0.51%
2040 2,665,575 54,889,107 1.92% -0.52%
2041 2,715,477 54,601,628 1.87% -0.52%
2042 2,764,764 54,307,412 1.82% -0.54%
2043 2,813,769 53,997,106 1.77% -0.57%
2044 2,862,511 53,679,603 1.73% -0.59%
2045 2,911,227 53,357,669 1.7% -0.6%
2046 2,959,088 53,025,288 1.64% -0.62%
2047 3,005,551 52,680,150 1.57% -0.65%
2048 3,051,480 52,324,241 1.53% -0.68%
2049 3,097,625 51,959,050 1.51% -0.7%
2050 3,143,719 51,579,060 1.49% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Equatorial Guinea increased by 506,556 people (a 53.5% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Equatorial Guinea gained 521,483 (a 35.9% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Equatorial Guinea was ranked 155th most populous country in 2005 and is 148th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Equatorial Guinea's population will grow by 59.1% to 3,143,719 people with a rank change from 148th to 140th. The population of Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

Biggest cities by population

Equatorial Guinea
City Population
Malabo 297K
Bata 290K
Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K

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