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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Equatorial Guinea was 1,892,516 in 2024 vs 24,672,760 people in Syria in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Equatorial Guinea's population is 1,975,406 people compared to 26,304,877 in Syria.

Population statistics:

  • Syria's population is 13.3 times bigger than Equatorial Guinea's.
  • Equatorial Guinea is ranked the 148th most populous country in the world, while Syria is the 57th.
  • The countries together account for 0.34% of the world: 0.02% for Equatorial Guinea vs 0.32% for Syria.
  • For the last 10 years, Equatorial Guinea has had an average growth rate of +3.15% per year vs +1.25% in Syria.
  • Since 2005, the population of Equatorial Guinea has increased from 947K people to 1.98M (108.5% growth), while Syria has grown from 18.8M to 26.3M (39.8% growth).
  • Equatorial Guinea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 5M people compared to the peak of 44.1M people in 2086 for Syria.

Equatorial Guinea vs Syria: live population counter

Equatorial Guinea Syria
Current population
1975406
26304877
Population rank 148/197 57/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.32%
One net population change
11.7 minutes
29.3 seconds
One birth every
9.61 minutes
1.01 minutes
One death every
36.1 minutes
4.42 minutes
One migration net change every
2.25 hours
57.7 seconds
Annual migration change +3,891 +546,494
Daily growth/decline +123 +2,954
Annual growth/decline +44,967 +1,078,137
Annual growth/decline rate +2.43% +4.57%
Population growth rate rank 32/197 5/197

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

Equatorial Guinea
Population

Growth rate
Syria
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Equatorial Guinea Syria Equatorial Guinea Syria
1960 269,807 4,673,500 - -
1961 274,896 4,815,466 1.89% 3.04%
1962 280,286 4,959,340 1.96% 2.99%
1963 285,965 5,110,467 2.03% 3.05%
1964 291,942 5,269,087 2.09% 3.1%
1965 298,238 5,435,267 2.16% 3.15%
1966 304,859 5,609,047 2.22% 3.2%
1967 311,805 5,790,198 2.28% 3.23%
1968 318,849 5,978,742 2.26% 3.26%
1969 322,517 6,175,166 1.15% 3.29%
1970 320,803 6,380,609 -0.53% 3.33%
1971 315,940 6,598,094 -1.52% 3.41%
1972 309,468 6,826,024 -2.05% 3.45%
1973 302,281 7,060,321 -2.32% 3.43%
1974 294,953 7,302,160 -2.42% 3.43%
1975 287,901 7,554,364 -2.39% 3.45%
1976 281,031 7,817,320 -2.39% 3.48%
1977 276,779 8,090,501 -1.51% 3.49%
1978 276,531 8,372,759 -0.09% 3.49%
1979 279,846 8,661,909 1.2% 3.45%
1980 288,644 8,957,663 3.14% 3.41%
1981 303,252 9,260,189 5.06% 3.38%
1982 322,216 9,572,511 6.25% 3.37%
1983 343,421 9,904,809 6.58% 3.47%
1984 364,899 10,258,398 6.25% 3.57%
1985 385,547 10,625,672 5.66% 3.58%
1986 404,728 11,002,844 4.98% 3.55%
1987 422,522 11,388,923 4.4% 3.51%
1988 439,651 11,782,264 4.05% 3.45%
1989 456,808 12,179,060 3.9% 3.37%
1990 474,274 12,579,208 3.82% 3.29%
1991 492,217 12,980,821 3.78% 3.19%
1992 510,770 13,385,571 3.77% 3.12%
1993 530,023 13,795,686 3.77% 3.06%
1994 550,138 14,208,583 3.8% 2.99%
1995 571,264 14,616,801 3.84% 2.87%
1996 593,492 15,018,104 3.89% 2.75%
1997 616,893 15,417,542 3.94% 2.66%
1998 641,474 15,820,413 3.98% 2.61%
1999 667,214 16,228,061 4.01% 2.58%
2000 703,279 16,637,888 5.41% 2.53%
2001 749,836 17,051,338 6.62% 2.48%
2002 797,957 17,468,332 6.42% 2.45%
2003 847,862 17,889,296 6.25% 2.41%
2004 899,917 18,336,875 6.14% 2.5%
2005 947,367 18,814,091 5.27% 2.6%
2006 990,343 19,637,022 4.54% 4.37%
2007 1,036,044 20,884,125 4.61% 6.35%
2008 1,084,530 21,636,564 4.68% 3.6%
2009 1,135,673 21,976,969 4.72% 1.57%
2010 1,189,085 22,482,421 4.7% 2.3%
2011 1,241,835 22,878,098 4.44% 1.76%
2012 1,293,483 22,759,763 4.16% -0.52%
2013 1,346,218 21,666,917 4.08% -4.8%
2014 1,399,828 20,273,659 3.98% -6.43%
2015 1,453,923 19,424,618 3.86% -4.19%
2016 1,508,186 19,193,834 3.73% -1.19%
2017 1,562,396 19,224,668 3.59% 0.16%
2018 1,616,422 19,577,845 3.46% 1.84%
2019 1,670,177 20,353,534 3.33% 3.96%
2020 1,716,468 21,049,429 2.77% 3.42%
2021 1,758,786 21,628,839 2.47% 2.75%
2022 1,803,545 22,462,173 2.54% 3.85%
2023 1,847,549 23,594,623 2.44% 5.04%
2024 1,892,516 24,672,760 2.43% 4.57%
2025 1,938,427 25,620,422 2.43% 3.84%
2026 1,984,463 26,472,499 2.37% 3.33%
2027 2,030,749 27,261,544 2.33% 2.98%
2028 2,077,253 28,006,558 2.29% 2.73%
2029 2,123,699 28,719,309 2.24% 2.54%
2030 2,170,434 29,395,545 2.2% 2.35%
2031 2,218,077 30,029,824 2.2% 2.16%
2032 2,267,025 30,633,661 2.21% 2.01%
2033 2,315,991 31,212,478 2.16% 1.89%
2034 2,364,847 31,768,138 2.11% 1.78%
2035 2,414,263 32,294,792 2.09% 1.66%
2036 2,463,880 32,788,153 2.06% 1.53%
2037 2,513,955 33,258,407 2.03% 1.43%
2038 2,564,843 33,710,718 2.02% 1.36%
2039 2,615,417 34,131,238 1.97% 1.25%
2040 2,665,575 34,533,185 1.92% 1.18%
2041 2,715,477 34,916,936 1.87% 1.11%
2042 2,764,764 35,279,863 1.82% 1.04%
2043 2,813,769 35,623,325 1.77% 0.97%
2044 2,862,511 35,944,394 1.73% 0.9%
2045 2,911,227 36,265,295 1.7% 0.89%
2046 2,959,088 36,583,260 1.64% 0.88%
2047 3,005,551 36,878,640 1.57% 0.81%
2048 3,051,480 37,171,029 1.53% 0.79%
2049 3,097,625 37,477,690 1.51% 0.83%
2050 3,143,719 37,793,378 1.49% 0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Equatorial Guinea increased by 506,556 people (a 53.5% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Equatorial Guinea gained 521,483 (a 35.9% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Equatorial Guinea was ranked 155th most populous country in 2005 and is 148th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.

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