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Population in Eritrea compared to Indonesia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Eritrea was 3,535,603 in 2024 vs 283,487,931 people in Indonesia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Eritrea's population is 3,667,774 people compared to 287,460,768 in Indonesia.

Population statistics:

  • Indonesia's population is 78.4 times bigger than Eritrea's.
  • Eritrea is ranked the 131st most populous country in the world, while Indonesia is the 4th.
  • The countries together account for 3.52% of the world: 0.04% for Eritrea vs 3.48% for Indonesia.
  • For the last 10 years, Eritrea has had an average growth rate of +1.28% per year vs +0.94% in Indonesia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Eritrea has increased from 2.66M people to 3.67M (37.8% growth), while Indonesia has grown from 231M to 287M (24.5% growth).
  • Eritrea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 8.44M people compared to the peak of 323M people in 2058 for Indonesia.

Eritrea vs Indonesia: live population counter

Eritrea Indonesia
Current population
3667774
287460768
Population rank 131/197 4/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 3.48%
One net population change
8.06 minutes
13.7 seconds
One birth every
5.31 minutes
7.04 seconds
One death every
25 minutes
14.9 seconds
One migration net change every
41.4 minutes
13.7 minutes
Annual migration change -12,696 -38,469
Daily growth/decline +179 +6,296
Annual growth/decline +65,213 +2,297,864
Annual growth/decline rate +1.88% +0.82%
Population growth rate rank 60/197 117/197

Eritrea and Indonesia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Eritrea
Population

Growth rate
Indonesia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Eritrea Indonesia Eritrea Indonesia
1960 972,547 88,296,070 - -
1961 995,573 90,791,249 2.37% 2.83%
1962 1,019,788 93,375,850 2.43% 2.85%
1963 1,045,092 96,051,424 2.48% 2.87%
1964 1,071,287 98,833,749 2.51% 2.9%
1965 1,098,335 101,365,130 2.52% 2.56%
1966 1,124,957 103,792,754 2.42% 2.39%
1967 1,152,339 106,526,393 2.43% 2.63%
1968 1,181,737 109,450,006 2.55% 2.74%
1969 1,212,005 112,517,639 2.56% 2.8%
1970 1,243,453 115,657,495 2.59% 2.79%
1971 1,276,154 118,833,702 2.63% 2.75%
1972 1,309,235 122,039,841 2.59% 2.7%
1973 1,342,669 125,288,515 2.55% 2.66%
1974 1,375,688 128,555,045 2.46% 2.61%
1975 1,408,210 131,843,848 2.36% 2.56%
1976 1,443,807 135,173,655 2.53% 2.53%
1977 1,482,565 138,533,541 2.68% 2.49%
1978 1,522,378 141,953,163 2.69% 2.47%
1979 1,563,332 145,434,834 2.69% 2.45%
1980 1,605,797 148,950,540 2.72% 2.42%
1981 1,649,939 152,485,035 2.75% 2.37%
1982 1,695,461 156,052,152 2.76% 2.34%
1983 1,736,160 159,651,381 2.4% 2.31%
1984 1,771,730 163,251,124 2.05% 2.25%
1985 1,807,816 166,776,185 2.04% 2.16%
1986 1,845,164 170,175,065 2.07% 2.04%
1987 1,888,669 173,511,154 2.36% 1.96%
1988 1,938,255 176,855,065 2.63% 1.93%
1989 1,987,017 180,201,630 2.52% 1.89%
1990 2,032,737 183,501,098 2.3% 1.83%
1991 1,919,571 186,778,238 -5.57% 1.79%
1992 1,798,748 190,043,744 -6.29% 1.75%
1993 1,856,006 193,305,168 3.18% 1.72%
1994 1,913,915 196,591,828 3.12% 1.7%
1995 2,025,267 199,888,057 5.82% 1.68%
1996 2,128,464 203,204,348 5.1% 1.66%
1997 2,152,135 206,536,095 1.11% 1.64%
1998 2,180,419 209,826,788 1.31% 1.59%
1999 2,212,780 213,004,668 1.48% 1.51%
2000 2,247,031 216,077,790 1.55% 1.44%
2001 2,312,079 219,097,902 2.89% 1.4%
2002 2,392,978 222,088,495 3.5% 1.36%
2003 2,493,903 225,048,008 4.22% 1.33%
2004 2,598,284 227,926,649 4.19% 1.28%
2005 2,661,215 230,871,650 2.42% 1.29%
2006 2,703,502 233,951,652 1.59% 1.33%
2007 2,743,222 237,062,337 1.47% 1.33%
2008 2,816,327 240,157,903 2.66% 1.31%
2009 2,887,885 243,220,028 2.54% 1.28%
2010 2,945,186 246,305,322 1.98% 1.27%
2011 2,998,485 249,470,032 1.81% 1.28%
2012 3,036,988 252,698,525 1.28% 1.29%
2013 3,074,360 255,852,467 1.23% 1.25%
2014 3,095,173 258,877,399 0.68% 1.18%
2015 3,105,546 261,799,249 0.34% 1.13%
2016 3,124,698 264,627,418 0.62% 1.08%
2017 3,150,347 267,346,658 0.82% 1.03%
2018 3,192,760 269,951,846 1.35% 0.97%
2019 3,240,194 272,489,381 1.49% 0.94%
2020 3,291,271 274,814,866 1.58% 0.85%
2021 3,350,183 276,758,053 1.79% 0.71%
2022 3,409,447 278,830,529 1.77% 0.75%
2023 3,470,390 281,190,067 1.79% 0.85%
2024 3,535,603 283,487,931 1.88% 0.82%
2025 3,606,996 285,721,231 2.02% 0.79%
2026 3,682,659 287,886,778 2.1% 0.76%
2027 3,760,368 289,986,520 2.11% 0.73%
2028 3,840,135 292,016,774 2.12% 0.7%
2029 3,920,467 293,978,106 2.09% 0.67%
2030 4,002,671 295,876,644 2.1% 0.65%
2031 4,085,037 297,719,741 2.06% 0.62%
2032 4,166,507 299,510,654 1.99% 0.6%
2033 4,249,501 301,250,975 1.99% 0.58%
2034 4,334,727 302,938,571 2.01% 0.56%
2035 4,420,915 304,566,615 1.99% 0.54%
2036 4,509,755 306,135,097 2.01% 0.51%
2037 4,601,933 307,646,407 2.04% 0.49%
2038 4,692,340 309,096,450 1.96% 0.47%
2039 4,780,469 310,481,116 1.88% 0.45%
2040 4,868,668 311,797,391 1.84% 0.42%
2041 4,954,481 313,041,656 1.76% 0.4%
2042 5,039,298 314,211,278 1.71% 0.37%
2043 5,124,256 315,304,309 1.69% 0.35%
2044 5,207,858 316,318,412 1.63% 0.32%
2045 5,292,756 317,249,609 1.63% 0.29%
2046 5,375,963 318,096,567 1.57% 0.27%
2047 5,456,488 318,862,018 1.5% 0.24%
2048 5,537,538 319,554,646 1.49% 0.22%
2049 5,617,348 320,173,244 1.44% 0.19%
2050 5,696,052 320,712,941 1.4% 0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Eritrea increased by 444,331 people (a 16.7% growth), while Indonesia gained 30,927,599 people (a 13.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Eritrea gained 562,228 (a 18.1% growth), while Indonesia's population increased by 25,661,519 (a 9.8% growth).

Eritrea was ranked 136th most populous country in 2005 and is 131st in 2025. Indonesia was ranked 4th in 2005 and still ranked 4th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Eritrea's population will grow by 55.3% to 5,696,052 people with a rank change from 131st to 123rd. The population of Indonesia will increase by 11.6% to 320,712,941 people and rank change from 4th to 6th.

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