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Population in Eritrea compared to the Seychelles: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Eritrea was 3,535,603 in 2024 vs 121,354 people in the Seychelles in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Eritrea's population is 3,667,774 people compared to 125,181 in the Seychelles.

Population statistics:

  • Eritrea's population is 29.3 times bigger than the Seychelles'.
  • Eritrea is ranked the 131st most populous country in the world, while the Seychelles is the 181st.
  • The countries together account for 0.05% of the world: 0.04% for Eritrea vs 0.002% for the Seychelles.
  • For the last 10 years, Eritrea has had an average growth rate of +1.28% per year vs +2.9% in the Seychelles.
  • Since 2005, the population of Eritrea has increased from 2.66M people to 3.67M (37.8% growth), while the Seychelles has grown from 82.9K to 125K (51.1% growth).
  • Eritrea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 8.44M people compared to the peak of 133K people in 2042 for the Seychelles.

Eritrea vs Seychelles: live population counter

Eritrea Seychelles
Current population
3667774
125181
Population rank 131/197 181/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 0.002%
One net population change
8.06 minutes
5.54 hours
One birth every
5.31 minutes
5.63 hours
One death every
25 minutes
10 hours
One migration net change every
41.4 minutes
5.01 hours
Annual migration change -12,696 +1,747
Daily growth/decline +179 +4
Annual growth/decline +65,213 +1,581
Annual growth/decline rate +1.88% +1.32%
Population growth rate rank 60/197 83/197

Eritrea and the Seychelles: population history and growth rate by year chart

Eritrea
Population

Growth rate
Seychelles
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Eritrea Seychelles Eritrea Seychelles
1960 972,547 41,700 - -
1961 995,573 42,889 2.37% 2.85%
1962 1,019,788 44,042 2.43% 2.69%
1963 1,045,092 45,176 2.48% 2.57%
1964 1,071,287 46,322 2.51% 2.54%
1965 1,098,335 47,500 2.52% 2.54%
1966 1,124,957 48,699 2.42% 2.52%
1967 1,152,339 49,911 2.43% 2.49%
1968 1,181,737 51,134 2.55% 2.45%
1969 1,212,005 52,365 2.56% 2.41%
1970 1,243,453 53,600 2.59% 2.36%
1971 1,276,154 54,695 2.63% 2.04%
1972 1,309,235 56,029 2.59% 2.44%
1973 1,342,669 56,892 2.55% 1.54%
1974 1,375,688 57,937 2.46% 1.84%
1975 1,408,210 59,292 2.36% 2.34%
1976 1,443,807 60,504 2.53% 2.04%
1977 1,482,565 61,786 2.68% 2.12%
1978 1,522,378 62,150 2.69% 0.59%
1979 1,563,332 62,686 2.69% 0.86%
1980 1,605,797 63,261 2.72% 0.92%
1981 1,649,939 64,035 2.75% 1.22%
1982 1,695,461 64,413 2.76% 0.59%
1983 1,736,160 64,335 2.4% -0.12%
1984 1,771,730 64,717 2.05% 0.59%
1985 1,807,816 65,244 2.04% 0.81%
1986 1,845,164 65,652 2.07% 0.63%
1987 1,888,669 68,499 2.36% 4.34%
1988 1,938,255 68,755 2.63% 0.37%
1989 1,987,017 69,167 2.52% 0.6%
1990 2,032,737 69,507 2.3% 0.49%
1991 1,919,571 70,439 -5.57% 1.34%
1992 1,798,748 70,763 -6.29% 0.46%
1993 1,856,006 72,253 3.18% 2.11%
1994 1,913,915 74,205 3.12% 2.7%
1995 2,025,267 75,304 5.82% 1.48%
1996 2,128,464 76,417 5.1% 1.48%
1997 2,152,135 77,319 1.11% 1.18%
1998 2,180,419 78,846 1.31% 1.97%
1999 2,212,780 80,410 1.48% 1.98%
2000 2,247,031 81,131 1.55% 0.9%
2001 2,312,079 81,202 2.89% 0.09%
2002 2,392,978 83,723 3.5% 3.1%
2003 2,493,903 82,781 4.22% -1.13%
2004 2,598,284 82,475 4.19% -0.37%
2005 2,661,215 82,858 2.42% 0.46%
2006 2,703,502 84,600 1.59% 2.1%
2007 2,743,222 85,033 1.47% 0.51%
2008 2,816,327 86,956 2.66% 2.26%
2009 2,887,885 87,298 2.54% 0.39%
2010 2,945,186 89,770 1.98% 2.83%
2011 2,998,485 87,441 1.81% -2.59%
2012 3,036,988 88,303 1.28% 0.99%
2013 3,074,360 89,949 1.23% 1.86%
2014 3,095,173 91,359 0.68% 1.57%
2015 3,105,546 93,419 0.34% 2.25%
2016 3,124,698 94,677 0.62% 1.35%
2017 3,150,347 95,843 0.82% 1.23%
2018 3,192,760 96,762 1.35% 0.96%
2019 3,240,194 97,625 1.49% 0.89%
2020 3,291,271 98,462 1.58% 0.86%
2021 3,350,183 99,258 1.79% 0.81%
2022 3,409,447 119,878 1.77% 20.8%
2023 3,470,390 119,773 1.79% -0.09%
2024 3,535,603 121,354 1.88% 1.32%
2025 3,606,996 123,549 2.02% 1.81%
2026 3,682,659 125,581 2.1% 1.64%
2027 3,760,368 127,380 2.11% 1.43%
2028 3,840,135 128,883 2.12% 1.18%
2029 3,920,467 130,011 2.09% 0.87%
2030 4,002,671 130,635 2.1% 0.48%
2031 4,085,037 130,989 2.06% 0.27%
2032 4,166,507 131,305 1.99% 0.24%
2033 4,249,501 131,578 1.99% 0.21%
2034 4,334,727 131,816 2.01% 0.18%
2035 4,420,915 132,027 1.99% 0.16%
2036 4,509,755 132,202 2.01% 0.13%
2037 4,601,933 132,348 2.04% 0.11%
2038 4,692,340 132,467 1.96% 0.09%
2039 4,780,469 132,552 1.88% 0.06%
2040 4,868,668 132,631 1.84% 0.06%
2041 4,954,481 132,681 1.76% 0.04%
2042 5,039,298 132,700 1.71% 0.01%
2043 5,124,256 132,698 1.69% -0.001%
2044 5,207,858 132,665 1.63% -0.03%
2045 5,292,756 132,613 1.63% -0.04%
2046 5,375,963 132,531 1.57% -0.06%
2047 5,456,488 132,415 1.5% -0.09%
2048 5,537,538 132,264 1.49% -0.11%
2049 5,617,348 132,085 1.44% -0.14%
2050 5,696,052 131,885 1.4% -0.15%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Eritrea increased by 444,331 people (a 16.7% growth), while the Seychelles gained 10,561 people (a 12.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Eritrea gained 562,228 (a 18.1% growth), while the Seychelles' population increased by 31,762 (a 34% growth).

Eritrea was ranked 136th most populous country in 2005 and is 131st in 2025. The Seychelles was ranked 184th in 2005 and ranked 181st 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 the Seychelles will increase by 5.36% to 131,885 people and will still be ranked 181st.

Biggest cities by population

Eritrea
City Population
Asmara 963K
Keren 120K
Massawa 39.8K
Mendefera 28.5K
Seychelles
City Population
Victoria 24.7K

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