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Population in Estonia compared to Ukraine: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Estonia was 1,371,986 in 2024 vs 37,860,221 people in Ukraine in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Estonia's population is 1,355,535 people compared to 39,426,577 in Ukraine.

Population statistics:

  • Ukraine's population is 29.1 times bigger than Estonia's.
  • Estonia is ranked the 155th most populous country in the world, while Ukraine is the 40th.
  • The countries together account for 0.49% of the world: 0.02% for Estonia vs 0.48% for Ukraine.
  • For the last 10 years, Estonia has had an average growth rate of +0.37% per year vs -1.74% in Ukraine.
  • Since 2005, the population of Estonia has increased from 1.35M people to 1.36M (0.06% growth), while Ukraine has declined from 47.6M to 39.4M (17.1% decline).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 27% of the population in Estonia and 42.2% in Ukraine.

Estonia vs Ukraine: live population counter

Estonia Ukraine
Current population
1355535
39426577
Population rank 155/197 40/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.48%
One net population change
5.15 hours
4.13 minutes
One birth every
47.9 minutes
2.48 minutes
One death every
32.8 minutes
1.06 minutes
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
27.5 seconds
Annual migration change -7,742 +1,146,012
Daily growth/decline +5 +349
Annual growth/decline +1,700 +127,385
Annual growth/decline rate +0.12% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 157/197 146/197

Estonia and Ukraine: population history and growth rate by year chart

Estonia
Population

Growth rate
Ukraine
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Estonia Ukraine Estonia Ukraine
1960 1,211,537 42,824,093 - -
1961 1,225,077 43,399,766 1.12% 1.34%
1962 1,241,623 43,943,674 1.35% 1.25%
1963 1,258,857 44,462,372 1.39% 1.18%
1964 1,277,086 44,951,156 1.45% 1.1%
1965 1,294,566 45,386,892 1.37% 0.97%
1966 1,308,597 45,802,519 1.08% 0.92%
1967 1,318,946 46,215,988 0.79% 0.9%
1968 1,331,214 46,614,325 0.93% 0.86%
1969 1,345,249 46,976,256 1.05% 0.78%
1970 1,360,076 47,261,306 1.1% 0.61%
1971 1,376,955 47,573,287 1.24% 0.66%
1972 1,392,518 47,946,893 1.13% 0.79%
1973 1,405,951 48,277,121 0.96% 0.69%
1974 1,418,169 48,576,570 0.87% 0.62%
1975 1,429,352 48,865,229 0.79% 0.59%
1976 1,439,576 49,120,842 0.72% 0.52%
1977 1,450,211 49,336,481 0.74% 0.44%
1978 1,460,188 49,521,243 0.69% 0.37%
1979 1,468,333 49,721,381 0.56% 0.4%
1980 1,477,219 49,955,152 0.61% 0.47%
1981 1,487,666 50,189,281 0.71% 0.47%
1982 1,498,414 50,402,724 0.72% 0.43%
1983 1,508,745 50,637,029 0.69% 0.46%
1984 1,518,617 50,887,599 0.65% 0.49%
1985 1,528,781 51,108,770 0.67% 0.43%
1986 1,540,190 51,318,745 0.75% 0.41%
1987 1,552,221 51,515,732 0.78% 0.38%
1988 1,561,900 51,724,853 0.62% 0.41%
1989 1,568,131 51,917,817 0.4% 0.37%
1990 1,569,174 52,054,092 0.07% 0.26%
1991 1,561,314 52,170,961 -0.5% 0.22%
1992 1,533,091 52,323,671 -1.81% 0.29%
1993 1,494,128 52,350,126 -2.54% 0.05%
1994 1,462,514 52,075,998 -2.12% -0.52%
1995 1,436,634 51,665,539 -1.77% -0.79%
1996 1,415,594 51,226,109 -1.46% -0.85%
1997 1,399,535 50,786,885 -1.13% -0.86%
1998 1,386,156 50,379,731 -0.96% -0.8%
1999 1,390,244 49,976,446 0.29% -0.8%
2000 1,396,985 49,556,660 0.48% -0.84%
2001 1,388,115 49,106,855 -0.63% -0.91%
2002 1,379,350 48,677,281 -0.63% -0.87%
2003 1,370,720 48,315,136 -0.63% -0.74%
2004 1,362,550 47,979,507 -0.6% -0.69%
2005 1,354,775 47,585,556 -0.57% -0.82%
2006 1,346,810 47,278,694 -0.59% -0.64%
2007 1,340,680 47,062,798 -0.46% -0.46%
2008 1,337,090 46,819,175 -0.27% -0.52%
2009 1,334,515 46,623,731 -0.19% -0.42%
2010 1,331,475 46,456,003 -0.23% -0.36%
2011 1,327,439 46,307,853 -0.3% -0.32%
2012 1,322,696 46,210,056 -0.36% -0.21%
2013 1,317,997 46,126,770 -0.36% -0.18%
2014 1,314,545 45,972,380 -0.26% -0.33%
2015 1,315,407 45,784,896 0.07% -0.41%
2016 1,315,790 45,616,832 0.03% -0.37%
2017 1,317,384 45,436,041 0.12% -0.4%
2018 1,321,977 45,208,907 0.35% -0.5%
2019 1,326,898 44,957,458 0.37% -0.56%
2020 1,329,522 44,680,014 0.2% -0.62%
2021 1,330,932 44,298,640 0.11% -0.85%
2022 1,348,840 41,048,766 1.35% -7.34%
2023 1,370,286 37,732,836 1.59% -8.08%
2024 1,371,986 37,860,221 0.12% 0.34%
2025 1,355,535 38,980,379 -1.2% 2.96%
2026 1,342,253 39,535,850 -0.98% 1.43%
2027 1,335,097 39,245,208 -0.53% -0.74%
2028 1,327,942 38,952,086 -0.54% -0.75%
2029 1,320,819 38,654,416 -0.54% -0.76%
2030 1,313,729 38,353,848 -0.54% -0.78%
2031 1,306,620 38,050,624 -0.54% -0.79%
2032 1,299,552 37,746,688 -0.54% -0.8%
2033 1,292,576 37,442,088 -0.54% -0.81%
2034 1,285,689 37,135,839 -0.53% -0.82%
2035 1,278,930 36,828,149 -0.53% -0.83%
2036 1,272,310 36,519,767 -0.52% -0.84%
2037 1,265,820 36,209,679 -0.51% -0.85%
2038 1,259,511 35,897,705 -0.5% -0.86%
2039 1,253,315 35,584,263 -0.49% -0.87%
2040 1,247,191 35,270,911 -0.49% -0.88%
2041 1,241,077 34,957,580 -0.49% -0.89%
2042 1,234,931 34,641,778 -0.5% -0.9%
2043 1,228,790 34,324,132 -0.5% -0.92%
2044 1,222,587 34,004,074 -0.5% -0.93%
2045 1,216,327 33,680,448 -0.51% -0.95%
2046 1,210,041 33,351,499 -0.52% -0.98%
2047 1,203,693 33,017,828 -0.52% -1%
2048 1,197,336 32,680,968 -0.53% -1.02%
2049 1,190,841 32,338,515 -0.54% -1.05%
2050 1,184,135 31,990,136 -0.56% -1.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Estonia decreased by 39,368 people (a 2.91% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Estonia gained 40,128 (a 3.05% growth), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).

Estonia was ranked 149th most populous country in 2005 and is 155th in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Estonia's population will shrink by 12.6% to 1,184,135 people with a rank change from 155th to 159th. The population of Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.

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