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Population in Eswatini compared to Iran: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Eswatini was 1,242,822 in 2024 vs 91,567,738 people in Iran in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Eswatini's population is 1,267,161 people compared to 93,020,793 in Iran.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 73.4 times bigger than Eswatini's.
  • Eswatini is ranked the 156th most populous country in the world, while Iran is the 17th.
  • The countries together account for 1.14% of the world: 0.02% for Eswatini vs 1.13% for Iran.
  • For the last 10 years, Eswatini has had an average growth rate of +0.87% per year vs +1.19% in Iran.
  • Since 2005, the population of Eswatini has increased from 1.08M people to 1.27M (17.4% growth), while Iran has grown from 71.8M to 93M (29.5% growth).
  • Eswatini is projected to reach its peak in 2063 at 1.54M people compared to the peak of 102M people in 2053 for Iran.

Eswatini vs Iran: live population counter

Eswatini Iran
Current population
1267161
93020793
Population rank 156/197 17/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 1.13%
One net population change
42.7 minutes
32.9 seconds
One birth every
17.7 minutes
26.9 seconds
One death every
55.5 minutes
1.24 minutes
One migration net change every
1.3 hours
2.76 minutes
Annual migration change -6,754 +190,156
Daily growth/decline +34 +2,627
Annual growth/decline +12,316 +959,031
Annual growth/decline rate +1% +1.06%
Population growth rate rank 102/197 100/197

Eswatini and Iran: population history and growth rate by year chart

Eswatini
Population

Growth rate
Iran
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Eswatini Iran Eswatini Iran
1960 345,337 21,470,434 - -
1961 353,264 22,125,726 2.3% 3.05%
1962 361,365 22,807,907 2.29% 3.08%
1963 369,759 23,519,005 2.32% 3.12%
1964 378,656 24,262,859 2.41% 3.16%
1965 388,336 25,036,978 2.56% 3.19%
1966 398,766 25,829,270 2.69% 3.16%
1967 409,031 26,628,432 2.57% 3.09%
1968 419,147 27,437,391 2.47% 3.04%
1969 429,875 28,273,482 2.56% 3.05%
1970 441,216 29,145,100 2.64% 3.08%
1971 453,183 30,029,071 2.71% 3.03%
1972 465,788 30,921,179 2.78% 2.97%
1973 479,038 31,839,838 2.84% 2.97%
1974 492,988 32,796,463 2.91% 3%
1975 507,673 33,802,973 2.98% 3.07%
1976 523,330 34,837,271 3.08% 3.06%
1977 540,348 35,933,181 3.25% 3.15%
1978 558,446 37,126,535 3.35% 3.32%
1979 577,199 38,424,952 3.36% 3.5%
1980 596,644 39,842,324 3.37% 3.69%
1981 616,808 41,989,312 3.38% 5.39%
1982 637,652 44,272,141 3.38% 5.44%
1983 658,957 46,029,535 3.34% 3.97%
1984 680,783 47,793,998 3.31% 3.83%
1985 706,196 49,582,289 3.73% 3.74%
1986 734,732 51,446,045 4.04% 3.76%
1987 763,811 53,323,493 3.96% 3.65%
1988 799,798 55,072,694 4.71% 3.28%
1989 837,800 56,704,914 4.75% 2.96%
1990 872,428 58,380,092 4.13% 2.95%
1991 908,189 59,986,931 4.1% 2.75%
1992 943,416 61,184,983 3.88% 2%
1993 971,318 61,403,543 2.96% 0.36%
1994 971,212 61,520,598 -0.01% 0.19%
1995 970,433 62,205,567 -0.08% 1.11%
1996 989,841 62,881,300 2% 1.09%
1997 1,006,635 63,639,638 1.7% 1.21%
1998 1,019,653 64,519,859 1.29% 1.38%
1999 1,030,782 65,445,391 1.09% 1.43%
2000 1,041,414 66,418,659 1.03% 1.49%
2001 1,051,064 67,452,005 0.93% 1.56%
2002 1,059,441 68,011,317 0.8% 0.83%
2003 1,066,700 68,769,340 0.69% 1.11%
2004 1,073,159 70,256,316 0.61% 2.16%
2005 1,079,022 71,828,455 0.55% 2.24%
2006 1,084,436 73,392,747 0.5% 2.18%
2007 1,090,705 74,602,648 0.58% 1.65%
2008 1,098,091 75,514,204 0.68% 1.22%
2009 1,105,153 76,457,825 0.64% 1.25%
2010 1,111,650 77,420,842 0.59% 1.26%
2011 1,117,833 78,383,598 0.56% 1.24%
2012 1,123,863 79,370,580 0.54% 1.26%
2013 1,129,990 80,414,686 0.55% 1.32%
2014 1,136,299 81,502,045 0.56% 1.35%
2015 1,142,813 82,619,362 0.57% 1.37%
2016 1,149,507 83,812,228 0.59% 1.44%
2017 1,158,195 85,026,754 0.76% 1.45%
2018 1,168,929 86,117,998 0.93% 1.28%
2019 1,179,874 87,051,648 0.94% 1.08%
2020 1,192,729 87,723,443 1.09% 0.77%
2021 1,206,593 88,455,488 1.16% 0.83%
2022 1,218,917 89,524,246 1.02% 1.21%
2023 1,230,506 90,608,707 0.95% 1.21%
2024 1,242,822 91,567,738 1% 1.06%
2025 1,256,168 92,417,685 1.07% 0.93%
2026 1,269,854 93,168,494 1.09% 0.81%
2027 1,283,222 93,838,646 1.05% 0.72%
2028 1,295,964 94,440,024 0.99% 0.64%
2029 1,308,342 94,985,102 0.96% 0.58%
2030 1,320,904 95,486,672 0.96% 0.53%
2031 1,333,159 95,960,723 0.93% 0.5%
2032 1,344,893 96,415,457 0.88% 0.47%
2033 1,356,736 96,850,659 0.88% 0.45%
2034 1,368,346 97,271,044 0.86% 0.43%
2035 1,379,413 97,679,258 0.81% 0.42%
2036 1,390,148 98,075,324 0.78% 0.41%
2037 1,400,439 98,458,805 0.74% 0.39%
2038 1,410,496 98,828,318 0.72% 0.38%
2039 1,420,444 99,182,806 0.71% 0.36%
2040 1,429,771 99,524,286 0.66% 0.34%
2041 1,439,042 99,853,719 0.65% 0.33%
2042 1,448,106 100,167,076 0.63% 0.31%
2043 1,456,448 100,462,092 0.58% 0.29%
2044 1,464,359 100,737,592 0.54% 0.27%
2045 1,472,135 100,990,622 0.53% 0.25%
2046 1,479,603 101,219,689 0.51% 0.23%
2047 1,486,494 101,424,009 0.47% 0.2%
2048 1,493,017 101,601,932 0.44% 0.18%
2049 1,499,424 101,748,544 0.43% 0.14%
2050 1,505,327 101,862,002 0.39% 0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Eswatini increased by 63,791 people (a 5.91% growth), while Iran gained 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Eswatini gained 124,348 (a 10.9% growth), while Iran's population increased by 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth).

Eswatini was ranked 152nd most populous country in 2005 and is 156th in 2025. Iran was ranked 17th in 2005 and still ranked 17th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Eswatini's population will grow by 18.8% to 1,505,327 people with a rank change from 156th to 154th. The population of Iran will increase by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people and rank change from 17th to 18th.

Biggest cities by population

Eswatini
City Population
Manzini 111K
Mbabane 60.7K
Iran
City Population
Tehran 8.69M
Mashhad 3M
Isfahan 1.96M
Karaj 1.59M
Shiraz 1.57M
Tabriz 1.56M
Qom 1.2M
Ahvaz 1.18M
Kermanshah 947K
Urmia 736K

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