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Population in Ethiopia compared to Palau: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Ethiopia was 132,059,767 in 2024 vs 17,695 people in Palau in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Ethiopia's population is 138,227,398 people compared to 17,663 in Palau.

Population statistics:

  • Ethiopia's population is 7,826 times bigger than Palau's.
  • Ethiopia is ranked the 10th most populous country in the world, while Palau is the 194th.
  • The countries together account for 1.67% of the world: 1.67% for Ethiopia vs 0.0002% for Palau.
  • For the last 10 years, Ethiopia has had an average growth rate of +2.71% per year vs +0.02% in Palau.
  • Since 2005, the population of Ethiopia has increased from 78.4M people to 138M (76.4% growth), while Palau has declined from 19.8K to 17.7K (10.9% decline).
  • Ethiopia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 367M people, while Palau's population already peaked in 2004 at 19.8K people and is projected to decrease to 11.1K people by 2100.

Ethiopia vs Palau: live population counter

Ethiopia Palau
Current population
138227398
17663
Population rank 10/197 194/197
Percent of world population 1.67% 0.0002%
One net population change
9.36 seconds
1.63 weeks
One birth every
7.68 seconds
1.89 days
One death every
41.1 seconds
1.8 days
One migration net change every
17.5 minutes
3.72 weeks
Annual migration change +30,069 -14
Daily growth/decline +9,228 +0
Annual growth/decline +3,368,075 -32
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% -0.18%
Population growth rate rank 26/197 176/197

Ethiopia and Palau: population history and growth rate by year chart

Ethiopia
Population

Growth rate
Palau
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Ethiopia Palau Ethiopia Palau
1960 21,376,693 9,328 - -
1961 21,906,102 9,555 2.48% 2.43%
1962 22,465,126 9,793 2.55% 2.49%
1963 23,051,637 10,037 2.61% 2.49%
1964 23,666,548 10,292 2.67% 2.54%
1965 24,310,612 10,547 2.72% 2.48%
1966 24,952,689 10,805 2.64% 2.45%
1967 25,620,276 10,988 2.68% 1.69%
1968 26,337,930 11,080 2.8% 0.84%
1969 27,072,571 11,159 2.79% 0.71%
1970 27,829,128 11,368 2.79% 1.87%
1971 28,600,106 11,759 2.77% 3.44%
1972 29,374,608 12,194 2.71% 3.7%
1973 30,166,785 12,552 2.7% 2.94%
1974 30,957,273 12,687 2.62% 1.08%
1975 31,723,252 12,655 2.47% -0.25%
1976 32,534,418 12,598 2.56% -0.45%
1977 33,167,272 12,525 1.95% -0.58%
1978 33,734,592 12,440 1.71% -0.68%
1979 34,238,652 12,337 1.49% -0.83%
1980 34,428,514 12,271 0.55% -0.53%
1981 35,304,012 12,402 2.54% 1.07%
1982 36,701,290 12,694 3.96% 2.35%
1983 37,740,817 13,006 2.83% 2.46%
1984 38,735,722 13,337 2.64% 2.54%
1985 39,842,136 13,688 2.86% 2.63%
1986 41,037,656 14,024 3% 2.45%
1987 42,460,039 14,334 3.47% 2.21%
1988 44,150,825 14,645 3.98% 2.17%
1989 45,879,690 14,945 3.92% 2.05%
1990 47,609,755 15,259 3.77% 2.1%
1991 49,717,198 15,614 4.43% 2.33%
1992 51,853,747 15,989 4.3% 2.4%
1993 53,708,891 16,372 3.58% 2.4%
1994 55,611,508 16,770 3.54% 2.43%
1995 57,537,335 17,195 3.46% 2.53%
1996 59,467,635 17,654 3.35% 2.67%
1997 61,404,539 18,108 3.26% 2.57%
1998 63,363,524 18,524 3.19% 2.3%
1999 65,374,561 18,901 3.17% 2.04%
2000 67,411,494 19,178 3.12% 1.47%
2001 69,487,762 19,352 3.08% 0.91%
2002 71,635,517 19,503 3.09% 0.78%
2003 73,832,663 19,659 3.07% 0.8%
2004 76,077,206 19,820 3.04% 0.82%
2005 78,367,470 19,819 3.01% -0.005%
2006 80,703,490 19,593 2.98% -1.14%
2007 83,103,217 19,302 2.97% -1.49%
2008 85,543,668 19,009 2.94% -1.52%
2009 88,007,636 18,709 2.88% -1.58%
2010 90,538,514 18,396 2.88% -1.67%
2011 93,149,970 18,078 2.88% -1.73%
2012 95,798,767 17,765 2.84% -1.73%
2013 98,438,751 17,648 2.76% -0.66%
2014 101,115,610 17,715 2.72% 0.38%
2015 103,867,135 17,770 2.72% 0.31%
2016 106,718,162 17,797 2.74% 0.15%
2017 109,666,481 17,812 2.76% 0.08%
2018 112,664,152 17,814 2.73% 0.01%
2019 115,737,383 17,798 2.73% -0.09%
2020 118,917,671 17,792 2.75% -0.03%
2021 122,138,588 17,783 2.71% -0.05%
2022 125,384,287 17,759 2.66% -0.13%
2023 128,691,692 17,727 2.64% -0.18%
2024 132,059,767 17,695 2.62% -0.18%
2025 135,472,043 17,663 2.58% -0.18%
2026 138,902,180 17,618 2.53% -0.25%
2027 142,364,798 17,564 2.49% -0.31%
2028 145,841,255 17,504 2.44% -0.34%
2029 149,336,056 17,436 2.4% -0.39%
2030 152,855,352 17,376 2.36% -0.34%
2031 156,382,425 17,299 2.31% -0.44%
2032 159,923,895 17,228 2.26% -0.41%
2033 163,453,311 17,163 2.21% -0.38%
2034 166,978,790 17,092 2.16% -0.41%
2035 170,532,952 17,012 2.13% -0.47%
2036 174,097,772 16,940 2.09% -0.43%
2037 177,661,132 16,858 2.05% -0.48%
2038 181,235,892 16,779 2.01% -0.47%
2039 184,835,102 16,689 1.99% -0.54%
2040 188,450,900 16,604 1.96% -0.51%
2041 192,068,629 16,510 1.92% -0.57%
2042 195,695,295 16,403 1.89% -0.65%
2043 199,347,978 16,302 1.87% -0.61%
2044 203,014,368 16,202 1.84% -0.62%
2045 206,673,625 16,097 1.8% -0.65%
2046 210,337,847 15,977 1.77% -0.74%
2047 214,023,504 15,863 1.75% -0.71%
2048 217,710,204 15,749 1.72% -0.72%
2049 221,377,329 15,632 1.68% -0.74%
2050 225,021,865 15,515 1.65% -0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ethiopia increased by 25,499,665 people (a 32.5% growth), while Palau lost 2,049 people (a 10.3% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ethiopia gained 34,360,263 (a 33.1% growth), while Palau's population decreased by -107 (a 0.6% decline).

Ethiopia was ranked 16th most populous country in 2005 and is 10th in 2025. Palau was ranked 194th in 2005 and still ranked 194th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Ethiopia's population will grow by 62.8% to 225,021,865 people with a rank change from 10th to 7th. The population of Palau will decrease by 12.2% to 15,515 people and rank change from 194th to 195th.

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