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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Ethiopia was 132,059,767 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Ethiopia's population is 138,227,398 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Ethiopia's population is 5.93 times bigger than Taiwan's.
  • Ethiopia is ranked the 10th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 1.95% of the world: 1.67% for Ethiopia vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Ethiopia has had an average growth rate of +2.71% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Ethiopia has increased from 78.4M people to 138M (76.4% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Ethiopia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 367M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

Ethiopia vs Taiwan: live population counter

Ethiopia Taiwan
Current population
138227398
23308308
Population rank 10/197 60/197
Percent of world population 1.67% 0.28%
One net population change
9.36 seconds
7.75 minutes
One birth every
7.68 seconds
3.9 minutes
One death every
41.1 seconds
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
17.5 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +30,069 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +9,228 +186
Annual growth/decline +3,368,075 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 26/197 150/197

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

Ethiopia
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Ethiopia Taiwan Ethiopia Taiwan
1960 21,376,693 - - -
1961 21,906,102 11,030,385 2.48% -
1962 22,465,126 11,392,513 2.55% 3.28%
1963 23,051,637 11,762,101 2.61% 3.24%
1964 23,666,548 12,137,143 2.67% 3.19%
1965 24,310,612 12,511,863 2.72% 3.09%
1966 24,952,689 12,874,153 2.64% 2.9%
1967 25,620,276 13,210,344 2.68% 2.61%
1968 26,337,930 13,548,537 2.8% 2.56%
1969 27,072,571 14,068,984 2.79% 3.84%
1970 27,829,128 14,582,944 2.79% 3.65%
1971 28,600,106 14,913,564 2.77% 2.27%
1972 29,374,608 15,220,495 2.71% 2.06%
1973 30,166,785 15,505,121 2.7% 1.87%
1974 30,957,273 15,784,817 2.62% 1.8%
1975 31,723,252 16,075,128 2.47% 1.84%
1976 32,534,418 16,401,413 2.56% 2.03%
1977 33,167,272 16,730,895 1.95% 2.01%
1978 33,734,592 17,042,272 1.71% 1.86%
1979 34,238,652 17,372,779 1.49% 1.94%
1980 34,428,514 17,704,538 0.55% 1.91%
1981 35,304,012 18,029,982 2.54% 1.84%
1982 36,701,290 18,354,855 3.96% 1.8%
1983 37,740,817 18,653,146 2.83% 1.63%
1984 38,735,722 18,929,866 2.64% 1.48%
1985 39,842,136 19,191,510 2.86% 1.38%
1986 41,037,656 19,411,454 3% 1.15%
1987 42,460,039 19,617,046 3.47% 1.06%
1988 44,150,825 19,839,704 3.98% 1.14%
1989 45,879,690 20,055,492 3.92% 1.09%
1990 47,609,755 20,278,946 3.77% 1.11%
1991 49,717,198 20,503,568 4.43% 1.11%
1992 51,853,747 20,704,227 4.3% 0.98%
1993 53,708,891 20,899,019 3.58% 0.94%
1994 55,611,508 21,086,645 3.54% 0.9%
1995 57,537,335 21,267,653 3.46% 0.86%
1996 59,467,635 21,441,432 3.35% 0.82%
1997 61,404,539 21,634,124 3.26% 0.9%
1998 63,363,524 21,835,703 3.19% 0.93%
1999 65,374,561 22,010,489 3.17% 0.8%
2000 67,411,494 22,184,530 3.12% 0.79%
2001 69,487,762 22,341,120 3.08% 0.71%
2002 71,635,517 22,463,172 3.09% 0.55%
2003 73,832,663 22,562,663 3.07% 0.44%
2004 76,077,206 22,646,836 3.04% 0.37%
2005 78,367,470 22,729,753 3.01% 0.37%
2006 80,703,490 22,823,455 2.98% 0.41%
2007 83,103,217 22,917,444 2.97% 0.41%
2008 85,543,668 22,997,696 2.94% 0.35%
2009 88,007,636 23,078,402 2.88% 0.35%
2010 90,538,514 23,140,948 2.88% 0.27%
2011 93,149,970 23,193,518 2.88% 0.23%
2012 95,798,767 23,270,367 2.84% 0.33%
2013 98,438,751 23,344,670 2.76% 0.32%
2014 101,115,610 23,403,635 2.72% 0.25%
2015 103,867,135 23,462,914 2.72% 0.25%
2016 106,718,162 23,515,945 2.74% 0.23%
2017 109,666,481 23,555,522 2.76% 0.17%
2018 112,664,152 23,580,080 2.73% 0.1%
2019 115,737,383 23,596,027 2.73% 0.07%
2020 118,917,671 23,582,179 2.75% -0.06%
2021 122,138,588 23,468,275 2.71% -0.48%
2022 125,384,287 23,319,977 2.66% -0.63%
2023 128,691,692 23,342,541 2.64% 0.1%
2024 132,059,767 23,410,331 2.62% 0.29%
2025 135,472,043 23,308,308 2.58% -0.44%
2026 138,902,180 23,205,944 2.53% -0.44%
2027 142,364,798 23,102,120 2.49% -0.45%
2028 145,841,255 22,996,693 2.44% -0.46%
2029 149,336,056 22,890,335 2.4% -0.46%
2030 152,855,352 22,781,040 2.36% -0.48%
2031 156,382,425 22,667,327 2.31% -0.5%
2032 159,923,895 22,549,689 2.26% -0.52%
2033 163,453,311 22,428,721 2.21% -0.54%
2034 166,978,790 22,302,402 2.16% -0.56%
2035 170,532,952 22,170,689 2.13% -0.59%
2036 174,097,772 22,034,775 2.09% -0.61%
2037 177,661,132 21,893,029 2.05% -0.64%
2038 181,235,892 21,746,001 2.01% -0.67%
2039 184,835,102 21,594,236 1.99% -0.7%
2040 188,450,900 21,436,947 1.96% -0.73%
2041 192,068,629 21,274,187 1.92% -0.76%
2042 195,695,295 21,105,682 1.89% -0.79%
2043 199,347,978 20,932,105 1.87% -0.82%
2044 203,014,368 20,754,623 1.84% -0.85%
2045 206,673,625 20,571,741 1.8% -0.88%
2046 210,337,847 20,384,903 1.77% -0.91%
2047 214,023,504 20,194,425 1.75% -0.93%
2048 217,710,204 19,999,753 1.72% -0.96%
2049 221,377,329 19,801,293 1.68% -0.99%
2050 225,021,865 19,598,997 1.65% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ethiopia increased by 25,499,665 people (a 32.5% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ethiopia gained 34,360,263 (a 33.1% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Ethiopia was ranked 16th most populous country in 2005 and is 10th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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