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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Ethiopia was 132,059,767 in 2024 vs 104,175 people in Tonga in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Ethiopia's population is 138,227,398 people compared to 103,744 in Tonga.

Population statistics:

  • Ethiopia's population is 1,332 times bigger than Tonga's.
  • Ethiopia is ranked the 10th most populous country in the world, while Tonga is the 183rd.
  • The countries together account for 1.67% of the world: 1.67% for Ethiopia vs 0.001% for Tonga.
  • For the last 10 years, Ethiopia has had an average growth rate of +2.71% per year vs -0.25% in Tonga.
  • Since 2005, the population of Ethiopia has increased from 78.4M people to 138M (76.4% growth), while Tonga has declined from 106K to 104K (1.82% decline).
  • Ethiopia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 367M people compared to the peak of 118K people in 2100 for Tonga.

Ethiopia vs Tonga: live population counter

Ethiopia Tonga
Current population
138227398
103744
Population rank 10/197 183/197
Percent of world population 1.67% 0.001%
One net population change
9.36 seconds
20.8 hours
One birth every
7.68 seconds
3.62 hours
One death every
41.1 seconds
13 hours
One migration net change every
17.5 minutes
4.08 hours
Annual migration change +30,069 -2,149
Daily growth/decline +9,228 -1
Annual growth/decline +3,368,075 -422
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% -0.4%
Population growth rate rank 26/197 181/197

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

Ethiopia
Population

Growth rate
Tonga
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Ethiopia Tonga Ethiopia Tonga
1960 21,376,693 66,170 - -
1961 21,906,102 68,037 2.48% 2.82%
1962 22,465,126 69,940 2.55% 2.8%
1963 23,051,637 71,885 2.61% 2.78%
1964 23,666,548 73,879 2.67% 2.77%
1965 24,310,612 75,924 2.72% 2.77%
1966 24,952,689 78,002 2.64% 2.74%
1967 25,620,276 79,814 2.68% 2.32%
1968 26,337,930 81,353 2.8% 1.93%
1969 27,072,571 82,885 2.79% 1.88%
1970 27,829,128 84,401 2.79% 1.83%
1971 28,600,106 85,896 2.77% 1.77%
1972 29,374,608 87,356 2.71% 1.7%
1973 30,166,785 88,805 2.7% 1.66%
1974 30,957,273 90,683 2.62% 2.11%
1975 31,723,252 93,017 2.47% 2.57%
1976 32,534,418 95,325 2.56% 2.48%
1977 33,167,272 96,725 1.95% 1.47%
1978 33,734,592 97,204 1.71% 0.5%
1979 34,238,652 97,544 1.49% 0.35%
1980 34,428,514 97,769 0.55% 0.23%
1981 35,304,012 97,909 2.54% 0.14%
1982 36,701,290 97,980 3.96% 0.07%
1983 37,740,817 97,998 2.83% 0.02%
1984 38,735,722 97,990 2.64% -0.008%
1985 39,842,136 97,984 2.86% -0.006%
1986 41,037,656 98,010 3% 0.03%
1987 42,460,039 98,376 3.47% 0.37%
1988 44,150,825 98,969 3.98% 0.6%
1989 45,879,690 99,403 3.92% 0.44%
1990 47,609,755 99,700 3.77% 0.3%
1991 49,717,198 99,895 4.43% 0.2%
1992 51,853,747 100,022 4.3% 0.13%
1993 53,708,891 100,103 3.58% 0.08%
1994 55,611,508 100,166 3.54% 0.06%
1995 57,537,335 100,225 3.46% 0.06%
1996 59,467,635 100,275 3.35% 0.05%
1997 61,404,539 100,674 3.26% 0.4%
1998 63,363,524 101,388 3.19% 0.71%
1999 65,374,561 102,046 3.17% 0.65%
2000 67,411,494 102,677 3.12% 0.62%
2001 69,487,762 103,288 3.08% 0.6%
2002 71,635,517 103,874 3.09% 0.57%
2003 73,832,663 104,464 3.07% 0.57%
2004 76,077,206 105,071 3.04% 0.58%
2005 78,367,470 105,671 3.01% 0.57%
2006 80,703,490 106,253 2.98% 0.55%
2007 83,103,217 106,726 2.97% 0.45%
2008 85,543,668 107,020 2.94% 0.28%
2009 88,007,636 107,203 2.88% 0.17%
2010 90,538,514 107,400 2.88% 0.18%
2011 93,149,970 107,570 2.88% 0.16%
2012 95,798,767 107,460 2.84% -0.1%
2013 98,438,751 107,078 2.76% -0.36%
2014 101,115,610 106,609 2.72% -0.44%
2015 103,867,135 106,095 2.72% -0.48%
2016 106,718,162 105,524 2.74% -0.54%
2017 109,666,481 105,356 2.76% -0.16%
2018 112,664,152 105,567 2.73% 0.2%
2019 115,737,383 105,669 2.73% 0.1%
2020 118,917,671 105,704 2.75% 0.03%
2021 122,138,588 105,490 2.71% -0.2%
2022 125,384,287 105,042 2.66% -0.42%
2023 128,691,692 104,597 2.64% -0.42%
2024 132,059,767 104,175 2.62% -0.4%
2025 135,472,043 103,744 2.58% -0.41%
2026 138,902,180 103,290 2.53% -0.44%
2027 142,364,798 102,899 2.49% -0.38%
2028 145,841,255 102,568 2.44% -0.32%
2029 149,336,056 102,280 2.4% -0.28%
2030 152,855,352 102,069 2.36% -0.21%
2031 156,382,425 101,927 2.31% -0.14%
2032 159,923,895 101,837 2.26% -0.09%
2033 163,453,311 101,807 2.21% -0.03%
2034 166,978,790 101,806 2.16% -0.001%
2035 170,532,952 101,833 2.13% 0.03%
2036 174,097,772 101,895 2.09% 0.06%
2037 177,661,132 101,993 2.05% 0.1%
2038 181,235,892 102,173 2.01% 0.18%
2039 184,835,102 102,367 1.99% 0.19%
2040 188,450,900 102,568 1.96% 0.2%
2041 192,068,629 102,805 1.92% 0.23%
2042 195,695,295 103,038 1.89% 0.23%
2043 199,347,978 103,306 1.87% 0.26%
2044 203,014,368 103,612 1.84% 0.3%
2045 206,673,625 103,928 1.8% 0.3%
2046 210,337,847 104,232 1.77% 0.29%
2047 214,023,504 104,502 1.75% 0.26%
2048 217,710,204 104,744 1.72% 0.23%
2049 221,377,329 104,975 1.68% 0.22%
2050 225,021,865 105,193 1.65% 0.21%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ethiopia increased by 25,499,665 people (a 32.5% growth), while Tonga gained 424 people (a 0.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ethiopia gained 34,360,263 (a 33.1% growth), while Tonga's population decreased by -2,351 (a 2.22% decline).

Ethiopia was ranked 16th most populous country in 2005 and is 10th in 2025. Tonga was ranked 182nd in 2005 and ranked 183rd 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 Tonga will increase by 1.4% to 105,193 people and will still be ranked 183rd.

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