Population in Ghana compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Ghana and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Ghana	Papua New Guinea	Ghana	Papua New Guinea
1960	6,961,215	1,995,110	-	-
1961	7,162,667	2,046,127	2.89%	2.56%
1962	7,337,375	2,093,919	2.44%	2.34%
1963	7,514,714	2,141,376	2.42%	2.27%
1964	7,695,739	2,188,325	2.41%	2.19%
1965	7,882,606	2,235,820	2.43%	2.17%
1966	8,074,521	2,285,774	2.43%	2.23%
1967	8,271,913	2,337,532	2.44%	2.26%
1968	8,475,729	2,390,803	2.46%	2.28%
1969	8,690,383	2,446,927	2.53%	2.35%
1970	8,925,813	2,505,628	2.71%	2.4%
1971	9,176,264	2,566,421	2.81%	2.43%
1972	9,438,187	2,628,432	2.85%	2.42%
1973	9,714,617	2,690,629	2.93%	2.37%
1974	10,000,523	2,752,671	2.94%	2.31%
1975	10,294,308	2,814,820	2.94%	2.26%
1976	10,594,913	2,877,327	2.92%	2.22%
1977	10,911,871	2,940,327	2.99%	2.19%
1978	11,248,450	3,003,714	3.08%	2.16%
1979	11,597,255	3,067,341	3.1%	2.12%
1980	11,941,448	3,131,512	2.97%	2.09%
1981	12,281,712	3,197,019	2.85%	2.09%
1982	12,643,819	3,264,291	2.95%	2.1%
1983	13,029,836	3,333,633	3.05%	2.12%
1984	13,370,590	3,405,198	2.62%	2.15%
1985	13,661,229	3,478,936	2.17%	2.17%
1986	13,965,217	3,554,793	2.23%	2.18%
1987	14,289,108	3,632,543	2.32%	2.19%
1988	14,636,568	3,711,880	2.43%	2.18%
1989	15,006,813	3,796,078	2.53%	2.27%
1990	15,394,648	3,896,481	2.58%	2.64%
1991	15,787,496	4,021,837	2.55%	3.22%
1992	16,184,855	4,166,699	2.52%	3.6%
1993	16,589,519	4,320,872	2.5%	3.7%
1994	16,993,190	4,480,208	2.43%	3.69%
1995	17,399,017	4,644,278	2.39%	3.66%
1996	17,810,181	4,813,361	2.36%	3.64%
1997	18,238,958	4,987,883	2.41%	3.63%
1998	18,688,036	5,166,390	2.46%	3.58%
1999	19,149,864	5,349,333	2.47%	3.54%
2000	19,637,087	5,537,064	2.54%	3.51%
2001	20,167,069	5,728,435	2.7%	3.46%
2002	20,729,388	5,924,003	2.79%	3.41%
2003	21,296,705	6,123,997	2.74%	3.38%
2004	21,868,298	6,328,041	2.68%	3.33%
2005	22,449,438	6,535,905	2.66%	3.28%
2006	23,040,702	6,747,720	2.63%	3.24%
2007	23,642,279	6,963,345	2.61%	3.2%
2008	24,249,946	7,183,002	2.57%	3.15%
2009	24,862,664	7,406,438	2.53%	3.11%
2010	25,474,995	7,633,523	2.46%	3.07%
2011	26,095,088	7,859,346	2.43%	2.96%
2012	26,734,268	8,081,390	2.45%	2.83%
2013	27,386,193	8,302,698	2.44%	2.74%
2014	28,041,592	8,523,441	2.39%	2.66%
2015	28,696,068	8,743,246	2.33%	2.58%
2016	29,356,742	8,961,718	2.3%	2.5%
2017	30,008,354	9,178,714	2.22%	2.42%
2018	30,637,585	9,394,513	2.1%	2.35%
2019	31,258,945	9,609,010	2.03%	2.28%
2020	31,887,809	9,815,746	2.01%	2.15%
2021	32,518,665	10,012,896	1.98%	2.01%
2022	33,149,152	10,203,169	1.94%	1.9%
2023	33,787,914	10,389,635	1.93%	1.83%
2024	34,427,414	10,576,502	1.89%	1.8%
2025	35,064,273	10,762,813	1.85%	1.76%
2026	35,697,555	10,947,845	1.81%	1.72%
2027	36,328,265	11,131,268	1.77%	1.68%
2028	36,959,310	11,312,895	1.74%	1.63%
2029	37,589,709	11,492,799	1.71%	1.59%
2030	38,222,075	11,671,420	1.68%	1.55%
2031	38,856,804	11,848,221	1.66%	1.51%
2032	39,492,788	12,023,121	1.64%	1.48%
2033	40,132,720	12,196,639	1.62%	1.44%
2034	40,774,152	12,369,248	1.6%	1.42%
2035	41,412,555	12,540,596	1.57%	1.39%
2036	42,047,450	12,710,682	1.53%	1.36%
2037	42,682,177	12,879,737	1.51%	1.33%
2038	43,314,971	13,047,122	1.48%	1.3%
2039	43,942,852	13,212,668	1.45%	1.27%
2040	44,568,346	13,376,156	1.42%	1.24%
2041	45,190,628	13,537,361	1.4%	1.21%
2042	45,808,597	13,696,139	1.37%	1.17%
2043	46,421,960	13,853,410	1.34%	1.15%
2044	47,030,351	14,009,926	1.31%	1.13%
2045	47,634,271	14,165,578	1.28%	1.11%
2046	48,231,602	14,318,889	1.25%	1.08%
2047	48,823,456	14,469,210	1.23%	1.05%
2048	49,408,506	14,617,364	1.2%	1.02%
2049	49,984,435	14,763,600	1.17%	1%
2050	50,553,041	14,906,584	1.14%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ghana increased by 6,246,630 people (a 27.8% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ghana gained 6,876,906 (a 24% growth), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Ghana was ranked 49th most populous country in 2005 and is 47th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Ghana's population will grow by 42.1% to 50,553,041 people with a rank change from 47th to 42nd. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.