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Population in Greece compared to Tanzania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Greece was 10,388,805 in 2024 vs 68,560,157 people in Tanzania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Greece's population is 10,276,140 people compared to 72,166,806 in Tanzania.

Population statistics:

  • Tanzania's population is 7.02 times bigger than Greece's.
  • Greece is ranked the 95th most populous country in the world, while Tanzania is the 20th.
  • The countries together account for 1% of the world: 0.12% for Greece vs 0.87% for Tanzania.
  • For the last 10 years, Greece has had an average growth rate of -0.49% per year vs +3.13% in Tanzania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Greece has decreased from 11M people to 10.3M (6.47% decline), while Tanzania has grown from 39.2M to 72.2M (84.2% growth).
  • Tanzania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 263M people, while Greece's population already peaked in 2010 at 11.1M people and is projected to decrease to 6.49M people by 2100.

Greece vs Tanzania: live population counter

Greece Tanzania
Current population
10276140
72166806
Population rank 95/197 20/197
Percent of world population 0.12% 0.87%
One net population change
31.3 minutes
16.2 seconds
One birth every
7.43 minutes
13.4 seconds
One death every
4.14 minutes
1.36 minutes
One migration net change every
4.28 minutes
17.6 minutes
Annual migration change -122,772 -29,865
Daily growth/decline -46 +5,322
Annual growth/decline -16,783 +1,942,551
Annual growth/decline rate -0.16% +2.92%
Population growth rate rank 175/197 19/197

Greece and Tanzania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Greece
Population

Growth rate
Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Greece Tanzania Greece Tanzania
1960 8,331,725 9,901,419 - -
1961 8,398,050 10,187,886 0.8% 2.89%
1962 8,448,233 10,487,756 0.6% 2.94%
1963 8,479,625 10,799,528 0.37% 2.97%
1964 8,510,429 11,127,826 0.36% 3.04%
1965 8,550,333 11,470,728 0.47% 3.08%
1966 8,613,651 11,827,459 0.74% 3.11%
1967 8,684,088 12,200,109 0.82% 3.15%
1968 8,740,765 12,602,076 0.65% 3.29%
1969 8,772,764 13,036,700 0.37% 3.45%
1970 8,792,806 13,492,677 0.23% 3.5%
1971 8,831,036 13,971,451 0.43% 3.55%
1972 8,888,628 14,479,308 0.65% 3.63%
1973 8,929,086 15,010,101 0.46% 3.67%
1974 8,962,022 15,561,630 0.37% 3.67%
1975 9,046,541 16,138,361 0.94% 3.71%
1976 9,188,150 16,736,211 1.57% 3.7%
1977 9,308,479 17,352,929 1.31% 3.68%
1978 9,429,959 17,976,566 1.31% 3.59%
1979 9,548,258 18,592,038 1.25% 3.42%
1980 9,642,505 19,189,769 0.99% 3.21%
1981 9,729,350 19,784,703 0.9% 3.1%
1982 9,789,513 20,398,571 0.62% 3.1%
1983 9,846,627 21,079,874 0.58% 3.34%
1984 9,895,801 21,779,066 0.5% 3.32%
1985 9,934,300 22,501,693 0.39% 3.32%
1986 9,967,213 23,258,959 0.33% 3.37%
1987 10,000,595 24,030,378 0.33% 3.32%
1988 10,036,983 24,769,686 0.36% 3.08%
1989 10,089,498 25,438,759 0.52% 2.7%
1990 10,196,792 26,110,207 1.06% 2.64%
1991 10,319,927 26,780,436 1.21% 2.57%
1992 10,399,061 27,457,588 0.77% 2.53%
1993 10,460,415 28,332,692 0.59% 3.19%
1994 10,512,922 29,442,356 0.5% 3.92%
1995 10,562,153 30,383,497 0.47% 3.2%
1996 10,608,800 30,945,762 0.44% 1.85%
1997 10,661,259 31,578,089 0.49% 2.04%
1998 10,720,509 32,420,458 0.56% 2.67%
1999 10,761,698 33,300,330 0.38% 2.71%
2000 10,805,808 34,260,139 0.41% 2.88%
2001 10,862,132 35,198,299 0.52% 2.74%
2002 10,902,022 36,121,304 0.37% 2.62%
2003 10,928,070 37,089,555 0.24% 2.68%
2004 10,955,141 38,109,668 0.25% 2.75%
2005 10,987,314 39,182,076 0.29% 2.81%
2006 11,020,362 40,294,902 0.3% 2.84%
2007 11,048,473 41,435,512 0.26% 2.83%
2008 11,077,841 42,570,728 0.27% 2.74%
2009 11,107,017 43,633,982 0.26% 2.5%
2010 11,121,341 44,758,488 0.13% 2.58%
2011 11,104,899 46,029,367 -0.15% 2.84%
2012 11,045,011 47,374,260 -0.54% 2.92%
2013 10,965,211 48,824,128 -0.72% 3.06%
2014 10,892,413 50,351,512 -0.66% 3.13%
2015 10,820,883 52,020,962 -0.66% 3.32%
2016 10,775,971 53,824,013 -0.42% 3.47%
2017 10,754,679 55,652,890 -0.2% 3.4%
2018 10,732,882 57,437,145 -0.2% 3.21%
2019 10,721,582 59,174,891 -0.11% 3.03%
2020 10,698,599 60,972,798 -0.21% 3.04%
2021 10,569,207 62,830,412 -1.21% 3.05%
2022 10,436,882 64,711,821 -1.25% 2.99%
2023 10,405,588 66,617,606 -0.3% 2.95%
2024 10,388,805 68,560,157 -0.16% 2.92%
2025 10,276,140 70,545,858 -1.08% 2.9%
2026 10,232,997 72,563,773 -0.42% 2.86%
2027 10,188,386 74,604,804 -0.44% 2.81%
2028 10,143,203 76,670,483 -0.44% 2.77%
2029 10,097,603 78,773,192 -0.45% 2.74%
2030 10,051,921 80,913,118 -0.45% 2.72%
2031 10,006,045 83,087,927 -0.46% 2.69%
2032 9,959,048 85,293,126 -0.47% 2.65%
2033 9,911,765 87,520,491 -0.47% 2.61%
2034 9,865,342 89,788,673 -0.47% 2.59%
2035 9,818,783 92,091,418 -0.47% 2.56%
2036 9,772,426 94,420,808 -0.47% 2.53%
2037 9,726,502 96,775,766 -0.47% 2.49%
2038 9,680,639 99,156,465 -0.47% 2.46%
2039 9,635,315 101,567,525 -0.47% 2.43%
2040 9,590,401 103,999,350 -0.47% 2.39%
2041 9,545,637 106,448,475 -0.47% 2.35%
2042 9,501,568 108,926,272 -0.46% 2.33%
2043 9,457,398 111,433,788 -0.46% 2.3%
2044 9,411,943 113,966,263 -0.48% 2.27%
2045 9,365,737 116,525,463 -0.49% 2.25%
2046 9,319,023 119,109,670 -0.5% 2.22%
2047 9,269,970 121,721,018 -0.53% 2.19%
2048 9,218,699 124,351,294 -0.55% 2.16%
2049 9,165,668 126,981,394 -0.58% 2.12%
2050 9,111,122 129,621,083 -0.6% 2.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Greece decreased by 166,431 people (a 1.51% decline), while Tanzania gained 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Greece lost -544,743 (a 5.03% decline), while Tanzania's population increased by 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth).

Greece was ranked 74th most populous country in 2005 and is 95th in 2025. Tanzania was ranked 31st in 2005 and ranked 20th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Greece's population will shrink by 11.3% to 9,111,122 people with a rank change from 95th to 106th. The population of Tanzania will increase by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people and rank change from 20th to 15th.

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