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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Greece was 10,388,805 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Greece's population is 10,276,140 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 6.97 times bigger than Greece's.
  • Greece is ranked the 95th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.99% of the world: 0.12% for Greece vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Greece has had an average growth rate of -0.49% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Greece has decreased from 11M people to 10.3M (6.47% decline), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 26.8% of the population in Greece and 22.9% in Thailand.

Greece vs Thailand: live population counter

Greece Thailand
Current population
10276140
71619867
Population rank 95/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.12% 0.87%
One net population change
31.3 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
7.43 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
4.14 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
4.28 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -122,772 +23,321
Daily growth/decline -46 -94
Annual growth/decline -16,783 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate -0.16% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 175/197 170/197

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

Greece
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Greece Thailand Greece Thailand
1960 8,331,725 26,851,747 - -
1961 8,398,050 27,650,334 0.8% 2.97%
1962 8,448,233 28,481,040 0.6% 3%
1963 8,479,625 29,342,322 0.37% 3.02%
1964 8,510,429 30,232,141 0.36% 3.03%
1965 8,550,333 31,149,337 0.47% 3.03%
1966 8,613,651 32,086,071 0.74% 3.01%
1967 8,684,088 33,037,801 0.82% 2.97%
1968 8,740,765 34,002,560 0.65% 2.92%
1969 8,772,764 34,973,782 0.37% 2.86%
1970 8,792,806 35,954,408 0.23% 2.8%
1971 8,831,036 36,937,387 0.43% 2.73%
1972 8,888,628 37,933,929 0.65% 2.7%
1973 8,929,086 38,947,787 0.46% 2.67%
1974 8,962,022 39,952,891 0.37% 2.58%
1975 9,046,541 40,940,005 0.94% 2.47%
1976 9,188,150 41,896,504 1.57% 2.34%
1977 9,308,479 42,843,974 1.31% 2.26%
1978 9,429,959 43,788,976 1.31% 2.21%
1979 9,548,258 44,718,434 1.25% 2.12%
1980 9,642,505 45,650,022 0.99% 2.08%
1981 9,729,350 46,575,855 0.9% 2.03%
1982 9,789,513 47,494,577 0.62% 1.97%
1983 9,846,627 48,423,309 0.58% 1.96%
1984 9,895,801 49,351,708 0.5% 1.92%
1985 9,934,300 50,270,753 0.39% 1.86%
1986 9,967,213 51,177,834 0.33% 1.8%
1987 10,000,595 52,074,105 0.33% 1.75%
1988 10,036,983 52,969,595 0.36% 1.72%
1989 10,089,498 53,848,956 0.52% 1.66%
1990 10,196,792 54,738,329 1.06% 1.65%
1991 10,319,927 55,637,434 1.21% 1.64%
1992 10,399,061 56,528,834 0.77% 1.6%
1993 10,460,415 57,408,198 0.59% 1.56%
1994 10,512,922 58,260,854 0.5% 1.49%
1995 10,562,153 59,098,232 0.47% 1.44%
1996 10,608,800 59,920,064 0.44% 1.39%
1997 10,661,259 60,724,584 0.49% 1.34%
1998 10,720,509 61,522,630 0.56% 1.31%
1999 10,761,698 62,299,043 0.38% 1.26%
2000 10,805,808 63,007,815 0.41% 1.14%
2001 10,862,132 63,651,141 0.52% 1.02%
2002 10,902,022 64,266,437 0.37% 0.97%
2003 10,928,070 64,868,166 0.24% 0.94%
2004 10,955,141 65,452,047 0.25% 0.9%
2005 10,987,314 66,017,420 0.29% 0.86%
2006 11,020,362 66,567,687 0.3% 0.83%
2007 11,048,473 67,102,394 0.26% 0.8%
2008 11,077,841 67,619,830 0.27% 0.77%
2009 11,107,017 68,121,080 0.26% 0.74%
2010 11,121,341 68,579,447 0.13% 0.67%
2011 11,104,899 69,007,208 -0.15% 0.62%
2012 11,045,011 69,436,098 -0.54% 0.62%
2013 10,965,211 69,845,114 -0.72% 0.59%
2014 10,892,413 70,216,367 -0.66% 0.53%
2015 10,820,883 70,540,795 -0.66% 0.46%
2016 10,775,971 70,859,841 -0.42% 0.45%
2017 10,754,679 71,160,187 -0.2% 0.42%
2018 10,732,882 71,376,079 -0.2% 0.3%
2019 10,721,582 71,522,271 -0.11% 0.2%
2020 10,698,599 71,641,484 -0.21% 0.17%
2021 10,569,207 71,727,332 -1.21% 0.12%
2022 10,436,882 71,735,329 -1.25% 0.01%
2023 10,405,588 71,702,435 -0.3% -0.05%
2024 10,388,805 71,668,011 -0.16% -0.05%
2025 10,276,140 71,619,867 -1.08% -0.07%
2026 10,232,997 71,559,621 -0.42% -0.08%
2027 10,188,386 71,488,156 -0.44% -0.1%
2028 10,143,203 71,406,996 -0.44% -0.11%
2029 10,097,603 71,316,195 -0.45% -0.13%
2030 10,051,921 71,215,017 -0.45% -0.14%
2031 10,006,045 71,104,025 -0.46% -0.16%
2032 9,959,048 70,982,286 -0.47% -0.17%
2033 9,911,765 70,847,947 -0.47% -0.19%
2034 9,865,342 70,701,651 -0.47% -0.21%
2035 9,818,783 70,540,884 -0.47% -0.23%
2036 9,772,426 70,366,496 -0.47% -0.25%
2037 9,726,502 70,180,031 -0.47% -0.26%
2038 9,680,639 69,979,034 -0.47% -0.29%
2039 9,635,315 69,763,928 -0.47% -0.31%
2040 9,590,401 69,535,003 -0.47% -0.33%
2041 9,545,637 69,288,477 -0.47% -0.35%
2042 9,501,568 69,025,348 -0.46% -0.38%
2043 9,457,398 68,748,075 -0.46% -0.4%
2044 9,411,943 68,456,533 -0.48% -0.42%
2045 9,365,737 68,150,148 -0.49% -0.45%
2046 9,319,023 67,827,309 -0.5% -0.47%
2047 9,269,970 67,489,358 -0.53% -0.5%
2048 9,218,699 67,136,737 -0.55% -0.52%
2049 9,165,668 66,767,316 -0.58% -0.55%
2050 9,111,122 66,382,732 -0.6% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Greece decreased by 166,431 people (a 1.51% decline), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Greece lost -544,743 (a 5.03% decline), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Greece was ranked 74th most populous country in 2005 and is 95th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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