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Population in Guinea-Bissau compared to Iran: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Guinea-Bissau was 2,201,352 in 2024 vs 91,567,738 people in Iran in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Guinea-Bissau's population is 2,288,306 people compared to 93,020,793 in Iran.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 40.7 times bigger than Guinea-Bissau's.
  • Guinea-Bissau is ranked the 146th most populous country in the world, while Iran is the 17th.
  • The countries together account for 1.15% of the world: 0.03% for Guinea-Bissau vs 1.13% for Iran.
  • For the last 10 years, Guinea-Bissau has had an average growth rate of +2.4% per year vs +1.19% in Iran.
  • Since 2005, the population of Guinea-Bissau has increased from 1.38M people to 2.29M (65.6% growth), while Iran has grown from 71.8M to 93M (29.5% growth).
  • Guinea-Bissau is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 4.67M people compared to the peak of 102M people in 2053 for Iran.

Guinea-Bissau vs Iran: live population counter

Guinea-Bissau Iran
Current population
2288306
93020793
Population rank 146/197 17/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 1.13%
One net population change
10.9 minutes
32.9 seconds
One birth every
8.13 minutes
26.9 seconds
One death every
34.6 minutes
1.24 minutes
One migration net change every
5.12 hours
2.76 minutes
Annual migration change -1,712 +190,156
Daily growth/decline +132 +2,627
Annual growth/decline +48,013 +959,031
Annual growth/decline rate +2.23% +1.06%
Population growth rate rank 44/197 100/197

Guinea-Bissau and Iran: population history and growth rate by year chart

Guinea-Bissau
Population

Growth rate
Iran
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Guinea-Bissau Iran Guinea-Bissau Iran
1960 577,633 21,470,434 - -
1961 582,532 22,125,726 0.85% 3.05%
1962 589,474 22,807,907 1.19% 3.08%
1963 594,418 23,519,005 0.84% 3.12%
1964 588,543 24,262,859 -0.99% 3.16%
1965 575,005 25,036,978 -2.3% 3.19%
1966 566,908 25,829,270 -1.41% 3.16%
1967 569,011 26,628,432 0.37% 3.09%
1968 578,170 27,437,391 1.61% 3.04%
1969 581,610 28,273,482 0.59% 3.05%
1970 584,403 29,145,100 0.48% 3.08%
1971 586,221 30,029,071 0.31% 3.03%
1972 586,620 30,921,179 0.07% 2.97%
1973 592,808 31,839,838 1.05% 2.97%
1974 613,338 32,796,463 3.46% 3%
1975 650,966 33,802,973 6.13% 3.07%
1976 694,191 34,837,271 6.64% 3.06%
1977 741,789 35,933,181 6.86% 3.15%
1978 791,694 37,126,535 6.73% 3.32%
1979 819,867 38,424,952 3.56% 3.5%
1980 829,303 39,842,324 1.15% 3.69%
1981 842,432 41,989,312 1.58% 5.39%
1982 855,891 44,272,141 1.6% 5.44%
1983 869,592 46,029,535 1.6% 3.97%
1984 883,519 47,793,998 1.6% 3.83%
1985 897,697 49,582,289 1.6% 3.74%
1986 912,126 51,446,045 1.61% 3.76%
1987 926,862 53,323,493 1.62% 3.65%
1988 942,061 55,072,694 1.64% 3.28%
1989 957,789 56,704,914 1.67% 2.96%
1990 973,669 58,380,092 1.66% 2.95%
1991 994,639 59,986,931 2.15% 2.75%
1992 1,024,356 61,184,983 2.99% 2%
1993 1,058,745 61,403,543 3.36% 0.36%
1994 1,092,031 61,520,598 3.14% 0.19%
1995 1,119,949 62,205,567 2.56% 1.11%
1996 1,143,535 62,881,300 2.11% 1.09%
1997 1,165,545 63,639,638 1.92% 1.21%
1998 1,187,473 64,519,859 1.88% 1.38%
1999 1,210,206 65,445,391 1.91% 1.43%
2000 1,234,741 66,418,659 2.03% 1.49%
2001 1,261,273 67,452,005 2.15% 1.56%
2002 1,289,307 68,011,317 2.22% 0.83%
2003 1,318,806 68,769,340 2.29% 1.11%
2004 1,349,563 70,256,316 2.33% 2.16%
2005 1,381,585 71,828,455 2.37% 2.24%
2006 1,415,303 73,392,747 2.44% 2.18%
2007 1,450,986 74,602,648 2.52% 1.65%
2008 1,488,054 75,514,204 2.55% 1.22%
2009 1,526,377 76,457,825 2.58% 1.25%
2010 1,566,347 77,420,842 2.62% 1.26%
2011 1,608,076 78,383,598 2.66% 1.24%
2012 1,651,417 79,370,580 2.7% 1.26%
2013 1,695,973 80,414,686 2.7% 1.32%
2014 1,741,122 81,502,045 2.66% 1.35%
2015 1,786,457 82,619,362 2.6% 1.37%
2016 1,831,893 83,812,228 2.54% 1.44%
2017 1,877,072 85,026,754 2.47% 1.45%
2018 1,922,168 86,117,998 2.4% 1.28%
2019 1,967,696 87,051,648 2.37% 1.08%
2020 2,013,255 87,723,443 2.32% 0.77%
2021 2,058,841 88,455,488 2.26% 0.83%
2022 2,105,529 89,524,246 2.27% 1.21%
2023 2,153,339 90,608,707 2.27% 1.21%
2024 2,201,352 91,567,738 2.23% 1.06%
2025 2,249,512 92,417,685 2.19% 0.93%
2026 2,297,807 93,168,494 2.15% 0.81%
2027 2,346,190 93,838,646 2.11% 0.72%
2028 2,394,226 94,440,024 2.05% 0.64%
2029 2,441,574 94,985,102 1.98% 0.58%
2030 2,488,931 95,486,672 1.94% 0.53%
2031 2,536,893 95,960,723 1.93% 0.5%
2032 2,585,565 96,415,457 1.92% 0.47%
2033 2,634,701 96,850,659 1.9% 0.45%
2034 2,683,078 97,271,044 1.84% 0.43%
2035 2,730,136 97,679,258 1.75% 0.42%
2036 2,777,887 98,075,324 1.75% 0.41%
2037 2,826,159 98,458,805 1.74% 0.39%
2038 2,873,929 98,828,318 1.69% 0.38%
2039 2,921,973 99,182,806 1.67% 0.36%
2040 2,969,699 99,524,286 1.63% 0.34%
2041 3,016,537 99,853,719 1.58% 0.33%
2042 3,063,161 100,167,076 1.55% 0.31%
2043 3,109,927 100,462,092 1.53% 0.29%
2044 3,156,704 100,737,592 1.5% 0.27%
2045 3,204,242 100,990,622 1.51% 0.25%
2046 3,251,465 101,219,689 1.47% 0.23%
2047 3,298,563 101,424,009 1.45% 0.2%
2048 3,345,853 101,601,932 1.43% 0.18%
2049 3,392,557 101,748,544 1.4% 0.14%
2050 3,438,597 101,862,002 1.36% 0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Guinea-Bissau increased by 404,872 people (a 29.3% growth), while Iran gained 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Guinea-Bissau gained 501,849 (a 28.1% growth), while Iran's population increased by 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth).

Guinea-Bissau was ranked 148th most populous country in 2005 and is 146th in 2025. Iran was ranked 17th in 2005 and still ranked 17th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Guinea-Bissau's population will grow by 50.3% to 3,438,597 people with a rank change from 146th to 136th. The population of Iran will increase by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people and rank change from 17th to 18th.

Biggest cities by population

Guinea-Bissau
City Population
Bissau 492K
Bafata 29.6K
Iran
City Population
Tehran 8.69M
Mashhad 3M
Isfahan 1.96M
Karaj 1.59M
Shiraz 1.57M
Tabriz 1.56M
Qom 1.2M
Ahvaz 1.18M
Kermanshah 947K
Urmia 736K

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