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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Guinea-Bissau was 2,201,352 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Guinea-Bissau's population is 2,288,306 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 25.7 times bigger than Guinea-Bissau's.
  • Guinea-Bissau is ranked the 146th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.74% of the world: 0.03% for Guinea-Bissau vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Guinea-Bissau has had an average growth rate of +2.4% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Guinea-Bissau has increased from 1.38M people to 2.29M (65.6% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Guinea-Bissau is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 4.67M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Guinea-Bissau vs Italy: live population counter

Guinea-Bissau Italy
Current population
2288306
58790597
Population rank 146/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.71%
One net population change
10.9 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
8.13 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
34.6 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
5.12 hours
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change -1,712 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +132 -20
Annual growth/decline +48,013 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +2.23% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 44/197 166/197

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

Guinea-Bissau
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Guinea-Bissau Italy Guinea-Bissau Italy
1960 577,633 50,199,700 - -
1961 582,532 50,536,350 0.85% 0.67%
1962 589,474 50,879,450 1.19% 0.68%
1963 594,418 51,252,000 0.84% 0.73%
1964 588,543 51,675,350 -0.99% 0.83%
1965 575,005 52,112,350 -2.3% 0.85%
1966 566,908 52,519,000 -1.41% 0.78%
1967 569,011 52,900,500 0.37% 0.73%
1968 578,170 53,235,750 1.61% 0.63%
1969 581,610 53,537,950 0.59% 0.57%
1970 584,403 53,821,850 0.48% 0.53%
1971 586,221 54,073,490 0.31% 0.47%
1972 586,620 54,381,345 0.07% 0.57%
1973 592,808 54,751,406 1.05% 0.68%
1974 613,338 55,110,868 3.46% 0.66%
1975 650,966 55,441,001 6.13% 0.6%
1976 694,191 55,718,260 6.64% 0.5%
1977 741,789 55,955,411 6.86% 0.43%
1978 791,694 56,155,143 6.73% 0.36%
1979 819,867 56,317,749 3.56% 0.29%
1980 829,303 56,433,883 1.15% 0.21%
1981 842,432 56,501,675 1.58% 0.12%
1982 855,891 56,543,548 1.6% 0.07%
1983 869,592 56,564,074 1.6% 0.04%
1984 883,519 56,576,718 1.6% 0.02%
1985 897,697 56,593,071 1.6% 0.03%
1986 912,126 56,596,155 1.61% 0.005%
1987 926,862 56,601,931 1.62% 0.01%
1988 942,061 56,629,288 1.64% 0.05%
1989 957,789 56,671,781 1.67% 0.08%
1990 973,669 56,719,240 1.66% 0.08%
1991 994,639 56,758,521 2.15% 0.07%
1992 1,024,356 56,797,087 2.99% 0.07%
1993 1,058,745 56,831,821 3.36% 0.06%
1994 1,092,031 56,843,400 3.14% 0.02%
1995 1,119,949 56,844,303 2.56% 0.002%
1996 1,143,535 56,860,281 2.11% 0.03%
1997 1,165,545 56,890,372 1.92% 0.05%
1998 1,187,473 56,906,744 1.88% 0.03%
1999 1,210,206 56,916,317 1.91% 0.02%
2000 1,234,741 56,942,108 2.03% 0.05%
2001 1,261,273 56,976,981 2.15% 0.06%
2002 1,289,307 57,089,824 2.22% 0.2%
2003 1,318,806 57,399,184 2.29% 0.54%
2004 1,349,563 57,828,179 2.33% 0.75%
2005 1,381,585 58,166,682 2.37% 0.59%
2006 1,415,303 58,399,861 2.44% 0.4%
2007 1,450,986 58,756,247 2.52% 0.61%
2008 1,488,054 59,211,181 2.55% 0.77%
2009 1,526,377 59,555,454 2.58% 0.58%
2010 1,566,347 59,819,407 2.62% 0.44%
2011 1,608,076 60,026,841 2.66% 0.35%
2012 1,651,417 60,191,247 2.7% 0.27%
2013 1,695,973 60,311,613 2.7% 0.2%
2014 1,741,122 60,320,707 2.66% 0.02%
2015 1,786,457 60,229,605 2.6% -0.15%
2016 1,831,893 60,115,223 2.54% -0.19%
2017 1,877,072 60,002,252 2.47% -0.19%
2018 1,922,168 60,148,658 2.4% 0.24%
2019 1,967,696 59,729,081 2.37% -0.7%
2020 2,013,255 59,438,851 2.32% -0.49%
2021 2,058,841 59,133,173 2.26% -0.51%
2022 2,105,529 59,013,667 2.27% -0.2%
2023 2,153,339 58,993,475 2.27% -0.03%
2024 2,201,352 58,986,023 2.23% -0.01%
2025 2,249,512 58,790,597 2.19% -0.33%
2026 2,297,807 58,571,823 2.15% -0.37%
2027 2,346,190 58,335,864 2.11% -0.4%
2028 2,394,226 58,094,373 2.05% -0.41%
2029 2,441,574 57,851,042 1.98% -0.42%
2030 2,488,931 57,597,622 1.94% -0.44%
2031 2,536,893 57,333,277 1.93% -0.46%
2032 2,585,565 57,071,235 1.92% -0.46%
2033 2,634,701 56,812,747 1.9% -0.45%
2034 2,683,078 56,548,816 1.84% -0.46%
2035 2,730,136 56,279,536 1.75% -0.48%
2036 2,777,887 56,009,844 1.75% -0.48%
2037 2,826,159 55,737,477 1.74% -0.49%
2038 2,873,929 55,460,735 1.69% -0.5%
2039 2,921,973 55,177,508 1.67% -0.51%
2040 2,969,699 54,889,107 1.63% -0.52%
2041 3,016,537 54,601,628 1.58% -0.52%
2042 3,063,161 54,307,412 1.55% -0.54%
2043 3,109,927 53,997,106 1.53% -0.57%
2044 3,156,704 53,679,603 1.5% -0.59%
2045 3,204,242 53,357,669 1.51% -0.6%
2046 3,251,465 53,025,288 1.47% -0.62%
2047 3,298,563 52,680,150 1.45% -0.65%
2048 3,345,853 52,324,241 1.43% -0.68%
2049 3,392,557 51,959,050 1.4% -0.7%
2050 3,438,597 51,579,060 1.36% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Guinea-Bissau increased by 404,872 people (a 29.3% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Guinea-Bissau gained 501,849 (a 28.1% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Guinea-Bissau was ranked 148th most populous country in 2005 and is 146th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th 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 Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

Biggest cities by population

Guinea-Bissau
City Population
Bissau 492K
Bafata 29.6K
Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K

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