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Population in Honduras compared to South Africa: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Honduras was 10,825,703 in 2024 vs 64,007,187 people in South Africa in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Honduras' population is 11,149,564 people compared to 65,314,246 in South Africa.

Population statistics:

  • South Africa's population is 5.86 times bigger than Honduras'.
  • Honduras is ranked the 87th most populous country in the world, while South Africa is the 24th.
  • The countries together account for 0.92% of the world: 0.13% for Honduras vs 0.79% for South Africa.
  • For the last 10 years, Honduras has had an average growth rate of +1.81% per year vs +1.44% in South Africa.
  • Since 2005, the population of Honduras has increased from 7.48M people to 11.1M (49.1% growth), while South Africa has grown from 49.5M to 65.3M (32% growth).
  • Honduras is projected to reach its peak in 2090 at 17.1M people compared to the peak of 94.3M people in 2100 for South Africa.

Honduras vs South Africa: live population counter

Honduras South Africa
Current population
11149564
65314246
Population rank 87/197 24/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 0.79%
One net population change
2.91 minutes
39.7 seconds
One birth every
2.25 minutes
26.6 seconds
One death every
11 minutes
54 seconds
One migration net change every
1.82 hours
3.15 minutes
Annual migration change -4,821 +166,972
Daily growth/decline +495 +2,178
Annual growth/decline +180,852 +794,803
Annual growth/decline rate +1.7% +1.26%
Population growth rate rank 67/197 87/197

Honduras and South Africa: population history and growth rate by year chart

Honduras
Population

Growth rate
South Africa
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Honduras South Africa Honduras South Africa
1960 2,062,060 16,440,172 - -
1961 2,121,242 16,908,035 2.87% 2.85%
1962 2,182,064 17,418,522 2.87% 3.02%
1963 2,244,878 17,954,564 2.88% 3.08%
1964 2,309,855 18,511,361 2.89% 3.1%
1965 2,377,157 19,089,380 2.91% 3.12%
1966 2,446,751 19,690,087 2.93% 3.15%
1967 2,518,648 20,314,066 2.94% 3.17%
1968 2,593,057 20,957,287 2.95% 3.17%
1969 2,670,289 21,614,676 2.98% 3.14%
1970 2,750,715 22,279,984 3.01% 3.08%
1971 2,834,616 22,942,143 3.05% 2.97%
1972 2,922,064 23,609,456 3.09% 2.91%
1973 3,011,459 24,294,263 3.06% 2.9%
1974 3,099,836 24,989,108 2.93% 2.86%
1975 3,193,234 25,690,940 3.01% 2.81%
1976 3,294,457 26,395,450 3.17% 2.74%
1977 3,398,655 27,118,952 3.16% 2.74%
1978 3,505,463 27,869,507 3.14% 2.77%
1979 3,614,981 28,634,162 3.12% 2.74%
1980 3,727,173 29,518,857 3.1% 3.09%
1981 3,841,778 30,541,044 3.07% 3.46%
1982 3,958,728 31,615,339 3.04% 3.52%
1983 4,078,174 32,739,304 3.02% 3.56%
1984 4,199,850 33,892,788 2.98% 3.52%
1985 4,323,342 35,042,093 2.94% 3.39%
1986 4,448,899 36,180,515 2.9% 3.25%
1987 4,576,910 37,326,190 2.88% 3.17%
1988 4,707,677 38,480,649 2.86% 3.09%
1989 4,841,838 39,628,575 2.85% 2.98%
1990 4,980,488 40,746,268 2.86% 2.82%
1991 5,123,792 41,687,898 2.88% 2.31%
1992 5,271,431 42,443,509 2.88% 1.81%
1993 5,423,249 43,297,156 2.88% 2.01%
1994 5,579,242 44,004,139 2.88% 1.63%
1995 5,739,637 44,541,554 2.87% 1.22%
1996 5,903,954 45,123,018 2.86% 1.31%
1997 6,071,454 45,666,838 2.84% 1.21%
1998 6,234,431 46,223,880 2.68% 1.22%
1999 6,400,463 46,730,335 2.66% 1.1%
2000 6,577,773 47,159,719 2.77% 0.92%
2001 6,757,993 47,566,800 2.74% 0.86%
2002 6,938,859 48,019,415 2.68% 0.95%
2003 7,119,213 48,500,348 2.6% 1%
2004 7,298,994 48,991,421 2.53% 1.01%
2005 7,478,355 49,490,033 2.46% 1.02%
2006 7,656,832 49,998,277 2.39% 1.03%
2007 7,834,798 50,528,584 2.32% 1.06%
2008 8,012,587 51,114,599 2.27% 1.16%
2009 8,189,899 51,728,516 2.21% 1.2%
2010 8,365,878 52,344,051 2.15% 1.19%
2011 8,540,583 52,995,205 2.09% 1.24%
2012 8,715,076 53,782,567 2.04% 1.49%
2013 8,889,278 54,678,791 2% 1.67%
2014 9,063,122 55,594,838 1.96% 1.68%
2015 9,237,305 56,723,537 1.92% 2.03%
2016 9,412,380 57,259,551 1.9% 0.94%
2017 9,588,137 57,635,162 1.87% 0.66%
2018 9,765,210 58,613,001 1.85% 1.7%
2019 9,943,633 59,587,885 1.83% 1.66%
2020 10,119,640 60,562,381 1.77% 1.64%
2021 10,289,877 61,502,603 1.68% 1.55%
2022 10,463,872 62,378,410 1.69% 1.42%
2023 10,644,851 63,212,384 1.73% 1.34%
2024 10,825,703 64,007,187 1.7% 1.26%
2025 11,005,850 64,747,317 1.66% 1.16%
2026 11,184,760 65,453,086 1.63% 1.09%
2027 11,362,224 66,143,018 1.59% 1.05%
2028 11,538,364 66,830,384 1.55% 1.04%
2029 11,712,882 67,506,850 1.51% 1.01%
2030 11,885,318 68,161,357 1.47% 0.97%
2031 12,055,532 68,798,574 1.43% 0.93%
2032 12,223,559 69,426,441 1.39% 0.91%
2033 12,389,375 70,040,484 1.36% 0.88%
2034 12,552,871 70,641,572 1.32% 0.86%
2035 12,714,113 71,234,749 1.28% 0.84%
2036 12,873,077 71,816,372 1.25% 0.82%
2037 13,029,496 72,387,807 1.22% 0.8%
2038 13,183,524 72,949,611 1.18% 0.78%
2039 13,335,254 73,496,152 1.15% 0.75%
2040 13,484,651 74,035,615 1.12% 0.73%
2041 13,631,907 74,575,444 1.09% 0.73%
2042 13,776,955 75,111,899 1.06% 0.72%
2043 13,919,665 75,641,512 1.04% 0.71%
2044 14,060,018 76,164,461 1.01% 0.69%
2045 14,197,949 76,681,448 0.98% 0.68%
2046 14,333,292 77,199,542 0.95% 0.68%
2047 14,465,842 77,716,650 0.92% 0.67%
2048 14,595,534 78,215,323 0.9% 0.64%
2049 14,722,485 78,699,584 0.87% 0.62%
2050 14,846,778 79,177,329 0.84% 0.61%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Honduras increased by 1,758,950 people (a 23.5% growth), while South Africa gained 7,233,504 people (a 14.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Honduras gained 1,912,259 (a 20.7% growth), while South Africa's population increased by 8,590,709 (a 15.1% growth).

Honduras was ranked 95th most populous country in 2005 and is 87th in 2025. South Africa was ranked 24th in 2005 and still ranked 24th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Honduras' population will grow by 33.2% to 14,846,778 people with a rank change from 87th to 86th. The population of South Africa will increase by 21.2% to 79,177,329 people and rank change from 24th to 23rd.

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