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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Honduras was 10,825,703 in 2024 vs 51,751,065 people in South Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Honduras' population is 11,149,564 people compared to 51,700,480 in South Korea.

Population statistics:

  • South Korea's population is 4.64 times bigger than Honduras'.
  • Honduras is ranked the 87th most populous country in the world, while South Korea is the 31st.
  • The countries together account for 0.76% of the world: 0.13% for Honduras vs 0.63% for South Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Honduras has had an average growth rate of +1.81% per year vs +0.24% in South Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Honduras has increased from 7.48M people to 11.1M (49.1% growth), while South Korea has grown from 48.2M to 51.7M (7.3% growth).
  • Honduras is projected to reach its peak in 2090 at 17.1M people, while South Korea's population already peaked in 2020 at 51.8M people and is projected to decrease to 21.9M people by 2100.

Honduras vs South Korea: live population counter

Honduras South Korea
Current population
11149564
51700480
Population rank 87/197 31/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 0.63%
One net population change
2.91 minutes
13.7 minutes
One birth every
2.25 minutes
2.26 minutes
One death every
11 minutes
1.69 minutes
One migration net change every
1.82 hours
6.92 minutes
Annual migration change -4,821 +75,963
Daily growth/decline +495 +105
Annual growth/decline +180,852 +38,446
Annual growth/decline rate +1.7% +0.07%
Population growth rate rank 67/197 159/197

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

Honduras
Population

Growth rate
South Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Honduras South Korea Honduras South Korea
1960 2,062,060 25,012,374 - -
1961 2,121,242 25,765,673 2.87% 3.01%
1962 2,182,064 26,513,030 2.87% 2.9%
1963 2,244,878 27,261,747 2.88% 2.82%
1964 2,309,855 27,984,155 2.89% 2.65%
1965 2,377,157 28,704,674 2.91% 2.57%
1966 2,446,751 29,435,571 2.93% 2.55%
1967 2,518,648 30,130,983 2.94% 2.36%
1968 2,593,057 30,838,302 2.95% 2.35%
1969 2,670,289 31,544,266 2.98% 2.29%
1970 2,750,715 32,240,827 3.01% 2.21%
1971 2,834,616 32,882,704 3.05% 1.99%
1972 2,922,064 33,505,406 3.09% 1.89%
1973 3,011,459 34,103,149 3.06% 1.78%
1974 3,099,836 34,692,266 2.93% 1.73%
1975 3,193,234 35,280,725 3.01% 1.7%
1976 3,294,457 35,848,523 3.17% 1.61%
1977 3,398,655 36,411,795 3.16% 1.57%
1978 3,505,463 36,969,185 3.14% 1.53%
1979 3,614,981 37,534,236 3.12% 1.53%
1980 3,727,173 38,123,775 3.1% 1.57%
1981 3,841,778 38,723,248 3.07% 1.57%
1982 3,958,728 39,326,352 3.04% 1.56%
1983 4,078,174 39,910,403 3.02% 1.49%
1984 4,199,850 40,405,956 2.98% 1.24%
1985 4,323,342 40,805,744 2.94% 0.99%
1986 4,448,899 41,213,674 2.9% 1%
1987 4,576,910 41,621,690 2.88% 0.99%
1988 4,707,677 42,031,247 2.86% 0.98%
1989 4,841,838 42,449,038 2.85% 0.99%
1990 4,980,488 42,869,283 2.86% 0.99%
1991 5,123,792 43,295,704 2.88% 0.99%
1992 5,271,431 43,747,962 2.88% 1.04%
1993 5,423,249 44,194,628 2.88% 1.02%
1994 5,579,242 44,641,540 2.88% 1.01%
1995 5,739,637 45,092,991 2.87% 1.01%
1996 5,903,954 45,524,681 2.86% 0.96%
1997 6,071,454 45,953,580 2.84% 0.94%
1998 6,234,431 46,286,503 2.68% 0.72%
1999 6,400,463 46,616,677 2.66% 0.71%
2000 6,577,773 47,008,111 2.77% 0.84%
2001 6,757,993 47,370,164 2.74% 0.77%
2002 6,938,859 47,644,736 2.68% 0.58%
2003 7,119,213 47,892,330 2.6% 0.52%
2004 7,298,994 48,082,519 2.53% 0.4%
2005 7,478,355 48,184,561 2.46% 0.21%
2006 7,656,832 48,438,292 2.39% 0.53%
2007 7,834,798 48,683,638 2.32% 0.51%
2008 8,012,587 49,054,708 2.27% 0.76%
2009 8,189,899 49,307,835 2.21% 0.52%
2010 8,365,878 49,554,112 2.15% 0.5%
2011 8,540,583 49,936,638 2.09% 0.77%
2012 8,715,076 50,199,853 2.04% 0.53%
2013 8,889,278 50,428,893 2% 0.46%
2014 9,063,122 50,746,659 1.96% 0.63%
2015 9,237,305 51,014,947 1.92% 0.53%
2016 9,412,380 51,217,803 1.9% 0.4%
2017 9,588,137 51,361,911 1.87% 0.28%
2018 9,765,210 51,585,058 1.85% 0.43%
2019 9,943,633 51,764,822 1.83% 0.35%
2020 10,119,640 51,836,239 1.77% 0.14%
2021 10,289,877 51,769,539 1.68% -0.13%
2022 10,463,872 51,672,569 1.69% -0.19%
2023 10,644,851 51,712,619 1.73% 0.08%
2024 10,825,703 51,751,065 1.7% 0.07%
2025 11,005,850 51,700,480 1.66% -0.1%
2026 11,184,760 51,633,793 1.63% -0.13%
2027 11,362,224 51,552,198 1.59% -0.16%
2028 11,538,364 51,456,707 1.55% -0.19%
2029 11,712,882 51,347,230 1.51% -0.21%
2030 11,885,318 51,221,713 1.47% -0.24%
2031 12,055,532 51,081,220 1.43% -0.27%
2032 12,223,559 50,924,233 1.39% -0.31%
2033 12,389,375 50,747,132 1.36% -0.35%
2034 12,552,871 50,549,508 1.32% -0.39%
2035 12,714,113 50,333,286 1.28% -0.43%
2036 12,873,077 50,098,951 1.25% -0.47%
2037 13,029,496 49,845,669 1.22% -0.51%
2038 13,183,524 49,573,234 1.18% -0.55%
2039 13,335,254 49,283,770 1.15% -0.58%
2040 13,484,651 48,980,369 1.12% -0.62%
2041 13,631,907 48,661,905 1.09% -0.65%
2042 13,776,955 48,331,004 1.06% -0.68%
2043 13,919,665 47,990,085 1.04% -0.71%
2044 14,060,018 47,634,183 1.01% -0.74%
2045 14,197,949 47,263,526 0.98% -0.78%
2046 14,333,292 46,881,228 0.95% -0.81%
2047 14,465,842 46,482,133 0.92% -0.85%
2048 14,595,534 46,063,595 0.9% -0.9%
2049 14,722,485 45,626,805 0.87% -0.95%
2050 14,846,778 45,172,356 0.84% -1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Honduras increased by 1,758,950 people (a 23.5% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Honduras gained 1,912,259 (a 20.7% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Honduras was ranked 95th most populous country in 2005 and is 87th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.

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