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Population in Hungary compared to Japan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Hungary was 9,562,314 in 2024 vs 123,975,371 people in Japan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Hungary's population is 9,518,980 people compared to 123,324,642 in Japan.

Population statistics:

  • Japan's population is 13 times bigger than Hungary's.
  • Hungary is ranked the 98th most populous country in the world, while Japan is the 12th.
  • The countries together account for 1.61% of the world: 0.12% for Hungary vs 1.49% for Japan.
  • For the last 10 years, Hungary has had an average growth rate of -0.29% per year vs -0.25% in Japan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Hungary has decreased from 10.1M people to 9.52M (5.63% decline), while Japan has declined from 128M to 123M (3.48% decline).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 18% of the population in Hungary and 29% in Japan.

Hungary vs Japan: live population counter

Hungary Japan
Current population
9518980
123324642
Population rank 98/197 12/197
Percent of world population 0.12% 1.49%
One net population change
17.6 minutes
58.3 seconds
One birth every
6.02 minutes
42.2 seconds
One death every
4.09 minutes
19.5 seconds
One migration net change every
32.4 minutes
3.43 minutes
Annual migration change +16,223 +153,357
Daily growth/decline -82 -1,483
Annual growth/decline -29,872 -541,279
Annual growth/decline rate -0.31% -0.43%
Population growth rate rank 178/197 182/197

Hungary and Japan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Hungary
Population

Growth rate
Japan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Hungary Japan Hungary Japan
1960 9,983,512 93,216,000 - -
1961 10,027,958 94,055,000 0.45% 0.9%
1962 10,060,825 94,933,000 0.33% 0.93%
1963 10,087,947 95,900,000 0.27% 1.02%
1964 10,119,835 96,903,000 0.32% 1.05%
1965 10,147,935 97,952,000 0.28% 1.08%
1966 10,178,653 98,851,000 0.3% 0.92%
1967 10,216,604 99,879,000 0.37% 1.04%
1968 10,255,815 101,011,000 0.38% 1.13%
1969 10,298,723 102,219,000 0.42% 1.2%
1970 10,337,910 103,403,000 0.38% 1.16%
1971 10,367,537 105,697,000 0.29% 2.22%
1972 10,398,489 107,188,000 0.3% 1.41%
1973 10,432,055 108,707,000 0.32% 1.42%
1974 10,478,720 110,162,000 0.45% 1.34%
1975 10,540,525 111,573,000 0.59% 1.28%
1976 10,598,677 112,775,000 0.55% 1.08%
1977 10,648,031 113,872,000 0.47% 0.97%
1978 10,684,822 114,913,000 0.35% 0.91%
1979 10,704,152 115,890,000 0.18% 0.85%
1980 10,711,122 116,807,000 0.07% 0.79%
1981 10,711,848 117,661,000 0.007% 0.73%
1982 10,705,535 118,480,000 -0.06% 0.7%
1983 10,689,463 119,307,000 -0.15% 0.7%
1984 10,668,095 120,083,000 -0.2% 0.65%
1985 10,648,713 120,837,000 -0.18% 0.63%
1986 10,630,564 121,482,000 -0.17% 0.53%
1987 10,612,741 122,069,000 -0.17% 0.48%
1988 10,596,487 122,578,000 -0.15% 0.42%
1989 10,481,719 123,069,000 -1.08% 0.4%
1990 10,373,988 123,478,000 -1.03% 0.33%
1991 10,373,400 123,964,000 -0.006% 0.39%
1992 10,369,341 124,425,000 -0.04% 0.37%
1993 10,357,523 124,829,000 -0.11% 0.32%
1994 10,343,355 125,178,000 -0.14% 0.28%
1995 10,328,965 125,472,000 -0.14% 0.23%
1996 10,311,238 125,757,000 -0.17% 0.23%
1997 10,290,486 126,057,000 -0.2% 0.24%
1998 10,266,570 126,400,000 -0.23% 0.27%
1999 10,237,530 126,631,000 -0.28% 0.18%
2000 10,210,971 126,843,000 -0.26% 0.17%
2001 10,187,576 127,149,000 -0.23% 0.24%
2002 10,158,608 127,445,000 -0.28% 0.23%
2003 10,129,552 127,718,000 -0.29% 0.21%
2004 10,107,146 127,761,000 -0.22% 0.03%
2005 10,087,065 127,773,000 -0.2% 0.009%
2006 10,071,370 127,854,000 -0.16% 0.06%
2007 10,055,780 128,001,000 -0.15% 0.11%
2008 10,038,188 128,063,000 -0.17% 0.05%
2009 10,022,650 128,047,000 -0.15% -0.01%
2010 10,000,023 128,070,000 -0.23% 0.02%
2011 9,971,727 127,833,000 -0.28% -0.19%
2012 9,920,362 127,629,000 -0.52% -0.16%
2013 9,872,734 127,445,000 -0.48% -0.14%
2014 9,833,038 127,276,000 -0.4% -0.13%
2015 9,797,755 127,141,000 -0.36% -0.11%
2016 9,759,755 127,076,000 -0.39% -0.05%
2017 9,726,756 126,972,000 -0.34% -0.08%
2018 9,706,964 126,811,000 -0.2% -0.13%
2019 9,694,824 126,633,000 -0.13% -0.14%
2020 9,670,419 126,261,000 -0.25% -0.29%
2021 9,630,932 125,681,593 -0.41% -0.46%
2022 9,605,074 125,124,989 -0.27% -0.44%
2023 9,592,186 124,516,650 -0.13% -0.49%
2024 9,562,314 123,975,371 -0.31% -0.43%
2025 9,518,980 123,324,642 -0.45% -0.52%
2026 9,473,059 122,647,678 -0.48% -0.55%
2027 9,440,865 121,951,038 -0.34% -0.57%
2028 9,407,907 121,241,776 -0.35% -0.58%
2029 9,373,535 120,524,230 -0.37% -0.59%
2030 9,337,966 119,798,959 -0.38% -0.6%
2031 9,301,690 119,065,610 -0.39% -0.61%
2032 9,264,741 118,326,333 -0.4% -0.62%
2033 9,227,265 117,583,337 -0.4% -0.63%
2034 9,189,343 116,836,274 -0.41% -0.64%
2035 9,150,977 116,084,328 -0.42% -0.64%
2036 9,112,647 115,332,395 -0.42% -0.65%
2037 9,074,256 114,582,890 -0.42% -0.65%
2038 9,036,089 113,837,760 -0.42% -0.65%
2039 8,998,343 113,097,352 -0.42% -0.65%
2040 8,960,956 112,359,802 -0.42% -0.65%
2041 8,924,349 111,622,622 -0.41% -0.66%
2042 8,888,360 110,891,223 -0.4% -0.66%
2043 8,853,182 110,169,955 -0.4% -0.65%
2044 8,818,771 109,455,823 -0.39% -0.65%
2045 8,784,653 108,747,012 -0.39% -0.65%
2046 8,750,973 108,044,346 -0.38% -0.65%
2047 8,717,982 107,350,486 -0.38% -0.64%
2048 8,685,744 106,665,616 -0.37% -0.64%
2049 8,654,021 105,986,908 -0.37% -0.64%
2050 8,622,711 105,312,022 -0.36% -0.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Hungary decreased by 289,310 people (a 2.87% decline), while Japan lost 632,000 people (a 0.49% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Hungary lost -278,775 (a 2.85% decline), while Japan's population decreased by -3,816,358 (a 3% decline).

Hungary was ranked 81st most populous country in 2005 and is 98th in 2025. Japan was ranked 10th in 2005 and ranked 12th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Hungary's population will shrink by 9.42% to 8,622,711 people with a rank change from 98th to 111th. The population of Japan will decrease by 14.6% to 105,312,022 people and rank change from 12th to 17th.

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