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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Hungary	Poland	Hungary	Poland
1960	9,983,512	29,637,450	-	-
1961	10,027,958	29,964,000	0.45%	1.1%
1962	10,060,825	30,308,500	0.33%	1.15%
1963	10,087,947	30,712,000	0.27%	1.33%
1964	10,119,835	31,139,450	0.32%	1.39%
1965	10,147,935	31,444,950	0.28%	0.98%
1966	10,178,653	31,681,000	0.3%	0.75%
1967	10,216,604	31,987,155	0.37%	0.97%
1968	10,255,815	32,294,655	0.38%	0.96%
1969	10,298,723	32,548,300	0.42%	0.79%
1970	10,337,910	32,664,300	0.38%	0.36%
1971	10,367,537	32,783,500	0.29%	0.36%
1972	10,398,489	33,055,650	0.3%	0.83%
1973	10,432,055	33,357,200	0.32%	0.91%
1974	10,478,720	33,678,899	0.45%	0.96%
1975	10,540,525	34,015,199	0.59%	1%
1976	10,598,677	34,356,300	0.55%	1%
1977	10,648,031	34,689,050	0.47%	0.97%
1978	10,684,822	34,965,600	0.35%	0.8%
1979	10,704,152	35,247,217	0.18%	0.81%
1980	10,711,122	35,574,150	0.07%	0.93%
1981	10,711,848	35,898,587	0.007%	0.91%
1982	10,705,535	36,230,481	-0.06%	0.92%
1983	10,689,463	36,571,808	-0.15%	0.94%
1984	10,668,095	36,904,134	-0.2%	0.91%
1985	10,648,713	37,201,885	-0.18%	0.81%
1986	10,630,564	37,456,119	-0.17%	0.68%
1987	10,612,741	37,668,045	-0.17%	0.57%
1988	10,596,487	37,824,487	-0.15%	0.42%
1989	10,481,719	37,961,529	-1.08%	0.36%
1990	10,373,988	38,110,782	-1.03%	0.39%
1991	10,373,400	38,246,193	-0.006%	0.36%
1992	10,369,341	38,363,667	-0.04%	0.31%
1993	10,357,523	38,461,408	-0.11%	0.25%
1994	10,343,355	38,542,652	-0.14%	0.21%
1995	10,328,965	38,594,998	-0.14%	0.14%
1996	10,311,238	38,624,370	-0.17%	0.08%
1997	10,290,486	38,649,660	-0.2%	0.07%
1998	10,266,570	38,663,481	-0.23%	0.04%
1999	10,237,530	38,660,271	-0.28%	-0.008%
2000	10,210,971	38,258,629	-0.26%	-1.04%
2001	10,187,576	38,248,076	-0.23%	-0.03%
2002	10,158,608	38,230,364	-0.28%	-0.05%
2003	10,129,552	38,204,570	-0.29%	-0.07%
2004	10,107,146	38,182,222	-0.22%	-0.06%
2005	10,087,065	38,165,445	-0.2%	-0.04%
2006	10,071,370	38,141,267	-0.16%	-0.06%
2007	10,055,780	38,120,560	-0.15%	-0.05%
2008	10,038,188	38,125,759	-0.17%	0.01%
2009	10,022,650	38,151,603	-0.15%	0.07%
2010	10,000,023	38,042,794	-0.23%	-0.29%
2011	9,971,727	38,063,255	-0.28%	0.05%
2012	9,920,362	38,063,164	-0.52%	-0%
2013	9,872,734	38,040,196	-0.48%	-0.06%
2014	9,833,038	38,011,735	-0.4%	-0.07%
2015	9,797,755	37,986,412	-0.36%	-0.07%
2016	9,759,755	37,970,087	-0.39%	-0.04%
2017	9,726,756	37,974,826	-0.34%	0.01%
2018	9,706,964	37,974,750	-0.2%	-0%
2019	9,694,824	37,965,475	-0.13%	-0.02%
2020	9,670,419	37,515,748	-0.25%	-1.18%
2021	9,630,932	36,981,559	-0.41%	-1.42%
2022	9,605,074	36,821,749	-0.27%	-0.43%
2023	9,592,186	36,687,353	-0.13%	-0.36%
2024	9,562,065	36,559,233	-0.31%	-0.35%
2025	9,518,732	36,181,399	-0.45%	-1.03%
2026	9,472,812	35,898,979	-0.48%	-0.78%
2027	9,440,619	35,758,415	-0.34%	-0.39%
2028	9,407,662	35,609,703	-0.35%	-0.42%
2029	9,373,290	35,452,249	-0.37%	-0.44%
2030	9,337,723	35,287,436	-0.38%	-0.46%
2031	9,301,448	35,116,185	-0.39%	-0.49%
2032	9,264,499	34,938,952	-0.4%	-0.5%
2033	9,227,024	34,757,421	-0.4%	-0.52%
2034	9,189,104	34,571,572	-0.41%	-0.53%
2035	9,150,738	34,381,734	-0.42%	-0.55%
2036	9,112,410	34,187,419	-0.42%	-0.57%
2037	9,074,020	33,988,985	-0.42%	-0.58%
2038	9,035,854	33,787,175	-0.42%	-0.59%
2039	8,998,108	33,581,427	-0.42%	-0.61%
2040	8,960,722	33,372,181	-0.42%	-0.62%
2041	8,924,117	33,160,435	-0.41%	-0.63%
2042	8,888,128	32,945,446	-0.4%	-0.65%
2043	8,852,952	32,726,827	-0.4%	-0.66%
2044	8,818,541	32,506,015	-0.39%	-0.67%
2045	8,784,424	32,282,692	-0.39%	-0.69%
2046	8,750,745	32,056,740	-0.38%	-0.7%
2047	8,717,755	31,828,421	-0.38%	-0.71%
2048	8,685,518	31,597,823	-0.37%	-0.72%
2049	8,653,796	31,364,596	-0.37%	-0.74%
2050	8,622,486	31,128,250	-0.36%	-0.75%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Hungary decreased by 311,615 people (a 3.09% decline), while Poland lost 171,180 people (a 0.45% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Hungary lost -286,943 (a 2.94% decline), while Poland's population decreased by -2,071,108 (a 5.45% decline).

Hungary was ranked 81st most populous country in 2006 and is 98th in 2026. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2006 and ranked 46th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Hungary's population will shrink by 8.98% to 8,622,486 people with a rank change from 98th to 111th. The population of Poland will decrease by 13.3% to 31,128,250 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.