Population in India compared to Italy: Trends, Charts, Rankings

India and Italy: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	India	Italy	India	Italy
1960	435,990,338	50,199,700	-	-
1961	446,564,729	50,536,350	2.43%	0.67%
1962	457,283,090	50,879,450	2.4%	0.68%
1963	468,138,575	51,252,000	2.37%	0.73%
1964	479,229,598	51,675,350	2.37%	0.83%
1965	490,140,146	52,112,350	2.28%	0.85%
1966	500,740,247	52,519,000	2.16%	0.78%
1967	511,606,372	52,900,500	2.17%	0.73%
1968	522,716,889	53,235,750	2.17%	0.63%
1969	533,880,544	53,537,950	2.14%	0.57%
1970	545,864,268	53,821,850	2.24%	0.53%
1971	558,096,387	54,073,490	2.24%	0.47%
1972	570,482,142	54,381,345	2.22%	0.57%
1973	583,465,598	54,751,406	2.28%	0.68%
1974	597,041,391	55,110,868	2.33%	0.66%
1975	611,309,535	55,441,001	2.39%	0.6%
1976	625,861,883	55,718,260	2.38%	0.5%
1977	640,801,103	55,955,411	2.39%	0.43%
1978	655,728,229	56,155,143	2.33%	0.36%
1979	671,155,747	56,317,749	2.35%	0.29%
1980	687,354,025	56,433,883	2.41%	0.21%
1981	703,696,250	56,501,675	2.38%	0.12%
1982	720,313,473	56,543,548	2.36%	0.07%
1983	737,372,681	56,564,074	2.37%	0.04%
1984	754,875,449	56,576,718	2.37%	0.02%
1985	772,647,793	56,593,071	2.35%	0.03%
1986	790,689,978	56,596,155	2.34%	0.005%
1987	808,931,270	56,601,931	2.31%	0.01%
1988	827,342,990	56,629,288	2.28%	0.05%
1989	846,039,529	56,671,781	2.26%	0.08%
1990	864,972,221	56,719,240	2.24%	0.08%
1991	883,927,600	56,758,521	2.19%	0.07%
1992	902,957,070	56,797,087	2.15%	0.07%
1993	922,118,387	56,831,821	2.12%	0.06%
1994	941,163,767	56,843,400	2.07%	0.02%
1995	960,301,044	56,844,303	2.03%	0.002%
1996	979,678,458	56,860,281	2.02%	0.03%
1997	999,133,762	56,890,372	1.99%	0.05%
1998	1,018,665,080	56,906,744	1.95%	0.03%
1999	1,038,225,823	56,916,317	1.92%	0.02%
2000	1,057,922,733	56,942,108	1.9%	0.05%
2001	1,077,898,575	56,976,981	1.89%	0.06%
2002	1,097,600,380	57,089,824	1.83%	0.2%
2003	1,116,803,006	57,399,184	1.75%	0.54%
2004	1,135,991,513	57,828,179	1.72%	0.75%
2005	1,154,676,322	58,166,682	1.64%	0.59%
2006	1,172,878,890	58,399,861	1.58%	0.4%
2007	1,190,676,021	58,756,247	1.52%	0.61%
2008	1,207,930,964	59,211,181	1.45%	0.77%
2009	1,225,524,753	59,555,454	1.46%	0.58%
2010	1,243,481,564	59,819,407	1.47%	0.44%
2011	1,261,224,954	60,026,841	1.43%	0.35%
2012	1,278,674,502	60,191,247	1.38%	0.27%
2013	1,295,829,511	60,311,613	1.34%	0.2%
2014	1,312,277,191	60,320,707	1.27%	0.02%
2015	1,328,024,498	60,229,605	1.2%	-0.15%
2016	1,343,944,296	60,115,223	1.2%	-0.19%
2017	1,359,657,400	60,002,252	1.17%	-0.19%
2018	1,374,659,064	60,148,658	1.1%	0.24%
2019	1,389,030,312	59,729,081	1.05%	-0.7%
2020	1,402,617,695	59,438,851	0.98%	-0.49%
2021	1,414,203,896	59,133,173	0.83%	-0.51%
2022	1,425,423,212	59,013,667	0.79%	-0.2%
2023	1,438,069,596	58,993,475	0.89%	-0.03%
2024	1,450,935,791	58,986,023	0.89%	-0.01%
2025	1,463,865,531	58,790,597	0.89%	-0.33%
2026	1,476,625,576	58,571,823	0.87%	-0.37%
2027	1,489,164,679	58,335,864	0.85%	-0.4%
2028	1,501,432,748	58,094,373	0.82%	-0.41%
2029	1,513,423,737	57,851,042	0.8%	-0.42%
2030	1,525,138,852	57,597,622	0.77%	-0.44%
2031	1,536,540,604	57,333,277	0.75%	-0.46%
2032	1,547,607,126	57,071,235	0.72%	-0.46%
2033	1,558,324,087	56,812,747	0.69%	-0.45%
2034	1,568,688,356	56,548,816	0.67%	-0.46%
2035	1,578,694,799	56,279,536	0.64%	-0.48%
2036	1,588,325,366	56,009,844	0.61%	-0.48%
2037	1,597,537,009	55,737,477	0.58%	-0.49%
2038	1,606,300,646	55,460,735	0.55%	-0.5%
2039	1,614,639,243	55,177,508	0.52%	-0.51%
2040	1,622,580,052	54,889,107	0.49%	-0.52%
2041	1,630,119,374	54,601,628	0.46%	-0.52%
2042	1,637,235,363	54,307,412	0.44%	-0.54%
2043	1,643,915,269	53,997,106	0.41%	-0.57%
2044	1,650,186,610	53,679,603	0.38%	-0.59%
2045	1,656,067,585	53,357,669	0.36%	-0.6%
2046	1,661,548,400	53,025,288	0.33%	-0.62%
2047	1,666,628,151	52,680,150	0.31%	-0.65%
2048	1,671,309,727	52,324,241	0.28%	-0.68%
2049	1,675,619,893	51,959,050	0.26%	-0.7%
2050	1,679,589,268	51,579,060	0.24%	-0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of India increased by 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, India gained 146,090,905 (a 11% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

India was ranked 2nd most populous country in 2005 and is 1st 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) India's population will grow by 13.9% to 1,679,589,268 people and will still be ranked 1st. The population of Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.