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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of India was 1,450,935,791 in 2024 vs 36,554,707 people in Poland in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current India's population is 1,474,115,403 people compared to 36,176,920 in Poland.

Population statistics:

  • India's population is 40.7 times bigger than Poland's.
  • India is ranked the 1st most populous country in the world, while Poland is the 46th.
  • The countries together account for 18.3% of the world: 17.8% for India vs 0.44% for Poland.
  • For the last 10 years, India has had an average growth rate of +1.03% per year vs -0.36% in Poland.
  • Since 2005, the population of India has increased from 1.15B people to 1.47B (27.7% growth), while Poland has declined from 38.2M to 36.2M (5.21% decline).
  • India is projected to reach its peak in 2061 at 1.7B people, while Poland's population already peaked in 1998 at 38.7M people and is projected to decrease to 18.3M people by 2100.

India vs Poland: live population counter

India Poland
Current population
1474115403
36176920
Population rank 1/197 46/197
Percent of world population 17.8% 0.44%
One net population change
2.45 seconds
3.96 minutes
One birth every
1.36 seconds
1.94 minutes
One death every
3.32 seconds
1.29 minutes
One migration net change every
50 seconds
2.21 minutes
Annual migration change -630,830 -238,062
Daily growth/decline +35,250 -363
Annual growth/decline +12,866,195 -132,646
Annual growth/decline rate +0.89% -0.36%
Population growth rate rank 109/197 179/197

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

India
Population

Growth rate
Poland
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
India Poland India Poland
1960 435,990,338 29,637,450 - -
1961 446,564,729 29,964,000 2.43% 1.1%
1962 457,283,090 30,308,500 2.4% 1.15%
1963 468,138,575 30,712,000 2.37% 1.33%
1964 479,229,598 31,139,450 2.37% 1.39%
1965 490,140,146 31,444,950 2.28% 0.98%
1966 500,740,247 31,681,000 2.16% 0.75%
1967 511,606,372 31,987,155 2.17% 0.97%
1968 522,716,889 32,294,655 2.17% 0.96%
1969 533,880,544 32,548,300 2.14% 0.79%
1970 545,864,268 32,664,300 2.24% 0.36%
1971 558,096,387 32,783,500 2.24% 0.36%
1972 570,482,142 33,055,650 2.22% 0.83%
1973 583,465,598 33,357,200 2.28% 0.91%
1974 597,041,391 33,678,899 2.33% 0.96%
1975 611,309,535 34,015,199 2.39% 1%
1976 625,861,883 34,356,300 2.38% 1%
1977 640,801,103 34,689,050 2.39% 0.97%
1978 655,728,229 34,965,600 2.33% 0.8%
1979 671,155,747 35,247,217 2.35% 0.81%
1980 687,354,025 35,574,150 2.41% 0.93%
1981 703,696,250 35,898,587 2.38% 0.91%
1982 720,313,473 36,230,481 2.36% 0.92%
1983 737,372,681 36,571,808 2.37% 0.94%
1984 754,875,449 36,904,134 2.37% 0.91%
1985 772,647,793 37,201,885 2.35% 0.81%
1986 790,689,978 37,456,119 2.34% 0.68%
1987 808,931,270 37,668,045 2.31% 0.57%
1988 827,342,990 37,824,487 2.28% 0.42%
1989 846,039,529 37,961,529 2.26% 0.36%
1990 864,972,221 38,110,782 2.24% 0.39%
1991 883,927,600 38,246,193 2.19% 0.36%
1992 902,957,070 38,363,667 2.15% 0.31%
1993 922,118,387 38,461,408 2.12% 0.25%
1994 941,163,767 38,542,652 2.07% 0.21%
1995 960,301,044 38,594,998 2.03% 0.14%
1996 979,678,458 38,624,370 2.02% 0.08%
1997 999,133,762 38,649,660 1.99% 0.07%
1998 1,018,665,080 38,663,481 1.95% 0.04%
1999 1,038,225,823 38,660,271 1.92% -0.008%
2000 1,057,922,733 38,258,629 1.9% -1.04%
2001 1,077,898,575 38,248,076 1.89% -0.03%
2002 1,097,600,380 38,230,364 1.83% -0.05%
2003 1,116,803,006 38,204,570 1.75% -0.07%
2004 1,135,991,513 38,182,222 1.72% -0.06%
2005 1,154,676,322 38,165,445 1.64% -0.04%
2006 1,172,878,890 38,141,267 1.58% -0.06%
2007 1,190,676,021 38,120,560 1.52% -0.05%
2008 1,207,930,964 38,125,759 1.45% 0.01%
2009 1,225,524,753 38,151,603 1.46% 0.07%
2010 1,243,481,564 38,042,794 1.47% -0.29%
2011 1,261,224,954 38,063,255 1.43% 0.05%
2012 1,278,674,502 38,063,164 1.38% -0%
2013 1,295,829,511 38,040,196 1.34% -0.06%
2014 1,312,277,191 38,011,735 1.27% -0.07%
2015 1,328,024,498 37,986,412 1.2% -0.07%
2016 1,343,944,296 37,970,087 1.2% -0.04%
2017 1,359,657,400 37,974,826 1.17% 0.01%
2018 1,374,659,064 37,974,750 1.1% -0%
2019 1,389,030,312 37,965,475 1.05% -0.02%
2020 1,402,617,695 37,515,748 0.98% -1.18%
2021 1,414,203,896 36,981,559 0.83% -1.42%
2022 1,425,423,212 36,821,749 0.79% -0.43%
2023 1,438,069,596 36,687,353 0.89% -0.36%
2024 1,450,935,791 36,554,707 0.89% -0.36%
2025 1,463,865,531 36,176,920 0.89% -1.03%
2026 1,476,625,576 35,894,534 0.87% -0.78%
2027 1,489,164,679 35,753,988 0.85% -0.39%
2028 1,501,432,748 35,605,295 0.82% -0.42%
2029 1,513,423,737 35,447,860 0.8% -0.44%
2030 1,525,138,852 35,283,068 0.77% -0.46%
2031 1,536,540,604 35,111,838 0.75% -0.49%
2032 1,547,607,126 34,934,626 0.72% -0.5%
2033 1,558,324,087 34,753,118 0.69% -0.52%
2034 1,568,688,356 34,567,292 0.67% -0.53%
2035 1,578,694,799 34,377,478 0.64% -0.55%
2036 1,588,325,366 34,183,187 0.61% -0.57%
2037 1,597,537,009 33,984,777 0.58% -0.58%
2038 1,606,300,646 33,782,992 0.55% -0.59%
2039 1,614,639,243 33,577,269 0.52% -0.61%
2040 1,622,580,052 33,368,049 0.49% -0.62%
2041 1,630,119,374 33,156,329 0.46% -0.63%
2042 1,637,235,363 32,941,367 0.44% -0.65%
2043 1,643,915,269 32,722,775 0.41% -0.66%
2044 1,650,186,610 32,501,991 0.38% -0.67%
2045 1,656,067,585 32,278,695 0.36% -0.69%
2046 1,661,548,400 32,052,771 0.33% -0.7%
2047 1,666,628,151 31,824,481 0.31% -0.71%
2048 1,671,309,727 31,593,911 0.28% -0.72%
2049 1,675,619,893 31,360,713 0.26% -0.74%
2050 1,679,589,268 31,124,396 0.24% -0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of India increased by 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, India gained 146,090,905 (a 11% growth), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

India was ranked 2nd most populous country in 2005 and is 1st in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.

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