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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	India	Syria	India	Syria
1960	435,990,338	4,673,500	-	-
1961	446,564,729	4,815,466	2.43%	3.04%
1962	457,283,090	4,959,340	2.4%	2.99%
1963	468,138,575	5,110,467	2.37%	3.05%
1964	479,229,598	5,269,087	2.37%	3.1%
1965	490,140,146	5,435,267	2.28%	3.15%
1966	500,740,247	5,609,047	2.16%	3.2%
1967	511,606,372	5,790,198	2.17%	3.23%
1968	522,716,889	5,978,742	2.17%	3.26%
1969	533,880,544	6,175,166	2.14%	3.29%
1970	545,864,268	6,380,609	2.24%	3.33%
1971	558,096,387	6,598,094	2.24%	3.41%
1972	570,482,142	6,826,024	2.22%	3.45%
1973	583,465,598	7,060,321	2.28%	3.43%
1974	597,041,391	7,302,160	2.33%	3.43%
1975	611,309,535	7,554,364	2.39%	3.45%
1976	625,861,883	7,817,320	2.38%	3.48%
1977	640,801,103	8,090,501	2.39%	3.49%
1978	655,728,229	8,372,759	2.33%	3.49%
1979	671,155,747	8,661,909	2.35%	3.45%
1980	687,354,025	8,957,663	2.41%	3.41%
1981	703,696,250	9,260,189	2.38%	3.38%
1982	720,313,473	9,572,511	2.36%	3.37%
1983	737,372,681	9,904,809	2.37%	3.47%
1984	754,875,449	10,258,398	2.37%	3.57%
1985	772,647,793	10,625,672	2.35%	3.58%
1986	790,689,978	11,002,844	2.34%	3.55%
1987	808,931,270	11,388,923	2.31%	3.51%
1988	827,342,990	11,782,264	2.28%	3.45%
1989	846,039,529	12,179,060	2.26%	3.37%
1990	864,972,221	12,579,208	2.24%	3.29%
1991	883,927,600	12,980,821	2.19%	3.19%
1992	902,957,070	13,385,571	2.15%	3.12%
1993	922,118,387	13,795,686	2.12%	3.06%
1994	941,163,767	14,208,583	2.07%	2.99%
1995	960,301,044	14,616,801	2.03%	2.87%
1996	979,678,458	15,018,104	2.02%	2.75%
1997	999,133,762	15,417,542	1.99%	2.66%
1998	1,018,665,080	15,820,413	1.95%	2.61%
1999	1,038,225,823	16,228,061	1.92%	2.58%
2000	1,057,922,733	16,637,888	1.9%	2.53%
2001	1,077,898,575	17,051,338	1.89%	2.48%
2002	1,097,600,380	17,468,332	1.83%	2.45%
2003	1,116,803,006	17,889,296	1.75%	2.41%
2004	1,135,991,513	18,336,875	1.72%	2.5%
2005	1,154,676,322	18,814,091	1.64%	2.6%
2006	1,172,878,890	19,637,022	1.58%	4.37%
2007	1,190,676,021	20,884,125	1.52%	6.35%
2008	1,207,930,964	21,636,564	1.45%	3.6%
2009	1,225,524,753	21,976,969	1.46%	1.57%
2010	1,243,481,564	22,482,421	1.47%	2.3%
2011	1,261,224,954	22,878,098	1.43%	1.76%
2012	1,278,674,502	22,759,763	1.38%	-0.52%
2013	1,295,829,511	21,666,917	1.34%	-4.8%
2014	1,312,277,191	20,273,659	1.27%	-6.43%
2015	1,328,024,498	19,424,618	1.2%	-4.19%
2016	1,343,944,296	19,193,834	1.2%	-1.19%
2017	1,359,657,400	19,224,668	1.17%	0.16%
2018	1,374,659,064	19,577,845	1.1%	1.84%
2019	1,389,030,312	20,353,534	1.05%	3.96%
2020	1,402,617,695	21,049,429	0.98%	3.42%
2021	1,414,203,896	21,628,839	0.83%	2.75%
2022	1,425,423,212	22,462,173	0.79%	3.85%
2023	1,438,069,596	23,594,623	0.89%	5.04%
2024	1,450,935,791	24,672,760	0.89%	4.57%
2025	1,463,865,531	25,620,422	0.89%	3.84%
2026	1,476,625,576	26,472,499	0.87%	3.33%
2027	1,489,164,679	27,261,544	0.85%	2.98%
2028	1,501,432,748	28,006,558	0.82%	2.73%
2029	1,513,423,737	28,719,309	0.8%	2.54%
2030	1,525,138,852	29,395,545	0.77%	2.35%
2031	1,536,540,604	30,029,824	0.75%	2.16%
2032	1,547,607,126	30,633,661	0.72%	2.01%
2033	1,558,324,087	31,212,478	0.69%	1.89%
2034	1,568,688,356	31,768,138	0.67%	1.78%
2035	1,578,694,799	32,294,792	0.64%	1.66%
2036	1,588,325,366	32,788,153	0.61%	1.53%
2037	1,597,537,009	33,258,407	0.58%	1.43%
2038	1,606,300,646	33,710,718	0.55%	1.36%
2039	1,614,639,243	34,131,238	0.52%	1.25%
2040	1,622,580,052	34,533,185	0.49%	1.18%
2041	1,630,119,374	34,916,936	0.46%	1.11%
2042	1,637,235,363	35,279,863	0.44%	1.04%
2043	1,643,915,269	35,623,325	0.41%	0.97%
2044	1,650,186,610	35,944,394	0.38%	0.9%
2045	1,656,067,585	36,265,295	0.36%	0.89%
2046	1,661,548,400	36,583,260	0.33%	0.88%
2047	1,666,628,151	36,878,640	0.31%	0.81%
2048	1,671,309,727	37,171,029	0.28%	0.79%
2049	1,675,619,893	37,477,690	0.26%	0.83%
2050	1,679,589,268	37,793,378	0.24%	0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of India increased by 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, India gained 146,090,905 (a 11% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

India was ranked 2nd most populous country in 2005 and is 1st in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.