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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of India was 1,450,935,791 in 2024 vs 68,560,157 people in Tanzania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current India's population is 1,474,115,403 people compared to 72,166,806 in Tanzania.

Population statistics:

  • India's population is 20.4 times bigger than Tanzania's.
  • India is ranked the 1st most populous country in the world, while Tanzania is the 20th.
  • The countries together account for 18.7% of the world: 17.8% for India vs 0.87% for Tanzania.
  • For the last 10 years, India has had an average growth rate of +1.03% per year vs +3.13% in Tanzania.
  • Since 2005, the population of India has increased from 1.15B people to 1.47B (27.7% growth), while Tanzania has grown from 39.2M to 72.2M (84.2% growth).
  • India is projected to reach its peak in 2061 at 1.7B people compared to the peak of 263M people in 2100 for Tanzania.

India vs Tanzania: live population counter

India Tanzania
Current population
1474115403
72166806
Population rank 1/197 20/197
Percent of world population 17.8% 0.87%
One net population change
2.45 seconds
16.2 seconds
One birth every
1.36 seconds
13.4 seconds
One death every
3.32 seconds
1.36 minutes
One migration net change every
50 seconds
17.6 minutes
Annual migration change -630,830 -29,865
Daily growth/decline +35,250 +5,322
Annual growth/decline +12,866,195 +1,942,551
Annual growth/decline rate +0.89% +2.92%
Population growth rate rank 109/197 19/197

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

India
Population

Growth rate
Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
India Tanzania India Tanzania
1960 435,990,338 9,901,419 - -
1961 446,564,729 10,187,886 2.43% 2.89%
1962 457,283,090 10,487,756 2.4% 2.94%
1963 468,138,575 10,799,528 2.37% 2.97%
1964 479,229,598 11,127,826 2.37% 3.04%
1965 490,140,146 11,470,728 2.28% 3.08%
1966 500,740,247 11,827,459 2.16% 3.11%
1967 511,606,372 12,200,109 2.17% 3.15%
1968 522,716,889 12,602,076 2.17% 3.29%
1969 533,880,544 13,036,700 2.14% 3.45%
1970 545,864,268 13,492,677 2.24% 3.5%
1971 558,096,387 13,971,451 2.24% 3.55%
1972 570,482,142 14,479,308 2.22% 3.63%
1973 583,465,598 15,010,101 2.28% 3.67%
1974 597,041,391 15,561,630 2.33% 3.67%
1975 611,309,535 16,138,361 2.39% 3.71%
1976 625,861,883 16,736,211 2.38% 3.7%
1977 640,801,103 17,352,929 2.39% 3.68%
1978 655,728,229 17,976,566 2.33% 3.59%
1979 671,155,747 18,592,038 2.35% 3.42%
1980 687,354,025 19,189,769 2.41% 3.21%
1981 703,696,250 19,784,703 2.38% 3.1%
1982 720,313,473 20,398,571 2.36% 3.1%
1983 737,372,681 21,079,874 2.37% 3.34%
1984 754,875,449 21,779,066 2.37% 3.32%
1985 772,647,793 22,501,693 2.35% 3.32%
1986 790,689,978 23,258,959 2.34% 3.37%
1987 808,931,270 24,030,378 2.31% 3.32%
1988 827,342,990 24,769,686 2.28% 3.08%
1989 846,039,529 25,438,759 2.26% 2.7%
1990 864,972,221 26,110,207 2.24% 2.64%
1991 883,927,600 26,780,436 2.19% 2.57%
1992 902,957,070 27,457,588 2.15% 2.53%
1993 922,118,387 28,332,692 2.12% 3.19%
1994 941,163,767 29,442,356 2.07% 3.92%
1995 960,301,044 30,383,497 2.03% 3.2%
1996 979,678,458 30,945,762 2.02% 1.85%
1997 999,133,762 31,578,089 1.99% 2.04%
1998 1,018,665,080 32,420,458 1.95% 2.67%
1999 1,038,225,823 33,300,330 1.92% 2.71%
2000 1,057,922,733 34,260,139 1.9% 2.88%
2001 1,077,898,575 35,198,299 1.89% 2.74%
2002 1,097,600,380 36,121,304 1.83% 2.62%
2003 1,116,803,006 37,089,555 1.75% 2.68%
2004 1,135,991,513 38,109,668 1.72% 2.75%
2005 1,154,676,322 39,182,076 1.64% 2.81%
2006 1,172,878,890 40,294,902 1.58% 2.84%
2007 1,190,676,021 41,435,512 1.52% 2.83%
2008 1,207,930,964 42,570,728 1.45% 2.74%
2009 1,225,524,753 43,633,982 1.46% 2.5%
2010 1,243,481,564 44,758,488 1.47% 2.58%
2011 1,261,224,954 46,029,367 1.43% 2.84%
2012 1,278,674,502 47,374,260 1.38% 2.92%
2013 1,295,829,511 48,824,128 1.34% 3.06%
2014 1,312,277,191 50,351,512 1.27% 3.13%
2015 1,328,024,498 52,020,962 1.2% 3.32%
2016 1,343,944,296 53,824,013 1.2% 3.47%
2017 1,359,657,400 55,652,890 1.17% 3.4%
2018 1,374,659,064 57,437,145 1.1% 3.21%
2019 1,389,030,312 59,174,891 1.05% 3.03%
2020 1,402,617,695 60,972,798 0.98% 3.04%
2021 1,414,203,896 62,830,412 0.83% 3.05%
2022 1,425,423,212 64,711,821 0.79% 2.99%
2023 1,438,069,596 66,617,606 0.89% 2.95%
2024 1,450,935,791 68,560,157 0.89% 2.92%
2025 1,463,865,531 70,545,858 0.89% 2.9%
2026 1,476,625,576 72,563,773 0.87% 2.86%
2027 1,489,164,679 74,604,804 0.85% 2.81%
2028 1,501,432,748 76,670,483 0.82% 2.77%
2029 1,513,423,737 78,773,192 0.8% 2.74%
2030 1,525,138,852 80,913,118 0.77% 2.72%
2031 1,536,540,604 83,087,927 0.75% 2.69%
2032 1,547,607,126 85,293,126 0.72% 2.65%
2033 1,558,324,087 87,520,491 0.69% 2.61%
2034 1,568,688,356 89,788,673 0.67% 2.59%
2035 1,578,694,799 92,091,418 0.64% 2.56%
2036 1,588,325,366 94,420,808 0.61% 2.53%
2037 1,597,537,009 96,775,766 0.58% 2.49%
2038 1,606,300,646 99,156,465 0.55% 2.46%
2039 1,614,639,243 101,567,525 0.52% 2.43%
2040 1,622,580,052 103,999,350 0.49% 2.39%
2041 1,630,119,374 106,448,475 0.46% 2.35%
2042 1,637,235,363 108,926,272 0.44% 2.33%
2043 1,643,915,269 111,433,788 0.41% 2.3%
2044 1,650,186,610 113,966,263 0.38% 2.27%
2045 1,656,067,585 116,525,463 0.36% 2.25%
2046 1,661,548,400 119,109,670 0.33% 2.22%
2047 1,666,628,151 121,721,018 0.31% 2.19%
2048 1,671,309,727 124,351,294 0.28% 2.16%
2049 1,675,619,893 126,981,394 0.26% 2.12%
2050 1,679,589,268 129,621,083 0.24% 2.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of India increased by 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth), while Tanzania gained 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, India gained 146,090,905 (a 11% growth), while Tanzania's population increased by 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth).

India was ranked 2nd most populous country in 2005 and is 1st in 2025. Tanzania was ranked 31st in 2005 and ranked 20th 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 Tanzania will increase by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people and rank change from 20th to 15th.

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