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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of India was 1,450,935,791 in 2024 vs 50,015,092 people in Uganda in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current India's population is 1,474,115,403 people compared to 52,490,669 in Uganda.

Population statistics:

  • India's population is 28.1 times bigger than Uganda's.
  • India is ranked the 1st most populous country in the world, while Uganda is the 30th.
  • The countries together account for 18.5% of the world: 17.8% for India vs 0.63% for Uganda.
  • For the last 10 years, India has had an average growth rate of +1.03% per year vs +3.21% in Uganda.
  • Since 2005, the population of India has increased from 1.15B people to 1.47B (27.7% growth), while Uganda has grown from 28M to 52.5M (87.7% growth).
  • India is projected to reach its peak in 2061 at 1.7B people compared to the peak of 121M people in 2100 for Uganda.

India vs Uganda: live population counter

India Uganda
Current population
1474115403
52490669
Population rank 1/197 30/197
Percent of world population 17.8% 0.63%
One net population change
2.45 seconds
23.2 seconds
One birth every
1.36 seconds
18.4 seconds
One death every
3.32 seconds
2.23 minutes
One migration net change every
50 seconds
4.46 minutes
Annual migration change -630,830 -117,924
Daily growth/decline +35,250 +3,722
Annual growth/decline +12,866,195 +1,358,491
Annual growth/decline rate +0.89% +2.79%
Population growth rate rank 109/197 23/197

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

India
Population

Growth rate
Uganda
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
India Uganda India Uganda
1960 435,990,338 7,640,973 - -
1961 446,564,729 7,862,217 2.43% 2.9%
1962 457,283,090 8,092,231 2.4% 2.93%
1963 468,138,575 8,333,663 2.37% 2.98%
1964 479,229,598 8,586,363 2.37% 3.03%
1965 490,140,146 8,849,203 2.28% 3.06%
1966 500,740,247 9,122,864 2.16% 3.09%
1967 511,606,372 9,408,924 2.17% 3.14%
1968 522,716,889 9,708,632 2.17% 3.19%
1969 533,880,544 10,014,858 2.14% 3.15%
1970 545,864,268 10,321,603 2.24% 3.06%
1971 558,096,387 10,618,206 2.24% 2.87%
1972 570,482,142 10,885,796 2.22% 2.52%
1973 583,465,598 11,144,236 2.28% 2.37%
1974 597,041,391 11,424,846 2.33% 2.52%
1975 611,309,535 11,725,240 2.39% 2.63%
1976 625,861,883 12,037,294 2.38% 2.66%
1977 640,801,103 12,359,669 2.39% 2.68%
1978 655,728,229 12,692,113 2.33% 2.69%
1979 671,155,747 13,002,163 2.35% 2.44%
1980 687,354,025 13,275,741 2.41% 2.1%
1981 703,696,250 13,556,452 2.38% 2.11%
1982 720,313,473 13,873,631 2.36% 2.34%
1983 737,372,681 14,221,881 2.37% 2.51%
1984 754,875,449 14,607,677 2.37% 2.71%
1985 772,647,793 15,023,681 2.35% 2.85%
1986 790,689,978 15,467,579 2.34% 2.95%
1987 808,931,270 15,954,170 2.31% 3.15%
1988 827,342,990 16,470,483 2.28% 3.24%
1989 846,039,529 17,010,698 2.26% 3.28%
1990 864,972,221 17,569,897 2.24% 3.29%
1991 883,927,600 18,155,901 2.19% 3.34%
1992 902,957,070 18,785,032 2.15% 3.47%
1993 922,118,387 19,445,161 2.12% 3.51%
1994 941,163,767 20,108,801 2.07% 3.41%
1995 960,301,044 20,665,667 2.03% 2.77%
1996 979,678,458 21,231,550 2.02% 2.74%
1997 999,133,762 21,856,046 1.99% 2.94%
1998 1,018,665,080 22,515,806 1.95% 3.02%
1999 1,038,225,823 23,257,281 1.92% 3.29%
2000 1,057,922,733 24,000,150 1.9% 3.19%
2001 1,077,898,575 24,745,676 1.89% 3.11%
2002 1,097,600,380 25,532,870 1.83% 3.18%
2003 1,116,803,006 26,352,124 1.75% 3.21%
2004 1,135,991,513 27,154,515 1.72% 3.04%
2005 1,154,676,322 27,963,289 1.64% 2.98%
2006 1,172,878,890 28,794,003 1.58% 2.97%
2007 1,190,676,021 29,653,430 1.52% 2.98%
2008 1,207,930,964 30,539,553 1.45% 2.99%
2009 1,225,524,753 31,451,151 1.46% 2.98%
2010 1,243,481,564 32,390,802 1.47% 2.99%
2011 1,261,224,954 33,354,543 1.43% 2.98%
2012 1,278,674,502 34,337,438 1.38% 2.95%
2013 1,295,829,511 35,337,042 1.34% 2.91%
2014 1,312,277,191 36,395,539 1.27% 3%
2015 1,328,024,498 37,531,446 1.2% 3.12%
2016 1,343,944,296 38,799,152 1.2% 3.38%
2017 1,359,657,400 40,177,388 1.17% 3.55%
2018 1,374,659,064 41,565,831 1.1% 3.46%
2019 1,389,030,312 42,999,637 1.05% 3.45%
2020 1,402,617,695 44,457,152 0.98% 3.39%
2021 1,414,203,896 45,910,930 0.83% 3.27%
2022 1,425,423,212 47,312,719 0.79% 3.05%
2023 1,438,069,596 48,656,601 0.89% 2.84%
2024 1,450,935,791 50,015,092 0.89% 2.79%
2025 1,463,865,531 51,384,895 0.89% 2.74%
2026 1,476,625,576 52,761,471 0.87% 2.68%
2027 1,489,164,679 54,144,274 0.85% 2.62%
2028 1,501,432,748 55,532,564 0.82% 2.56%
2029 1,513,423,737 56,922,797 0.8% 2.5%
2030 1,525,138,852 58,312,944 0.77% 2.44%
2031 1,536,540,604 59,703,537 0.75% 2.38%
2032 1,547,607,126 61,089,060 0.72% 2.32%
2033 1,558,324,087 62,464,116 0.69% 2.25%
2034 1,568,688,356 63,833,872 0.67% 2.19%
2035 1,578,694,799 65,205,570 0.64% 2.15%
2036 1,588,325,366 66,573,737 0.61% 2.1%
2037 1,597,537,009 67,942,634 0.58% 2.06%
2038 1,606,300,646 69,312,210 0.55% 2.02%
2039 1,614,639,243 70,669,875 0.52% 1.96%
2040 1,622,580,052 72,020,414 0.49% 1.91%
2041 1,630,119,374 73,372,658 0.46% 1.88%
2042 1,637,235,363 74,730,004 0.44% 1.85%
2043 1,643,915,269 76,090,991 0.41% 1.82%
2044 1,650,186,610 77,449,517 0.38% 1.79%
2045 1,656,067,585 78,797,995 0.36% 1.74%
2046 1,661,548,400 80,139,174 0.33% 1.7%
2047 1,666,628,151 81,478,503 0.31% 1.67%
2048 1,671,309,727 82,812,102 0.28% 1.64%
2049 1,675,619,893 84,130,056 0.26% 1.59%
2050 1,679,589,268 85,431,202 0.24% 1.55%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of India increased by 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth), while Uganda gained 9,568,157 people (a 34.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, India gained 146,090,905 (a 11% growth), while Uganda's population increased by 14,959,223 (a 39.9% growth).

India was ranked 2nd most populous country in 2005 and is 1st in 2025. Uganda was ranked 40th in 2005 and ranked 30th 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 Uganda will increase by 62.8% to 85,431,202 people and rank change from 30th to 20th.

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