Population in Indonesia compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Indonesia	Papua New Guinea	Indonesia	Papua New Guinea
1960	88,296,070	1,995,110	-	-
1961	90,791,249	2,046,127	2.83%	2.56%
1962	93,375,850	2,093,919	2.85%	2.34%
1963	96,051,424	2,141,376	2.87%	2.27%
1964	98,833,749	2,188,325	2.9%	2.19%
1965	101,365,130	2,235,820	2.56%	2.17%
1966	103,792,754	2,285,774	2.39%	2.23%
1967	106,526,393	2,337,532	2.63%	2.26%
1968	109,450,006	2,390,803	2.74%	2.28%
1969	112,517,639	2,446,927	2.8%	2.35%
1970	115,657,495	2,505,628	2.79%	2.4%
1971	118,833,702	2,566,421	2.75%	2.43%
1972	122,039,841	2,628,432	2.7%	2.42%
1973	125,288,515	2,690,629	2.66%	2.37%
1974	128,555,045	2,752,671	2.61%	2.31%
1975	131,843,848	2,814,820	2.56%	2.26%
1976	135,173,655	2,877,327	2.53%	2.22%
1977	138,533,541	2,940,327	2.49%	2.19%
1978	141,953,163	3,003,714	2.47%	2.16%
1979	145,434,834	3,067,341	2.45%	2.12%
1980	148,950,540	3,131,512	2.42%	2.09%
1981	152,485,035	3,197,019	2.37%	2.09%
1982	156,052,152	3,264,291	2.34%	2.1%
1983	159,651,381	3,333,633	2.31%	2.12%
1984	163,251,124	3,405,198	2.25%	2.15%
1985	166,776,185	3,478,936	2.16%	2.17%
1986	170,175,065	3,554,793	2.04%	2.18%
1987	173,511,154	3,632,543	1.96%	2.19%
1988	176,855,065	3,711,880	1.93%	2.18%
1989	180,201,630	3,796,078	1.89%	2.27%
1990	183,501,098	3,896,481	1.83%	2.64%
1991	186,778,238	4,021,837	1.79%	3.22%
1992	190,043,744	4,166,699	1.75%	3.6%
1993	193,305,168	4,320,872	1.72%	3.7%
1994	196,591,828	4,480,208	1.7%	3.69%
1995	199,888,057	4,644,278	1.68%	3.66%
1996	203,204,348	4,813,361	1.66%	3.64%
1997	206,536,095	4,987,883	1.64%	3.63%
1998	209,826,788	5,166,390	1.59%	3.58%
1999	213,004,668	5,349,333	1.51%	3.54%
2000	216,077,790	5,537,064	1.44%	3.51%
2001	219,097,902	5,728,435	1.4%	3.46%
2002	222,088,495	5,924,003	1.36%	3.41%
2003	225,048,008	6,123,997	1.33%	3.38%
2004	227,926,649	6,328,041	1.28%	3.33%
2005	230,871,650	6,535,905	1.29%	3.28%
2006	233,951,652	6,747,720	1.33%	3.24%
2007	237,062,337	6,963,345	1.33%	3.2%
2008	240,157,903	7,183,002	1.31%	3.15%
2009	243,220,028	7,406,438	1.28%	3.11%
2010	246,305,322	7,633,523	1.27%	3.07%
2011	249,470,032	7,859,346	1.28%	2.96%
2012	252,698,525	8,081,390	1.29%	2.83%
2013	255,852,467	8,302,698	1.25%	2.74%
2014	258,877,399	8,523,441	1.18%	2.66%
2015	261,799,249	8,743,246	1.13%	2.58%
2016	264,627,418	8,961,718	1.08%	2.5%
2017	267,346,658	9,178,714	1.03%	2.42%
2018	269,951,846	9,394,513	0.97%	2.35%
2019	272,489,381	9,609,010	0.94%	2.28%
2020	274,814,866	9,815,746	0.85%	2.15%
2021	276,758,053	10,012,896	0.71%	2.01%
2022	278,830,529	10,203,169	0.75%	1.9%
2023	281,190,067	10,389,635	0.85%	1.83%
2024	283,487,931	10,576,502	0.82%	1.8%
2025	285,721,231	10,762,813	0.79%	1.76%
2026	287,886,778	10,947,845	0.76%	1.72%
2027	289,986,520	11,131,268	0.73%	1.68%
2028	292,016,774	11,312,895	0.7%	1.63%
2029	293,978,106	11,492,799	0.67%	1.59%
2030	295,876,644	11,671,420	0.65%	1.55%
2031	297,719,741	11,848,221	0.62%	1.51%
2032	299,510,654	12,023,121	0.6%	1.48%
2033	301,250,975	12,196,639	0.58%	1.44%
2034	302,938,571	12,369,248	0.56%	1.42%
2035	304,566,615	12,540,596	0.54%	1.39%
2036	306,135,097	12,710,682	0.51%	1.36%
2037	307,646,407	12,879,737	0.49%	1.33%
2038	309,096,450	13,047,122	0.47%	1.3%
2039	310,481,116	13,212,668	0.45%	1.27%
2040	311,797,391	13,376,156	0.42%	1.24%
2041	313,041,656	13,537,361	0.4%	1.21%
2042	314,211,278	13,696,139	0.37%	1.17%
2043	315,304,309	13,853,410	0.35%	1.15%
2044	316,318,412	14,009,926	0.32%	1.13%
2045	317,249,609	14,165,578	0.29%	1.11%
2046	318,096,567	14,318,889	0.27%	1.08%
2047	318,862,018	14,469,210	0.24%	1.05%
2048	319,554,646	14,617,364	0.22%	1.02%
2049	320,173,244	14,763,600	0.19%	1%
2050	320,712,941	14,906,584	0.17%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Indonesia increased by 30,927,599 people (a 13.4% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Indonesia gained 25,661,519 (a 9.8% growth), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Indonesia was ranked 4th most populous country in 2005 and is still 4th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Indonesia's population will grow by 11.6% to 320,712,941 people with a rank change from 4th to 6th. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.