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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Indonesia was 283,487,931 in 2024 vs 24,672,760 people in Syria in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Indonesia's population is 287,460,768 people compared to 26,304,877 in Syria.

Population statistics:

  • Indonesia's population is 10.9 times bigger than Syria's.
  • Indonesia is ranked the 4th most populous country in the world, while Syria is the 57th.
  • The countries together account for 3.8% of the world: 3.48% for Indonesia vs 0.32% for Syria.
  • For the last 10 years, Indonesia has had an average growth rate of +0.94% per year vs +1.25% in Syria.
  • Since 2005, the population of Indonesia has increased from 231M people to 287M (24.5% growth), while Syria has grown from 18.8M to 26.3M (39.8% growth).
  • Indonesia is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 323M people compared to the peak of 44.1M people in 2086 for Syria.

Indonesia vs Syria: live population counter

Indonesia Syria
Current population
287460768
26304877
Population rank 4/197 57/197
Percent of world population 3.48% 0.32%
One net population change
13.7 seconds
29.3 seconds
One birth every
7.04 seconds
1.01 minutes
One death every
14.9 seconds
4.42 minutes
One migration net change every
13.7 minutes
57.7 seconds
Annual migration change -38,469 +546,494
Daily growth/decline +6,296 +2,954
Annual growth/decline +2,297,864 +1,078,137
Annual growth/decline rate +0.82% +4.57%
Population growth rate rank 117/197 5/197

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

Indonesia
Population

Growth rate
Syria
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Indonesia Syria Indonesia Syria
1960 88,296,070 4,673,500 - -
1961 90,791,249 4,815,466 2.83% 3.04%
1962 93,375,850 4,959,340 2.85% 2.99%
1963 96,051,424 5,110,467 2.87% 3.05%
1964 98,833,749 5,269,087 2.9% 3.1%
1965 101,365,130 5,435,267 2.56% 3.15%
1966 103,792,754 5,609,047 2.39% 3.2%
1967 106,526,393 5,790,198 2.63% 3.23%
1968 109,450,006 5,978,742 2.74% 3.26%
1969 112,517,639 6,175,166 2.8% 3.29%
1970 115,657,495 6,380,609 2.79% 3.33%
1971 118,833,702 6,598,094 2.75% 3.41%
1972 122,039,841 6,826,024 2.7% 3.45%
1973 125,288,515 7,060,321 2.66% 3.43%
1974 128,555,045 7,302,160 2.61% 3.43%
1975 131,843,848 7,554,364 2.56% 3.45%
1976 135,173,655 7,817,320 2.53% 3.48%
1977 138,533,541 8,090,501 2.49% 3.49%
1978 141,953,163 8,372,759 2.47% 3.49%
1979 145,434,834 8,661,909 2.45% 3.45%
1980 148,950,540 8,957,663 2.42% 3.41%
1981 152,485,035 9,260,189 2.37% 3.38%
1982 156,052,152 9,572,511 2.34% 3.37%
1983 159,651,381 9,904,809 2.31% 3.47%
1984 163,251,124 10,258,398 2.25% 3.57%
1985 166,776,185 10,625,672 2.16% 3.58%
1986 170,175,065 11,002,844 2.04% 3.55%
1987 173,511,154 11,388,923 1.96% 3.51%
1988 176,855,065 11,782,264 1.93% 3.45%
1989 180,201,630 12,179,060 1.89% 3.37%
1990 183,501,098 12,579,208 1.83% 3.29%
1991 186,778,238 12,980,821 1.79% 3.19%
1992 190,043,744 13,385,571 1.75% 3.12%
1993 193,305,168 13,795,686 1.72% 3.06%
1994 196,591,828 14,208,583 1.7% 2.99%
1995 199,888,057 14,616,801 1.68% 2.87%
1996 203,204,348 15,018,104 1.66% 2.75%
1997 206,536,095 15,417,542 1.64% 2.66%
1998 209,826,788 15,820,413 1.59% 2.61%
1999 213,004,668 16,228,061 1.51% 2.58%
2000 216,077,790 16,637,888 1.44% 2.53%
2001 219,097,902 17,051,338 1.4% 2.48%
2002 222,088,495 17,468,332 1.36% 2.45%
2003 225,048,008 17,889,296 1.33% 2.41%
2004 227,926,649 18,336,875 1.28% 2.5%
2005 230,871,650 18,814,091 1.29% 2.6%
2006 233,951,652 19,637,022 1.33% 4.37%
2007 237,062,337 20,884,125 1.33% 6.35%
2008 240,157,903 21,636,564 1.31% 3.6%
2009 243,220,028 21,976,969 1.28% 1.57%
2010 246,305,322 22,482,421 1.27% 2.3%
2011 249,470,032 22,878,098 1.28% 1.76%
2012 252,698,525 22,759,763 1.29% -0.52%
2013 255,852,467 21,666,917 1.25% -4.8%
2014 258,877,399 20,273,659 1.18% -6.43%
2015 261,799,249 19,424,618 1.13% -4.19%
2016 264,627,418 19,193,834 1.08% -1.19%
2017 267,346,658 19,224,668 1.03% 0.16%
2018 269,951,846 19,577,845 0.97% 1.84%
2019 272,489,381 20,353,534 0.94% 3.96%
2020 274,814,866 21,049,429 0.85% 3.42%
2021 276,758,053 21,628,839 0.71% 2.75%
2022 278,830,529 22,462,173 0.75% 3.85%
2023 281,190,067 23,594,623 0.85% 5.04%
2024 283,487,931 24,672,760 0.82% 4.57%
2025 285,721,231 25,620,422 0.79% 3.84%
2026 287,886,778 26,472,499 0.76% 3.33%
2027 289,986,520 27,261,544 0.73% 2.98%
2028 292,016,774 28,006,558 0.7% 2.73%
2029 293,978,106 28,719,309 0.67% 2.54%
2030 295,876,644 29,395,545 0.65% 2.35%
2031 297,719,741 30,029,824 0.62% 2.16%
2032 299,510,654 30,633,661 0.6% 2.01%
2033 301,250,975 31,212,478 0.58% 1.89%
2034 302,938,571 31,768,138 0.56% 1.78%
2035 304,566,615 32,294,792 0.54% 1.66%
2036 306,135,097 32,788,153 0.51% 1.53%
2037 307,646,407 33,258,407 0.49% 1.43%
2038 309,096,450 33,710,718 0.47% 1.36%
2039 310,481,116 34,131,238 0.45% 1.25%
2040 311,797,391 34,533,185 0.42% 1.18%
2041 313,041,656 34,916,936 0.4% 1.11%
2042 314,211,278 35,279,863 0.37% 1.04%
2043 315,304,309 35,623,325 0.35% 0.97%
2044 316,318,412 35,944,394 0.32% 0.9%
2045 317,249,609 36,265,295 0.29% 0.89%
2046 318,096,567 36,583,260 0.27% 0.88%
2047 318,862,018 36,878,640 0.24% 0.81%
2048 319,554,646 37,171,029 0.22% 0.79%
2049 320,173,244 37,477,690 0.19% 0.83%
2050 320,712,941 37,793,378 0.17% 0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Indonesia increased by 30,927,599 people (a 13.4% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Indonesia gained 25,661,519 (a 9.8% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Indonesia was ranked 4th most populous country in 2005 and is still 4th 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) Indonesia's population will grow by 11.6% to 320,712,941 people with a rank change from 4th to 6th. The population of Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.

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