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Population in Iran compared to Kazakhstan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Iran was 91,567,738 in 2024 vs 20,592,571 people in Kazakhstan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Iran's population is 93,020,793 people compared to 21,036,432 in Kazakhstan.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 4.42 times bigger than Kazakhstan's.
  • Iran is ranked the 17th most populous country in the world, while Kazakhstan is the 65th.
  • The countries together account for 1.38% of the world: 1.13% for Iran vs 0.25% for Kazakhstan.
  • For the last 10 years, Iran has had an average growth rate of +1.19% per year vs +1.46% in Kazakhstan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Iran has increased from 71.8M people to 93M (29.5% growth), while Kazakhstan has grown from 16M to 21M (31.7% growth).
  • Iran is projected to reach its peak in 2053 at 102M people compared to the peak of 33.7M people in 2100 for Kazakhstan.

Iran vs Kazakhstan: live population counter

Iran Kazakhstan
Current population
93020793
21036432
Population rank 17/197 65/197
Percent of world population 1.13% 0.25%
One net population change
32.9 seconds
2 minutes
One birth every
26.9 seconds
1.28 minutes
One death every
1.24 minutes
3.85 minutes
One migration net change every
2.76 minutes
1.19 hours
Annual migration change +190,156 -7,368
Daily growth/decline +2,627 +719
Annual growth/decline +959,031 +262,467
Annual growth/decline rate +1.06% +1.29%
Population growth rate rank 100/197 84/197

Iran and Kazakhstan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Iran
Population

Growth rate
Kazakhstan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Iran Kazakhstan Iran Kazakhstan
1960 21,470,434 9,429,981 - -
1961 22,125,726 9,742,085 3.05% 3.31%
1962 22,807,907 10,058,928 3.08% 3.25%
1963 23,519,005 10,377,466 3.12% 3.17%
1964 24,262,859 10,690,309 3.16% 3.01%
1965 25,036,978 10,993,183 3.19% 2.83%
1966 25,829,270 11,288,989 3.16% 2.69%
1967 26,628,432 11,584,428 3.09% 2.62%
1968 27,437,391 11,879,182 3.04% 2.54%
1969 28,273,482 12,156,212 3.05% 2.33%
1970 29,145,100 12,419,057 3.08% 2.16%
1971 30,029,071 12,684,813 3.03% 2.14%
1972 30,921,179 12,951,798 2.97% 2.1%
1973 31,839,838 13,208,121 2.97% 1.98%
1974 32,796,463 13,454,570 3% 1.87%
1975 33,802,973 13,700,843 3.07% 1.83%
1976 34,837,271 13,998,738 3.06% 2.17%
1977 35,933,181 14,353,265 3.15% 2.53%
1978 37,126,535 14,711,497 3.32% 2.5%
1979 38,424,952 14,978,696 3.5% 1.82%
1980 39,842,324 15,152,949 3.69% 1.16%
1981 41,989,312 15,323,082 5.39% 1.12%
1982 44,272,141 15,492,595 5.44% 1.11%
1983 46,029,535 15,665,551 3.97% 1.12%
1984 47,793,998 15,844,621 3.83% 1.14%
1985 49,582,289 16,031,090 3.74% 1.18%
1986 51,446,045 16,262,702 3.76% 1.44%
1987 53,323,493 16,527,715 3.65% 1.63%
1988 55,072,694 16,781,168 3.28% 1.53%
1989 56,704,914 16,997,013 2.96% 1.29%
1990 58,380,092 17,154,054 2.95% 0.92%
1991 59,986,931 17,278,600 2.75% 0.73%
1992 61,184,983 17,332,625 2% 0.31%
1993 61,403,543 17,274,487 0.36% -0.34%
1994 61,520,598 17,043,771 0.19% -1.34%
1995 62,205,567 16,730,536 1.11% -1.84%
1996 62,881,300 16,416,027 1.09% -1.88%
1997 63,639,638 16,043,251 1.21% -2.27%
1998 64,519,859 15,647,785 1.38% -2.46%
1999 65,445,391 15,455,874 1.43% -1.23%
2000 66,418,659 15,501,103 1.49% 0.29%
2001 67,452,005 15,575,550 1.56% 0.48%
2002 68,011,317 15,656,677 0.83% 0.52%
2003 68,769,340 15,747,380 1.11% 0.58%
2004 70,256,316 15,850,159 2.16% 0.65%
2005 71,828,455 15,968,117 2.24% 0.74%
2006 73,392,747 16,103,716 2.18% 0.85%
2007 74,602,648 16,257,214 1.65% 0.95%
2008 75,514,204 16,426,525 1.22% 1.04%
2009 76,457,825 16,619,846 1.25% 1.18%
2010 77,420,842 16,836,810 1.26% 1.31%
2011 78,383,598 17,066,002 1.24% 1.36%
2012 79,370,580 17,306,106 1.26% 1.41%
2013 80,414,686 17,556,502 1.32% 1.45%
2014 81,502,045 17,816,285 1.35% 1.48%
2015 82,619,362 18,084,169 1.37% 1.5%
2016 83,812,228 18,363,600 1.44% 1.55%
2017 85,026,754 18,651,931 1.45% 1.57%
2018 86,117,998 18,932,727 1.28% 1.51%
2019 87,051,648 19,209,555 1.08% 1.46%
2020 87,723,443 19,482,117 0.77% 1.42%
2021 88,455,488 19,743,603 0.83% 1.34%
2022 89,524,246 20,034,609 1.21% 1.47%
2023 90,608,707 20,330,104 1.21% 1.47%
2024 91,567,738 20,592,571 1.06% 1.29%
2025 92,417,685 20,843,753 0.93% 1.22%
2026 93,168,494 21,083,619 0.81% 1.15%
2027 93,838,646 21,316,177 0.72% 1.1%
2028 94,440,024 21,547,638 0.64% 1.09%
2029 94,985,102 21,777,008 0.58% 1.06%
2030 95,486,672 22,003,192 0.53% 1.04%
2031 95,960,723 22,227,045 0.5% 1.02%
2032 96,415,457 22,452,639 0.47% 1.01%
2033 96,850,659 22,679,377 0.45% 1.01%
2034 97,271,044 22,903,209 0.43% 0.99%
2035 97,679,258 23,125,951 0.42% 0.97%
2036 98,075,324 23,349,072 0.41% 0.96%
2037 98,458,805 23,571,233 0.39% 0.95%
2038 98,828,318 23,793,387 0.38% 0.94%
2039 99,182,806 24,017,887 0.36% 0.94%
2040 99,524,286 24,246,822 0.34% 0.95%
2041 99,853,719 24,477,612 0.33% 0.95%
2042 100,167,076 24,707,974 0.31% 0.94%
2043 100,462,092 24,941,020 0.29% 0.94%
2044 100,737,592 25,175,225 0.27% 0.94%
2045 100,990,622 25,409,749 0.25% 0.93%
2046 101,219,689 25,642,870 0.23% 0.92%
2047 101,424,009 25,875,743 0.2% 0.91%
2048 101,601,932 26,106,834 0.18% 0.89%
2049 101,748,544 26,328,898 0.14% 0.85%
2050 101,862,002 26,544,261 0.11% 0.82%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Iran increased by 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth), while Kazakhstan gained 2,116,052 people (a 13.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Iran gained 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth), while Kazakhstan's population increased by 2,952,263 (a 16.3% growth).

Iran was ranked 17th most populous country in 2005 and is still 17th in 2025. Kazakhstan was ranked 62nd in 2005 and ranked 65th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Iran's population will grow by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people with a rank change from 17th to 18th. The population of Kazakhstan will increase by 26.2% to 26,544,261 people and rank change from 65th to 64th.

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