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Population in Iran compared to the Marshall Islands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Iran was 91,567,738 in 2024 vs 37,548 people in the Marshall Islands in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Iran's population is 93,020,793 people compared to 36,281 in the Marshall Islands.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 2,564 times bigger than the Marshall Islands'.
  • Iran is ranked the 17th most populous country in the world, while the Marshall Islands is the 192nd.
  • The countries together account for 1.13% of the world: 1.13% for Iran vs 0.0004% for the Marshall Islands.
  • For the last 10 years, Iran has had an average growth rate of +1.19% per year vs -2.69% in the Marshall Islands.
  • Since 2005, the population of Iran has increased from 71.8M people to 93M (29.5% growth), while the Marshall Islands has declined from 51.9K to 36.3K (30.1% decline).
  • Iran is projected to reach its peak in 2053 at 102M people, while the Marshall Islands' population already peaked in 2010 at 52K people and is projected to decrease to 23.8K people by 2100.

Iran vs Marshall Islands: live population counter

Iran Marshall Islands
Current population
93020793
36281
Population rank 17/197 192/197
Percent of world population 1.13% 0.0004%
One net population change
32.9 seconds
6.85 hours
One birth every
26.9 seconds
10.7 hours
One death every
1.24 minutes
1.35 days
One migration net change every
2.76 minutes
4.96 hours
Annual migration change +190,156 -1,765
Daily growth/decline +2,627 -4
Annual growth/decline +959,031 -1,279
Annual growth/decline rate +1.06% -3.29%
Population growth rate rank 100/197 197/197

Iran and the Marshall Islands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Iran
Population

Growth rate
Marshall Islands
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Iran Marshall Islands Iran Marshall Islands
1960 21,470,434 14,703 - -
1961 22,125,726 15,219 3.05% 3.51%
1962 22,807,907 15,755 3.08% 3.52%
1963 23,519,005 16,302 3.12% 3.47%
1964 24,262,859 16,852 3.16% 3.37%
1965 25,036,978 17,402 3.19% 3.26%
1966 25,829,270 17,927 3.16% 3.02%
1967 26,628,432 18,655 3.09% 4.06%
1968 27,437,391 19,862 3.04% 6.47%
1969 28,273,482 21,305 3.05% 7.27%
1970 29,145,100 22,530 3.08% 5.75%
1971 30,029,071 23,366 3.03% 3.71%
1972 30,921,179 23,992 2.97% 2.68%
1973 31,839,838 24,581 2.97% 2.45%
1974 32,796,463 25,296 3% 2.91%
1975 33,802,973 26,154 3.07% 3.39%
1976 34,837,271 27,021 3.06% 3.31%
1977 35,933,181 27,906 3.15% 3.28%
1978 37,126,535 28,809 3.32% 3.24%
1979 38,424,952 29,738 3.5% 3.22%
1980 39,842,324 30,774 3.69% 3.48%
1981 41,989,312 32,017 5.39% 4.04%
1982 44,272,141 33,397 5.44% 4.31%
1983 46,029,535 34,811 3.97% 4.23%
1984 47,793,998 36,264 3.83% 4.17%
1985 49,582,289 37,761 3.74% 4.13%
1986 51,446,045 39,286 3.76% 4.04%
1987 53,323,493 40,828 3.65% 3.93%
1988 55,072,694 42,321 3.28% 3.66%
1989 56,704,914 43,586 2.96% 2.99%
1990 58,380,092 44,629 2.95% 2.39%
1991 59,986,931 45,568 2.75% 2.1%
1992 61,184,983 46,388 2% 1.8%
1993 61,403,543 47,093 0.36% 1.52%
1994 61,520,598 47,712 0.19% 1.31%
1995 62,205,567 48,266 1.11% 1.16%
1996 62,881,300 48,775 1.09% 1.05%
1997 63,639,638 49,259 1.21% 0.99%
1998 64,519,859 49,717 1.38% 0.93%
1999 65,445,391 50,202 1.43% 0.98%
2000 66,418,659 50,706 1.49% 1%
2001 67,452,005 51,123 1.56% 0.82%
2002 68,011,317 51,425 0.83% 0.59%
2003 68,769,340 51,639 1.11% 0.42%
2004 70,256,316 51,791 2.16% 0.29%
2005 71,828,455 51,906 2.24% 0.22%
2006 73,392,747 51,992 2.18% 0.17%
2007 74,602,648 52,035 1.65% 0.08%
2008 75,514,204 52,030 1.22% -0.01%
2009 76,457,825 52,019 1.25% -0.02%
2010 77,420,842 52,044 1.26% 0.05%
2011 78,383,598 51,907 1.24% -0.26%
2012 79,370,580 51,419 1.26% -0.94%
2013 80,414,686 50,681 1.32% -1.44%
2014 81,502,045 49,796 1.35% -1.75%
2015 82,619,362 48,800 1.37% -2%
2016 83,812,228 47,709 1.44% -2.24%
2017 85,026,754 46,529 1.45% -2.47%
2018 86,117,998 45,285 1.28% -2.67%
2019 87,051,648 44,007 1.08% -2.82%
2020 87,723,443 42,706 0.77% -2.96%
2021 88,455,488 41,367 0.83% -3.14%
2022 89,524,246 40,077 1.21% -3.12%
2023 90,608,707 38,827 1.21% -3.12%
2024 91,567,738 37,548 1.06% -3.29%
2025 92,417,685 36,281 0.93% -3.37%
2026 93,168,494 35,078 0.81% -3.32%
2027 93,838,646 33,976 0.72% -3.14%
2028 94,440,024 32,977 0.64% -2.94%
2029 94,985,102 32,054 0.58% -2.8%
2030 95,486,672 31,191 0.53% -2.69%
2031 95,960,723 30,420 0.5% -2.47%
2032 96,415,457 29,740 0.47% -2.23%
2033 96,850,659 29,142 0.45% -2.01%
2034 97,271,044 28,608 0.43% -1.83%
2035 97,679,258 28,147 0.42% -1.61%
2036 98,075,324 27,751 0.41% -1.41%
2037 98,458,805 27,405 0.39% -1.25%
2038 98,828,318 27,092 0.38% -1.14%
2039 99,182,806 26,836 0.36% -0.94%
2040 99,524,286 26,598 0.34% -0.89%
2041 99,853,719 26,396 0.33% -0.76%
2042 100,167,076 26,217 0.31% -0.68%
2043 100,462,092 26,054 0.29% -0.62%
2044 100,737,592 25,913 0.27% -0.54%
2045 100,990,622 25,777 0.25% -0.52%
2046 101,219,689 25,653 0.23% -0.48%
2047 101,424,009 25,543 0.2% -0.43%
2048 101,601,932 25,429 0.18% -0.45%
2049 101,748,544 25,311 0.14% -0.46%
2050 101,862,002 25,195 0.11% -0.46%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Iran increased by 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth), while the Marshall Islands lost 3,106 people (a 5.98% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Iran gained 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth), while the Marshall Islands' population decreased by -12,519 (a 25.7% decline).

Iran was ranked 17th most populous country in 2005 and is still 17th in 2025. The Marshall Islands was ranked 188th in 2005 and ranked 192nd 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 the Marshall Islands will decrease by 30.6% to 25,195 people and rank change from 192nd to 193rd.

Biggest cities by population

Iran
City Population
Tehran 8.69M
Mashhad 3M
Isfahan 1.96M
Karaj 1.59M
Shiraz 1.57M
Tabriz 1.56M
Qom 1.2M
Ahvaz 1.18M
Kermanshah 947K
Urmia 736K

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