Population in Israel compared to South Africa: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Israel and South Africa: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Israel	South Africa	Israel	South Africa
1960	2,114,020	16,440,172	-	-
1961	2,185,000	16,908,035	3.36%	2.85%
1962	2,293,000	17,418,522	4.94%	3.02%
1963	2,379,000	17,954,564	3.75%	3.08%
1964	2,475,000	18,511,361	4.04%	3.1%
1965	2,563,000	19,089,380	3.56%	3.12%
1966	2,629,000	19,690,087	2.58%	3.15%
1967	2,745,000	20,314,066	4.41%	3.17%
1968	2,803,000	20,957,287	2.11%	3.17%
1969	2,877,000	21,614,676	2.64%	3.14%
1970	2,974,000	22,279,984	3.37%	3.08%
1971	3,069,000	22,942,143	3.19%	2.97%
1972	3,148,000	23,609,456	2.57%	2.91%
1973	3,278,000	24,294,263	4.13%	2.9%
1974	3,377,000	24,989,108	3.02%	2.86%
1975	3,455,000	25,690,940	2.31%	2.81%
1976	3,533,000	26,395,450	2.26%	2.74%
1977	3,613,000	27,118,952	2.26%	2.74%
1978	3,690,000	27,869,507	2.13%	2.77%
1979	3,786,000	28,634,162	2.6%	2.74%
1980	3,878,000	29,518,857	2.43%	3.09%
1981	3,956,000	30,541,044	2.01%	3.46%
1982	4,031,000	31,615,339	1.9%	3.52%
1983	4,105,000	32,739,304	1.84%	3.56%
1984	4,159,000	33,892,788	1.32%	3.52%
1985	4,233,000	35,042,093	1.78%	3.39%
1986	4,299,000	36,180,515	1.56%	3.25%
1987	4,369,000	37,326,190	1.63%	3.17%
1988	4,442,000	38,480,649	1.67%	3.09%
1989	4,518,000	39,628,575	1.71%	2.98%
1990	4,660,000	40,746,268	3.14%	2.82%
1991	4,949,000	41,687,898	6.2%	2.31%
1992	5,123,000	42,443,509	3.52%	1.81%
1993	5,261,000	43,297,156	2.69%	2.01%
1994	5,399,000	44,004,139	2.62%	1.63%
1995	5,545,000	44,541,554	2.7%	1.22%
1996	5,692,000	45,123,018	2.65%	1.31%
1997	5,836,000	45,666,838	2.53%	1.21%
1998	5,971,000	46,223,880	2.31%	1.22%
1999	6,125,000	46,730,335	2.58%	1.1%
2000	6,289,000	47,159,719	2.68%	0.92%
2001	6,439,000	47,566,800	2.39%	0.86%
2002	6,570,000	48,019,415	2.03%	0.95%
2003	6,689,700	48,500,348	1.82%	1%
2004	6,809,000	48,991,421	1.78%	1.01%
2005	6,930,100	49,490,033	1.78%	1.02%
2006	7,053,700	49,998,277	1.78%	1.03%
2007	7,180,100	50,528,584	1.79%	1.06%
2008	7,308,800	51,114,599	1.79%	1.16%
2009	7,485,600	51,728,516	2.42%	1.2%
2010	7,623,600	52,344,051	1.84%	1.19%
2011	7,765,800	52,995,205	1.87%	1.24%
2012	7,910,500	53,782,567	1.86%	1.49%
2013	8,059,500	54,678,791	1.88%	1.67%
2014	8,215,700	55,594,838	1.94%	1.68%
2015	8,380,100	56,723,537	2%	2.03%
2016	8,546,000	57,259,551	1.98%	0.94%
2017	8,713,300	57,635,162	1.96%	0.66%
2018	8,882,800	58,613,001	1.95%	1.7%
2019	9,054,000	59,587,885	1.93%	1.66%
2020	9,215,100	60,562,381	1.78%	1.64%
2021	9,371,400	61,502,603	1.7%	1.55%
2022	9,557,500	62,378,410	1.99%	1.42%
2023	9,849,000	63,212,384	3.05%	1.34%
2024	9,974,400	64,007,187	1.27%	1.26%
2025	10,112,712	64,747,317	1.39%	1.16%
2026	10,251,384	65,453,086	1.37%	1.09%
2027	10,390,790	66,143,018	1.36%	1.05%
2028	10,530,831	66,830,384	1.35%	1.04%
2029	10,670,808	67,506,850	1.33%	1.01%
2030	10,812,707	68,161,357	1.33%	0.97%
2031	10,958,256	68,798,574	1.35%	0.93%
2032	11,102,895	69,426,441	1.32%	0.91%
2033	11,245,826	70,040,484	1.29%	0.88%
2034	11,390,158	70,641,572	1.28%	0.86%
2035	11,537,556	71,234,749	1.29%	0.84%
2036	11,685,531	71,816,372	1.28%	0.82%
2037	11,835,669	72,387,807	1.28%	0.8%
2038	11,990,527	72,949,611	1.31%	0.78%
2039	12,147,999	73,496,152	1.31%	0.75%
2040	12,306,173	74,035,615	1.3%	0.73%
2041	12,464,653	74,575,444	1.29%	0.73%
2042	12,626,052	75,111,899	1.29%	0.72%
2043	12,788,911	75,641,512	1.29%	0.71%
2044	12,952,526	76,164,461	1.28%	0.69%
2045	13,114,360	76,681,448	1.25%	0.68%
2046	13,274,365	77,199,542	1.22%	0.68%
2047	13,433,565	77,716,650	1.2%	0.67%
2048	13,590,900	78,215,323	1.17%	0.64%
2049	13,750,245	78,699,584	1.17%	0.62%
2050	13,911,988	79,177,329	1.18%	0.61%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Israel increased by 1,492,300 people (a 21.2% growth), while South Africa gained 7,261,274 people (a 14.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Israel gained 1,706,907 (a 20% growth), while South Africa's population increased by 8,201,075 (a 14.3% growth).

Israel was ranked 99th most populous country in 2006 and is 95th in 2026. South Africa was ranked 24th in 2006 and still ranked 24th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Israel's population will grow by 35.7% to 13,911,988 people with a rank change from 95th to 88th. The population of South Africa will increase by 21% to 79,177,329 people and rank change from 24th to 23rd.