Population in Italy compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Italy and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Italy	North Korea	Italy	North Korea
1960	50,199,700	11,722,953	-	-
1961	50,536,350	11,990,713	0.67%	2.28%
1962	50,879,450	12,262,882	0.68%	2.27%
1963	51,252,000	12,567,057	0.73%	2.48%
1964	51,675,350	12,889,770	0.83%	2.57%
1965	52,112,350	13,219,369	0.85%	2.56%
1966	52,519,000	13,569,094	0.78%	2.65%
1967	52,900,500	13,958,350	0.73%	2.87%
1968	53,235,750	14,365,596	0.63%	2.92%
1969	53,537,950	14,767,615	0.57%	2.8%
1970	53,821,850	15,172,775	0.53%	2.74%
1971	54,073,490	15,572,457	0.47%	2.63%
1972	54,381,345	15,975,069	0.57%	2.59%
1973	54,751,406	16,350,367	0.68%	2.35%
1974	55,110,868	16,673,121	0.66%	1.97%
1975	55,441,001	16,971,055	0.6%	1.79%
1976	55,718,260	17,243,450	0.5%	1.61%
1977	55,955,411	17,492,798	0.43%	1.45%
1978	56,155,143	17,735,995	0.36%	1.39%
1979	56,317,749	17,983,470	0.29%	1.4%
1980	56,433,883	18,236,786	0.21%	1.41%
1981	56,501,675	18,501,295	0.12%	1.45%
1982	56,543,548	18,776,357	0.07%	1.49%
1983	56,564,074	19,054,034	0.04%	1.48%
1984	56,576,718	19,335,043	0.02%	1.47%
1985	56,593,071	19,620,388	0.03%	1.48%
1986	56,596,155	19,910,855	0.005%	1.48%
1987	56,601,931	20,205,483	0.01%	1.48%
1988	56,629,288	20,503,161	0.05%	1.47%
1989	56,671,781	20,804,367	0.08%	1.47%
1990	56,719,240	21,112,137	0.08%	1.48%
1991	56,758,521	21,428,638	0.07%	1.5%
1992	56,797,087	21,750,911	0.07%	1.5%
1993	56,831,821	22,073,352	0.06%	1.48%
1994	56,843,400	22,393,975	0.02%	1.45%
1995	56,844,303	22,669,304	0.002%	1.23%
1996	56,860,281	22,895,746	0.03%	1%
1997	56,890,372	23,110,830	0.05%	0.94%
1998	56,906,744	23,311,564	0.03%	0.87%
1999	56,916,317	23,497,599	0.02%	0.8%
2000	56,942,108	23,665,910	0.05%	0.72%
2001	56,976,981	23,815,358	0.06%	0.63%
2002	57,089,824	23,943,973	0.2%	0.54%
2003	57,399,184	24,090,380	0.54%	0.61%
2004	57,828,179	24,254,943	0.75%	0.68%
2005	58,166,682	24,396,433	0.59%	0.58%
2006	58,399,861	24,524,507	0.4%	0.52%
2007	58,756,247	24,646,383	0.61%	0.5%
2008	59,211,181	24,764,618	0.77%	0.48%
2009	59,555,454	24,878,332	0.58%	0.46%
2010	59,819,407	24,987,258	0.44%	0.44%
2011	60,026,841	25,097,874	0.35%	0.44%
2012	60,191,247	25,211,728	0.27%	0.45%
2013	60,311,613	25,329,451	0.2%	0.47%
2014	60,320,707	25,451,262	0.02%	0.48%
2015	60,229,605	25,575,350	-0.15%	0.49%
2016	60,115,223	25,698,326	-0.19%	0.48%
2017	60,002,252	25,817,709	-0.19%	0.46%
2018	60,148,658	25,931,147	0.24%	0.44%
2019	59,729,081	26,037,632	-0.7%	0.41%
2020	59,438,851	26,136,312	-0.49%	0.38%
2021	59,133,173	26,232,534	-0.51%	0.37%
2022	59,013,667	26,328,845	-0.2%	0.37%
2023	58,993,475	26,418,204	-0.03%	0.34%
2024	58,986,023	26,498,823	-0.01%	0.31%
2025	58,790,597	26,571,033	-0.33%	0.27%
2026	58,571,823	26,633,682	-0.37%	0.24%
2027	58,335,864	26,686,492	-0.4%	0.2%
2028	58,094,373	26,729,261	-0.41%	0.16%
2029	57,851,042	26,762,008	-0.42%	0.12%
2030	57,597,622	26,784,894	-0.44%	0.09%
2031	57,333,277	26,797,946	-0.46%	0.05%
2032	57,071,235	26,801,071	-0.46%	0.01%
2033	56,812,747	26,795,061	-0.45%	-0.02%
2034	56,548,816	26,780,481	-0.46%	-0.05%
2035	56,279,536	26,757,705	-0.48%	-0.09%
2036	56,009,844	26,727,309	-0.48%	-0.11%
2037	55,737,477	26,689,907	-0.49%	-0.14%
2038	55,460,735	26,646,323	-0.5%	-0.16%
2039	55,177,508	26,596,967	-0.51%	-0.19%
2040	54,889,107	26,542,417	-0.52%	-0.21%
2041	54,601,628	26,483,475	-0.52%	-0.22%
2042	54,307,412	26,420,812	-0.54%	-0.24%
2043	53,997,106	26,354,324	-0.57%	-0.25%
2044	53,679,603	26,284,000	-0.59%	-0.27%
2045	53,357,669	26,210,196	-0.6%	-0.28%
2046	53,025,288	26,132,922	-0.62%	-0.29%
2047	52,680,150	26,052,086	-0.65%	-0.31%
2048	52,324,241	25,967,581	-0.68%	-0.32%
2049	51,959,050	25,879,244	-0.7%	-0.34%
2050	51,579,060	25,787,120	-0.73%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Italy's population will shrink by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people with a rank change from 25th to 40th. The population of North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.