Population in Italy compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Italy and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Italy	Papua New Guinea	Italy	Papua New Guinea
1960	50,199,700	1,995,110	-	-
1961	50,536,350	2,046,127	0.67%	2.56%
1962	50,879,450	2,093,919	0.68%	2.34%
1963	51,252,000	2,141,376	0.73%	2.27%
1964	51,675,350	2,188,325	0.83%	2.19%
1965	52,112,350	2,235,820	0.85%	2.17%
1966	52,519,000	2,285,774	0.78%	2.23%
1967	52,900,500	2,337,532	0.73%	2.26%
1968	53,235,750	2,390,803	0.63%	2.28%
1969	53,537,950	2,446,927	0.57%	2.35%
1970	53,821,850	2,505,628	0.53%	2.4%
1971	54,073,490	2,566,421	0.47%	2.43%
1972	54,381,345	2,628,432	0.57%	2.42%
1973	54,751,406	2,690,629	0.68%	2.37%
1974	55,110,868	2,752,671	0.66%	2.31%
1975	55,441,001	2,814,820	0.6%	2.26%
1976	55,718,260	2,877,327	0.5%	2.22%
1977	55,955,411	2,940,327	0.43%	2.19%
1978	56,155,143	3,003,714	0.36%	2.16%
1979	56,317,749	3,067,341	0.29%	2.12%
1980	56,433,883	3,131,512	0.21%	2.09%
1981	56,501,675	3,197,019	0.12%	2.09%
1982	56,543,548	3,264,291	0.07%	2.1%
1983	56,564,074	3,333,633	0.04%	2.12%
1984	56,576,718	3,405,198	0.02%	2.15%
1985	56,593,071	3,478,936	0.03%	2.17%
1986	56,596,155	3,554,793	0.005%	2.18%
1987	56,601,931	3,632,543	0.01%	2.19%
1988	56,629,288	3,711,880	0.05%	2.18%
1989	56,671,781	3,796,078	0.08%	2.27%
1990	56,719,240	3,896,481	0.08%	2.64%
1991	56,758,521	4,021,837	0.07%	3.22%
1992	56,797,087	4,166,699	0.07%	3.6%
1993	56,831,821	4,320,872	0.06%	3.7%
1994	56,843,400	4,480,208	0.02%	3.69%
1995	56,844,303	4,644,278	0.002%	3.66%
1996	56,860,281	4,813,361	0.03%	3.64%
1997	56,890,372	4,987,883	0.05%	3.63%
1998	56,906,744	5,166,390	0.03%	3.58%
1999	56,916,317	5,349,333	0.02%	3.54%
2000	56,942,108	5,537,064	0.05%	3.51%
2001	56,976,981	5,728,435	0.06%	3.46%
2002	57,089,824	5,924,003	0.2%	3.41%
2003	57,399,184	6,123,997	0.54%	3.38%
2004	57,828,179	6,328,041	0.75%	3.33%
2005	58,166,682	6,535,905	0.59%	3.28%
2006	58,399,861	6,747,720	0.4%	3.24%
2007	58,756,247	6,963,345	0.61%	3.2%
2008	59,211,181	7,183,002	0.77%	3.15%
2009	59,555,454	7,406,438	0.58%	3.11%
2010	59,819,407	7,633,523	0.44%	3.07%
2011	60,026,841	7,859,346	0.35%	2.96%
2012	60,191,247	8,081,390	0.27%	2.83%
2013	60,311,613	8,302,698	0.2%	2.74%
2014	60,320,707	8,523,441	0.02%	2.66%
2015	60,229,605	8,743,246	-0.15%	2.58%
2016	60,115,223	8,961,718	-0.19%	2.5%
2017	60,002,252	9,178,714	-0.19%	2.42%
2018	60,148,658	9,394,513	0.24%	2.35%
2019	59,729,081	9,609,010	-0.7%	2.28%
2020	59,438,851	9,815,746	-0.49%	2.15%
2021	59,133,173	10,012,896	-0.51%	2.01%
2022	59,013,667	10,203,169	-0.2%	1.9%
2023	58,993,475	10,389,635	-0.03%	1.83%
2024	58,986,023	10,576,502	-0.01%	1.8%
2025	58,790,597	10,762,813	-0.33%	1.76%
2026	58,571,823	10,947,845	-0.37%	1.72%
2027	58,335,864	11,131,268	-0.4%	1.68%
2028	58,094,373	11,312,895	-0.41%	1.63%
2029	57,851,042	11,492,799	-0.42%	1.59%
2030	57,597,622	11,671,420	-0.44%	1.55%
2031	57,333,277	11,848,221	-0.46%	1.51%
2032	57,071,235	12,023,121	-0.46%	1.48%
2033	56,812,747	12,196,639	-0.45%	1.44%
2034	56,548,816	12,369,248	-0.46%	1.42%
2035	56,279,536	12,540,596	-0.48%	1.39%
2036	56,009,844	12,710,682	-0.48%	1.36%
2037	55,737,477	12,879,737	-0.49%	1.33%
2038	55,460,735	13,047,122	-0.5%	1.3%
2039	55,177,508	13,212,668	-0.51%	1.27%
2040	54,889,107	13,376,156	-0.52%	1.24%
2041	54,601,628	13,537,361	-0.52%	1.21%
2042	54,307,412	13,696,139	-0.54%	1.17%
2043	53,997,106	13,853,410	-0.57%	1.15%
2044	53,679,603	14,009,926	-0.59%	1.13%
2045	53,357,669	14,165,578	-0.6%	1.11%
2046	53,025,288	14,318,889	-0.62%	1.08%
2047	52,680,150	14,469,210	-0.65%	1.05%
2048	52,324,241	14,617,364	-0.68%	1.02%
2049	51,959,050	14,763,600	-0.7%	1%
2050	51,579,060	14,906,584	-0.73%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th 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 Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.