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Population in Italy compared to Rwanda: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Italy was 58,986,023 in 2024 vs 14,256,567 people in Rwanda in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Italy's population is 58,790,597 people compared to 14,826,674 in Rwanda.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 3.97 times bigger than Rwanda's.
  • Italy is ranked the 25th most populous country in the world, while Rwanda is the 77th.
  • The countries together account for 0.89% of the world: 0.71% for Italy vs 0.18% for Rwanda.
  • For the last 10 years, Italy has had an average growth rate of -0.2% per year vs +2.31% in Rwanda.
  • Since 2005, the population of Italy has increased from 58.2M people to 58.8M (1.07% growth), while Rwanda has grown from 9.05M to 14.8M (63.7% growth).
  • Rwanda is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 32.8M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Italy vs Rwanda: live population counter

Italy Rwanda
Current population
58790597
14826674
Population rank 25/197 77/197
Percent of world population 0.71% 0.18%
One net population change
1.18 hours
1.74 minutes
One birth every
1.39 minutes
1.33 minutes
One death every
47.7 seconds
6.35 minutes
One migration net change every
5.52 minutes
33.7 minutes
Annual migration change +95,246 -15,582
Daily growth/decline -20 +828
Annual growth/decline -7,452 +302,096
Annual growth/decline rate -0.01% +2.16%
Population growth rate rank 166/197 47/197

Italy and Rwanda: population history and growth rate by year chart

Italy
Population

Growth rate
Rwanda
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Italy Rwanda Italy Rwanda
1960 50,199,700 3,022,294 - -
1961 50,536,350 3,106,779 0.67% 2.8%
1962 50,879,450 3,186,025 0.68% 2.55%
1963 51,252,000 3,258,890 0.73% 2.29%
1964 51,675,350 3,334,834 0.83% 2.33%
1965 52,112,350 3,423,210 0.85% 2.65%
1966 52,519,000 3,521,626 0.78% 2.87%
1967 52,900,500 3,629,577 0.73% 3.07%
1968 53,235,750 3,744,010 0.63% 3.15%
1969 53,537,950 3,861,271 0.57% 3.13%
1970 53,821,850 3,980,669 0.53% 3.09%
1971 54,073,490 4,100,044 0.47% 3%
1972 54,381,345 4,220,335 0.57% 2.93%
1973 54,751,406 4,345,047 0.68% 2.96%
1974 55,110,868 4,474,228 0.66% 2.97%
1975 55,441,001 4,607,728 0.6% 2.98%
1976 55,718,260 4,745,954 0.5% 3%
1977 55,955,411 4,888,240 0.43% 3%
1978 56,155,143 5,035,171 0.36% 3.01%
1979 56,317,749 5,189,541 0.29% 3.07%
1980 56,433,883 5,353,259 0.21% 3.15%
1981 56,501,675 5,527,230 0.12% 3.25%
1982 56,543,548 5,711,549 0.07% 3.33%
1983 56,564,074 5,905,311 0.04% 3.39%
1984 56,576,718 6,107,627 0.02% 3.43%
1985 56,593,071 6,317,228 0.03% 3.43%
1986 56,596,155 6,531,881 0.005% 3.4%
1987 56,601,931 6,749,493 0.01% 3.33%
1988 56,629,288 6,968,071 0.05% 3.24%
1989 56,671,781 7,184,706 0.08% 3.11%
1990 56,719,240 7,375,307 0.08% 2.65%
1991 56,758,521 7,526,966 0.07% 2.06%
1992 56,797,087 7,683,266 0.07% 2.08%
1993 56,831,821 7,981,132 0.06% 3.88%
1994 56,843,400 6,792,352 0.02% -14.9%
1995 56,844,303 5,674,118 0.002% -16.5%
1996 56,860,281 6,708,764 0.03% 18.2%
1997 56,890,372 7,755,238 0.05% 15.6%
1998 56,906,744 8,081,681 0.03% 4.21%
1999 56,916,317 8,147,912 0.02% 0.82%
2000 56,942,108 8,213,931 0.05% 0.81%
2001 56,976,981 8,287,094 0.06% 0.89%
2002 57,089,824 8,400,180 0.2% 1.36%
2003 57,399,184 8,586,875 0.54% 2.22%
2004 57,828,179 8,816,844 0.75% 2.68%
2005 58,166,682 9,054,528 0.59% 2.7%
2006 58,399,861 9,299,246 0.4% 2.7%
2007 58,756,247 9,549,933 0.61% 2.7%
2008 59,211,181 9,804,269 0.77% 2.66%
2009 59,555,454 10,060,432 0.58% 2.61%
2010 59,819,407 10,317,553 0.44% 2.56%
2011 60,026,841 10,573,733 0.35% 2.48%
2012 60,191,247 10,829,901 0.27% 2.42%
2013 60,311,613 11,093,340 0.2% 2.43%
2014 60,320,707 11,364,757 0.02% 2.45%
2015 60,229,605 11,640,022 -0.15% 2.42%
2016 60,115,223 11,919,183 -0.19% 2.4%
2017 60,002,252 12,202,060 -0.19% 2.37%
2018 60,148,658 12,487,996 0.24% 2.34%
2019 59,729,081 12,776,103 -0.7% 2.31%
2020 59,438,851 13,065,837 -0.49% 2.27%
2021 59,133,173 13,355,260 -0.51% 2.22%
2022 59,013,667 13,651,030 -0.2% 2.21%
2023 58,993,475 13,954,471 -0.03% 2.22%
2024 58,986,023 14,256,567 -0.01% 2.16%
2025 58,790,597 14,569,343 -0.33% 2.19%
2026 58,571,823 14,889,694 -0.37% 2.2%
2027 58,335,864 15,214,324 -0.4% 2.18%
2028 58,094,373 15,536,461 -0.41% 2.12%
2029 57,851,042 15,844,649 -0.42% 1.98%
2030 57,597,622 16,154,698 -0.44% 1.96%
2031 57,333,277 16,473,106 -0.46% 1.97%
2032 57,071,235 16,771,820 -0.46% 1.81%
2033 56,812,747 17,073,475 -0.45% 1.8%
2034 56,548,816 17,402,250 -0.46% 1.93%
2035 56,279,536 17,746,315 -0.48% 1.98%
2036 56,009,844 18,076,769 -0.48% 1.86%
2037 55,737,477 18,395,838 -0.49% 1.77%
2038 55,460,735 18,729,778 -0.5% 1.82%
2039 55,177,508 19,076,783 -0.51% 1.85%
2040 54,889,107 19,440,762 -0.52% 1.91%
2041 54,601,628 19,806,170 -0.52% 1.88%
2042 54,307,412 20,153,979 -0.54% 1.76%
2043 53,997,106 20,500,826 -0.57% 1.72%
2044 53,679,603 20,837,079 -0.59% 1.64%
2045 53,357,669 21,152,650 -0.6% 1.51%
2046 53,025,288 21,459,144 -0.62% 1.45%
2047 52,680,150 21,764,578 -0.65% 1.42%
2048 52,324,241 22,086,112 -0.68% 1.48%
2049 51,959,050 22,403,887 -0.7% 1.44%
2050 51,579,060 22,707,896 -0.73% 1.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while Rwanda gained 2,585,494 people (a 28.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while Rwanda's population increased by 3,186,652 (a 27.4% growth).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. Rwanda was ranked 87th in 2005 and ranked 77th 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 Rwanda will increase by 53.2% to 22,707,896 people and rank change from 77th to 72nd.

Biggest cities by population

Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K
Rwanda
City Population
Kigali 1.16M
Ruhengeri 153K
Gisenyi 53.6K
Byumba 36.4K
Cyangugu 27.4K
Nyanza 25.4K
Butare 19.9K
Kibuye 12.3K

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