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Population in Italy compared to Sao Tome and Principe: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Italy was 58,986,023 in 2024 vs 235,536 people in Sao Tome and Principe in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Italy's population is 58,790,597 people compared to 244,055 in Sao Tome and Principe.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 240.9 times bigger than Sao Tome and Principe's.
  • Italy is ranked the 25th most populous country in the world, while Sao Tome and Principe is the 176th.
  • The countries together account for 0.71% of the world: 0.71% for Italy vs 0.003% for Sao Tome and Principe.
  • For the last 10 years, Italy has had an average growth rate of -0.2% per year vs +1.82% in Sao Tome and Principe.
  • Since 2005, the population of Italy has increased from 58.2M people to 58.8M (1.07% growth), while Sao Tome and Principe has grown from 162K to 244K (51% growth).
  • Sao Tome and Principe is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 534K 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 Sao Tome and Principe: live population counter

Italy Sao Tome
Current population
58790597
244055
Population rank 25/197 176/197
Percent of world population 0.71% 0.003%
One net population change
1.18 hours
1.88 hours
One birth every
1.39 minutes
1.35 hours
One death every
47.7 seconds
6.81 hours
One migration net change every
5.52 minutes
14.5 hours
Annual migration change +95,246 -604
Daily growth/decline -20 +13
Annual growth/decline -7,452 +4,665
Annual growth/decline rate -0.01% +2.02%
Population growth rate rank 166/197 52/197

Italy and Sao Tome and Principe: population history and growth rate by year chart

Italy
Population

Growth rate
Sao Tome and Principe
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Italy Sao Tome Italy Sao Tome
1960 50,199,700 68,012 - -
1961 50,536,350 68,707 0.67% 1.02%
1962 50,879,450 69,403 0.68% 1.01%
1963 51,252,000 70,112 0.73% 1.02%
1964 51,675,350 70,865 0.83% 1.07%
1965 52,112,350 71,680 0.85% 1.15%
1966 52,519,000 72,576 0.78% 1.25%
1967 52,900,500 73,596 0.73% 1.41%
1968 53,235,750 74,765 0.63% 1.59%
1969 53,537,950 76,083 0.57% 1.76%
1970 53,821,850 77,626 0.53% 2.03%
1971 54,073,490 79,330 0.47% 2.2%
1972 54,381,345 81,041 0.57% 2.16%
1973 54,751,406 82,798 0.68% 2.17%
1974 55,110,868 84,672 0.66% 2.26%
1975 55,441,001 86,708 0.6% 2.4%
1976 55,718,260 88,922 0.5% 2.55%
1977 55,955,411 91,301 0.43% 2.68%
1978 56,155,143 93,794 0.36% 2.73%
1979 56,317,749 96,252 0.29% 2.62%
1980 56,433,883 98,544 0.21% 2.38%
1981 56,501,675 100,615 0.12% 2.1%
1982 56,543,548 102,508 0.07% 1.88%
1983 56,564,074 104,380 0.04% 1.83%
1984 56,576,718 106,394 0.02% 1.93%
1985 56,593,071 108,658 0.03% 2.13%
1986 56,596,155 111,150 0.005% 2.29%
1987 56,601,931 113,919 0.01% 2.49%
1988 56,629,288 116,939 0.05% 2.65%
1989 56,671,781 119,979 0.08% 2.6%
1990 56,719,240 122,980 0.08% 2.5%
1991 56,758,521 125,697 0.07% 2.21%
1992 56,797,087 128,110 0.07% 1.92%
1993 56,831,821 130,467 0.06% 1.84%
1994 56,843,400 132,732 0.02% 1.74%
1995 56,844,303 134,895 0.002% 1.63%
1996 56,860,281 136,962 0.03% 1.53%
1997 56,890,372 138,922 0.05% 1.43%
1998 56,906,744 140,751 0.03% 1.32%
1999 56,916,317 142,442 0.02% 1.2%
2000 56,942,108 144,018 0.05% 1.11%
2001 56,976,981 146,375 0.06% 1.64%
2002 57,089,824 149,922 0.2% 2.42%
2003 57,399,184 153,814 0.54% 2.6%
2004 57,828,179 157,705 0.75% 2.53%
2005 58,166,682 161,639 0.59% 2.49%
2006 58,399,861 165,638 0.4% 2.47%
2007 58,756,247 169,700 0.61% 2.45%
2008 59,211,181 173,793 0.77% 2.41%
2009 59,555,454 177,853 0.58% 2.34%
2010 59,819,407 181,802 0.44% 2.22%
2011 60,026,841 185,649 0.35% 2.12%
2012 60,191,247 189,439 0.27% 2.04%
2013 60,311,613 193,148 0.2% 1.96%
2014 60,320,707 196,767 0.02% 1.87%
2015 60,229,605 200,291 -0.15% 1.79%
2016 60,115,223 203,689 -0.19% 1.7%
2017 60,002,252 206,970 -0.19% 1.61%
2018 60,148,658 210,187 0.24% 1.55%
2019 59,729,081 213,392 -0.7% 1.52%
2020 59,438,851 217,435 -0.49% 1.89%
2021 59,133,173 221,961 -0.51% 2.08%
2022 59,013,667 226,305 -0.2% 1.96%
2023 58,993,475 230,871 -0.03% 2.02%
2024 58,986,023 235,536 -0.01% 2.02%
2025 58,790,597 240,251 -0.33% 2%
2026 58,571,823 244,987 -0.37% 1.97%
2027 58,335,864 249,783 -0.4% 1.96%
2028 58,094,373 254,657 -0.41% 1.95%
2029 57,851,042 259,597 -0.42% 1.94%
2030 57,597,622 264,560 -0.44% 1.91%
2031 57,333,277 269,566 -0.46% 1.89%
2032 57,071,235 274,643 -0.46% 1.88%
2033 56,812,747 279,761 -0.45% 1.86%
2034 56,548,816 284,911 -0.46% 1.84%
2035 56,279,536 290,082 -0.48% 1.81%
2036 56,009,844 295,269 -0.48% 1.79%
2037 55,737,477 300,439 -0.49% 1.75%
2038 55,460,735 305,590 -0.5% 1.71%
2039 55,177,508 310,729 -0.51% 1.68%
2040 54,889,107 315,833 -0.52% 1.64%
2041 54,601,628 320,875 -0.52% 1.6%
2042 54,307,412 325,888 -0.54% 1.56%
2043 53,997,106 330,908 -0.57% 1.54%
2044 53,679,603 335,919 -0.59% 1.51%
2045 53,357,669 340,911 -0.6% 1.49%
2046 53,025,288 345,883 -0.62% 1.46%
2047 52,680,150 350,758 -0.65% 1.41%
2048 52,324,241 355,569 -0.68% 1.37%
2049 51,959,050 360,353 -0.7% 1.35%
2050 51,579,060 365,103 -0.73% 1.32%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while Sao Tome and Principe gained 38,652 people (a 23.9% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while Sao Tome and Principe's population increased by 43,764 (a 21.9% growth).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. Sao Tome and Principe was ranked 178th in 2005 and ranked 176th 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 Sao Tome and Principe will increase by 49.6% to 365,103 people and rank change from 176th to 175th.

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
Sao Tome
City Population
Sao Tome 65.5K
Trindade 6.64K

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