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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Italy was 58,986,023 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Italy's population is 58,790,597 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 2.52 times bigger than Taiwan's.
  • Italy is ranked the 25th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.99% of the world: 0.71% for Italy vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Italy has had an average growth rate of -0.2% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Italy has increased from 58.2M people to 58.8M (1.07% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 29.6% of the population in Italy and 39.5% in Taiwan.

Italy vs Taiwan: live population counter

Italy Taiwan
Current population
58790597
23308308
Population rank 25/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.71% 0.28%
One net population change
1.18 hours
7.75 minutes
One birth every
1.39 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
47.7 seconds
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
5.52 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +95,246 +47,029
Daily growth/decline -20 +186
Annual growth/decline -7,452 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate -0.01% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 166/197 150/197

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

Italy
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Italy Taiwan Italy Taiwan
1960 50,199,700 - - -
1961 50,536,350 11,030,385 0.67% -
1962 50,879,450 11,392,513 0.68% 3.28%
1963 51,252,000 11,762,101 0.73% 3.24%
1964 51,675,350 12,137,143 0.83% 3.19%
1965 52,112,350 12,511,863 0.85% 3.09%
1966 52,519,000 12,874,153 0.78% 2.9%
1967 52,900,500 13,210,344 0.73% 2.61%
1968 53,235,750 13,548,537 0.63% 2.56%
1969 53,537,950 14,068,984 0.57% 3.84%
1970 53,821,850 14,582,944 0.53% 3.65%
1971 54,073,490 14,913,564 0.47% 2.27%
1972 54,381,345 15,220,495 0.57% 2.06%
1973 54,751,406 15,505,121 0.68% 1.87%
1974 55,110,868 15,784,817 0.66% 1.8%
1975 55,441,001 16,075,128 0.6% 1.84%
1976 55,718,260 16,401,413 0.5% 2.03%
1977 55,955,411 16,730,895 0.43% 2.01%
1978 56,155,143 17,042,272 0.36% 1.86%
1979 56,317,749 17,372,779 0.29% 1.94%
1980 56,433,883 17,704,538 0.21% 1.91%
1981 56,501,675 18,029,982 0.12% 1.84%
1982 56,543,548 18,354,855 0.07% 1.8%
1983 56,564,074 18,653,146 0.04% 1.63%
1984 56,576,718 18,929,866 0.02% 1.48%
1985 56,593,071 19,191,510 0.03% 1.38%
1986 56,596,155 19,411,454 0.005% 1.15%
1987 56,601,931 19,617,046 0.01% 1.06%
1988 56,629,288 19,839,704 0.05% 1.14%
1989 56,671,781 20,055,492 0.08% 1.09%
1990 56,719,240 20,278,946 0.08% 1.11%
1991 56,758,521 20,503,568 0.07% 1.11%
1992 56,797,087 20,704,227 0.07% 0.98%
1993 56,831,821 20,899,019 0.06% 0.94%
1994 56,843,400 21,086,645 0.02% 0.9%
1995 56,844,303 21,267,653 0.002% 0.86%
1996 56,860,281 21,441,432 0.03% 0.82%
1997 56,890,372 21,634,124 0.05% 0.9%
1998 56,906,744 21,835,703 0.03% 0.93%
1999 56,916,317 22,010,489 0.02% 0.8%
2000 56,942,108 22,184,530 0.05% 0.79%
2001 56,976,981 22,341,120 0.06% 0.71%
2002 57,089,824 22,463,172 0.2% 0.55%
2003 57,399,184 22,562,663 0.54% 0.44%
2004 57,828,179 22,646,836 0.75% 0.37%
2005 58,166,682 22,729,753 0.59% 0.37%
2006 58,399,861 22,823,455 0.4% 0.41%
2007 58,756,247 22,917,444 0.61% 0.41%
2008 59,211,181 22,997,696 0.77% 0.35%
2009 59,555,454 23,078,402 0.58% 0.35%
2010 59,819,407 23,140,948 0.44% 0.27%
2011 60,026,841 23,193,518 0.35% 0.23%
2012 60,191,247 23,270,367 0.27% 0.33%
2013 60,311,613 23,344,670 0.2% 0.32%
2014 60,320,707 23,403,635 0.02% 0.25%
2015 60,229,605 23,462,914 -0.15% 0.25%
2016 60,115,223 23,515,945 -0.19% 0.23%
2017 60,002,252 23,555,522 -0.19% 0.17%
2018 60,148,658 23,580,080 0.24% 0.1%
2019 59,729,081 23,596,027 -0.7% 0.07%
2020 59,438,851 23,582,179 -0.49% -0.06%
2021 59,133,173 23,468,275 -0.51% -0.48%
2022 59,013,667 23,319,977 -0.2% -0.63%
2023 58,993,475 23,342,541 -0.03% 0.1%
2024 58,986,023 23,410,331 -0.01% 0.29%
2025 58,790,597 23,308,308 -0.33% -0.44%
2026 58,571,823 23,205,944 -0.37% -0.44%
2027 58,335,864 23,102,120 -0.4% -0.45%
2028 58,094,373 22,996,693 -0.41% -0.46%
2029 57,851,042 22,890,335 -0.42% -0.46%
2030 57,597,622 22,781,040 -0.44% -0.48%
2031 57,333,277 22,667,327 -0.46% -0.5%
2032 57,071,235 22,549,689 -0.46% -0.52%
2033 56,812,747 22,428,721 -0.45% -0.54%
2034 56,548,816 22,302,402 -0.46% -0.56%
2035 56,279,536 22,170,689 -0.48% -0.59%
2036 56,009,844 22,034,775 -0.48% -0.61%
2037 55,737,477 21,893,029 -0.49% -0.64%
2038 55,460,735 21,746,001 -0.5% -0.67%
2039 55,177,508 21,594,236 -0.51% -0.7%
2040 54,889,107 21,436,947 -0.52% -0.73%
2041 54,601,628 21,274,187 -0.52% -0.76%
2042 54,307,412 21,105,682 -0.54% -0.79%
2043 53,997,106 20,932,105 -0.57% -0.82%
2044 53,679,603 20,754,623 -0.59% -0.85%
2045 53,357,669 20,571,741 -0.6% -0.88%
2046 53,025,288 20,384,903 -0.62% -0.91%
2047 52,680,150 20,194,425 -0.65% -0.93%
2048 52,324,241 19,999,753 -0.68% -0.96%
2049 51,959,050 19,801,293 -0.7% -0.99%
2050 51,579,060 19,598,997 -0.73% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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