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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Italy was 58,986,023 in 2024 vs 50,015,092 people in Uganda in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Italy's population is 58,790,597 people compared to 52,490,669 in Uganda.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 1.12 times bigger than Uganda's.
  • Italy is ranked the 25th most populous country in the world, while Uganda is the 30th.
  • The countries together account for 1.35% of the world: 0.71% for Italy vs 0.63% for Uganda.
  • For the last 10 years, Italy has had an average growth rate of -0.2% per year vs +3.21% in Uganda.
  • Since 2005, the population of Italy has increased from 58.2M people to 58.8M (1.07% growth), while Uganda has grown from 28M to 52.5M (87.7% growth).
  • Uganda is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 121M 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 Uganda: live population counter

Italy Uganda
Current population
58790597
52490669
Population rank 25/197 30/197
Percent of world population 0.71% 0.63%
One net population change
1.18 hours
23.2 seconds
One birth every
1.39 minutes
18.4 seconds
One death every
47.7 seconds
2.23 minutes
One migration net change every
5.52 minutes
4.46 minutes
Annual migration change +95,246 -117,924
Daily growth/decline -20 +3,722
Annual growth/decline -7,452 +1,358,491
Annual growth/decline rate -0.01% +2.79%
Population growth rate rank 166/197 23/197

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

Italy
Population

Growth rate
Uganda
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Italy Uganda Italy Uganda
1960 50,199,700 7,640,973 - -
1961 50,536,350 7,862,217 0.67% 2.9%
1962 50,879,450 8,092,231 0.68% 2.93%
1963 51,252,000 8,333,663 0.73% 2.98%
1964 51,675,350 8,586,363 0.83% 3.03%
1965 52,112,350 8,849,203 0.85% 3.06%
1966 52,519,000 9,122,864 0.78% 3.09%
1967 52,900,500 9,408,924 0.73% 3.14%
1968 53,235,750 9,708,632 0.63% 3.19%
1969 53,537,950 10,014,858 0.57% 3.15%
1970 53,821,850 10,321,603 0.53% 3.06%
1971 54,073,490 10,618,206 0.47% 2.87%
1972 54,381,345 10,885,796 0.57% 2.52%
1973 54,751,406 11,144,236 0.68% 2.37%
1974 55,110,868 11,424,846 0.66% 2.52%
1975 55,441,001 11,725,240 0.6% 2.63%
1976 55,718,260 12,037,294 0.5% 2.66%
1977 55,955,411 12,359,669 0.43% 2.68%
1978 56,155,143 12,692,113 0.36% 2.69%
1979 56,317,749 13,002,163 0.29% 2.44%
1980 56,433,883 13,275,741 0.21% 2.1%
1981 56,501,675 13,556,452 0.12% 2.11%
1982 56,543,548 13,873,631 0.07% 2.34%
1983 56,564,074 14,221,881 0.04% 2.51%
1984 56,576,718 14,607,677 0.02% 2.71%
1985 56,593,071 15,023,681 0.03% 2.85%
1986 56,596,155 15,467,579 0.005% 2.95%
1987 56,601,931 15,954,170 0.01% 3.15%
1988 56,629,288 16,470,483 0.05% 3.24%
1989 56,671,781 17,010,698 0.08% 3.28%
1990 56,719,240 17,569,897 0.08% 3.29%
1991 56,758,521 18,155,901 0.07% 3.34%
1992 56,797,087 18,785,032 0.07% 3.47%
1993 56,831,821 19,445,161 0.06% 3.51%
1994 56,843,400 20,108,801 0.02% 3.41%
1995 56,844,303 20,665,667 0.002% 2.77%
1996 56,860,281 21,231,550 0.03% 2.74%
1997 56,890,372 21,856,046 0.05% 2.94%
1998 56,906,744 22,515,806 0.03% 3.02%
1999 56,916,317 23,257,281 0.02% 3.29%
2000 56,942,108 24,000,150 0.05% 3.19%
2001 56,976,981 24,745,676 0.06% 3.11%
2002 57,089,824 25,532,870 0.2% 3.18%
2003 57,399,184 26,352,124 0.54% 3.21%
2004 57,828,179 27,154,515 0.75% 3.04%
2005 58,166,682 27,963,289 0.59% 2.98%
2006 58,399,861 28,794,003 0.4% 2.97%
2007 58,756,247 29,653,430 0.61% 2.98%
2008 59,211,181 30,539,553 0.77% 2.99%
2009 59,555,454 31,451,151 0.58% 2.98%
2010 59,819,407 32,390,802 0.44% 2.99%
2011 60,026,841 33,354,543 0.35% 2.98%
2012 60,191,247 34,337,438 0.27% 2.95%
2013 60,311,613 35,337,042 0.2% 2.91%
2014 60,320,707 36,395,539 0.02% 3%
2015 60,229,605 37,531,446 -0.15% 3.12%
2016 60,115,223 38,799,152 -0.19% 3.38%
2017 60,002,252 40,177,388 -0.19% 3.55%
2018 60,148,658 41,565,831 0.24% 3.46%
2019 59,729,081 42,999,637 -0.7% 3.45%
2020 59,438,851 44,457,152 -0.49% 3.39%
2021 59,133,173 45,910,930 -0.51% 3.27%
2022 59,013,667 47,312,719 -0.2% 3.05%
2023 58,993,475 48,656,601 -0.03% 2.84%
2024 58,986,023 50,015,092 -0.01% 2.79%
2025 58,790,597 51,384,895 -0.33% 2.74%
2026 58,571,823 52,761,471 -0.37% 2.68%
2027 58,335,864 54,144,274 -0.4% 2.62%
2028 58,094,373 55,532,564 -0.41% 2.56%
2029 57,851,042 56,922,797 -0.42% 2.5%
2030 57,597,622 58,312,944 -0.44% 2.44%
2031 57,333,277 59,703,537 -0.46% 2.38%
2032 57,071,235 61,089,060 -0.46% 2.32%
2033 56,812,747 62,464,116 -0.45% 2.25%
2034 56,548,816 63,833,872 -0.46% 2.19%
2035 56,279,536 65,205,570 -0.48% 2.15%
2036 56,009,844 66,573,737 -0.48% 2.1%
2037 55,737,477 67,942,634 -0.49% 2.06%
2038 55,460,735 69,312,210 -0.5% 2.02%
2039 55,177,508 70,669,875 -0.51% 1.96%
2040 54,889,107 72,020,414 -0.52% 1.91%
2041 54,601,628 73,372,658 -0.52% 1.88%
2042 54,307,412 74,730,004 -0.54% 1.85%
2043 53,997,106 76,090,991 -0.57% 1.82%
2044 53,679,603 77,449,517 -0.59% 1.79%
2045 53,357,669 78,797,995 -0.6% 1.74%
2046 53,025,288 80,139,174 -0.62% 1.7%
2047 52,680,150 81,478,503 -0.65% 1.67%
2048 52,324,241 82,812,102 -0.68% 1.64%
2049 51,959,050 84,130,056 -0.7% 1.59%
2050 51,579,060 85,431,202 -0.73% 1.55%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while Uganda gained 9,568,157 people (a 34.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while Uganda's population increased by 14,959,223 (a 39.9% growth).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. Uganda was ranked 40th in 2005 and ranked 30th 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 Uganda will increase by 62.8% to 85,431,202 people and rank change from 30th to 20th.

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
Uganda
City Population
Kampala 1.68M
Mbale 586K
Arua 385K
Kira Town 317K
Jinja 279K
Gulu 177K
Kasese 101K
Entebbe 70K
Tororo 41.9K

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