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Population in Ivory Coast compared to Japan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Ivory Coast was 31,934,230 in 2024 vs 123,975,371 people in Japan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Ivory Coast's population is 33,340,347 people compared to 123,324,642 in Japan.

Population statistics:

  • Japan's population is 3.7 times bigger than Ivory Coast's.
  • Ivory Coast is ranked the 50th most populous country in the world, while Japan is the 12th.
  • The countries together account for 1.9% of the world: 0.4% for Ivory Coast vs 1.49% for Japan.
  • For the last 10 years, Ivory Coast has had an average growth rate of +2.65% per year vs -0.25% in Japan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Ivory Coast has increased from 20.1M people to 33.3M (66.1% growth), while Japan has declined from 128M to 123M (3.48% decline).
  • Ivory Coast is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 104M people, while Japan's population already peaked in 2010 at 128M people and is projected to decrease to 77M people by 2100.

Ivory Coast vs Japan: live population counter

Ivory Coast Japan
Current population
33340347
123324642
Population rank 50/197 12/197
Percent of world population 0.4% 1.49%
One net population change
41 seconds
58.3 seconds
One birth every
31.6 seconds
42.2 seconds
One death every
2.2 minutes
19.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.12 hours
3.43 minutes
Annual migration change +7,838 +153,357
Daily growth/decline +2,106 -1,483
Annual growth/decline +768,576 -541,279
Annual growth/decline rate +2.47% -0.43%
Population growth rate rank 30/197 182/197

Ivory Coast and Japan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Ivory Coast
Population

Growth rate
Japan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Ivory Coast Japan Ivory Coast Japan
1960 3,673,666 93,216,000 - -
1961 3,810,151 94,055,000 3.72% 0.9%
1962 3,956,939 94,933,000 3.85% 0.93%
1963 4,112,061 95,900,000 3.92% 1.02%
1964 4,273,952 96,903,000 3.94% 1.05%
1965 4,442,377 97,952,000 3.94% 1.08%
1966 4,617,519 98,851,000 3.94% 0.92%
1967 4,799,744 99,879,000 3.95% 1.04%
1968 4,990,021 101,011,000 3.96% 1.13%
1969 5,192,221 102,219,000 4.05% 1.2%
1970 5,411,567 103,403,000 4.22% 1.16%
1971 5,650,868 105,697,000 4.42% 2.22%
1972 5,909,716 107,188,000 4.58% 1.41%
1973 6,184,944 108,707,000 4.66% 1.42%
1974 6,474,057 110,162,000 4.67% 1.34%
1975 6,776,297 111,573,000 4.67% 1.28%
1976 7,057,958 112,775,000 4.16% 1.08%
1977 7,321,950 113,872,000 3.74% 0.97%
1978 7,603,130 114,913,000 3.84% 0.91%
1979 7,902,267 115,890,000 3.93% 0.85%
1980 8,220,714 116,807,000 4.03% 0.79%
1981 8,556,596 117,661,000 4.09% 0.73%
1982 8,907,936 118,480,000 4.11% 0.7%
1983 9,272,744 119,307,000 4.1% 0.7%
1984 9,650,516 120,083,000 4.07% 0.65%
1985 10,040,483 120,837,000 4.04% 0.63%
1986 10,440,917 121,482,000 3.99% 0.53%
1987 10,851,475 122,069,000 3.93% 0.48%
1988 11,275,189 122,578,000 3.9% 0.42%
1989 11,719,771 123,069,000 3.94% 0.4%
1990 12,189,778 123,478,000 4.01% 0.33%
1991 12,683,870 123,964,000 4.05% 0.39%
1992 13,200,310 124,425,000 4.07% 0.37%
1993 13,735,951 124,829,000 4.06% 0.32%
1994 14,287,201 125,178,000 4.01% 0.28%
1995 14,855,565 125,472,000 3.98% 0.23%
1996 15,442,312 125,757,000 3.95% 0.23%
1997 16,047,170 126,057,000 3.92% 0.24%
1998 16,663,948 126,400,000 3.84% 0.27%
1999 17,215,935 126,631,000 3.31% 0.18%
2000 17,699,004 126,843,000 2.81% 0.17%
2001 18,178,913 127,149,000 2.71% 0.24%
2002 18,654,771 127,445,000 2.62% 0.23%
2003 19,125,542 127,718,000 2.52% 0.21%
2004 19,595,000 127,761,000 2.45% 0.03%
2005 20,068,458 127,773,000 2.42% 0.009%
2006 20,546,802 127,854,000 2.38% 0.06%
2007 21,030,558 128,001,000 2.35% 0.11%
2008 21,514,439 128,063,000 2.3% 0.05%
2009 21,997,940 128,047,000 2.25% -0.01%
2010 22,488,065 128,070,000 2.23% 0.02%
2011 22,982,000 127,833,000 2.2% -0.19%
2012 23,467,078 127,629,000 2.11% -0.16%
2013 23,939,775 127,445,000 2.01% -0.14%
2014 24,527,395 127,276,000 2.45% -0.13%
2015 25,246,342 127,141,000 2.93% -0.11%
2016 25,989,405 127,076,000 2.94% -0.05%
2017 26,733,372 126,972,000 2.86% -0.08%
2018 27,464,173 126,811,000 2.73% -0.13%
2019 28,193,009 126,633,000 2.65% -0.14%
2020 28,915,449 126,261,000 2.56% -0.29%
2021 29,639,736 125,681,593 2.5% -0.46%
2022 30,395,002 125,124,989 2.55% -0.44%
2023 31,165,654 124,516,650 2.54% -0.49%
2024 31,934,230 123,975,371 2.47% -0.43%
2025 32,711,547 123,324,642 2.43% -0.52%
2026 33,494,340 122,647,678 2.39% -0.55%
2027 34,281,129 121,951,038 2.35% -0.57%
2028 35,077,094 121,241,776 2.32% -0.58%
2029 35,883,465 120,524,230 2.3% -0.59%
2030 36,699,008 119,798,959 2.27% -0.6%
2031 37,529,369 119,065,610 2.26% -0.61%
2032 38,376,612 118,326,333 2.26% -0.62%
2033 39,244,388 117,583,337 2.26% -0.63%
2034 40,132,807 116,836,274 2.26% -0.64%
2035 41,033,849 116,084,328 2.25% -0.64%
2036 41,948,468 115,332,395 2.23% -0.65%
2037 42,880,003 114,582,890 2.22% -0.65%
2038 43,824,363 113,837,760 2.2% -0.65%
2039 44,778,750 113,097,352 2.18% -0.65%
2040 45,743,921 112,359,802 2.16% -0.65%
2041 46,717,434 111,622,622 2.13% -0.66%
2042 47,702,165 110,891,223 2.11% -0.66%
2043 48,700,670 110,169,955 2.09% -0.65%
2044 49,709,049 109,455,823 2.07% -0.65%
2045 50,716,074 108,747,012 2.03% -0.65%
2046 51,718,057 108,044,346 1.98% -0.65%
2047 52,721,465 107,350,486 1.94% -0.64%
2048 53,730,594 106,665,616 1.91% -0.64%
2049 54,739,405 105,986,908 1.88% -0.64%
2050 55,746,988 105,312,022 1.84% -0.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ivory Coast increased by 5,177,884 people (a 25.8% growth), while Japan lost 632,000 people (a 0.49% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ivory Coast gained 8,094,005 (a 32.1% growth), while Japan's population decreased by -3,816,358 (a 3% decline).

Ivory Coast was ranked 55th most populous country in 2005 and is 50th in 2025. Japan was ranked 10th in 2005 and ranked 12th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Ivory Coast's population will grow by 67.2% to 55,746,988 people with a rank change from 50th to 36th. The population of Japan will decrease by 14.6% to 105,312,022 people and rank change from 12th to 17th.

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