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Population in Ivory Coast compared to South Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Ivory Coast was 31,934,230 in 2024 vs 51,751,065 people in South Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Ivory Coast's population is 33,340,347 people compared to 51,700,480 in South Korea.

Population statistics:

  • South Korea's population is 1.55 times bigger than Ivory Coast's.
  • Ivory Coast is ranked the 50th most populous country in the world, while South Korea is the 31st.
  • The countries together account for 1.03% of the world: 0.4% for Ivory Coast vs 0.63% for South Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Ivory Coast has had an average growth rate of +2.65% per year vs +0.24% in South Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Ivory Coast has increased from 20.1M people to 33.3M (66.1% growth), while South Korea has grown from 48.2M to 51.7M (7.3% growth).
  • Ivory Coast is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 104M people, while South Korea's population already peaked in 2020 at 51.8M people and is projected to decrease to 21.9M people by 2100.

Ivory Coast vs South Korea: live population counter

Ivory Coast South Korea
Current population
33340347
51700480
Population rank 50/197 31/197
Percent of world population 0.4% 0.63%
One net population change
41 seconds
13.7 minutes
One birth every
31.6 seconds
2.26 minutes
One death every
2.2 minutes
1.69 minutes
One migration net change every
1.12 hours
6.92 minutes
Annual migration change +7,838 +75,963
Daily growth/decline +2,106 +105
Annual growth/decline +768,576 +38,446
Annual growth/decline rate +2.47% +0.07%
Population growth rate rank 30/197 159/197

Ivory Coast and South Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Ivory Coast
Population

Growth rate
South Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Ivory Coast South Korea Ivory Coast South Korea
1960 3,673,666 25,012,374 - -
1961 3,810,151 25,765,673 3.72% 3.01%
1962 3,956,939 26,513,030 3.85% 2.9%
1963 4,112,061 27,261,747 3.92% 2.82%
1964 4,273,952 27,984,155 3.94% 2.65%
1965 4,442,377 28,704,674 3.94% 2.57%
1966 4,617,519 29,435,571 3.94% 2.55%
1967 4,799,744 30,130,983 3.95% 2.36%
1968 4,990,021 30,838,302 3.96% 2.35%
1969 5,192,221 31,544,266 4.05% 2.29%
1970 5,411,567 32,240,827 4.22% 2.21%
1971 5,650,868 32,882,704 4.42% 1.99%
1972 5,909,716 33,505,406 4.58% 1.89%
1973 6,184,944 34,103,149 4.66% 1.78%
1974 6,474,057 34,692,266 4.67% 1.73%
1975 6,776,297 35,280,725 4.67% 1.7%
1976 7,057,958 35,848,523 4.16% 1.61%
1977 7,321,950 36,411,795 3.74% 1.57%
1978 7,603,130 36,969,185 3.84% 1.53%
1979 7,902,267 37,534,236 3.93% 1.53%
1980 8,220,714 38,123,775 4.03% 1.57%
1981 8,556,596 38,723,248 4.09% 1.57%
1982 8,907,936 39,326,352 4.11% 1.56%
1983 9,272,744 39,910,403 4.1% 1.49%
1984 9,650,516 40,405,956 4.07% 1.24%
1985 10,040,483 40,805,744 4.04% 0.99%
1986 10,440,917 41,213,674 3.99% 1%
1987 10,851,475 41,621,690 3.93% 0.99%
1988 11,275,189 42,031,247 3.9% 0.98%
1989 11,719,771 42,449,038 3.94% 0.99%
1990 12,189,778 42,869,283 4.01% 0.99%
1991 12,683,870 43,295,704 4.05% 0.99%
1992 13,200,310 43,747,962 4.07% 1.04%
1993 13,735,951 44,194,628 4.06% 1.02%
1994 14,287,201 44,641,540 4.01% 1.01%
1995 14,855,565 45,092,991 3.98% 1.01%
1996 15,442,312 45,524,681 3.95% 0.96%
1997 16,047,170 45,953,580 3.92% 0.94%
1998 16,663,948 46,286,503 3.84% 0.72%
1999 17,215,935 46,616,677 3.31% 0.71%
2000 17,699,004 47,008,111 2.81% 0.84%
2001 18,178,913 47,370,164 2.71% 0.77%
2002 18,654,771 47,644,736 2.62% 0.58%
2003 19,125,542 47,892,330 2.52% 0.52%
2004 19,595,000 48,082,519 2.45% 0.4%
2005 20,068,458 48,184,561 2.42% 0.21%
2006 20,546,802 48,438,292 2.38% 0.53%
2007 21,030,558 48,683,638 2.35% 0.51%
2008 21,514,439 49,054,708 2.3% 0.76%
2009 21,997,940 49,307,835 2.25% 0.52%
2010 22,488,065 49,554,112 2.23% 0.5%
2011 22,982,000 49,936,638 2.2% 0.77%
2012 23,467,078 50,199,853 2.11% 0.53%
2013 23,939,775 50,428,893 2.01% 0.46%
2014 24,527,395 50,746,659 2.45% 0.63%
2015 25,246,342 51,014,947 2.93% 0.53%
2016 25,989,405 51,217,803 2.94% 0.4%
2017 26,733,372 51,361,911 2.86% 0.28%
2018 27,464,173 51,585,058 2.73% 0.43%
2019 28,193,009 51,764,822 2.65% 0.35%
2020 28,915,449 51,836,239 2.56% 0.14%
2021 29,639,736 51,769,539 2.5% -0.13%
2022 30,395,002 51,672,569 2.55% -0.19%
2023 31,165,654 51,712,619 2.54% 0.08%
2024 31,934,230 51,751,065 2.47% 0.07%
2025 32,711,547 51,700,480 2.43% -0.1%
2026 33,494,340 51,633,793 2.39% -0.13%
2027 34,281,129 51,552,198 2.35% -0.16%
2028 35,077,094 51,456,707 2.32% -0.19%
2029 35,883,465 51,347,230 2.3% -0.21%
2030 36,699,008 51,221,713 2.27% -0.24%
2031 37,529,369 51,081,220 2.26% -0.27%
2032 38,376,612 50,924,233 2.26% -0.31%
2033 39,244,388 50,747,132 2.26% -0.35%
2034 40,132,807 50,549,508 2.26% -0.39%
2035 41,033,849 50,333,286 2.25% -0.43%
2036 41,948,468 50,098,951 2.23% -0.47%
2037 42,880,003 49,845,669 2.22% -0.51%
2038 43,824,363 49,573,234 2.2% -0.55%
2039 44,778,750 49,283,770 2.18% -0.58%
2040 45,743,921 48,980,369 2.16% -0.62%
2041 46,717,434 48,661,905 2.13% -0.65%
2042 47,702,165 48,331,004 2.11% -0.68%
2043 48,700,670 47,990,085 2.09% -0.71%
2044 49,709,049 47,634,183 2.07% -0.74%
2045 50,716,074 47,263,526 2.03% -0.78%
2046 51,718,057 46,881,228 1.98% -0.81%
2047 52,721,465 46,482,133 1.94% -0.85%
2048 53,730,594 46,063,595 1.91% -0.9%
2049 54,739,405 45,626,805 1.88% -0.95%
2050 55,746,988 45,172,356 1.84% -1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ivory Coast increased by 5,177,884 people (a 25.8% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ivory Coast gained 8,094,005 (a 32.1% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Ivory Coast was ranked 55th most populous country in 2005 and is 50th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.

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