Population in Japan compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Japan and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Japan	United Kingdom	Japan	United Kingdom
1960	93,216,000	52,400,000	-	-
1961	94,055,000	52,800,000	0.9%	0.76%
1962	94,933,000	53,250,000	0.93%	0.85%
1963	95,900,000	53,650,000	1.02%	0.75%
1964	96,903,000	54,000,000	1.05%	0.65%
1965	97,952,000	54,348,050	1.08%	0.64%
1966	98,851,000	54,648,500	0.92%	0.55%
1967	99,879,000	54,943,600	1.04%	0.54%
1968	101,011,000	55,211,700	1.13%	0.49%
1969	102,219,000	55,441,750	1.2%	0.42%
1970	103,403,000	55,663,250	1.16%	0.4%
1971	105,697,000	55,896,223	2.22%	0.42%
1972	107,188,000	56,086,065	1.41%	0.34%
1973	108,707,000	56,194,527	1.42%	0.19%
1974	110,162,000	56,229,974	1.34%	0.06%
1975	111,573,000	56,225,800	1.28%	-0.007%
1976	112,775,000	56,211,968	1.08%	-0.02%
1977	113,872,000	56,193,492	0.97%	-0.03%
1978	114,913,000	56,196,504	0.91%	0.005%
1979	115,890,000	56,246,951	0.85%	0.09%
1980	116,807,000	56,314,216	0.79%	0.12%
1981	117,661,000	56,333,829	0.73%	0.03%
1982	118,480,000	56,313,641	0.7%	-0.04%
1983	119,307,000	56,332,848	0.7%	0.03%
1984	120,083,000	56,422,072	0.65%	0.16%
1985	120,837,000	56,550,268	0.63%	0.23%
1986	121,482,000	56,681,396	0.53%	0.23%
1987	122,069,000	56,802,050	0.48%	0.21%
1988	122,578,000	56,928,327	0.42%	0.22%
1989	123,069,000	57,076,711	0.4%	0.26%
1990	123,478,000	57,247,586	0.33%	0.3%
1991	123,964,000	57,424,897	0.39%	0.31%
1992	124,425,000	57,580,402	0.37%	0.27%
1993	124,829,000	57,718,614	0.32%	0.24%
1994	125,178,000	57,865,745	0.28%	0.25%
1995	125,472,000	58,019,030	0.23%	0.26%
1996	125,757,000	58,166,950	0.23%	0.25%
1997	126,057,000	58,316,954	0.24%	0.26%
1998	126,400,000	58,487,141	0.27%	0.29%
1999	126,631,000	58,682,466	0.18%	0.33%
2000	126,843,000	58,892,514	0.17%	0.36%
2001	127,149,000	59,119,673	0.24%	0.39%
2002	127,445,000	59,370,479	0.23%	0.42%
2003	127,718,000	59,647,577	0.21%	0.47%
2004	127,761,000	59,987,905	0.03%	0.57%
2005	127,773,000	60,401,206	0.009%	0.69%
2006	127,854,000	60,846,820	0.06%	0.74%
2007	128,001,000	61,322,463	0.11%	0.78%
2008	128,063,000	61,806,995	0.05%	0.79%
2009	128,047,000	62,276,270	-0.01%	0.76%
2010	128,070,000	62,766,365	0.02%	0.79%
2011	127,833,000	63,258,810	-0.19%	0.78%
2012	127,629,000	63,711,000	-0.16%	0.71%
2013	127,445,000	64,139,000	-0.14%	0.67%
2014	127,276,000	64,620,000	-0.13%	0.75%
2015	127,141,000	65,088,000	-0.11%	0.72%
2016	127,076,000	65,607,000	-0.05%	0.8%
2017	126,972,000	65,966,000	-0.08%	0.55%
2018	126,811,000	66,289,000	-0.13%	0.49%
2019	126,633,000	66,631,000	-0.14%	0.52%
2020	126,261,000	66,744,000	-0.29%	0.17%
2021	125,681,593	66,984,000	-0.46%	0.36%
2022	125,124,989	67,604,000	-0.44%	0.93%
2023	124,516,650	68,492,000	-0.49%	1.31%
2024	123,975,371	69,226,000	-0.43%	1.07%
2025	123,324,642	69,639,673	-0.52%	0.6%
2026	122,647,678	70,020,350	-0.55%	0.55%
2027	121,951,038	70,382,853	-0.57%	0.52%
2028	121,241,776	70,732,699	-0.58%	0.5%
2029	120,524,230	71,061,482	-0.59%	0.46%
2030	119,798,959	71,377,535	-0.6%	0.44%
2031	119,065,610	71,678,351	-0.61%	0.42%
2032	118,326,333	71,959,934	-0.62%	0.39%
2033	117,583,337	72,234,509	-0.63%	0.38%
2034	116,836,274	72,497,650	-0.64%	0.36%
2035	116,084,328	72,749,096	-0.64%	0.35%
2036	115,332,395	72,990,847	-0.65%	0.33%
2037	114,582,890	73,218,850	-0.65%	0.31%
2038	113,837,760	73,441,349	-0.65%	0.3%
2039	113,097,352	73,658,392	-0.65%	0.3%
2040	112,359,802	73,868,334	-0.65%	0.29%
2041	111,622,622	74,074,316	-0.66%	0.28%
2042	110,891,223	74,275,779	-0.66%	0.27%
2043	110,169,955	74,475,035	-0.65%	0.27%
2044	109,455,823	74,667,284	-0.65%	0.26%
2045	108,747,012	74,848,605	-0.65%	0.24%
2046	108,044,346	75,020,949	-0.65%	0.23%
2047	107,350,486	75,184,478	-0.64%	0.22%
2048	106,665,616	75,337,543	-0.64%	0.2%
2049	105,986,908	75,476,141	-0.64%	0.18%
2050	105,312,022	75,600,588	-0.64%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Japan decreased by 632,000 people (a 0.49% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Japan lost -3,816,358 (a 3% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Japan was ranked 10th most populous country in 2005 and is 12th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Japan's population will shrink by 14.6% to 105,312,022 people with a rank change from 12th to 17th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.