Population in Latvia compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Latvia and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	North Korea	Latvia	North Korea
1960	2,120,979	11,722,953	-	-
1961	2,152,681	11,990,713	1.49%	2.28%
1962	2,181,586	12,262,882	1.34%	2.27%
1963	2,210,919	12,567,057	1.34%	2.48%
1964	2,240,623	12,889,770	1.34%	2.57%
1965	2,265,919	13,219,369	1.13%	2.56%
1966	2,283,217	13,569,094	0.76%	2.65%
1967	2,301,220	13,958,350	0.79%	2.87%
1968	2,323,619	14,365,596	0.97%	2.92%
1969	2,343,173	14,767,615	0.84%	2.8%
1970	2,359,164	15,172,775	0.68%	2.74%
1971	2,376,389	15,572,457	0.73%	2.63%
1972	2,395,674	15,975,069	0.81%	2.59%
1973	2,415,819	16,350,367	0.84%	2.35%
1974	2,437,186	16,673,121	0.88%	1.97%
1975	2,456,130	16,971,055	0.78%	1.79%
1976	2,470,989	17,243,450	0.6%	1.61%
1977	2,485,073	17,492,798	0.57%	1.45%
1978	2,497,921	17,735,995	0.52%	1.39%
1979	2,505,953	17,983,470	0.32%	1.4%
1980	2,511,701	18,236,786	0.23%	1.41%
1981	2,519,421	18,501,295	0.31%	1.45%
1982	2,531,080	18,776,357	0.46%	1.49%
1983	2,546,011	19,054,034	0.59%	1.48%
1984	2,562,047	19,335,043	0.63%	1.47%
1985	2,578,873	19,620,388	0.66%	1.48%
1986	2,599,892	19,910,855	0.82%	1.48%
1987	2,626,583	20,205,483	1.03%	1.48%
1988	2,653,434	20,503,161	1.02%	1.47%
1989	2,666,955	20,804,367	0.51%	1.47%
1990	2,663,151	21,112,137	-0.14%	1.48%
1991	2,650,581	21,428,638	-0.47%	1.5%
1992	2,614,338	21,750,911	-1.37%	1.5%
1993	2,563,290	22,073,352	-1.95%	1.48%
1994	2,520,742	22,393,975	-1.66%	1.45%
1995	2,485,056	22,669,304	-1.42%	1.23%
1996	2,457,222	22,895,746	-1.12%	1%
1997	2,432,851	23,110,830	-0.99%	0.94%
1998	2,410,019	23,311,564	-0.94%	0.87%
1999	2,390,482	23,497,599	-0.81%	0.8%
2000	2,367,550	23,665,910	-0.96%	0.72%
2001	2,337,170	23,815,358	-1.28%	0.63%
2002	2,310,173	23,943,973	-1.16%	0.54%
2003	2,287,955	24,090,380	-0.96%	0.61%
2004	2,263,122	24,254,943	-1.09%	0.68%
2005	2,238,799	24,396,433	-1.07%	0.58%
2006	2,218,357	24,524,507	-0.91%	0.52%
2007	2,200,325	24,646,383	-0.81%	0.5%
2008	2,177,322	24,764,618	-1.05%	0.48%
2009	2,141,669	24,878,332	-1.64%	0.46%
2010	2,097,555	24,987,258	-2.06%	0.44%
2011	2,059,709	25,097,874	-1.8%	0.44%
2012	2,034,319	25,211,728	-1.23%	0.45%
2013	2,012,647	25,329,451	-1.07%	0.47%
2014	1,993,782	25,451,262	-0.94%	0.48%
2015	1,977,527	25,575,350	-0.82%	0.49%
2016	1,959,537	25,698,326	-0.91%	0.48%
2017	1,942,248	25,817,709	-0.88%	0.46%
2018	1,927,174	25,931,147	-0.78%	0.44%
2019	1,913,822	26,037,632	-0.69%	0.41%
2020	1,900,449	26,136,312	-0.7%	0.38%
2021	1,884,490	26,232,534	-0.84%	0.37%
2022	1,879,383	26,328,845	-0.27%	0.37%
2023	1,877,445	26,418,204	-0.1%	0.34%
2024	1,862,441	26,498,823	-0.8%	0.31%
2025	1,844,219	26,571,033	-0.98%	0.27%
2026	1,826,681	26,633,682	-0.95%	0.24%
2027	1,812,384	26,686,492	-0.78%	0.2%
2028	1,797,965	26,729,261	-0.8%	0.16%
2029	1,783,455	26,762,008	-0.81%	0.12%
2030	1,768,667	26,784,894	-0.83%	0.09%
2031	1,753,985	26,797,946	-0.83%	0.05%
2032	1,739,582	26,801,071	-0.82%	0.01%
2033	1,725,261	26,795,061	-0.82%	-0.02%
2034	1,711,332	26,780,481	-0.81%	-0.05%
2035	1,697,827	26,757,705	-0.79%	-0.09%
2036	1,684,492	26,727,309	-0.79%	-0.11%
2037	1,671,323	26,689,907	-0.78%	-0.14%
2038	1,658,336	26,646,323	-0.78%	-0.16%
2039	1,645,282	26,596,967	-0.79%	-0.19%
2040	1,632,376	26,542,417	-0.78%	-0.21%
2041	1,619,616	26,483,475	-0.78%	-0.22%
2042	1,607,019	26,420,812	-0.78%	-0.24%
2043	1,594,558	26,354,324	-0.78%	-0.25%
2044	1,582,077	26,284,000	-0.78%	-0.27%
2045	1,569,454	26,210,196	-0.8%	-0.28%
2046	1,556,840	26,132,922	-0.8%	-0.29%
2047	1,544,315	26,052,086	-0.8%	-0.31%
2048	1,531,684	25,967,581	-0.82%	-0.32%
2049	1,518,941	25,879,244	-0.83%	-0.34%
2050	1,506,179	25,787,120	-0.84%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Latvia's population will shrink by 18.3% to 1,506,179 people with a rank change from 149th to 153rd. The population of North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.