Population in Latvia compared to Poland: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Latvia and Poland: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Poland	Latvia	Poland
1960	2,120,979	29,637,450	-	-
1961	2,152,681	29,964,000	1.49%	1.1%
1962	2,181,586	30,308,500	1.34%	1.15%
1963	2,210,919	30,712,000	1.34%	1.33%
1964	2,240,623	31,139,450	1.34%	1.39%
1965	2,265,919	31,444,950	1.13%	0.98%
1966	2,283,217	31,681,000	0.76%	0.75%
1967	2,301,220	31,987,155	0.79%	0.97%
1968	2,323,619	32,294,655	0.97%	0.96%
1969	2,343,173	32,548,300	0.84%	0.79%
1970	2,359,164	32,664,300	0.68%	0.36%
1971	2,376,389	32,783,500	0.73%	0.36%
1972	2,395,674	33,055,650	0.81%	0.83%
1973	2,415,819	33,357,200	0.84%	0.91%
1974	2,437,186	33,678,899	0.88%	0.96%
1975	2,456,130	34,015,199	0.78%	1%
1976	2,470,989	34,356,300	0.6%	1%
1977	2,485,073	34,689,050	0.57%	0.97%
1978	2,497,921	34,965,600	0.52%	0.8%
1979	2,505,953	35,247,217	0.32%	0.81%
1980	2,511,701	35,574,150	0.23%	0.93%
1981	2,519,421	35,898,587	0.31%	0.91%
1982	2,531,080	36,230,481	0.46%	0.92%
1983	2,546,011	36,571,808	0.59%	0.94%
1984	2,562,047	36,904,134	0.63%	0.91%
1985	2,578,873	37,201,885	0.66%	0.81%
1986	2,599,892	37,456,119	0.82%	0.68%
1987	2,626,583	37,668,045	1.03%	0.57%
1988	2,653,434	37,824,487	1.02%	0.42%
1989	2,666,955	37,961,529	0.51%	0.36%
1990	2,663,151	38,110,782	-0.14%	0.39%
1991	2,650,581	38,246,193	-0.47%	0.36%
1992	2,614,338	38,363,667	-1.37%	0.31%
1993	2,563,290	38,461,408	-1.95%	0.25%
1994	2,520,742	38,542,652	-1.66%	0.21%
1995	2,485,056	38,594,998	-1.42%	0.14%
1996	2,457,222	38,624,370	-1.12%	0.08%
1997	2,432,851	38,649,660	-0.99%	0.07%
1998	2,410,019	38,663,481	-0.94%	0.04%
1999	2,390,482	38,660,271	-0.81%	-0.008%
2000	2,367,550	38,258,629	-0.96%	-1.04%
2001	2,337,170	38,248,076	-1.28%	-0.03%
2002	2,310,173	38,230,364	-1.16%	-0.05%
2003	2,287,955	38,204,570	-0.96%	-0.07%
2004	2,263,122	38,182,222	-1.09%	-0.06%
2005	2,238,799	38,165,445	-1.07%	-0.04%
2006	2,218,357	38,141,267	-0.91%	-0.06%
2007	2,200,325	38,120,560	-0.81%	-0.05%
2008	2,177,322	38,125,759	-1.05%	0.01%
2009	2,141,669	38,151,603	-1.64%	0.07%
2010	2,097,555	38,042,794	-2.06%	-0.29%
2011	2,059,709	38,063,255	-1.8%	0.05%
2012	2,034,319	38,063,164	-1.23%	-0%
2013	2,012,647	38,040,196	-1.07%	-0.06%
2014	1,993,782	38,011,735	-0.94%	-0.07%
2015	1,977,527	37,986,412	-0.82%	-0.07%
2016	1,959,537	37,970,087	-0.91%	-0.04%
2017	1,942,248	37,974,826	-0.88%	0.01%
2018	1,927,174	37,974,750	-0.78%	-0%
2019	1,913,822	37,965,475	-0.69%	-0.02%
2020	1,900,449	37,515,748	-0.7%	-1.18%
2021	1,884,490	36,981,559	-0.84%	-1.42%
2022	1,879,383	36,821,749	-0.27%	-0.43%
2023	1,877,445	36,687,353	-0.1%	-0.36%
2024	1,862,441	36,554,707	-0.8%	-0.36%
2025	1,844,219	36,176,920	-0.98%	-1.03%
2026	1,826,681	35,894,534	-0.95%	-0.78%
2027	1,812,384	35,753,988	-0.78%	-0.39%
2028	1,797,965	35,605,295	-0.8%	-0.42%
2029	1,783,455	35,447,860	-0.81%	-0.44%
2030	1,768,667	35,283,068	-0.83%	-0.46%
2031	1,753,985	35,111,838	-0.83%	-0.49%
2032	1,739,582	34,934,626	-0.82%	-0.5%
2033	1,725,261	34,753,118	-0.82%	-0.52%
2034	1,711,332	34,567,292	-0.81%	-0.53%
2035	1,697,827	34,377,478	-0.79%	-0.55%
2036	1,684,492	34,183,187	-0.79%	-0.57%
2037	1,671,323	33,984,777	-0.78%	-0.58%
2038	1,658,336	33,782,992	-0.78%	-0.59%
2039	1,645,282	33,577,269	-0.79%	-0.61%
2040	1,632,376	33,368,049	-0.78%	-0.62%
2041	1,619,616	33,156,329	-0.78%	-0.63%
2042	1,607,019	32,941,367	-0.78%	-0.65%
2043	1,594,558	32,722,775	-0.78%	-0.66%
2044	1,582,077	32,501,991	-0.78%	-0.67%
2045	1,569,454	32,278,695	-0.8%	-0.69%
2046	1,556,840	32,052,771	-0.8%	-0.7%
2047	1,544,315	31,824,481	-0.8%	-0.71%
2048	1,531,684	31,593,911	-0.82%	-0.72%
2049	1,518,941	31,360,713	-0.83%	-0.74%
2050	1,506,179	31,124,396	-0.84%	-0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.