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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Romania	Latvia	Romania
1960	2,120,979	18,406,905	-	-
1961	2,152,681	18,555,250	1.49%	0.81%
1962	2,181,586	18,676,550	1.34%	0.65%
1963	2,210,919	18,797,850	1.34%	0.65%
1964	2,240,623	18,919,126	1.34%	0.65%
1965	2,265,919	19,031,576	1.13%	0.59%
1966	2,283,217	19,215,450	0.76%	0.97%
1967	2,301,220	19,534,242	0.79%	1.66%
1968	2,323,619	19,799,831	0.97%	1.36%
1969	2,343,173	20,009,141	0.84%	1.06%
1970	2,359,164	20,250,398	0.68%	1.21%
1971	2,376,389	20,461,567	0.73%	1.04%
1972	2,395,674	20,657,957	0.81%	0.96%
1973	2,415,819	20,835,681	0.84%	0.86%
1974	2,437,186	21,029,429	0.88%	0.93%
1975	2,456,130	21,293,583	0.78%	1.26%
1976	2,470,989	21,551,634	0.6%	1.21%
1977	2,485,073	21,756,096	0.57%	0.95%
1978	2,497,921	21,951,464	0.52%	0.9%
1979	2,505,953	22,090,488	0.32%	0.63%
1980	2,511,701	22,207,282	0.23%	0.53%
1981	2,519,421	22,353,070	0.31%	0.66%
1982	2,531,080	22,475,741	0.46%	0.55%
1983	2,546,011	22,560,478	0.59%	0.38%
1984	2,562,047	22,640,547	0.63%	0.35%
1985	2,578,873	22,732,999	0.66%	0.41%
1986	2,599,892	22,836,841	0.82%	0.46%
1987	2,626,583	22,949,430	1.03%	0.49%
1988	2,653,434	23,057,662	1.02%	0.47%
1989	2,666,955	23,161,458	0.51%	0.45%
1990	2,663,151	23,201,835	-0.14%	0.17%
1991	2,650,581	23,001,155	-0.47%	-0.86%
1992	2,614,338	22,794,284	-1.37%	-0.9%
1993	2,563,290	22,763,280	-1.95%	-0.14%
1994	2,520,742	22,730,211	-1.66%	-0.15%
1995	2,485,056	22,684,270	-1.42%	-0.2%
1996	2,457,222	22,619,004	-1.12%	-0.29%
1997	2,432,851	22,553,978	-0.99%	-0.29%
1998	2,410,019	22,507,344	-0.94%	-0.21%
1999	2,390,482	22,472,040	-0.81%	-0.16%
2000	2,367,550	22,442,971	-0.96%	-0.13%
2001	2,337,170	22,131,970	-1.28%	-1.39%
2002	2,310,173	21,730,496	-1.16%	-1.81%
2003	2,287,955	21,574,326	-0.96%	-0.72%
2004	2,263,122	21,451,748	-1.09%	-0.57%
2005	2,238,799	21,319,685	-1.07%	-0.62%
2006	2,218,357	21,193,760	-0.91%	-0.59%
2007	2,200,325	20,882,982	-0.81%	-1.47%
2008	2,177,322	20,537,875	-1.05%	-1.65%
2009	2,141,669	20,367,487	-1.64%	-0.83%
2010	2,097,555	20,246,871	-2.06%	-0.59%
2011	2,059,709	20,147,528	-1.8%	-0.49%
2012	2,034,319	20,058,035	-1.23%	-0.44%
2013	2,012,647	19,983,693	-1.07%	-0.37%
2014	1,993,782	19,908,979	-0.94%	-0.37%
2015	1,977,527	19,815,616	-0.82%	-0.47%
2016	1,959,537	19,702,267	-0.91%	-0.57%
2017	1,942,248	19,588,715	-0.88%	-0.58%
2018	1,927,174	19,473,970	-0.78%	-0.59%
2019	1,913,822	19,371,648	-0.69%	-0.53%
2020	1,900,449	19,265,250	-0.7%	-0.55%
2021	1,884,490	19,122,059	-0.84%	-0.74%
2022	1,879,383	19,048,502	-0.27%	-0.38%
2023	1,877,445	19,059,479	-0.1%	0.06%
2024	1,862,441	19,069,340	-0.8%	0.05%
2025	1,844,219	18,962,595	-0.98%	-0.56%
2026	1,826,681	18,854,232	-0.95%	-0.57%
2027	1,812,384	18,744,883	-0.78%	-0.58%
2028	1,797,965	18,634,894	-0.8%	-0.59%
2029	1,783,455	18,523,736	-0.81%	-0.6%
2030	1,768,667	18,411,878	-0.83%	-0.6%
2031	1,753,985	18,299,820	-0.83%	-0.61%
2032	1,739,582	18,187,406	-0.82%	-0.61%
2033	1,725,261	18,074,282	-0.82%	-0.62%
2034	1,711,332	17,960,330	-0.81%	-0.63%
2035	1,697,827	17,845,182	-0.79%	-0.64%
2036	1,684,492	17,728,480	-0.79%	-0.65%
2037	1,671,323	17,611,384	-0.78%	-0.66%
2038	1,658,336	17,493,684	-0.78%	-0.67%
2039	1,645,282	17,375,991	-0.79%	-0.67%
2040	1,632,376	17,258,810	-0.78%	-0.67%
2041	1,619,616	17,140,535	-0.78%	-0.69%
2042	1,607,019	17,022,168	-0.78%	-0.69%
2043	1,594,558	16,904,427	-0.78%	-0.69%
2044	1,582,077	16,786,029	-0.78%	-0.7%
2045	1,569,454	16,667,734	-0.8%	-0.7%
2046	1,556,840	16,550,066	-0.8%	-0.71%
2047	1,544,315	16,431,566	-0.8%	-0.72%
2048	1,531,684	16,312,099	-0.82%	-0.73%
2049	1,518,941	16,192,424	-0.83%	-0.73%
2050	1,506,179	16,072,989	-0.84%	-0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th 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 Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.