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Population in Latvia compared to the Seychelles: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Latvia was 1,862,441 in 2024 vs 121,354 people in the Seychelles in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Latvia's population is 1,844,219 people compared to 125,181 in the Seychelles.

Population statistics:

  • Latvia's population is 14.7 times bigger than the Seychelles'.
  • Latvia is ranked the 149th most populous country in the world, while the Seychelles is the 181st.
  • The countries together account for 0.02% of the world: 0.02% for Latvia vs 0.002% for the Seychelles.
  • For the last 10 years, Latvia has had an average growth rate of -0.7% per year vs +2.9% in the Seychelles.
  • Since 2005, the population of Latvia has decreased from 2.24M people to 1.84M (17.6% decline), while the Seychelles has grown from 82.9K to 125K (51.1% growth).
  • The Seychelles is projected to reach its peak in 2042 at 133K people, while Latvia's population already peaked in 1989 at 2.67M people and is projected to decrease to 921K people by 2100.

Latvia vs Seychelles: live population counter

Latvia Seychelles
Current population
1844219
125181
Population rank 149/197 181/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.002%
One net population change
35 minutes
5.54 hours
One birth every
36.4 minutes
5.63 hours
One death every
18.8 minutes
10 hours
One migration net change every
3.94 hours
5.01 hours
Annual migration change -2,225 +1,747
Daily growth/decline -41 +4
Annual growth/decline -15,004 +1,581
Annual growth/decline rate -0.8% +1.32%
Population growth rate rank 190/197 83/197

Latvia and the Seychelles: population history and growth rate by year chart

Latvia
Population

Growth rate
Seychelles
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Latvia Seychelles Latvia Seychelles
1960 2,120,979 41,700 - -
1961 2,152,681 42,889 1.49% 2.85%
1962 2,181,586 44,042 1.34% 2.69%
1963 2,210,919 45,176 1.34% 2.57%
1964 2,240,623 46,322 1.34% 2.54%
1965 2,265,919 47,500 1.13% 2.54%
1966 2,283,217 48,699 0.76% 2.52%
1967 2,301,220 49,911 0.79% 2.49%
1968 2,323,619 51,134 0.97% 2.45%
1969 2,343,173 52,365 0.84% 2.41%
1970 2,359,164 53,600 0.68% 2.36%
1971 2,376,389 54,695 0.73% 2.04%
1972 2,395,674 56,029 0.81% 2.44%
1973 2,415,819 56,892 0.84% 1.54%
1974 2,437,186 57,937 0.88% 1.84%
1975 2,456,130 59,292 0.78% 2.34%
1976 2,470,989 60,504 0.6% 2.04%
1977 2,485,073 61,786 0.57% 2.12%
1978 2,497,921 62,150 0.52% 0.59%
1979 2,505,953 62,686 0.32% 0.86%
1980 2,511,701 63,261 0.23% 0.92%
1981 2,519,421 64,035 0.31% 1.22%
1982 2,531,080 64,413 0.46% 0.59%
1983 2,546,011 64,335 0.59% -0.12%
1984 2,562,047 64,717 0.63% 0.59%
1985 2,578,873 65,244 0.66% 0.81%
1986 2,599,892 65,652 0.82% 0.63%
1987 2,626,583 68,499 1.03% 4.34%
1988 2,653,434 68,755 1.02% 0.37%
1989 2,666,955 69,167 0.51% 0.6%
1990 2,663,151 69,507 -0.14% 0.49%
1991 2,650,581 70,439 -0.47% 1.34%
1992 2,614,338 70,763 -1.37% 0.46%
1993 2,563,290 72,253 -1.95% 2.11%
1994 2,520,742 74,205 -1.66% 2.7%
1995 2,485,056 75,304 -1.42% 1.48%
1996 2,457,222 76,417 -1.12% 1.48%
1997 2,432,851 77,319 -0.99% 1.18%
1998 2,410,019 78,846 -0.94% 1.97%
1999 2,390,482 80,410 -0.81% 1.98%
2000 2,367,550 81,131 -0.96% 0.9%
2001 2,337,170 81,202 -1.28% 0.09%
2002 2,310,173 83,723 -1.16% 3.1%
2003 2,287,955 82,781 -0.96% -1.13%
2004 2,263,122 82,475 -1.09% -0.37%
2005 2,238,799 82,858 -1.07% 0.46%
2006 2,218,357 84,600 -0.91% 2.1%
2007 2,200,325 85,033 -0.81% 0.51%
2008 2,177,322 86,956 -1.05% 2.26%
2009 2,141,669 87,298 -1.64% 0.39%
2010 2,097,555 89,770 -2.06% 2.83%
2011 2,059,709 87,441 -1.8% -2.59%
2012 2,034,319 88,303 -1.23% 0.99%
2013 2,012,647 89,949 -1.07% 1.86%
2014 1,993,782 91,359 -0.94% 1.57%
2015 1,977,527 93,419 -0.82% 2.25%
2016 1,959,537 94,677 -0.91% 1.35%
2017 1,942,248 95,843 -0.88% 1.23%
2018 1,927,174 96,762 -0.78% 0.96%
2019 1,913,822 97,625 -0.69% 0.89%
2020 1,900,449 98,462 -0.7% 0.86%
2021 1,884,490 99,258 -0.84% 0.81%
2022 1,879,383 119,878 -0.27% 20.8%
2023 1,877,445 119,773 -0.1% -0.09%
2024 1,862,441 121,354 -0.8% 1.32%
2025 1,844,219 123,549 -0.98% 1.81%
2026 1,826,681 125,581 -0.95% 1.64%
2027 1,812,384 127,380 -0.78% 1.43%
2028 1,797,965 128,883 -0.8% 1.18%
2029 1,783,455 130,011 -0.81% 0.87%
2030 1,768,667 130,635 -0.83% 0.48%
2031 1,753,985 130,989 -0.83% 0.27%
2032 1,739,582 131,305 -0.82% 0.24%
2033 1,725,261 131,578 -0.82% 0.21%
2034 1,711,332 131,816 -0.81% 0.18%
2035 1,697,827 132,027 -0.79% 0.16%
2036 1,684,492 132,202 -0.79% 0.13%
2037 1,671,323 132,348 -0.78% 0.11%
2038 1,658,336 132,467 -0.78% 0.09%
2039 1,645,282 132,552 -0.79% 0.06%
2040 1,632,376 132,631 -0.78% 0.06%
2041 1,619,616 132,681 -0.78% 0.04%
2042 1,607,019 132,700 -0.78% 0.01%
2043 1,594,558 132,698 -0.78% -0.001%
2044 1,582,077 132,665 -0.78% -0.03%
2045 1,569,454 132,613 -0.8% -0.04%
2046 1,556,840 132,531 -0.8% -0.06%
2047 1,544,315 132,415 -0.8% -0.09%
2048 1,531,684 132,264 -0.82% -0.11%
2049 1,518,941 132,085 -0.83% -0.14%
2050 1,506,179 131,885 -0.84% -0.15%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while the Seychelles gained 10,561 people (a 12.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while the Seychelles' population increased by 31,762 (a 34% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. The Seychelles was ranked 184th in 2005 and ranked 181st 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 the Seychelles will increase by 5.36% to 131,885 people and will still be ranked 181st.

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