Population in Latvia compared to South Africa: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Latvia and South Africa: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	South Africa	Latvia	South Africa
1960	2,120,979	16,440,172	-	-
1961	2,152,681	16,908,035	1.49%	2.85%
1962	2,181,586	17,418,522	1.34%	3.02%
1963	2,210,919	17,954,564	1.34%	3.08%
1964	2,240,623	18,511,361	1.34%	3.1%
1965	2,265,919	19,089,380	1.13%	3.12%
1966	2,283,217	19,690,087	0.76%	3.15%
1967	2,301,220	20,314,066	0.79%	3.17%
1968	2,323,619	20,957,287	0.97%	3.17%
1969	2,343,173	21,614,676	0.84%	3.14%
1970	2,359,164	22,279,984	0.68%	3.08%
1971	2,376,389	22,942,143	0.73%	2.97%
1972	2,395,674	23,609,456	0.81%	2.91%
1973	2,415,819	24,294,263	0.84%	2.9%
1974	2,437,186	24,989,108	0.88%	2.86%
1975	2,456,130	25,690,940	0.78%	2.81%
1976	2,470,989	26,395,450	0.6%	2.74%
1977	2,485,073	27,118,952	0.57%	2.74%
1978	2,497,921	27,869,507	0.52%	2.77%
1979	2,505,953	28,634,162	0.32%	2.74%
1980	2,511,701	29,518,857	0.23%	3.09%
1981	2,519,421	30,541,044	0.31%	3.46%
1982	2,531,080	31,615,339	0.46%	3.52%
1983	2,546,011	32,739,304	0.59%	3.56%
1984	2,562,047	33,892,788	0.63%	3.52%
1985	2,578,873	35,042,093	0.66%	3.39%
1986	2,599,892	36,180,515	0.82%	3.25%
1987	2,626,583	37,326,190	1.03%	3.17%
1988	2,653,434	38,480,649	1.02%	3.09%
1989	2,666,955	39,628,575	0.51%	2.98%
1990	2,663,151	40,746,268	-0.14%	2.82%
1991	2,650,581	41,687,898	-0.47%	2.31%
1992	2,614,338	42,443,509	-1.37%	1.81%
1993	2,563,290	43,297,156	-1.95%	2.01%
1994	2,520,742	44,004,139	-1.66%	1.63%
1995	2,485,056	44,541,554	-1.42%	1.22%
1996	2,457,222	45,123,018	-1.12%	1.31%
1997	2,432,851	45,666,838	-0.99%	1.21%
1998	2,410,019	46,223,880	-0.94%	1.22%
1999	2,390,482	46,730,335	-0.81%	1.1%
2000	2,367,550	47,159,719	-0.96%	0.92%
2001	2,337,170	47,566,800	-1.28%	0.86%
2002	2,310,173	48,019,415	-1.16%	0.95%
2003	2,287,955	48,500,348	-0.96%	1%
2004	2,263,122	48,991,421	-1.09%	1.01%
2005	2,238,799	49,490,033	-1.07%	1.02%
2006	2,218,357	49,998,277	-0.91%	1.03%
2007	2,200,325	50,528,584	-0.81%	1.06%
2008	2,177,322	51,114,599	-1.05%	1.16%
2009	2,141,669	51,728,516	-1.64%	1.2%
2010	2,097,555	52,344,051	-2.06%	1.19%
2011	2,059,709	52,995,205	-1.8%	1.24%
2012	2,034,319	53,782,567	-1.23%	1.49%
2013	2,012,647	54,678,791	-1.07%	1.67%
2014	1,993,782	55,594,838	-0.94%	1.68%
2015	1,977,527	56,723,537	-0.82%	2.03%
2016	1,959,537	57,259,551	-0.91%	0.94%
2017	1,942,248	57,635,162	-0.88%	0.66%
2018	1,927,174	58,613,001	-0.78%	1.7%
2019	1,913,822	59,587,885	-0.69%	1.66%
2020	1,900,449	60,562,381	-0.7%	1.64%
2021	1,884,490	61,502,603	-0.84%	1.55%
2022	1,879,383	62,378,410	-0.27%	1.42%
2023	1,877,445	63,212,384	-0.1%	1.34%
2024	1,862,441	64,007,187	-0.8%	1.26%
2025	1,844,219	64,747,317	-0.98%	1.16%
2026	1,826,681	65,453,086	-0.95%	1.09%
2027	1,812,384	66,143,018	-0.78%	1.05%
2028	1,797,965	66,830,384	-0.8%	1.04%
2029	1,783,455	67,506,850	-0.81%	1.01%
2030	1,768,667	68,161,357	-0.83%	0.97%
2031	1,753,985	68,798,574	-0.83%	0.93%
2032	1,739,582	69,426,441	-0.82%	0.91%
2033	1,725,261	70,040,484	-0.82%	0.88%
2034	1,711,332	70,641,572	-0.81%	0.86%
2035	1,697,827	71,234,749	-0.79%	0.84%
2036	1,684,492	71,816,372	-0.79%	0.82%
2037	1,671,323	72,387,807	-0.78%	0.8%
2038	1,658,336	72,949,611	-0.78%	0.78%
2039	1,645,282	73,496,152	-0.79%	0.75%
2040	1,632,376	74,035,615	-0.78%	0.73%
2041	1,619,616	74,575,444	-0.78%	0.73%
2042	1,607,019	75,111,899	-0.78%	0.72%
2043	1,594,558	75,641,512	-0.78%	0.71%
2044	1,582,077	76,164,461	-0.78%	0.69%
2045	1,569,454	76,681,448	-0.8%	0.68%
2046	1,556,840	77,199,542	-0.8%	0.68%
2047	1,544,315	77,716,650	-0.8%	0.67%
2048	1,531,684	78,215,323	-0.82%	0.64%
2049	1,518,941	78,699,584	-0.83%	0.62%
2050	1,506,179	79,177,329	-0.84%	0.61%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while South Africa gained 7,233,504 people (a 14.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while South Africa's population increased by 8,590,709 (a 15.1% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. South Africa was ranked 24th in 2005 and still ranked 24th 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 South Africa will increase by 21.2% to 79,177,329 people and rank change from 24th to 23rd.