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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	South Korea	Latvia	South Korea
1960	2,120,979	25,012,374	-	-
1961	2,152,681	25,765,673	1.49%	3.01%
1962	2,181,586	26,513,030	1.34%	2.9%
1963	2,210,919	27,261,747	1.34%	2.82%
1964	2,240,623	27,984,155	1.34%	2.65%
1965	2,265,919	28,704,674	1.13%	2.57%
1966	2,283,217	29,435,571	0.76%	2.55%
1967	2,301,220	30,130,983	0.79%	2.36%
1968	2,323,619	30,838,302	0.97%	2.35%
1969	2,343,173	31,544,266	0.84%	2.29%
1970	2,359,164	32,240,827	0.68%	2.21%
1971	2,376,389	32,882,704	0.73%	1.99%
1972	2,395,674	33,505,406	0.81%	1.89%
1973	2,415,819	34,103,149	0.84%	1.78%
1974	2,437,186	34,692,266	0.88%	1.73%
1975	2,456,130	35,280,725	0.78%	1.7%
1976	2,470,989	35,848,523	0.6%	1.61%
1977	2,485,073	36,411,795	0.57%	1.57%
1978	2,497,921	36,969,185	0.52%	1.53%
1979	2,505,953	37,534,236	0.32%	1.53%
1980	2,511,701	38,123,775	0.23%	1.57%
1981	2,519,421	38,723,248	0.31%	1.57%
1982	2,531,080	39,326,352	0.46%	1.56%
1983	2,546,011	39,910,403	0.59%	1.49%
1984	2,562,047	40,405,956	0.63%	1.24%
1985	2,578,873	40,805,744	0.66%	0.99%
1986	2,599,892	41,213,674	0.82%	1%
1987	2,626,583	41,621,690	1.03%	0.99%
1988	2,653,434	42,031,247	1.02%	0.98%
1989	2,666,955	42,449,038	0.51%	0.99%
1990	2,663,151	42,869,283	-0.14%	0.99%
1991	2,650,581	43,295,704	-0.47%	0.99%
1992	2,614,338	43,747,962	-1.37%	1.04%
1993	2,563,290	44,194,628	-1.95%	1.02%
1994	2,520,742	44,641,540	-1.66%	1.01%
1995	2,485,056	45,092,991	-1.42%	1.01%
1996	2,457,222	45,524,681	-1.12%	0.96%
1997	2,432,851	45,953,580	-0.99%	0.94%
1998	2,410,019	46,286,503	-0.94%	0.72%
1999	2,390,482	46,616,677	-0.81%	0.71%
2000	2,367,550	47,008,111	-0.96%	0.84%
2001	2,337,170	47,370,164	-1.28%	0.77%
2002	2,310,173	47,644,736	-1.16%	0.58%
2003	2,287,955	47,892,330	-0.96%	0.52%
2004	2,263,122	48,082,519	-1.09%	0.4%
2005	2,238,799	48,184,561	-1.07%	0.21%
2006	2,218,357	48,438,292	-0.91%	0.53%
2007	2,200,325	48,683,638	-0.81%	0.51%
2008	2,177,322	49,054,708	-1.05%	0.76%
2009	2,141,669	49,307,835	-1.64%	0.52%
2010	2,097,555	49,554,112	-2.06%	0.5%
2011	2,059,709	49,936,638	-1.8%	0.77%
2012	2,034,319	50,199,853	-1.23%	0.53%
2013	2,012,647	50,428,893	-1.07%	0.46%
2014	1,993,782	50,746,659	-0.94%	0.63%
2015	1,977,527	51,014,947	-0.82%	0.53%
2016	1,959,537	51,217,803	-0.91%	0.4%
2017	1,942,248	51,361,911	-0.88%	0.28%
2018	1,927,174	51,585,058	-0.78%	0.43%
2019	1,913,822	51,764,822	-0.69%	0.35%
2020	1,900,449	51,836,239	-0.7%	0.14%
2021	1,884,490	51,769,539	-0.84%	-0.13%
2022	1,879,383	51,672,569	-0.27%	-0.19%
2023	1,877,445	51,712,619	-0.1%	0.08%
2024	1,862,441	51,751,065	-0.8%	0.07%
2025	1,844,219	51,700,480	-0.98%	-0.1%
2026	1,826,681	51,633,793	-0.95%	-0.13%
2027	1,812,384	51,552,198	-0.78%	-0.16%
2028	1,797,965	51,456,707	-0.8%	-0.19%
2029	1,783,455	51,347,230	-0.81%	-0.21%
2030	1,768,667	51,221,713	-0.83%	-0.24%
2031	1,753,985	51,081,220	-0.83%	-0.27%
2032	1,739,582	50,924,233	-0.82%	-0.31%
2033	1,725,261	50,747,132	-0.82%	-0.35%
2034	1,711,332	50,549,508	-0.81%	-0.39%
2035	1,697,827	50,333,286	-0.79%	-0.43%
2036	1,684,492	50,098,951	-0.79%	-0.47%
2037	1,671,323	49,845,669	-0.78%	-0.51%
2038	1,658,336	49,573,234	-0.78%	-0.55%
2039	1,645,282	49,283,770	-0.79%	-0.58%
2040	1,632,376	48,980,369	-0.78%	-0.62%
2041	1,619,616	48,661,905	-0.78%	-0.65%
2042	1,607,019	48,331,004	-0.78%	-0.68%
2043	1,594,558	47,990,085	-0.78%	-0.71%
2044	1,582,077	47,634,183	-0.78%	-0.74%
2045	1,569,454	47,263,526	-0.8%	-0.78%
2046	1,556,840	46,881,228	-0.8%	-0.81%
2047	1,544,315	46,482,133	-0.8%	-0.85%
2048	1,531,684	46,063,595	-0.82%	-0.9%
2049	1,518,941	45,626,805	-0.83%	-0.95%
2050	1,506,179	45,172,356	-0.84%	-1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.