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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Spain	Latvia	Spain
1960	2,120,979	30,455,000	-	-
1961	2,152,681	30,739,250	1.49%	0.93%
1962	2,181,586	31,023,366	1.34%	0.92%
1963	2,210,919	31,296,651	1.34%	0.88%
1964	2,240,623	31,609,195	1.34%	1%
1965	2,265,919	31,954,292	1.13%	1.09%
1966	2,283,217	32,283,194	0.76%	1.03%
1967	2,301,220	32,682,947	0.79%	1.24%
1968	2,323,619	33,113,134	0.97%	1.32%
1969	2,343,173	33,441,054	0.84%	0.99%
1970	2,359,164	33,814,531	0.68%	1.12%
1971	2,376,389	34,224,490	0.73%	1.21%
1972	2,395,674	34,604,469	0.81%	1.11%
1973	2,415,819	34,988,947	0.84%	1.11%
1974	2,437,186	35,373,335	0.88%	1.1%
1975	2,456,130	35,757,900	0.78%	1.09%
1976	2,470,989	36,137,812	0.6%	1.06%
1977	2,485,073	36,511,638	0.57%	1.03%
1978	2,497,921	36,864,898	0.52%	0.97%
1979	2,505,953	37,191,330	0.32%	0.89%
1980	2,511,701	37,491,165	0.23%	0.81%
1981	2,519,421	37,758,631	0.31%	0.71%
1982	2,531,080	37,986,012	0.46%	0.6%
1983	2,546,011	38,171,525	0.59%	0.49%
1984	2,562,047	38,330,364	0.63%	0.42%
1985	2,578,873	38,469,512	0.66%	0.36%
1986	2,599,892	38,584,624	0.82%	0.3%
1987	2,626,583	38,684,815	1.03%	0.26%
1988	2,653,434	38,766,939	1.02%	0.21%
1989	2,666,955	38,827,764	0.51%	0.16%
1990	2,663,151	38,867,322	-0.14%	0.1%
1991	2,650,581	38,966,376	-0.47%	0.25%
1992	2,614,338	39,157,685	-1.37%	0.49%
1993	2,563,290	39,361,262	-1.95%	0.52%
1994	2,520,742	39,549,108	-1.66%	0.48%
1995	2,485,056	39,724,050	-1.42%	0.44%
1996	2,457,222	39,889,852	-1.12%	0.42%
1997	2,432,851	40,057,389	-0.99%	0.42%
1998	2,410,019	40,223,509	-0.94%	0.41%
1999	2,390,482	40,386,875	-0.81%	0.41%
2000	2,367,550	40,567,864	-0.96%	0.45%
2001	2,337,170	40,850,412	-1.28%	0.7%
2002	2,310,173	41,431,558	-1.16%	1.42%
2003	2,287,955	42,187,645	-0.96%	1.82%
2004	2,263,122	42,921,895	-1.09%	1.74%
2005	2,238,799	43,653,155	-1.07%	1.7%
2006	2,218,357	44,397,319	-0.91%	1.7%
2007	2,200,325	45,226,803	-0.81%	1.87%
2008	2,177,322	45,954,106	-1.05%	1.61%
2009	2,141,669	46,362,946	-1.64%	0.89%
2010	2,097,555	46,576,897	-2.06%	0.46%
2011	2,059,709	46,742,697	-1.8%	0.36%
2012	2,034,319	46,773,055	-1.23%	0.06%
2013	2,012,647	46,604,197	-1.07%	-0.36%
2014	1,993,782	46,460,733	-0.94%	-0.31%
2015	1,977,527	46,422,303	-0.82%	-0.08%
2016	1,959,537	46,458,139	-0.91%	0.08%
2017	1,942,248	46,571,232	-0.88%	0.24%
2018	1,927,174	46,782,011	-0.78%	0.45%
2019	1,913,822	47,118,501	-0.69%	0.72%
2020	1,900,449	47,359,424	-0.7%	0.51%
2021	1,884,490	47,443,821	-0.84%	0.18%
2022	1,879,383	47,786,102	-0.27%	0.72%
2023	1,877,445	48,347,910	-0.1%	1.18%
2024	1,862,441	48,807,137	-0.8%	0.95%
2025	1,844,219	48,786,181	-0.98%	-0.04%
2026	1,826,681	48,746,279	-0.95%	-0.08%
2027	1,812,384	48,696,847	-0.78%	-0.1%
2028	1,797,965	48,642,132	-0.8%	-0.11%
2029	1,783,455	48,578,166	-0.81%	-0.13%
2030	1,768,667	48,501,513	-0.83%	-0.16%
2031	1,753,985	48,412,854	-0.83%	-0.18%
2032	1,739,582	48,321,195	-0.82%	-0.19%
2033	1,725,261	48,230,054	-0.82%	-0.19%
2034	1,711,332	48,136,421	-0.81%	-0.19%
2035	1,697,827	48,036,650	-0.79%	-0.21%
2036	1,684,492	47,929,957	-0.79%	-0.22%
2037	1,671,323	47,819,257	-0.78%	-0.23%
2038	1,658,336	47,706,580	-0.78%	-0.24%
2039	1,645,282	47,588,878	-0.79%	-0.25%
2040	1,632,376	47,463,597	-0.78%	-0.26%
2041	1,619,616	47,332,618	-0.78%	-0.28%
2042	1,607,019	47,194,588	-0.78%	-0.29%
2043	1,594,558	47,052,293	-0.78%	-0.3%
2044	1,582,077	46,902,636	-0.78%	-0.32%
2045	1,569,454	46,738,565	-0.8%	-0.35%
2046	1,556,840	46,564,383	-0.8%	-0.37%
2047	1,544,315	46,381,681	-0.8%	-0.39%
2048	1,531,684	46,190,642	-0.82%	-0.41%
2049	1,518,941	45,985,428	-0.83%	-0.44%
2050	1,506,179	45,769,362	-0.84%	-0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd 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 Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.