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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Syria	Latvia	Syria
1960	2,120,979	4,673,500	-	-
1961	2,152,681	4,815,466	1.49%	3.04%
1962	2,181,586	4,959,340	1.34%	2.99%
1963	2,210,919	5,110,467	1.34%	3.05%
1964	2,240,623	5,269,087	1.34%	3.1%
1965	2,265,919	5,435,267	1.13%	3.15%
1966	2,283,217	5,609,047	0.76%	3.2%
1967	2,301,220	5,790,198	0.79%	3.23%
1968	2,323,619	5,978,742	0.97%	3.26%
1969	2,343,173	6,175,166	0.84%	3.29%
1970	2,359,164	6,380,609	0.68%	3.33%
1971	2,376,389	6,598,094	0.73%	3.41%
1972	2,395,674	6,826,024	0.81%	3.45%
1973	2,415,819	7,060,321	0.84%	3.43%
1974	2,437,186	7,302,160	0.88%	3.43%
1975	2,456,130	7,554,364	0.78%	3.45%
1976	2,470,989	7,817,320	0.6%	3.48%
1977	2,485,073	8,090,501	0.57%	3.49%
1978	2,497,921	8,372,759	0.52%	3.49%
1979	2,505,953	8,661,909	0.32%	3.45%
1980	2,511,701	8,957,663	0.23%	3.41%
1981	2,519,421	9,260,189	0.31%	3.38%
1982	2,531,080	9,572,511	0.46%	3.37%
1983	2,546,011	9,904,809	0.59%	3.47%
1984	2,562,047	10,258,398	0.63%	3.57%
1985	2,578,873	10,625,672	0.66%	3.58%
1986	2,599,892	11,002,844	0.82%	3.55%
1987	2,626,583	11,388,923	1.03%	3.51%
1988	2,653,434	11,782,264	1.02%	3.45%
1989	2,666,955	12,179,060	0.51%	3.37%
1990	2,663,151	12,579,208	-0.14%	3.29%
1991	2,650,581	12,980,821	-0.47%	3.19%
1992	2,614,338	13,385,571	-1.37%	3.12%
1993	2,563,290	13,795,686	-1.95%	3.06%
1994	2,520,742	14,208,583	-1.66%	2.99%
1995	2,485,056	14,616,801	-1.42%	2.87%
1996	2,457,222	15,018,104	-1.12%	2.75%
1997	2,432,851	15,417,542	-0.99%	2.66%
1998	2,410,019	15,820,413	-0.94%	2.61%
1999	2,390,482	16,228,061	-0.81%	2.58%
2000	2,367,550	16,637,888	-0.96%	2.53%
2001	2,337,170	17,051,338	-1.28%	2.48%
2002	2,310,173	17,468,332	-1.16%	2.45%
2003	2,287,955	17,889,296	-0.96%	2.41%
2004	2,263,122	18,336,875	-1.09%	2.5%
2005	2,238,799	18,814,091	-1.07%	2.6%
2006	2,218,357	19,637,022	-0.91%	4.37%
2007	2,200,325	20,884,125	-0.81%	6.35%
2008	2,177,322	21,636,564	-1.05%	3.6%
2009	2,141,669	21,976,969	-1.64%	1.57%
2010	2,097,555	22,482,421	-2.06%	2.3%
2011	2,059,709	22,878,098	-1.8%	1.76%
2012	2,034,319	22,759,763	-1.23%	-0.52%
2013	2,012,647	21,666,917	-1.07%	-4.8%
2014	1,993,782	20,273,659	-0.94%	-6.43%
2015	1,977,527	19,424,618	-0.82%	-4.19%
2016	1,959,537	19,193,834	-0.91%	-1.19%
2017	1,942,248	19,224,668	-0.88%	0.16%
2018	1,927,174	19,577,845	-0.78%	1.84%
2019	1,913,822	20,353,534	-0.69%	3.96%
2020	1,900,449	21,049,429	-0.7%	3.42%
2021	1,884,490	21,628,839	-0.84%	2.75%
2022	1,879,383	22,462,173	-0.27%	3.85%
2023	1,877,445	23,594,623	-0.1%	5.04%
2024	1,862,441	24,672,760	-0.8%	4.57%
2025	1,844,219	25,620,422	-0.98%	3.84%
2026	1,826,681	26,472,499	-0.95%	3.33%
2027	1,812,384	27,261,544	-0.78%	2.98%
2028	1,797,965	28,006,558	-0.8%	2.73%
2029	1,783,455	28,719,309	-0.81%	2.54%
2030	1,768,667	29,395,545	-0.83%	2.35%
2031	1,753,985	30,029,824	-0.83%	2.16%
2032	1,739,582	30,633,661	-0.82%	2.01%
2033	1,725,261	31,212,478	-0.82%	1.89%
2034	1,711,332	31,768,138	-0.81%	1.78%
2035	1,697,827	32,294,792	-0.79%	1.66%
2036	1,684,492	32,788,153	-0.79%	1.53%
2037	1,671,323	33,258,407	-0.78%	1.43%
2038	1,658,336	33,710,718	-0.78%	1.36%
2039	1,645,282	34,131,238	-0.79%	1.25%
2040	1,632,376	34,533,185	-0.78%	1.18%
2041	1,619,616	34,916,936	-0.78%	1.11%
2042	1,607,019	35,279,863	-0.78%	1.04%
2043	1,594,558	35,623,325	-0.78%	0.97%
2044	1,582,077	35,944,394	-0.78%	0.9%
2045	1,569,454	36,265,295	-0.8%	0.89%
2046	1,556,840	36,583,260	-0.8%	0.88%
2047	1,544,315	36,878,640	-0.8%	0.81%
2048	1,531,684	37,171,029	-0.82%	0.79%
2049	1,518,941	37,477,690	-0.83%	0.83%
2050	1,506,179	37,793,378	-0.84%	0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.