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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Taiwan	Latvia	Taiwan
1960	2,120,979	-	-	-
1961	2,152,681	11,030,385	1.49%	-
1962	2,181,586	11,392,513	1.34%	3.28%
1963	2,210,919	11,762,101	1.34%	3.24%
1964	2,240,623	12,137,143	1.34%	3.19%
1965	2,265,919	12,511,863	1.13%	3.09%
1966	2,283,217	12,874,153	0.76%	2.9%
1967	2,301,220	13,210,344	0.79%	2.61%
1968	2,323,619	13,548,537	0.97%	2.56%
1969	2,343,173	14,068,984	0.84%	3.84%
1970	2,359,164	14,582,944	0.68%	3.65%
1971	2,376,389	14,913,564	0.73%	2.27%
1972	2,395,674	15,220,495	0.81%	2.06%
1973	2,415,819	15,505,121	0.84%	1.87%
1974	2,437,186	15,784,817	0.88%	1.8%
1975	2,456,130	16,075,128	0.78%	1.84%
1976	2,470,989	16,401,413	0.6%	2.03%
1977	2,485,073	16,730,895	0.57%	2.01%
1978	2,497,921	17,042,272	0.52%	1.86%
1979	2,505,953	17,372,779	0.32%	1.94%
1980	2,511,701	17,704,538	0.23%	1.91%
1981	2,519,421	18,029,982	0.31%	1.84%
1982	2,531,080	18,354,855	0.46%	1.8%
1983	2,546,011	18,653,146	0.59%	1.63%
1984	2,562,047	18,929,866	0.63%	1.48%
1985	2,578,873	19,191,510	0.66%	1.38%
1986	2,599,892	19,411,454	0.82%	1.15%
1987	2,626,583	19,617,046	1.03%	1.06%
1988	2,653,434	19,839,704	1.02%	1.14%
1989	2,666,955	20,055,492	0.51%	1.09%
1990	2,663,151	20,278,946	-0.14%	1.11%
1991	2,650,581	20,503,568	-0.47%	1.11%
1992	2,614,338	20,704,227	-1.37%	0.98%
1993	2,563,290	20,899,019	-1.95%	0.94%
1994	2,520,742	21,086,645	-1.66%	0.9%
1995	2,485,056	21,267,653	-1.42%	0.86%
1996	2,457,222	21,441,432	-1.12%	0.82%
1997	2,432,851	21,634,124	-0.99%	0.9%
1998	2,410,019	21,835,703	-0.94%	0.93%
1999	2,390,482	22,010,489	-0.81%	0.8%
2000	2,367,550	22,184,530	-0.96%	0.79%
2001	2,337,170	22,341,120	-1.28%	0.71%
2002	2,310,173	22,463,172	-1.16%	0.55%
2003	2,287,955	22,562,663	-0.96%	0.44%
2004	2,263,122	22,646,836	-1.09%	0.37%
2005	2,238,799	22,729,753	-1.07%	0.37%
2006	2,218,357	22,823,455	-0.91%	0.41%
2007	2,200,325	22,917,444	-0.81%	0.41%
2008	2,177,322	22,997,696	-1.05%	0.35%
2009	2,141,669	23,078,402	-1.64%	0.35%
2010	2,097,555	23,140,948	-2.06%	0.27%
2011	2,059,709	23,193,518	-1.8%	0.23%
2012	2,034,319	23,270,367	-1.23%	0.33%
2013	2,012,647	23,344,670	-1.07%	0.32%
2014	1,993,782	23,403,635	-0.94%	0.25%
2015	1,977,527	23,462,914	-0.82%	0.25%
2016	1,959,537	23,515,945	-0.91%	0.23%
2017	1,942,248	23,555,522	-0.88%	0.17%
2018	1,927,174	23,580,080	-0.78%	0.1%
2019	1,913,822	23,596,027	-0.69%	0.07%
2020	1,900,449	23,582,179	-0.7%	-0.06%
2021	1,884,490	23,468,275	-0.84%	-0.48%
2022	1,879,383	23,319,977	-0.27%	-0.63%
2023	1,877,445	23,342,541	-0.1%	0.1%
2024	1,862,441	23,410,331	-0.8%	0.29%
2025	1,844,219	23,308,308	-0.98%	-0.44%
2026	1,826,681	23,205,944	-0.95%	-0.44%
2027	1,812,384	23,102,120	-0.78%	-0.45%
2028	1,797,965	22,996,693	-0.8%	-0.46%
2029	1,783,455	22,890,335	-0.81%	-0.46%
2030	1,768,667	22,781,040	-0.83%	-0.48%
2031	1,753,985	22,667,327	-0.83%	-0.5%
2032	1,739,582	22,549,689	-0.82%	-0.52%
2033	1,725,261	22,428,721	-0.82%	-0.54%
2034	1,711,332	22,302,402	-0.81%	-0.56%
2035	1,697,827	22,170,689	-0.79%	-0.59%
2036	1,684,492	22,034,775	-0.79%	-0.61%
2037	1,671,323	21,893,029	-0.78%	-0.64%
2038	1,658,336	21,746,001	-0.78%	-0.67%
2039	1,645,282	21,594,236	-0.79%	-0.7%
2040	1,632,376	21,436,947	-0.78%	-0.73%
2041	1,619,616	21,274,187	-0.78%	-0.76%
2042	1,607,019	21,105,682	-0.78%	-0.79%
2043	1,594,558	20,932,105	-0.78%	-0.82%
2044	1,582,077	20,754,623	-0.78%	-0.85%
2045	1,569,454	20,571,741	-0.8%	-0.88%
2046	1,556,840	20,384,903	-0.8%	-0.91%
2047	1,544,315	20,194,425	-0.8%	-0.93%
2048	1,531,684	19,999,753	-0.82%	-0.96%
2049	1,518,941	19,801,293	-0.83%	-0.99%
2050	1,506,179	19,598,997	-0.84%	-1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.