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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Ukraine	Latvia	Ukraine
1960	2,120,979	42,824,093	-	-
1961	2,152,681	43,399,766	1.49%	1.34%
1962	2,181,586	43,943,674	1.34%	1.25%
1963	2,210,919	44,462,372	1.34%	1.18%
1964	2,240,623	44,951,156	1.34%	1.1%
1965	2,265,919	45,386,892	1.13%	0.97%
1966	2,283,217	45,802,519	0.76%	0.92%
1967	2,301,220	46,215,988	0.79%	0.9%
1968	2,323,619	46,614,325	0.97%	0.86%
1969	2,343,173	46,976,256	0.84%	0.78%
1970	2,359,164	47,261,306	0.68%	0.61%
1971	2,376,389	47,573,287	0.73%	0.66%
1972	2,395,674	47,946,893	0.81%	0.79%
1973	2,415,819	48,277,121	0.84%	0.69%
1974	2,437,186	48,576,570	0.88%	0.62%
1975	2,456,130	48,865,229	0.78%	0.59%
1976	2,470,989	49,120,842	0.6%	0.52%
1977	2,485,073	49,336,481	0.57%	0.44%
1978	2,497,921	49,521,243	0.52%	0.37%
1979	2,505,953	49,721,381	0.32%	0.4%
1980	2,511,701	49,955,152	0.23%	0.47%
1981	2,519,421	50,189,281	0.31%	0.47%
1982	2,531,080	50,402,724	0.46%	0.43%
1983	2,546,011	50,637,029	0.59%	0.46%
1984	2,562,047	50,887,599	0.63%	0.49%
1985	2,578,873	51,108,770	0.66%	0.43%
1986	2,599,892	51,318,745	0.82%	0.41%
1987	2,626,583	51,515,732	1.03%	0.38%
1988	2,653,434	51,724,853	1.02%	0.41%
1989	2,666,955	51,917,817	0.51%	0.37%
1990	2,663,151	52,054,092	-0.14%	0.26%
1991	2,650,581	52,170,961	-0.47%	0.22%
1992	2,614,338	52,323,671	-1.37%	0.29%
1993	2,563,290	52,350,126	-1.95%	0.05%
1994	2,520,742	52,075,998	-1.66%	-0.52%
1995	2,485,056	51,665,539	-1.42%	-0.79%
1996	2,457,222	51,226,109	-1.12%	-0.85%
1997	2,432,851	50,786,885	-0.99%	-0.86%
1998	2,410,019	50,379,731	-0.94%	-0.8%
1999	2,390,482	49,976,446	-0.81%	-0.8%
2000	2,367,550	49,556,660	-0.96%	-0.84%
2001	2,337,170	49,106,855	-1.28%	-0.91%
2002	2,310,173	48,677,281	-1.16%	-0.87%
2003	2,287,955	48,315,136	-0.96%	-0.74%
2004	2,263,122	47,979,507	-1.09%	-0.69%
2005	2,238,799	47,585,556	-1.07%	-0.82%
2006	2,218,357	47,278,694	-0.91%	-0.64%
2007	2,200,325	47,062,798	-0.81%	-0.46%
2008	2,177,322	46,819,175	-1.05%	-0.52%
2009	2,141,669	46,623,731	-1.64%	-0.42%
2010	2,097,555	46,456,003	-2.06%	-0.36%
2011	2,059,709	46,307,853	-1.8%	-0.32%
2012	2,034,319	46,210,056	-1.23%	-0.21%
2013	2,012,647	46,126,770	-1.07%	-0.18%
2014	1,993,782	45,972,380	-0.94%	-0.33%
2015	1,977,527	45,784,896	-0.82%	-0.41%
2016	1,959,537	45,616,832	-0.91%	-0.37%
2017	1,942,248	45,436,041	-0.88%	-0.4%
2018	1,927,174	45,208,907	-0.78%	-0.5%
2019	1,913,822	44,957,458	-0.69%	-0.56%
2020	1,900,449	44,680,014	-0.7%	-0.62%
2021	1,884,490	44,298,640	-0.84%	-0.85%
2022	1,879,383	41,048,766	-0.27%	-7.34%
2023	1,877,445	37,732,836	-0.1%	-8.08%
2024	1,862,441	37,860,221	-0.8%	0.34%
2025	1,844,219	38,980,379	-0.98%	2.96%
2026	1,826,681	39,535,850	-0.95%	1.43%
2027	1,812,384	39,245,208	-0.78%	-0.74%
2028	1,797,965	38,952,086	-0.8%	-0.75%
2029	1,783,455	38,654,416	-0.81%	-0.76%
2030	1,768,667	38,353,848	-0.83%	-0.78%
2031	1,753,985	38,050,624	-0.83%	-0.79%
2032	1,739,582	37,746,688	-0.82%	-0.8%
2033	1,725,261	37,442,088	-0.82%	-0.81%
2034	1,711,332	37,135,839	-0.81%	-0.82%
2035	1,697,827	36,828,149	-0.79%	-0.83%
2036	1,684,492	36,519,767	-0.79%	-0.84%
2037	1,671,323	36,209,679	-0.78%	-0.85%
2038	1,658,336	35,897,705	-0.78%	-0.86%
2039	1,645,282	35,584,263	-0.79%	-0.87%
2040	1,632,376	35,270,911	-0.78%	-0.88%
2041	1,619,616	34,957,580	-0.78%	-0.89%
2042	1,607,019	34,641,778	-0.78%	-0.9%
2043	1,594,558	34,324,132	-0.78%	-0.92%
2044	1,582,077	34,004,074	-0.78%	-0.93%
2045	1,569,454	33,680,448	-0.8%	-0.95%
2046	1,556,840	33,351,499	-0.8%	-0.98%
2047	1,544,315	33,017,828	-0.8%	-1%
2048	1,531,684	32,680,968	-0.82%	-1.02%
2049	1,518,941	32,338,515	-0.83%	-1.05%
2050	1,506,179	31,990,136	-0.84%	-1.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th 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 Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.