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	1,883,710	37,732,836	0.23%	-8.08%
2024	1,866,124	37,860,221	-0.93%	0.34%
2025	1,847,866	38,980,379	-0.98%	2.96%
2026	1,830,293	39,535,850	-0.95%	1.43%
2027	1,815,968	39,245,208	-0.78%	-0.74%
2028	1,801,521	38,952,086	-0.8%	-0.75%
2029	1,786,981	38,654,416	-0.81%	-0.76%
2030	1,772,165	38,353,848	-0.83%	-0.78%
2031	1,757,453	38,050,624	-0.83%	-0.79%
2032	1,743,022	37,746,688	-0.82%	-0.8%
2033	1,728,673	37,442,088	-0.82%	-0.81%
2034	1,714,716	37,135,839	-0.81%	-0.82%
2035	1,701,185	36,828,149	-0.79%	-0.83%
2036	1,687,823	36,519,767	-0.79%	-0.84%
2037	1,674,629	36,209,679	-0.78%	-0.85%
2038	1,661,616	35,897,705	-0.78%	-0.86%
2039	1,648,536	35,584,263	-0.79%	-0.87%
2040	1,635,604	35,270,911	-0.78%	-0.88%
2041	1,622,819	34,957,580	-0.78%	-0.89%
2042	1,610,197	34,641,778	-0.78%	-0.9%
2043	1,597,712	34,324,132	-0.78%	-0.92%
2044	1,585,205	34,004,074	-0.78%	-0.93%
2045	1,572,558	33,680,448	-0.8%	-0.95%
2046	1,559,919	33,351,499	-0.8%	-0.98%
2047	1,547,369	33,017,828	-0.8%	-1%
2048	1,534,713	32,680,968	-0.82%	-1.02%
2049	1,521,945	32,338,515	-0.83%	-1.05%
2050	1,509,157	31,990,136	-0.84%	-1.08%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Latvia decreased by 258,820 people (a 11.7% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,661,862 people (a 3.52% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Latvia lost -129,244 (a 6.6% decline), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,080,982 (a 13.3% decline).

Latvia was ranked 140th most populous country in 2006 and is 149th in 2026. Ukraine was ranked 27th in 2006 and ranked 40th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Latvia's population will shrink by 17.5% to 1,509,157 people with a rank change from 149th to 153rd. The population of Ukraine will decrease by 19.1% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.