Population in Latvia compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Latvia and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	United Kingdom	Latvia	United Kingdom
1960	2,120,979	52,400,000	-	-
1961	2,152,681	52,800,000	1.49%	0.76%
1962	2,181,586	53,250,000	1.34%	0.85%
1963	2,210,919	53,650,000	1.34%	0.75%
1964	2,240,623	54,000,000	1.34%	0.65%
1965	2,265,919	54,348,050	1.13%	0.64%
1966	2,283,217	54,648,500	0.76%	0.55%
1967	2,301,220	54,943,600	0.79%	0.54%
1968	2,323,619	55,211,700	0.97%	0.49%
1969	2,343,173	55,441,750	0.84%	0.42%
1970	2,359,164	55,663,250	0.68%	0.4%
1971	2,376,389	55,896,223	0.73%	0.42%
1972	2,395,674	56,086,065	0.81%	0.34%
1973	2,415,819	56,194,527	0.84%	0.19%
1974	2,437,186	56,229,974	0.88%	0.06%
1975	2,456,130	56,225,800	0.78%	-0.007%
1976	2,470,989	56,211,968	0.6%	-0.02%
1977	2,485,073	56,193,492	0.57%	-0.03%
1978	2,497,921	56,196,504	0.52%	0.005%
1979	2,505,953	56,246,951	0.32%	0.09%
1980	2,511,701	56,314,216	0.23%	0.12%
1981	2,519,421	56,333,829	0.31%	0.03%
1982	2,531,080	56,313,641	0.46%	-0.04%
1983	2,546,011	56,332,848	0.59%	0.03%
1984	2,562,047	56,422,072	0.63%	0.16%
1985	2,578,873	56,550,268	0.66%	0.23%
1986	2,599,892	56,681,396	0.82%	0.23%
1987	2,626,583	56,802,050	1.03%	0.21%
1988	2,653,434	56,928,327	1.02%	0.22%
1989	2,666,955	57,076,711	0.51%	0.26%
1990	2,663,151	57,247,586	-0.14%	0.3%
1991	2,650,581	57,424,897	-0.47%	0.31%
1992	2,614,338	57,580,402	-1.37%	0.27%
1993	2,563,290	57,718,614	-1.95%	0.24%
1994	2,520,742	57,865,745	-1.66%	0.25%
1995	2,485,056	58,019,030	-1.42%	0.26%
1996	2,457,222	58,166,950	-1.12%	0.25%
1997	2,432,851	58,316,954	-0.99%	0.26%
1998	2,410,019	58,487,141	-0.94%	0.29%
1999	2,390,482	58,682,466	-0.81%	0.33%
2000	2,367,550	58,892,514	-0.96%	0.36%
2001	2,337,170	59,119,673	-1.28%	0.39%
2002	2,310,173	59,370,479	-1.16%	0.42%
2003	2,287,955	59,647,577	-0.96%	0.47%
2004	2,263,122	59,987,905	-1.09%	0.57%
2005	2,238,799	60,401,206	-1.07%	0.69%
2006	2,218,357	60,846,820	-0.91%	0.74%
2007	2,200,325	61,322,463	-0.81%	0.78%
2008	2,177,322	61,806,995	-1.05%	0.79%
2009	2,141,669	62,276,270	-1.64%	0.76%
2010	2,097,555	62,766,365	-2.06%	0.79%
2011	2,059,709	63,258,810	-1.8%	0.78%
2012	2,034,319	63,711,000	-1.23%	0.71%
2013	2,012,647	64,139,000	-1.07%	0.67%
2014	1,993,782	64,620,000	-0.94%	0.75%
2015	1,977,527	65,088,000	-0.82%	0.72%
2016	1,959,537	65,607,000	-0.91%	0.8%
2017	1,942,248	65,966,000	-0.88%	0.55%
2018	1,927,174	66,289,000	-0.78%	0.49%
2019	1,913,822	66,631,000	-0.69%	0.52%
2020	1,900,449	66,744,000	-0.7%	0.17%
2021	1,884,490	66,984,000	-0.84%	0.36%
2022	1,879,383	67,604,000	-0.27%	0.93%
2023	1,877,445	68,492,000	-0.1%	1.31%
2024	1,862,441	69,226,000	-0.8%	1.07%
2025	1,844,219	69,639,673	-0.98%	0.6%
2026	1,826,681	70,020,350	-0.95%	0.55%
2027	1,812,384	70,382,853	-0.78%	0.52%
2028	1,797,965	70,732,699	-0.8%	0.5%
2029	1,783,455	71,061,482	-0.81%	0.46%
2030	1,768,667	71,377,535	-0.83%	0.44%
2031	1,753,985	71,678,351	-0.83%	0.42%
2032	1,739,582	71,959,934	-0.82%	0.39%
2033	1,725,261	72,234,509	-0.82%	0.38%
2034	1,711,332	72,497,650	-0.81%	0.36%
2035	1,697,827	72,749,096	-0.79%	0.35%
2036	1,684,492	72,990,847	-0.79%	0.33%
2037	1,671,323	73,218,850	-0.78%	0.31%
2038	1,658,336	73,441,349	-0.78%	0.3%
2039	1,645,282	73,658,392	-0.79%	0.3%
2040	1,632,376	73,868,334	-0.78%	0.29%
2041	1,619,616	74,074,316	-0.78%	0.28%
2042	1,607,019	74,275,779	-0.78%	0.27%
2043	1,594,558	74,475,035	-0.78%	0.27%
2044	1,582,077	74,667,284	-0.78%	0.26%
2045	1,569,454	74,848,605	-0.8%	0.24%
2046	1,556,840	75,020,949	-0.8%	0.23%
2047	1,544,315	75,184,478	-0.8%	0.22%
2048	1,531,684	75,337,543	-0.82%	0.2%
2049	1,518,941	75,476,141	-0.83%	0.18%
2050	1,506,179	75,600,588	-0.84%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.