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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Vietnam	Latvia	Vietnam
1960	2,120,979	32,531,933	-	-
1961	2,152,681	33,409,059	1.49%	2.7%
1962	2,181,586	34,288,560	1.34%	2.63%
1963	2,210,919	35,249,101	1.34%	2.8%
1964	2,240,623	36,201,563	1.34%	2.7%
1965	2,265,919	37,129,656	1.13%	2.56%
1966	2,283,217	38,024,836	0.76%	2.41%
1967	2,301,220	38,895,080	0.79%	2.29%
1968	2,323,619	39,734,609	0.97%	2.16%
1969	2,343,173	40,582,096	0.84%	2.13%
1970	2,359,164	41,475,230	0.68%	2.2%
1971	2,376,389	42,449,276	0.73%	2.35%
1972	2,395,674	43,429,168	0.81%	2.31%
1973	2,415,819	44,409,861	0.84%	2.26%
1974	2,437,186	45,413,537	0.88%	2.26%
1975	2,456,130	46,482,903	0.78%	2.35%
1976	2,470,989	47,684,931	0.6%	2.59%
1977	2,485,073	48,954,872	0.57%	2.66%
1978	2,497,921	50,249,552	0.52%	2.64%
1979	2,505,953	51,378,211	0.32%	2.25%
1980	2,511,701	52,490,101	0.23%	2.16%
1981	2,519,421	53,738,141	0.31%	2.38%
1982	2,531,080	55,011,289	0.46%	2.37%
1983	2,546,011	56,337,921	0.59%	2.41%
1984	2,562,047	57,706,067	0.63%	2.43%
1985	2,578,873	59,060,622	0.66%	2.35%
1986	2,599,892	60,347,048	0.82%	2.18%
1987	2,626,583	61,584,651	1.03%	2.05%
1988	2,653,434	62,843,228	1.02%	2.04%
1989	2,666,955	64,147,348	0.51%	2.08%
1990	2,663,151	65,504,552	-0.14%	2.12%
1991	2,650,581	66,891,775	-0.47%	2.12%
1992	2,614,338	68,260,337	-1.37%	2.05%
1993	2,563,290	69,586,384	-1.95%	1.94%
1994	2,520,742	70,854,391	-1.66%	1.82%
1995	2,485,056	72,049,940	-1.42%	1.69%
1996	2,457,222	73,156,447	-1.12%	1.54%
1997	2,432,851	74,226,889	-0.99%	1.46%
1998	2,410,019	75,299,660	-0.94%	1.45%
1999	2,390,482	76,287,452	-0.81%	1.31%
2000	2,367,550	77,154,011	-0.96%	1.14%
2001	2,337,170	77,969,361	-1.28%	1.06%
2002	2,310,173	78,772,224	-1.16%	1.03%
2003	2,287,955	79,563,777	-0.96%	1%
2004	2,263,122	80,338,971	-1.09%	0.97%
2005	2,238,799	81,088,313	-1.07%	0.93%
2006	2,218,357	82,167,897	-0.91%	1.33%
2007	2,200,325	83,633,375	-0.81%	1.78%
2008	2,177,322	85,175,788	-1.05%	1.84%
2009	2,141,669	86,460,018	-1.64%	1.51%
2010	2,097,555	87,455,152	-2.06%	1.15%
2011	2,059,709	88,468,314	-1.8%	1.16%
2012	2,034,319	89,510,356	-1.23%	1.18%
2013	2,012,647	90,573,104	-1.07%	1.19%
2014	1,993,782	91,679,578	-0.94%	1.22%
2015	1,977,527	92,823,254	-0.82%	1.25%
2016	1,959,537	94,000,117	-0.91%	1.27%
2017	1,942,248	95,176,977	-0.88%	1.25%
2018	1,927,174	96,237,319	-0.78%	1.11%
2019	1,913,822	97,173,776	-0.69%	0.97%
2020	1,900,449	98,079,191	-0.7%	0.93%
2021	1,884,490	98,935,098	-0.84%	0.87%
2022	1,879,383	99,680,655	-0.27%	0.75%
2023	1,877,445	100,352,192	-0.1%	0.67%
2024	1,862,441	100,987,686	-0.8%	0.63%
2025	1,844,219	101,598,531	-0.98%	0.6%
2026	1,826,681	102,177,434	-0.95%	0.57%
2027	1,812,384	102,727,392	-0.78%	0.54%
2028	1,797,965	103,255,746	-0.8%	0.51%
2029	1,783,455	103,761,151	-0.81%	0.49%
2030	1,768,667	104,254,900	-0.83%	0.48%
2031	1,753,985	104,737,913	-0.83%	0.46%
2032	1,739,582	105,204,401	-0.82%	0.45%
2033	1,725,261	105,656,307	-0.82%	0.43%
2034	1,711,332	106,097,515	-0.81%	0.42%
2035	1,697,827	106,530,671	-0.79%	0.41%
2036	1,684,492	106,945,842	-0.79%	0.39%
2037	1,671,323	107,346,046	-0.78%	0.37%
2038	1,658,336	107,732,019	-0.78%	0.36%
2039	1,645,282	108,097,653	-0.79%	0.34%
2040	1,632,376	108,437,634	-0.78%	0.31%
2041	1,619,616	108,752,199	-0.78%	0.29%
2042	1,607,019	109,040,314	-0.78%	0.26%
2043	1,594,558	109,292,559	-0.78%	0.23%
2044	1,582,077	109,506,274	-0.78%	0.2%
2045	1,569,454	109,685,396	-0.8%	0.16%
2046	1,556,840	109,827,664	-0.8%	0.13%
2047	1,544,315	109,930,243	-0.8%	0.09%
2048	1,531,684	109,994,024	-0.82%	0.06%
2049	1,518,941	110,018,017	-0.83%	0.02%
2050	1,506,179	110,008,910	-0.84%	-0.008%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Vietnam gained 11,734,941 people (a 14.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Vietnam's population increased by 9,240,297 (a 9.95% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th in 2025. Vietnam was ranked 15th in 2005 and ranked 16th 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 Vietnam will increase by 7.78% to 110,008,910 people and will still be ranked 16th.