Population in Liberia compared to Moldova: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Liberia and Moldova: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Liberia	Moldova	Liberia	Moldova
1960	1,139,522	2,058,020	-	-
1961	1,167,717	2,103,327	2.47%	2.2%
1962	1,197,039	2,147,227	2.51%	2.09%
1963	1,227,414	2,188,895	2.54%	1.94%
1964	1,258,745	2,228,000	2.55%	1.79%
1965	1,291,156	2,265,287	2.57%	1.67%
1966	1,324,383	2,301,871	2.57%	1.61%
1967	1,358,435	2,337,695	2.57%	1.56%
1968	1,393,530	2,373,073	2.58%	1.51%
1969	1,429,605	2,408,469	2.59%	1.49%
1970	1,466,676	2,437,590	2.59%	1.21%
1971	1,504,077	2,460,611	2.55%	0.94%
1972	1,542,670	2,484,742	2.57%	0.98%
1973	1,583,588	2,510,584	2.65%	1.04%
1974	1,626,362	2,538,164	2.7%	1.1%
1975	1,670,913	2,566,998	2.74%	1.14%
1976	1,717,060	2,596,491	2.76%	1.15%
1977	1,766,019	2,626,298	2.85%	1.15%
1978	1,818,247	2,656,211	2.96%	1.14%
1979	1,872,713	2,683,035	3%	1.01%
1980	1,929,253	2,708,675	3.02%	0.96%
1981	1,986,867	2,735,987	2.99%	1.01%
1982	2,045,073	2,763,101	2.93%	0.99%
1983	2,107,113	2,791,207	3.03%	1.02%
1984	2,173,312	2,820,518	3.14%	1.05%
1985	2,240,539	2,850,787	3.09%	1.07%
1986	2,308,511	2,883,057	3.03%	1.13%
1987	2,377,229	2,916,306	2.98%	1.15%
1988	2,446,941	2,948,891	2.93%	1.12%
1989	2,517,858	2,970,039	2.9%	0.72%
1990	2,223,667	2,977,912	-11.7%	0.27%
1991	1,956,518	2,981,566	-12%	0.12%
1992	2,072,461	2,980,965	5.93%	-0.02%
1993	2,155,126	2,975,966	3.99%	-0.17%
1994	2,149,928	2,966,745	-0.24%	-0.31%
1995	2,169,162	2,953,200	0.89%	-0.46%
1996	2,232,289	2,947,293	2.91%	-0.2%
1997	2,412,989	2,936,413	8.09%	-0.37%
1998	2,670,124	2,935,227	10.7%	-0.04%
1999	2,821,684	2,930,622	5.68%	-0.16%
2000	2,928,117	2,924,668	3.77%	-0.2%
2001	3,015,338	2,918,135	2.98%	-0.22%
2002	3,094,782	2,911,385	2.63%	-0.23%
2003	3,119,532	2,903,198	0.8%	-0.28%
2004	3,156,892	2,896,023	1.2%	-0.25%
2005	3,301,015	2,888,985	4.57%	-0.24%
2006	3,490,787	2,880,967	5.75%	-0.28%
2007	3,669,050	2,874,299	5.11%	-0.23%
2008	3,821,003	2,868,833	4.14%	-0.19%
2009	3,943,028	2,865,213	3.19%	-0.13%
2010	4,058,890	2,862,354	2.94%	-0.1%
2011	4,221,178	2,860,699	4%	-0.06%
2012	4,373,043	2,860,324	3.6%	-0.01%
2013	4,470,239	2,859,558	2.22%	-0.03%
2014	4,564,293	2,857,815	2.1%	-0.06%
2015	4,659,431	2,835,978	2.08%	-0.76%
2016	4,755,608	2,803,186	2.06%	-1.16%
2017	4,848,925	2,755,189	1.96%	-1.71%
2018	4,944,726	2,707,203	1.98%	-1.74%
2019	5,043,721	2,664,224	2%	-1.59%
2020	5,149,463	2,635,130	2.1%	-1.09%
2021	5,259,323	2,595,809	2.13%	-1.49%
2022	5,373,294	2,528,654	2.17%	-2.59%
2023	5,493,031	2,457,783	2.23%	-2.8%
2024	5,612,817	2,389,275	2.18%	-2.79%
2025	5,731,211	2,358,679	2.11%	-1.28%
2026	5,853,958	2,331,249	2.14%	-1.16%
2027	5,986,805	2,308,519	2.27%	-0.97%
2028	6,118,769	2,285,773	2.2%	-0.99%
2029	6,245,093	2,262,909	2.06%	-1%
2030	6,366,293	2,239,915	1.94%	-1.02%
2031	6,486,749	2,217,099	1.89%	-1.02%
2032	6,614,257	2,194,590	1.97%	-1.02%
2033	6,744,927	2,172,083	1.98%	-1.03%
2034	6,873,688	2,149,558	1.91%	-1.04%
2035	7,003,567	2,127,153	1.89%	-1.04%
2036	7,142,326	2,105,178	1.98%	-1.03%
2037	7,278,759	2,083,762	1.91%	-1.02%
2038	7,408,720	2,062,803	1.79%	-1.01%
2039	7,545,510	2,042,214	1.85%	-1%
2040	7,681,693	2,022,294	1.8%	-0.98%
2041	7,817,089	2,003,296	1.76%	-0.94%
2042	7,954,182	1,984,924	1.75%	-0.92%
2043	8,077,173	1,966,961	1.55%	-0.9%
2044	8,194,136	1,949,608	1.45%	-0.88%
2045	8,310,657	1,932,647	1.42%	-0.87%
2046	8,428,924	1,915,982	1.42%	-0.86%
2047	8,552,033	1,899,781	1.46%	-0.85%
2048	8,673,963	1,883,795	1.43%	-0.84%
2049	8,795,838	1,867,636	1.41%	-0.86%
2050	8,910,539	1,851,456	1.3%	-0.87%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Liberia increased by 1,358,416 people (a 41.2% growth), while Moldova lost 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Liberia gained 1,170,380 (a 25.1% growth), while Moldova's population decreased by -477,299 (a 16.8% decline).

Liberia was ranked 129th most populous country in 2005 and is 116th in 2025. Moldova was ranked 134th in 2005 and ranked 145th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Liberia's population will grow by 52.8% to 8,910,539 people with a rank change from 116th to 107th. The population of Moldova will decrease by 21.5% to 1,851,456 people and rank change from 145th to 150th.