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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Liberia was 5,612,817 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Liberia's population is 5,829,811 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 12.3 times bigger than Liberia's.
  • Liberia is ranked the 116th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.94% of the world: 0.07% for Liberia vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Liberia has had an average growth rate of +2.09% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Liberia has increased from 3.3M people to 5.83M (76.6% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Liberia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 12.7M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Liberia vs Thailand: live population counter

Liberia Thailand
Current population
5829811
71619867
Population rank 116/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.87%
One net population change
4.39 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
3.09 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
11.9 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -7,779 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +328 -94
Annual growth/decline +119,786 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +2.18% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 45/197 170/197

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

Liberia
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Liberia Thailand Liberia Thailand
1960 1,139,522 26,851,747 - -
1961 1,167,717 27,650,334 2.47% 2.97%
1962 1,197,039 28,481,040 2.51% 3%
1963 1,227,414 29,342,322 2.54% 3.02%
1964 1,258,745 30,232,141 2.55% 3.03%
1965 1,291,156 31,149,337 2.57% 3.03%
1966 1,324,383 32,086,071 2.57% 3.01%
1967 1,358,435 33,037,801 2.57% 2.97%
1968 1,393,530 34,002,560 2.58% 2.92%
1969 1,429,605 34,973,782 2.59% 2.86%
1970 1,466,676 35,954,408 2.59% 2.8%
1971 1,504,077 36,937,387 2.55% 2.73%
1972 1,542,670 37,933,929 2.57% 2.7%
1973 1,583,588 38,947,787 2.65% 2.67%
1974 1,626,362 39,952,891 2.7% 2.58%
1975 1,670,913 40,940,005 2.74% 2.47%
1976 1,717,060 41,896,504 2.76% 2.34%
1977 1,766,019 42,843,974 2.85% 2.26%
1978 1,818,247 43,788,976 2.96% 2.21%
1979 1,872,713 44,718,434 3% 2.12%
1980 1,929,253 45,650,022 3.02% 2.08%
1981 1,986,867 46,575,855 2.99% 2.03%
1982 2,045,073 47,494,577 2.93% 1.97%
1983 2,107,113 48,423,309 3.03% 1.96%
1984 2,173,312 49,351,708 3.14% 1.92%
1985 2,240,539 50,270,753 3.09% 1.86%
1986 2,308,511 51,177,834 3.03% 1.8%
1987 2,377,229 52,074,105 2.98% 1.75%
1988 2,446,941 52,969,595 2.93% 1.72%
1989 2,517,858 53,848,956 2.9% 1.66%
1990 2,223,667 54,738,329 -11.7% 1.65%
1991 1,956,518 55,637,434 -12% 1.64%
1992 2,072,461 56,528,834 5.93% 1.6%
1993 2,155,126 57,408,198 3.99% 1.56%
1994 2,149,928 58,260,854 -0.24% 1.49%
1995 2,169,162 59,098,232 0.89% 1.44%
1996 2,232,289 59,920,064 2.91% 1.39%
1997 2,412,989 60,724,584 8.09% 1.34%
1998 2,670,124 61,522,630 10.7% 1.31%
1999 2,821,684 62,299,043 5.68% 1.26%
2000 2,928,117 63,007,815 3.77% 1.14%
2001 3,015,338 63,651,141 2.98% 1.02%
2002 3,094,782 64,266,437 2.63% 0.97%
2003 3,119,532 64,868,166 0.8% 0.94%
2004 3,156,892 65,452,047 1.2% 0.9%
2005 3,301,015 66,017,420 4.57% 0.86%
2006 3,490,787 66,567,687 5.75% 0.83%
2007 3,669,050 67,102,394 5.11% 0.8%
2008 3,821,003 67,619,830 4.14% 0.77%
2009 3,943,028 68,121,080 3.19% 0.74%
2010 4,058,890 68,579,447 2.94% 0.67%
2011 4,221,178 69,007,208 4% 0.62%
2012 4,373,043 69,436,098 3.6% 0.62%
2013 4,470,239 69,845,114 2.22% 0.59%
2014 4,564,293 70,216,367 2.1% 0.53%
2015 4,659,431 70,540,795 2.08% 0.46%
2016 4,755,608 70,859,841 2.06% 0.45%
2017 4,848,925 71,160,187 1.96% 0.42%
2018 4,944,726 71,376,079 1.98% 0.3%
2019 5,043,721 71,522,271 2% 0.2%
2020 5,149,463 71,641,484 2.1% 0.17%
2021 5,259,323 71,727,332 2.13% 0.12%
2022 5,373,294 71,735,329 2.17% 0.01%
2023 5,493,031 71,702,435 2.23% -0.05%
2024 5,612,817 71,668,011 2.18% -0.05%
2025 5,731,211 71,619,867 2.11% -0.07%
2026 5,853,958 71,559,621 2.14% -0.08%
2027 5,986,805 71,488,156 2.27% -0.1%
2028 6,118,769 71,406,996 2.2% -0.11%
2029 6,245,093 71,316,195 2.06% -0.13%
2030 6,366,293 71,215,017 1.94% -0.14%
2031 6,486,749 71,104,025 1.89% -0.16%
2032 6,614,257 70,982,286 1.97% -0.17%
2033 6,744,927 70,847,947 1.98% -0.19%
2034 6,873,688 70,701,651 1.91% -0.21%
2035 7,003,567 70,540,884 1.89% -0.23%
2036 7,142,326 70,366,496 1.98% -0.25%
2037 7,278,759 70,180,031 1.91% -0.26%
2038 7,408,720 69,979,034 1.79% -0.29%
2039 7,545,510 69,763,928 1.85% -0.31%
2040 7,681,693 69,535,003 1.8% -0.33%
2041 7,817,089 69,288,477 1.76% -0.35%
2042 7,954,182 69,025,348 1.75% -0.38%
2043 8,077,173 68,748,075 1.55% -0.4%
2044 8,194,136 68,456,533 1.45% -0.42%
2045 8,310,657 68,150,148 1.42% -0.45%
2046 8,428,924 67,827,309 1.42% -0.47%
2047 8,552,033 67,489,358 1.46% -0.5%
2048 8,673,963 67,136,737 1.43% -0.52%
2049 8,795,838 66,767,316 1.41% -0.55%
2050 8,910,539 66,382,732 1.3% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Liberia increased by 1,358,416 people (a 41.2% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Liberia gained 1,170,380 (a 25.1% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Liberia was ranked 129th most populous country in 2005 and is 116th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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