Population in Lithuania compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Lithuania and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Lithuania	Papua New Guinea	Lithuania	Papua New Guinea
1960	2,778,550	1,995,110	-	-
1961	2,823,550	2,046,127	1.62%	2.56%
1962	2,863,350	2,093,919	1.41%	2.34%
1963	2,898,950	2,141,376	1.24%	2.27%
1964	2,935,200	2,188,325	1.25%	2.19%
1965	2,971,450	2,235,820	1.24%	2.17%
1966	3,008,050	2,285,774	1.23%	2.23%
1967	3,044,400	2,337,532	1.21%	2.26%
1968	3,078,850	2,390,803	1.13%	2.28%
1969	3,107,321	2,446,927	0.92%	2.35%
1970	3,139,689	2,505,628	1.04%	2.4%
1971	3,179,041	2,566,421	1.25%	2.43%
1972	3,213,622	2,628,432	1.09%	2.42%
1973	3,244,438	2,690,629	0.96%	2.37%
1974	3,273,894	2,752,671	0.91%	2.31%
1975	3,301,652	2,814,820	0.85%	2.26%
1976	3,328,664	2,877,327	0.82%	2.22%
1977	3,355,036	2,940,327	0.79%	2.19%
1978	3,379,514	3,003,714	0.73%	2.16%
1979	3,397,842	3,067,341	0.54%	2.12%
1980	3,413,202	3,131,512	0.45%	2.09%
1981	3,432,947	3,197,019	0.58%	2.09%
1982	3,457,179	3,264,291	0.71%	2.1%
1983	3,485,192	3,333,633	0.81%	2.12%
1984	3,514,205	3,405,198	0.83%	2.15%
1985	3,544,543	3,478,936	0.86%	2.17%
1986	3,578,914	3,554,793	0.97%	2.18%
1987	3,616,367	3,632,543	1.05%	2.19%
1988	3,655,049	3,711,880	1.07%	2.18%
1989	3,684,255	3,796,078	0.8%	2.27%
1990	3,697,838	3,896,481	0.37%	2.64%
1991	3,704,134	4,021,837	0.17%	3.22%
1992	3,700,114	4,166,699	-0.11%	3.6%
1993	3,682,613	4,320,872	-0.47%	3.7%
1994	3,657,144	4,480,208	-0.69%	3.69%
1995	3,629,102	4,644,278	-0.77%	3.66%
1996	3,601,613	4,813,361	-0.76%	3.64%
1997	3,575,137	4,987,883	-0.74%	3.63%
1998	3,549,331	5,166,390	-0.72%	3.58%
1999	3,524,238	5,349,333	-0.71%	3.54%
2000	3,499,536	5,537,064	-0.7%	3.51%
2001	3,470,818	5,728,435	-0.82%	3.46%
2002	3,443,067	5,924,003	-0.8%	3.41%
2003	3,415,213	6,123,997	-0.81%	3.38%
2004	3,377,075	6,328,041	-1.12%	3.33%
2005	3,322,528	6,535,905	-1.62%	3.28%
2006	3,269,909	6,747,720	-1.58%	3.24%
2007	3,231,294	6,963,345	-1.18%	3.2%
2008	3,198,231	7,183,002	-1.02%	3.15%
2009	3,162,916	7,406,438	-1.1%	3.11%
2010	3,097,282	7,633,523	-2.08%	3.07%
2011	3,028,115	7,859,346	-2.23%	2.96%
2012	2,989,139	8,081,390	-1.29%	2.83%
2013	2,961,250	8,302,698	-0.93%	2.74%
2014	2,937,253	8,523,441	-0.81%	2.66%
2015	2,911,109	8,743,246	-0.89%	2.58%
2016	2,877,325	8,961,718	-1.16%	2.5%
2017	2,842,639	9,178,714	-1.21%	2.42%
2018	2,819,200	9,394,513	-0.82%	2.35%
2019	2,811,089	9,609,010	-0.29%	2.28%
2020	2,810,369	9,815,746	-0.03%	2.15%
2021	2,808,380	10,012,896	-0.07%	2.01%
2022	2,831,639	10,203,169	0.83%	1.9%
2023	2,871,585	10,389,635	1.41%	1.83%
2024	2,888,055	10,576,502	0.57%	1.8%
2025	2,858,798	10,762,813	-1.01%	1.76%
2026	2,825,654	10,947,845	-1.16%	1.72%
2027	2,802,305	11,131,268	-0.83%	1.68%
2028	2,779,027	11,312,895	-0.83%	1.63%
2029	2,756,161	11,492,799	-0.82%	1.59%
2030	2,733,754	11,671,420	-0.81%	1.55%
2031	2,711,641	11,848,221	-0.81%	1.51%
2032	2,689,763	12,023,121	-0.81%	1.48%
2033	2,667,885	12,196,639	-0.81%	1.44%
2034	2,645,788	12,369,248	-0.83%	1.42%
2035	2,623,682	12,540,596	-0.84%	1.39%
2036	2,601,571	12,710,682	-0.84%	1.36%
2037	2,578,933	12,879,737	-0.87%	1.33%
2038	2,556,081	13,047,122	-0.89%	1.3%
2039	2,532,957	13,212,668	-0.9%	1.27%
2040	2,509,992	13,376,156	-0.91%	1.24%
2041	2,487,384	13,537,361	-0.9%	1.21%
2042	2,464,530	13,696,139	-0.92%	1.17%
2043	2,441,408	13,853,410	-0.94%	1.15%
2044	2,418,568	14,009,926	-0.94%	1.13%
2045	2,396,153	14,165,578	-0.93%	1.11%
2046	2,373,696	14,318,889	-0.94%	1.08%
2047	2,350,800	14,469,210	-0.96%	1.05%
2048	2,327,686	14,617,364	-0.98%	1.02%
2049	2,304,838	14,763,600	-0.98%	1%
2050	2,281,631	14,906,584	-1.01%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Lithuania decreased by 411,419 people (a 12.4% decline), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Lithuania lost -52,311 (a 1.8% decline), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Lithuania was ranked 126th most populous country in 2005 and is 139th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Lithuania's population will shrink by 20.2% to 2,281,631 people with a rank change from 139th to 145th. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.