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Population in Lithuania compared to Turkey: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Lithuania was 2,888,055 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Lithuania's population is 2,858,798 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 30.1 times bigger than Lithuania's.
  • Lithuania is ranked the 139th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.07% of the world: 0.03% for Lithuania vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Lithuania has had an average growth rate of -0.22% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Lithuania has decreased from 3.32M people to 2.86M (14% decline), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Turkey is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 89.4M people, while Lithuania's population already peaked in 1991 at 3.7M people and is projected to decrease to 1.22M people by 2100.

Lithuania vs Turkey: live population counter

Lithuania Turkey
Current population
2858798
85914550
Population rank 139/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 1.04%
One net population change
31.9 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
25.4 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
14.2 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
3.35 hours
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +2,617 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +45 +528
Annual growth/decline +16,470 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +0.57% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 128/197 153/197

Lithuania and Turkey: population history and growth rate by year chart

Lithuania
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Lithuania Turkey Lithuania Turkey
1960 2,778,550 28,329,898 - -
1961 2,823,550 29,119,238 1.62% 2.79%
1962 2,863,350 29,916,147 1.41% 2.74%
1963 2,898,950 30,726,841 1.24% 2.71%
1964 2,935,200 31,543,072 1.25% 2.66%
1965 2,971,450 32,345,220 1.24% 2.54%
1966 3,008,050 33,177,672 1.23% 2.57%
1967 3,044,400 34,050,421 1.21% 2.63%
1968 3,078,850 34,921,684 1.13% 2.56%
1969 3,107,321 35,787,774 0.92% 2.48%
1970 3,139,689 36,638,465 1.04% 2.38%
1971 3,179,041 37,518,611 1.25% 2.4%
1972 3,213,622 38,430,221 1.09% 2.43%
1973 3,244,438 39,329,533 0.96% 2.34%
1974 3,273,894 40,210,234 0.91% 2.24%
1975 3,301,652 41,053,126 0.85% 2.1%
1976 3,328,664 41,899,984 0.82% 2.06%
1977 3,355,036 42,773,298 0.79% 2.08%
1978 3,379,514 43,645,306 0.73% 2.04%
1979 3,397,842 44,510,429 0.54% 1.98%
1980 3,413,202 45,408,815 0.45% 2.02%
1981 3,432,947 46,321,190 0.58% 2.01%
1982 3,457,179 47,322,096 0.71% 2.16%
1983 3,485,192 48,447,410 0.81% 2.38%
1984 3,514,205 49,574,069 0.83% 2.33%
1985 3,544,543 50,687,115 0.86% 2.25%
1986 3,578,914 51,777,772 0.97% 2.15%
1987 3,616,367 52,843,670 1.05% 2.06%
1988 3,655,049 53,909,626 1.07% 2.02%
1989 3,684,255 54,976,723 0.8% 1.98%
1990 3,697,838 56,015,628 0.37% 1.89%
1991 3,704,134 57,009,887 0.17% 1.77%
1992 3,700,114 57,990,118 -0.11% 1.72%
1993 3,682,613 58,999,167 -0.47% 1.74%
1994 3,657,144 60,033,836 -0.69% 1.75%
1995 3,629,102 61,024,503 -0.77% 1.65%
1996 3,601,613 61,951,134 -0.76% 1.52%
1997 3,575,137 62,852,966 -0.74% 1.46%
1998 3,549,331 63,734,383 -0.72% 1.4%
1999 3,524,238 64,591,923 -0.71% 1.35%
2000 3,499,536 65,425,961 -0.7% 1.29%
2001 3,470,818 66,245,128 -0.82% 1.25%
2002 3,443,067 67,048,795 -0.8% 1.21%
2003 3,415,213 67,831,730 -0.81% 1.17%
2004 3,377,075 68,592,617 -1.12% 1.12%
2005 3,322,528 69,329,557 -1.62% 1.07%
2006 3,269,909 70,045,349 -1.58% 1.03%
2007 3,231,294 70,158,112 -1.18% 0.16%
2008 3,198,231 71,051,678 -1.02% 1.27%
2009 3,162,916 72,039,206 -1.1% 1.39%
2010 3,097,282 73,142,150 -2.08% 1.53%
2011 3,028,115 74,223,629 -2.23% 1.48%
2012 2,989,139 75,175,827 -1.29% 1.28%
2013 2,961,250 76,147,624 -0.93% 1.29%
2014 2,937,253 77,181,884 -0.81% 1.36%
2015 2,911,109 78,218,479 -0.89% 1.34%
2016 2,877,325 79,277,962 -1.16% 1.35%
2017 2,842,639 80,312,698 -1.21% 1.31%
2018 2,819,200 81,407,204 -0.82% 1.36%
2019 2,811,089 82,579,440 -0.29% 1.44%
2020 2,810,369 83,384,680 -0.03% 0.98%
2021 2,808,380 84,147,318 -0.07% 0.91%
2022 2,831,639 84,979,913 0.83% 0.99%
2023 2,871,585 85,325,965 1.41% 0.41%
2024 2,888,055 85,518,661 0.57% 0.23%
2025 2,858,798 85,725,557 -1.01% 0.24%
2026 2,825,654 85,960,835 -1.16% 0.27%
2027 2,802,305 86,227,115 -0.83% 0.31%
2028 2,779,027 86,502,744 -0.83% 0.32%
2029 2,756,161 86,771,652 -0.82% 0.31%
2030 2,733,754 87,037,680 -0.81% 0.31%
2031 2,711,641 87,297,191 -0.81% 0.3%
2032 2,689,763 87,537,075 -0.81% 0.27%
2033 2,667,885 87,762,403 -0.81% 0.26%
2034 2,645,788 87,974,138 -0.83% 0.24%
2035 2,623,682 88,172,739 -0.84% 0.23%
2036 2,601,571 88,364,318 -0.84% 0.22%
2037 2,578,933 88,545,669 -0.87% 0.21%
2038 2,556,081 88,707,268 -0.89% 0.18%
2039 2,532,957 88,849,956 -0.9% 0.16%
2040 2,509,992 88,975,510 -0.91% 0.14%
2041 2,487,384 89,083,304 -0.9% 0.12%
2042 2,464,530 89,177,769 -0.92% 0.11%
2043 2,441,408 89,254,147 -0.94% 0.09%
2044 2,418,568 89,311,458 -0.94% 0.06%
2045 2,396,153 89,349,806 -0.93% 0.04%
2046 2,373,696 89,375,429 -0.94% 0.03%
2047 2,350,800 89,383,765 -0.96% 0.009%
2048 2,327,686 89,361,174 -0.98% -0.03%
2049 2,304,838 89,306,566 -0.98% -0.06%
2050 2,281,631 89,218,346 -1.01% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Lithuania decreased by 411,419 people (a 12.4% decline), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Lithuania lost -52,311 (a 1.8% decline), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Lithuania was ranked 126th most populous country in 2005 and is 139th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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