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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Malaysia was 35,557,673 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Malaysia's population is 36,304,998 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 2.37 times bigger than Malaysia's.
  • Malaysia is ranked the 45th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.48% of the world: 0.44% for Malaysia vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Malaysia has had an average growth rate of +1.5% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Malaysia has increased from 25.8M people to 36.3M (40.5% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Malaysia is projected to reach its peak in 2072 at 46.4M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Malaysia vs Turkey: live population counter

Malaysia Turkey
Current population
36304998
85914550
Population rank 45/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.44% 1.04%
One net population change
1.22 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
1.21 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
2.9 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
3.01 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +174,770 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +1,182 +528
Annual growth/decline +431,375 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +1.23% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 91/197 153/197

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

Malaysia
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Malaysia Turkey Malaysia Turkey
1960 7,956,197 28,329,898 - -
1961 8,164,443 29,119,238 2.62% 2.79%
1962 8,380,172 29,916,147 2.64% 2.74%
1963 8,602,160 30,726,841 2.65% 2.71%
1964 8,828,406 31,543,072 2.63% 2.66%
1965 9,056,408 32,345,220 2.58% 2.54%
1966 9,284,688 33,177,672 2.52% 2.57%
1967 9,507,099 34,050,421 2.4% 2.63%
1968 9,725,281 34,921,684 2.29% 2.56%
1969 9,947,597 35,787,774 2.29% 2.48%
1970 10,178,802 36,638,465 2.32% 2.38%
1971 10,423,453 37,518,611 2.4% 2.4%
1972 10,676,835 38,430,221 2.43% 2.43%
1973 10,935,621 39,329,533 2.42% 2.34%
1974 11,200,906 40,210,234 2.43% 2.24%
1975 11,471,914 41,053,126 2.42% 2.1%
1976 11,750,097 41,899,984 2.42% 2.06%
1977 12,035,713 42,773,298 2.43% 2.08%
1978 12,328,157 43,645,306 2.43% 2.04%
1979 12,627,862 44,510,429 2.43% 1.98%
1980 12,983,363 45,408,815 2.82% 2.02%
1981 13,399,203 46,321,190 3.2% 2.01%
1982 13,832,798 47,322,096 3.24% 2.16%
1983 14,285,907 48,447,410 3.28% 2.38%
1984 14,759,009 49,574,069 3.31% 2.33%
1985 15,252,258 50,687,115 3.34% 2.25%
1986 15,760,419 51,777,772 3.33% 2.15%
1987 16,276,737 52,843,670 3.28% 2.06%
1988 16,796,605 53,909,626 3.19% 2.02%
1989 17,314,997 54,976,723 3.09% 1.98%
1990 17,833,171 56,015,628 2.99% 1.89%
1991 18,342,464 57,009,887 2.86% 1.77%
1992 18,834,572 57,990,118 2.68% 1.72%
1993 19,322,664 58,999,167 2.59% 1.74%
1994 19,820,446 60,033,836 2.58% 1.75%
1995 20,330,599 61,024,503 2.57% 1.65%
1996 20,850,087 61,951,134 2.56% 1.52%
1997 21,375,218 62,852,966 2.52% 1.46%
1998 21,906,713 63,734,383 2.49% 1.4%
1999 22,435,531 64,591,923 2.41% 1.35%
2000 22,967,816 65,425,961 2.37% 1.29%
2001 23,526,538 66,245,128 2.43% 1.25%
2002 24,102,477 67,048,795 2.45% 1.21%
2003 24,679,602 67,831,730 2.39% 1.17%
2004 25,256,772 68,592,617 2.34% 1.12%
2005 25,836,071 69,329,557 2.29% 1.07%
2006 26,417,909 70,045,349 2.25% 1.03%
2007 26,998,389 70,158,112 2.2% 0.16%
2008 27,570,059 71,051,678 2.12% 1.27%
2009 28,124,778 72,039,206 2.01% 1.39%
2010 28,655,776 73,142,150 1.89% 1.53%
2011 29,162,039 74,223,629 1.77% 1.48%
2012 29,662,831 75,175,827 1.72% 1.28%
2013 30,174,265 76,147,624 1.72% 1.29%
2014 30,696,137 77,181,884 1.73% 1.36%
2015 31,232,798 78,218,479 1.75% 1.34%
2016 31,789,685 79,277,962 1.78% 1.35%
2017 32,355,644 80,312,698 1.78% 1.31%
2018 32,910,967 81,407,204 1.72% 1.36%
2019 33,440,596 82,579,440 1.61% 1.44%
2020 33,889,558 83,384,680 1.34% 0.98%
2021 34,282,399 84,147,318 1.16% 0.91%
2022 34,695,493 84,979,913 1.2% 0.99%
2023 35,126,298 85,325,965 1.24% 0.41%
2024 35,557,673 85,518,661 1.23% 0.23%
2025 35,977,838 85,725,557 1.18% 0.24%
2026 36,385,119 85,960,835 1.13% 0.27%
2027 36,785,089 86,227,115 1.1% 0.31%
2028 37,182,773 86,502,744 1.08% 0.32%
2029 37,574,292 86,771,652 1.05% 0.31%
2030 37,961,722 87,037,680 1.03% 0.31%
2031 38,347,786 87,297,191 1.02% 0.3%
2032 38,728,383 87,537,075 0.99% 0.27%
2033 39,097,871 87,762,403 0.95% 0.26%
2034 39,457,849 87,974,138 0.92% 0.24%
2035 39,814,834 88,172,739 0.9% 0.23%
2036 40,166,904 88,364,318 0.88% 0.22%
2037 40,512,289 88,545,669 0.86% 0.21%
2038 40,853,318 88,707,268 0.84% 0.18%
2039 41,185,892 88,849,956 0.81% 0.16%
2040 41,509,646 88,975,510 0.79% 0.14%
2041 41,828,594 89,083,304 0.77% 0.12%
2042 42,144,474 89,177,769 0.76% 0.11%
2043 42,455,952 89,254,147 0.74% 0.09%
2044 42,754,140 89,311,458 0.7% 0.06%
2045 43,038,205 89,349,806 0.66% 0.04%
2046 43,313,754 89,375,429 0.64% 0.03%
2047 43,580,459 89,383,765 0.62% 0.009%
2048 43,831,577 89,361,174 0.58% -0.03%
2049 44,065,538 89,306,566 0.53% -0.06%
2050 44,289,765 89,218,346 0.51% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malaysia increased by 5,396,727 people (a 20.9% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malaysia gained 5,072,200 (a 16.2% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Malaysia was ranked 44th most populous country in 2005 and is 45th 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) Malaysia's population will grow by 22% to 44,289,765 people with a rank change from 45th to 49th. 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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