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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Moldova was 2,389,275 in 2024 vs 623,831 people in Montenegro in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Moldova's population is 2,358,679 people compared to 618,209 in Montenegro.

Population statistics:

  • Moldova's population is 3.82 times bigger than Montenegro's.
  • Moldova is ranked the 145th most populous country in the world, while Montenegro is the 166th.
  • The countries together account for 0.04% of the world: 0.03% for Moldova vs 0.007% for Montenegro.
  • For the last 10 years, Moldova has had an average growth rate of -1.62% per year vs +0.02% in Montenegro.
  • Since 2005, the population of Moldova has decreased from 2.89M people to 2.36M (18.4% decline), while Montenegro has grown from 614K to 618K (0.64% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 38.6% of the population in Moldova and 33.2% in Montenegro.

Moldova vs Montenegro: live population counter

Moldova Montenegro
Current population
2358679
618209
Population rank 145/197 166/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.007%
One net population change
7.67 minutes
1.21 days
One birth every
19.9 minutes
1.25 hours
One death every
15.7 minutes
1.39 hours
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
5.2 hours
Annual migration change -27,088 -1,686
Daily growth/decline -188 +1
Annual growth/decline -68,508 +302
Annual growth/decline rate -2.79% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 196/197 163/197

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

Moldova
Population

Growth rate
Montenegro
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Moldova Montenegro Moldova Montenegro
1960 2,058,020 480,579 - -
1961 2,103,327 491,140 2.2% 2.2%
1962 2,147,227 502,558 2.09% 2.32%
1963 2,188,895 513,409 1.94% 2.16%
1964 2,228,000 521,753 1.79% 1.63%
1965 2,265,287 526,327 1.67% 0.88%
1966 2,301,871 526,419 1.61% 0.02%
1967 2,337,695 522,796 1.56% -0.69%
1968 2,373,073 517,481 1.51% -1.02%
1969 2,408,469 513,340 1.49% -0.8%
1970 2,437,590 512,407 1.21% -0.18%
1971 2,460,611 515,449 0.94% 0.59%
1972 2,484,742 521,785 0.98% 1.23%
1973 2,510,584 530,220 1.04% 1.62%
1974 2,538,164 538,902 1.1% 1.64%
1975 2,566,998 546,487 1.14% 1.41%
1976 2,596,491 552,562 1.15% 1.11%
1977 2,626,298 557,576 1.15% 0.91%
1978 2,656,211 562,065 1.14% 0.81%
1979 2,683,035 566,888 1.01% 0.86%
1980 2,708,675 572,608 0.96% 1.01%
1981 2,735,987 579,445 1.01% 1.19%
1982 2,763,101 587,001 0.99% 1.3%
1983 2,791,207 594,506 1.02% 1.28%
1984 2,820,518 600,884 1.05% 1.07%
1985 2,850,787 605,398 1.07% 0.75%
1986 2,883,057 607,711 1.13% 0.38%
1987 2,916,306 608,144 1.15% 0.07%
1988 2,948,891 607,413 1.12% -0.12%
1989 2,970,039 606,571 0.72% -0.14%
1990 2,977,912 606,372 0.27% -0.03%
1991 2,981,566 607,105 0.12% 0.12%
1992 2,980,965 608,516 -0.02% 0.23%
1993 2,975,966 610,170 -0.17% 0.27%
1994 2,966,745 611,389 -0.31% 0.2%
1995 2,953,200 611,712 -0.46% 0.05%
1996 2,947,293 611,003 -0.2% -0.12%
1997 2,936,413 609,520 -0.37% -0.24%
1998 2,935,227 607,662 -0.04% -0.3%
1999 2,930,622 606,001 -0.16% -0.27%
2000 2,924,668 604,950 -0.2% -0.17%
2001 2,918,135 607,389 -0.22% 0.4%
2002 2,911,385 609,828 -0.23% 0.4%
2003 2,903,198 612,267 -0.28% 0.4%
2004 2,896,023 613,353 -0.25% 0.18%
2005 2,888,985 614,261 -0.24% 0.15%
2006 2,880,967 615,025 -0.28% 0.12%
2007 2,874,299 615,875 -0.23% 0.14%
2008 2,868,833 616,969 -0.19% 0.18%
2009 2,865,213 618,294 -0.13% 0.21%
2010 2,862,354 619,428 -0.1% 0.18%
2011 2,860,699 620,345 -0.06% 0.15%
2012 2,860,324 621,418 -0.01% 0.17%
2013 2,859,558 622,587 -0.03% 0.19%
2014 2,857,815 623,744 -0.06% 0.19%
2015 2,835,978 624,651 -0.76% 0.15%
2016 2,803,186 625,353 -1.16% 0.11%
2017 2,755,189 625,982 -1.71% 0.1%
2018 2,707,203 626,438 -1.74% 0.07%
2019 2,664,224 626,753 -1.59% 0.05%
2020 2,635,130 626,590 -1.09% -0.03%
2021 2,595,809 625,053 -1.49% -0.25%
2022 2,528,654 623,591 -2.59% -0.23%
2023 2,457,783 623,529 -2.8% -0.01%
2024 2,389,275 623,831 -2.79% 0.05%
2025 2,358,679 618,209 -1.28% -0.9%
2026 2,331,249 611,868 -1.16% -1.03%
2027 2,308,519 608,570 -0.97% -0.54%
2028 2,285,773 605,281 -0.99% -0.54%
2029 2,262,909 601,917 -1% -0.56%
2030 2,239,915 598,501 -1.02% -0.57%
2031 2,217,099 595,047 -1.02% -0.58%
2032 2,194,590 591,507 -1.02% -0.59%
2033 2,172,083 587,900 -1.03% -0.61%
2034 2,149,558 584,230 -1.04% -0.62%
2035 2,127,153 580,502 -1.04% -0.64%
2036 2,105,178 576,713 -1.03% -0.65%
2037 2,083,762 572,889 -1.02% -0.66%
2038 2,062,803 569,027 -1.01% -0.67%
2039 2,042,214 565,147 -1% -0.68%
2040 2,022,294 561,254 -0.98% -0.69%
2041 2,003,296 557,345 -0.94% -0.7%
2042 1,984,924 553,430 -0.92% -0.7%
2043 1,966,961 549,485 -0.9% -0.71%
2044 1,949,608 545,508 -0.88% -0.72%
2045 1,932,647 541,510 -0.87% -0.73%
2046 1,915,982 537,487 -0.86% -0.74%
2047 1,899,781 533,411 -0.85% -0.76%
2048 1,883,795 529,311 -0.84% -0.77%
2049 1,867,636 525,208 -0.86% -0.78%
2050 1,851,456 521,056 -0.87% -0.79%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Montenegro gained 10,390 people (a 1.69% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Montenegro's population decreased by -6,442 (a 1.03% decline).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Montenegro was ranked 162nd in 2005 and ranked 166th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Moldova's population will shrink by 21.5% to 1,851,456 people with a rank change from 145th to 150th. The population of Montenegro will decrease by 15.7% to 521,056 people and rank change from 166th to 170th.

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