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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Nigeria	Moldova	Nigeria
1960	2,058,020	45,053,782	-	-
1961	2,103,327	45,989,310	2.2%	2.08%
1962	2,147,227	46,965,292	2.09%	2.12%
1963	2,188,895	47,973,575	1.94%	2.15%
1964	2,228,000	49,012,016	1.79%	2.16%
1965	2,265,287	50,086,764	1.67%	2.19%
1966	2,301,871	51,188,234	1.61%	2.2%
1967	2,337,695	52,293,065	1.56%	2.16%
1968	2,373,073	53,432,783	1.51%	2.18%
1969	2,408,469	54,631,914	1.49%	2.24%
1970	2,437,590	55,893,838	1.21%	2.31%
1971	2,460,611	57,214,684	0.94%	2.36%
1972	2,484,742	58,601,748	0.98%	2.42%
1973	2,510,584	60,082,139	1.04%	2.53%
1974	2,538,164	61,679,144	1.1%	2.66%
1975	2,566,998	63,410,815	1.14%	2.81%
1976	2,596,491	65,258,009	1.15%	2.91%
1977	2,626,298	67,234,590	1.15%	3.03%
1978	2,656,211	69,326,532	1.14%	3.11%
1979	2,683,035	71,498,242	1.01%	3.13%
1980	2,708,675	73,764,641	0.96%	3.17%
1981	2,735,987	76,068,103	1.01%	3.12%
1982	2,763,101	78,378,701	0.99%	3.04%
1983	2,791,207	80,438,260	1.02%	2.63%
1984	2,820,518	82,526,443	1.05%	2.6%
1985	2,850,787	84,897,973	1.07%	2.87%
1986	2,883,057	87,235,953	1.13%	2.75%
1987	2,916,306	89,591,716	1.15%	2.7%
1988	2,948,891	92,020,090	1.12%	2.71%
1989	2,970,039	94,531,014	0.72%	2.73%
1990	2,977,912	97,120,925	0.27%	2.74%
1991	2,981,566	99,720,162	0.12%	2.68%
1992	2,980,965	102,372,770	-0.02%	2.66%
1993	2,975,966	105,122,069	-0.17%	2.69%
1994	2,966,745	107,935,714	-0.31%	2.68%
1995	2,953,200	110,819,428	-0.46%	2.67%
1996	2,947,293	113,754,779	-0.2%	2.65%
1997	2,936,413	116,754,792	-0.37%	2.64%
1998	2,935,227	119,846,254	-0.04%	2.65%
1999	2,930,622	123,047,320	-0.16%	2.67%
2000	2,924,668	126,382,494	-0.2%	2.71%
2001	2,918,135	129,862,595	-0.22%	2.75%
2002	2,911,385	133,471,989	-0.23%	2.78%
2003	2,903,198	137,202,644	-0.28%	2.8%
2004	2,896,023	141,057,045	-0.25%	2.81%
2005	2,888,985	145,017,253	-0.24%	2.81%
2006	2,880,967	149,077,334	-0.28%	2.8%
2007	2,874,299	153,267,261	-0.23%	2.81%
2008	2,868,833	157,595,014	-0.19%	2.82%
2009	2,865,213	162,049,464	-0.13%	2.83%
2010	2,862,354	166,642,886	-0.1%	2.83%
2011	2,860,699	171,379,598	-0.06%	2.84%
2012	2,860,324	176,200,625	-0.01%	2.81%
2013	2,859,558	181,049,443	-0.03%	2.75%
2014	2,857,815	185,896,915	-0.06%	2.68%
2015	2,835,978	190,671,878	-0.76%	2.57%
2016	2,803,186	195,443,700	-1.16%	2.5%
2017	2,755,189	200,254,579	-1.71%	2.46%
2018	2,707,203	204,938,755	-1.74%	2.34%
2019	2,664,224	209,485,641	-1.59%	2.22%
2020	2,635,130	213,996,181	-1.09%	2.15%
2021	2,595,809	218,529,286	-1.49%	2.12%
2022	2,528,654	223,150,896	-2.59%	2.11%
2023	2,457,783	227,882,945	-2.8%	2.12%
2024	2,389,275	232,679,478	-2.79%	2.1%
2025	2,358,679	237,527,783	-1.28%	2.08%
2026	2,331,249	242,431,830	-1.16%	2.06%
2027	2,308,519	247,374,258	-0.97%	2.04%
2028	2,285,773	252,346,128	-0.99%	2.01%
2029	2,262,909	257,352,638	-1%	1.98%
2030	2,239,915	262,380,975	-1.02%	1.95%
2031	2,217,099	267,421,079	-1.02%	1.92%
2032	2,194,590	272,483,635	-1.02%	1.89%
2033	2,172,083	277,555,116	-1.03%	1.86%
2034	2,149,558	282,622,388	-1.04%	1.83%
2035	2,127,153	287,685,757	-1.04%	1.79%
2036	2,105,178	292,739,390	-1.03%	1.76%
2037	2,083,762	297,773,236	-1.02%	1.72%
2038	2,062,803	302,782,350	-1.01%	1.68%
2039	2,042,214	307,764,754	-1%	1.65%
2040	2,022,294	312,710,403	-0.98%	1.61%
2041	2,003,296	317,607,237	-0.94%	1.57%
2042	1,984,924	322,450,302	-0.92%	1.52%
2043	1,966,961	327,243,941	-0.9%	1.49%
2044	1,949,608	331,983,354	-0.88%	1.45%
2045	1,932,647	336,662,502	-0.87%	1.41%
2046	1,915,982	341,281,757	-0.86%	1.37%
2047	1,899,781	345,844,004	-0.85%	1.34%
2048	1,883,795	350,347,757	-0.84%	1.3%
2049	1,867,636	354,792,418	-0.86%	1.27%
2050	1,851,456	359,185,550	-0.87%	1.24%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Nigeria gained 45,654,625 people (a 31.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Nigeria's population increased by 50,795,221 (a 26.6% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Nigeria was ranked 7th in 2005 and ranked 6th 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 Nigeria will increase by 48.8% to 359,185,550 people and rank change from 6th to 5th.