Population in Moldova compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Moldova and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	North Korea	Moldova	North Korea
1960	2,058,020	11,722,953	-	-
1961	2,103,327	11,990,713	2.2%	2.28%
1962	2,147,227	12,262,882	2.09%	2.27%
1963	2,188,895	12,567,057	1.94%	2.48%
1964	2,228,000	12,889,770	1.79%	2.57%
1965	2,265,287	13,219,369	1.67%	2.56%
1966	2,301,871	13,569,094	1.61%	2.65%
1967	2,337,695	13,958,350	1.56%	2.87%
1968	2,373,073	14,365,596	1.51%	2.92%
1969	2,408,469	14,767,615	1.49%	2.8%
1970	2,437,590	15,172,775	1.21%	2.74%
1971	2,460,611	15,572,457	0.94%	2.63%
1972	2,484,742	15,975,069	0.98%	2.59%
1973	2,510,584	16,350,367	1.04%	2.35%
1974	2,538,164	16,673,121	1.1%	1.97%
1975	2,566,998	16,971,055	1.14%	1.79%
1976	2,596,491	17,243,450	1.15%	1.61%
1977	2,626,298	17,492,798	1.15%	1.45%
1978	2,656,211	17,735,995	1.14%	1.39%
1979	2,683,035	17,983,470	1.01%	1.4%
1980	2,708,675	18,236,786	0.96%	1.41%
1981	2,735,987	18,501,295	1.01%	1.45%
1982	2,763,101	18,776,357	0.99%	1.49%
1983	2,791,207	19,054,034	1.02%	1.48%
1984	2,820,518	19,335,043	1.05%	1.47%
1985	2,850,787	19,620,388	1.07%	1.48%
1986	2,883,057	19,910,855	1.13%	1.48%
1987	2,916,306	20,205,483	1.15%	1.48%
1988	2,948,891	20,503,161	1.12%	1.47%
1989	2,970,039	20,804,367	0.72%	1.47%
1990	2,977,912	21,112,137	0.27%	1.48%
1991	2,981,566	21,428,638	0.12%	1.5%
1992	2,980,965	21,750,911	-0.02%	1.5%
1993	2,975,966	22,073,352	-0.17%	1.48%
1994	2,966,745	22,393,975	-0.31%	1.45%
1995	2,953,200	22,669,304	-0.46%	1.23%
1996	2,947,293	22,895,746	-0.2%	1%
1997	2,936,413	23,110,830	-0.37%	0.94%
1998	2,935,227	23,311,564	-0.04%	0.87%
1999	2,930,622	23,497,599	-0.16%	0.8%
2000	2,924,668	23,665,910	-0.2%	0.72%
2001	2,918,135	23,815,358	-0.22%	0.63%
2002	2,911,385	23,943,973	-0.23%	0.54%
2003	2,903,198	24,090,380	-0.28%	0.61%
2004	2,896,023	24,254,943	-0.25%	0.68%
2005	2,888,985	24,396,433	-0.24%	0.58%
2006	2,880,967	24,524,507	-0.28%	0.52%
2007	2,874,299	24,646,383	-0.23%	0.5%
2008	2,868,833	24,764,618	-0.19%	0.48%
2009	2,865,213	24,878,332	-0.13%	0.46%
2010	2,862,354	24,987,258	-0.1%	0.44%
2011	2,860,699	25,097,874	-0.06%	0.44%
2012	2,860,324	25,211,728	-0.01%	0.45%
2013	2,859,558	25,329,451	-0.03%	0.47%
2014	2,857,815	25,451,262	-0.06%	0.48%
2015	2,835,978	25,575,350	-0.76%	0.49%
2016	2,803,186	25,698,326	-1.16%	0.48%
2017	2,755,189	25,817,709	-1.71%	0.46%
2018	2,707,203	25,931,147	-1.74%	0.44%
2019	2,664,224	26,037,632	-1.59%	0.41%
2020	2,635,130	26,136,312	-1.09%	0.38%
2021	2,595,809	26,232,534	-1.49%	0.37%
2022	2,528,654	26,328,845	-2.59%	0.37%
2023	2,457,783	26,418,204	-2.8%	0.34%
2024	2,402,306	26,498,823	-2.26%	0.31%
2025	2,371,543	26,571,033	-1.28%	0.27%
2026	2,343,963	26,633,682	-1.16%	0.24%
2027	2,321,110	26,686,492	-0.97%	0.2%
2028	2,298,239	26,729,261	-0.99%	0.16%
2029	2,275,251	26,762,008	-1%	0.12%
2030	2,252,131	26,784,894	-1.02%	0.09%
2031	2,229,191	26,797,946	-1.02%	0.05%
2032	2,206,559	26,801,071	-1.02%	0.01%
2033	2,183,929	26,795,061	-1.03%	-0.02%
2034	2,161,282	26,780,481	-1.04%	-0.05%
2035	2,138,754	26,757,705	-1.04%	-0.09%
2036	2,116,659	26,727,309	-1.03%	-0.11%
2037	2,095,127	26,689,907	-1.02%	-0.14%
2038	2,074,054	26,646,323	-1.01%	-0.16%
2039	2,053,352	26,596,967	-1%	-0.19%
2040	2,033,323	26,542,417	-0.98%	-0.21%
2041	2,014,222	26,483,475	-0.94%	-0.22%
2042	1,995,750	26,420,812	-0.92%	-0.24%
2043	1,977,688	26,354,324	-0.9%	-0.25%
2044	1,960,241	26,284,000	-0.88%	-0.27%
2045	1,943,187	26,210,196	-0.87%	-0.28%
2046	1,926,432	26,132,922	-0.86%	-0.29%
2047	1,910,142	26,052,086	-0.85%	-0.31%
2048	1,894,069	25,967,581	-0.84%	-0.32%
2049	1,877,822	25,879,244	-0.86%	-0.34%
2050	1,861,554	25,787,120	-0.87%	-0.36%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Moldova decreased by 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline), while North Korea gained 1,173,819 people (a 4.79% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Moldova lost -459,223 (a 16.4% decline), while North Korea's population increased by 935,933 (a 3.64% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2006 and is 144th in 2026. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2006 and ranked 56th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Moldova's population will shrink by 20.6% to 1,861,554 people with a rank change from 144th to 150th. The population of North Korea will decrease by 3.18% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.