Population in Moldova compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Moldova and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Papua New Guinea	Moldova	Papua New Guinea
1960	2,058,020	1,995,110	-	-
1961	2,103,327	2,046,127	2.2%	2.56%
1962	2,147,227	2,093,919	2.09%	2.34%
1963	2,188,895	2,141,376	1.94%	2.27%
1964	2,228,000	2,188,325	1.79%	2.19%
1965	2,265,287	2,235,820	1.67%	2.17%
1966	2,301,871	2,285,774	1.61%	2.23%
1967	2,337,695	2,337,532	1.56%	2.26%
1968	2,373,073	2,390,803	1.51%	2.28%
1969	2,408,469	2,446,927	1.49%	2.35%
1970	2,437,590	2,505,628	1.21%	2.4%
1971	2,460,611	2,566,421	0.94%	2.43%
1972	2,484,742	2,628,432	0.98%	2.42%
1973	2,510,584	2,690,629	1.04%	2.37%
1974	2,538,164	2,752,671	1.1%	2.31%
1975	2,566,998	2,814,820	1.14%	2.26%
1976	2,596,491	2,877,327	1.15%	2.22%
1977	2,626,298	2,940,327	1.15%	2.19%
1978	2,656,211	3,003,714	1.14%	2.16%
1979	2,683,035	3,067,341	1.01%	2.12%
1980	2,708,675	3,131,512	0.96%	2.09%
1981	2,735,987	3,197,019	1.01%	2.09%
1982	2,763,101	3,264,291	0.99%	2.1%
1983	2,791,207	3,333,633	1.02%	2.12%
1984	2,820,518	3,405,198	1.05%	2.15%
1985	2,850,787	3,478,936	1.07%	2.17%
1986	2,883,057	3,554,793	1.13%	2.18%
1987	2,916,306	3,632,543	1.15%	2.19%
1988	2,948,891	3,711,880	1.12%	2.18%
1989	2,970,039	3,796,078	0.72%	2.27%
1990	2,977,912	3,896,481	0.27%	2.64%
1991	2,981,566	4,021,837	0.12%	3.22%
1992	2,980,965	4,166,699	-0.02%	3.6%
1993	2,975,966	4,320,872	-0.17%	3.7%
1994	2,966,745	4,480,208	-0.31%	3.69%
1995	2,953,200	4,644,278	-0.46%	3.66%
1996	2,947,293	4,813,361	-0.2%	3.64%
1997	2,936,413	4,987,883	-0.37%	3.63%
1998	2,935,227	5,166,390	-0.04%	3.58%
1999	2,930,622	5,349,333	-0.16%	3.54%
2000	2,924,668	5,537,064	-0.2%	3.51%
2001	2,918,135	5,728,435	-0.22%	3.46%
2002	2,911,385	5,924,003	-0.23%	3.41%
2003	2,903,198	6,123,997	-0.28%	3.38%
2004	2,896,023	6,328,041	-0.25%	3.33%
2005	2,888,985	6,535,905	-0.24%	3.28%
2006	2,880,967	6,747,720	-0.28%	3.24%
2007	2,874,299	6,963,345	-0.23%	3.2%
2008	2,868,833	7,183,002	-0.19%	3.15%
2009	2,865,213	7,406,438	-0.13%	3.11%
2010	2,862,354	7,633,523	-0.1%	3.07%
2011	2,860,699	7,859,346	-0.06%	2.96%
2012	2,860,324	8,081,390	-0.01%	2.83%
2013	2,859,558	8,302,698	-0.03%	2.74%
2014	2,857,815	8,523,441	-0.06%	2.66%
2015	2,835,978	8,743,246	-0.76%	2.58%
2016	2,803,186	8,961,718	-1.16%	2.5%
2017	2,755,189	9,178,714	-1.71%	2.42%
2018	2,707,203	9,394,513	-1.74%	2.35%
2019	2,664,224	9,609,010	-1.59%	2.28%
2020	2,635,130	9,815,746	-1.09%	2.15%
2021	2,595,809	10,012,896	-1.49%	2.01%
2022	2,528,654	10,203,169	-2.59%	1.9%
2023	2,457,783	10,389,635	-2.8%	1.83%
2024	2,402,306	10,576,502	-2.26%	1.8%
2025	2,371,543	10,762,813	-1.28%	1.76%
2026	2,343,963	10,947,845	-1.16%	1.72%
2027	2,321,110	11,131,268	-0.97%	1.68%
2028	2,298,239	11,312,895	-0.99%	1.63%
2029	2,275,251	11,492,799	-1%	1.59%
2030	2,252,131	11,671,420	-1.02%	1.55%
2031	2,229,191	11,848,221	-1.02%	1.51%
2032	2,206,559	12,023,121	-1.02%	1.48%
2033	2,183,929	12,196,639	-1.03%	1.44%
2034	2,161,282	12,369,248	-1.04%	1.42%
2035	2,138,754	12,540,596	-1.04%	1.39%
2036	2,116,659	12,710,682	-1.03%	1.36%
2037	2,095,127	12,879,737	-1.02%	1.33%
2038	2,074,054	13,047,122	-1.01%	1.3%
2039	2,053,352	13,212,668	-1%	1.27%
2040	2,033,323	13,376,156	-0.98%	1.24%
2041	2,014,222	13,537,361	-0.94%	1.21%
2042	1,995,750	13,696,139	-0.92%	1.17%
2043	1,977,688	13,853,410	-0.9%	1.15%
2044	1,960,241	14,009,926	-0.88%	1.13%
2045	1,943,187	14,165,578	-0.87%	1.11%
2046	1,926,432	14,318,889	-0.86%	1.08%
2047	1,910,142	14,469,210	-0.85%	1.05%
2048	1,894,069	14,617,364	-0.84%	1.02%
2049	1,877,822	14,763,600	-0.86%	1%
2050	1,861,554	14,906,584	-0.87%	0.97%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Moldova decreased by 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,213,998 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Moldova lost -459,223 (a 16.4% decline), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 1,988,131 (a 22.2% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2006 and is 144th in 2026. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2006 and ranked 89th 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 Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.1% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 89th to 85th.