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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Moldova was 2,389,275 in 2024 vs 34,217,848 people in Peru in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Moldova's population is 2,358,679 people compared to 34,854,181 in Peru.

Population statistics:

  • Peru's population is 14.8 times bigger than Moldova's.
  • Moldova is ranked the 145th most populous country in the world, while Peru is the 48th.
  • The countries together account for 0.45% of the world: 0.03% for Moldova vs 0.42% for Peru.
  • For the last 10 years, Moldova has had an average growth rate of -1.62% per year vs +1.26% in Peru.
  • Since 2005, the population of Moldova has decreased from 2.89M people to 2.36M (18.4% decline), while Peru has grown from 28.1M to 34.9M (24% growth).
  • Peru is projected to reach its peak in 2066 at 41.7M people, while Moldova's population already peaked in 1991 at 2.98M people and is projected to decrease to 1.17M people by 2100.

Moldova vs Peru: live population counter

Moldova Peru
Current population
2358679
34854181
Population rank 145/197 48/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.42%
One net population change
7.67 minutes
1.41 minutes
One birth every
19.9 minutes
58.4 seconds
One death every
15.7 minutes
2.83 minutes
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
28.6 minutes
Annual migration change -27,088 +18,406
Daily growth/decline -188 +1,020
Annual growth/decline -68,508 +372,231
Annual growth/decline rate -2.79% +1.1%
Population growth rate rank 196/197 97/197

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

Moldova
Population

Growth rate
Peru
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Moldova Peru Moldova Peru
1960 2,058,020 10,174,127 - -
1961 2,103,327 10,475,123 2.2% 2.96%
1962 2,147,227 10,784,612 2.09% 2.95%
1963 2,188,895 11,102,099 1.94% 2.94%
1964 2,228,000 11,427,978 1.79% 2.94%
1965 2,265,287 11,761,085 1.67% 2.91%
1966 2,301,871 12,101,297 1.61% 2.89%
1967 2,337,695 12,448,814 1.56% 2.87%
1968 2,373,073 12,803,993 1.51% 2.85%
1969 2,408,469 13,166,767 1.49% 2.83%
1970 2,437,590 13,501,237 1.21% 2.54%
1971 2,460,611 13,838,067 0.94% 2.49%
1972 2,484,742 14,210,147 0.98% 2.69%
1973 2,510,584 14,582,867 1.04% 2.62%
1974 2,538,164 14,956,552 1.1% 2.56%
1975 2,566,998 15,333,957 1.14% 2.52%
1976 2,596,491 15,716,809 1.15% 2.5%
1977 2,626,298 16,109,806 1.15% 2.5%
1978 2,656,211 16,516,059 1.14% 2.52%
1979 2,683,035 16,933,139 1.01% 2.53%
1980 2,708,675 17,360,949 0.96% 2.53%
1981 2,735,987 17,798,805 1.01% 2.52%
1982 2,763,101 18,246,503 0.99% 2.52%
1983 2,791,207 18,705,957 1.02% 2.52%
1984 2,820,518 19,174,716 1.05% 2.51%
1985 2,850,787 19,648,204 1.07% 2.47%
1986 2,883,057 20,117,122 1.13% 2.39%
1987 2,916,306 20,582,320 1.15% 2.31%
1988 2,948,891 21,054,702 1.12% 2.3%
1989 2,970,039 21,532,589 0.72% 2.27%
1990 2,977,912 22,014,771 0.27% 2.24%
1991 2,981,566 22,483,775 0.12% 2.13%
1992 2,980,965 22,946,340 -0.02% 2.06%
1993 2,975,966 23,413,783 -0.17% 2.04%
1994 2,966,745 23,881,493 -0.31% 2%
1995 2,953,200 24,348,919 -0.46% 1.96%
1996 2,947,293 24,811,171 -0.2% 1.9%
1997 2,936,413 25,274,147 -0.37% 1.87%
1998 2,935,227 25,738,095 -0.04% 1.84%
1999 2,930,622 26,186,504 -0.16% 1.74%
2000 2,924,668 26,598,331 -0.2% 1.57%
2001 2,918,135 26,964,601 -0.22% 1.38%
2002 2,911,385 27,288,217 -0.23% 1.2%
2003 2,903,198 27,580,490 -0.28% 1.07%
2004 2,896,023 27,852,190 -0.25% 0.99%
2005 2,888,985 28,101,180 -0.24% 0.89%
2006 2,880,967 28,324,491 -0.28% 0.79%
2007 2,874,299 28,530,699 -0.23% 0.73%
2008 2,868,833 28,719,041 -0.19% 0.66%
2009 2,865,213 28,896,811 -0.13% 0.62%
2010 2,862,354 29,086,019 -0.1% 0.65%
2011 2,860,699 29,304,086 -0.06% 0.75%
2012 2,860,324 29,550,366 -0.01% 0.84%
2013 2,859,558 29,817,919 -0.03% 0.91%
2014 2,857,815 30,115,826 -0.06% 1%
2015 2,835,978 30,457,600 -0.76% 1.13%
2016 2,803,186 30,866,494 -1.16% 1.34%
2017 2,755,189 31,324,637 -1.71% 1.48%
2018 2,707,203 31,897,584 -1.74% 1.83%
2019 2,664,224 32,449,303 -1.59% 1.73%
2020 2,635,130 32,838,579 -1.09% 1.2%
2021 2,595,809 33,155,882 -1.49% 0.97%
2022 2,528,654 33,475,438 -2.59% 0.96%
2023 2,457,783 33,845,617 -2.8% 1.11%
2024 2,389,275 34,217,848 -2.79% 1.1%
2025 2,358,679 34,576,670 -1.28% 1.05%
2026 2,331,249 34,922,144 -1.16% 1%
2027 2,308,519 35,255,683 -0.97% 0.96%
2028 2,285,773 35,578,281 -0.99% 0.92%
2029 2,262,909 35,890,705 -1% 0.88%
2030 2,239,915 36,193,882 -1.02% 0.84%
2031 2,217,099 36,488,437 -1.02% 0.81%
2032 2,194,590 36,774,937 -1.02% 0.79%
2033 2,172,083 37,054,380 -1.03% 0.76%
2034 2,149,558 37,326,798 -1.04% 0.74%
2035 2,127,153 37,591,420 -1.04% 0.71%
2036 2,105,178 37,848,147 -1.03% 0.68%
2037 2,083,762 38,096,898 -1.02% 0.66%
2038 2,062,803 38,337,328 -1.01% 0.63%
2039 2,042,214 38,569,891 -1% 0.61%
2040 2,022,294 38,794,647 -0.98% 0.58%
2041 2,003,296 39,011,537 -0.94% 0.56%
2042 1,984,924 39,220,371 -0.92% 0.54%
2043 1,966,961 39,420,647 -0.9% 0.51%
2044 1,949,608 39,612,847 -0.88% 0.49%
2045 1,932,647 39,796,723 -0.87% 0.46%
2046 1,915,982 39,971,719 -0.86% 0.44%
2047 1,899,781 40,137,869 -0.85% 0.42%
2048 1,883,795 40,294,857 -0.84% 0.39%
2049 1,867,636 40,443,273 -0.86% 0.37%
2050 1,851,456 40,583,875 -0.87% 0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Peru gained 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Peru's population increased by 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Peru was ranked 39th in 2005 and ranked 48th 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 Peru will increase by 16.4% to 40,583,875 people and rank change from 48th to 51st.

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