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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Serbia	Moldova	Serbia
1960	2,058,020	6,638,992	-	-
1961	2,103,327	6,689,077	2.2%	0.75%
1962	2,147,227	6,740,264	2.09%	0.77%
1963	2,188,895	6,787,950	1.94%	0.71%
1964	2,228,000	6,832,855	1.79%	0.66%
1965	2,265,287	6,876,624	1.67%	0.64%
1966	2,301,871	6,927,969	1.61%	0.75%
1967	2,337,695	6,966,522	1.56%	0.56%
1968	2,373,073	7,007,586	1.51%	0.59%
1969	2,408,469	7,123,249	1.49%	1.65%
1970	2,437,590	7,164,993	1.21%	0.59%
1971	2,460,611	7,211,716	0.94%	0.65%
1972	2,484,742	7,252,012	0.98%	0.56%
1973	2,510,584	7,283,902	1.04%	0.44%
1974	2,538,164	7,326,043	1.1%	0.58%
1975	2,566,998	7,368,717	1.14%	0.58%
1976	2,596,491	7,418,973	1.15%	0.68%
1977	2,626,298	7,462,783	1.15%	0.59%
1978	2,656,211	7,504,017	1.14%	0.55%
1979	2,683,035	7,541,997	1.01%	0.51%
1980	2,708,675	7,709,544	0.96%	2.22%
1981	2,735,987	7,736,787	1.01%	0.35%
1982	2,763,101	7,763,335	0.99%	0.34%
1983	2,791,207	7,788,100	1.02%	0.32%
1984	2,820,518	7,813,549	1.05%	0.33%
1985	2,850,787	7,835,902	1.07%	0.29%
1986	2,883,057	7,853,824	1.13%	0.23%
1987	2,916,306	7,868,027	1.15%	0.18%
1988	2,948,891	7,884,218	1.12%	0.21%
1989	2,970,039	7,893,787	0.72%	0.12%
1990	2,977,912	7,897,937	0.27%	0.05%
1991	2,981,566	7,595,636	0.12%	-3.83%
1992	2,980,965	7,604,063	-0.02%	0.11%
1993	2,975,966	7,614,328	-0.17%	0.13%
1994	2,966,745	7,622,711	-0.31%	0.11%
1995	2,953,200	7,628,264	-0.46%	0.07%
1996	2,947,293	7,622,185	-0.2%	-0.08%
1997	2,936,413	7,598,538	-0.37%	-0.31%
1998	2,935,227	7,567,745	-0.04%	-0.41%
1999	2,930,622	7,540,401	-0.16%	-0.36%
2000	2,924,668	7,516,346	-0.2%	-0.32%
2001	2,918,135	7,503,433	-0.22%	-0.17%
2002	2,911,385	7,500,031	-0.23%	-0.05%
2003	2,903,198	7,480,591	-0.28%	-0.26%
2004	2,896,023	7,463,157	-0.25%	-0.23%
2005	2,888,985	7,440,769	-0.24%	-0.3%
2006	2,880,967	7,411,569	-0.28%	-0.39%
2007	2,874,299	7,381,579	-0.23%	-0.4%
2008	2,868,833	7,350,222	-0.19%	-0.42%
2009	2,865,213	7,320,807	-0.13%	-0.4%
2010	2,862,354	7,291,436	-0.1%	-0.4%
2011	2,860,699	7,236,519	-0.06%	-0.75%
2012	2,860,324	7,201,497	-0.01%	-0.48%
2013	2,859,558	7,166,553	-0.03%	-0.49%
2014	2,857,815	7,131,787	-0.06%	-0.49%
2015	2,835,978	7,095,383	-0.76%	-0.51%
2016	2,803,186	7,058,322	-1.16%	-0.52%
2017	2,755,189	7,020,858	-1.71%	-0.53%
2018	2,707,203	6,982,604	-1.74%	-0.54%
2019	2,664,224	6,945,235	-1.59%	-0.54%
2020	2,635,130	6,899,126	-1.09%	-0.66%
2021	2,595,809	6,834,326	-1.49%	-0.94%
2022	2,528,654	6,664,449	-2.59%	-2.49%
2023	2,457,783	6,623,183	-2.8%	-0.62%
2024	2,389,275	6,587,202	-2.79%	-0.54%
2025	2,358,679	6,541,064	-1.28%	-0.7%
2026	2,331,249	6,495,033	-1.16%	-0.7%
2027	2,308,519	6,451,587	-0.97%	-0.67%
2028	2,285,773	6,407,523	-0.99%	-0.68%
2029	2,262,909	6,363,135	-1%	-0.69%
2030	2,239,915	6,318,273	-1.02%	-0.71%
2031	2,217,099	6,272,974	-1.02%	-0.72%
2032	2,194,590	6,227,395	-1.02%	-0.73%
2033	2,172,083	6,181,396	-1.03%	-0.74%
2034	2,149,558	6,135,163	-1.04%	-0.75%
2035	2,127,153	6,088,832	-1.04%	-0.76%
2036	2,105,178	6,042,364	-1.03%	-0.76%
2037	2,083,762	5,995,710	-1.02%	-0.77%
2038	2,062,803	5,948,872	-1.01%	-0.78%
2039	2,042,214	5,901,891	-1%	-0.79%
2040	2,022,294	5,855,009	-0.98%	-0.79%
2041	2,003,296	5,808,317	-0.94%	-0.8%
2042	1,984,924	5,761,829	-0.92%	-0.8%
2043	1,966,961	5,715,931	-0.9%	-0.8%
2044	1,949,608	5,670,687	-0.88%	-0.79%
2045	1,932,647	5,625,991	-0.87%	-0.79%
2046	1,915,982	5,581,867	-0.86%	-0.78%
2047	1,899,781	5,538,323	-0.85%	-0.78%
2048	1,883,795	5,495,303	-0.84%	-0.78%
2049	1,867,636	5,452,676	-0.86%	-0.78%
2050	1,851,456	5,410,466	-0.87%	-0.77%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Serbia lost 345,386 people (a 4.64% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Serbia's population decreased by -554,319 (a 7.81% decline).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Serbia was ranked 96th in 2005 and ranked 110th 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 Serbia will decrease by 17.3% to 5,410,466 people and rank change from 110th to 125th.