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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Somalia	Moldova	Somalia
1960	2,058,020	2,876,331	-	-
1961	2,103,327	2,952,054	2.2%	2.63%
1962	2,147,227	3,030,091	2.09%	2.64%
1963	2,188,895	3,110,361	1.94%	2.65%
1964	2,228,000	3,192,796	1.79%	2.65%
1965	2,265,287	3,277,874	1.67%	2.66%
1966	2,301,871	3,365,106	1.61%	2.66%
1967	2,337,695	3,454,537	1.56%	2.66%
1968	2,373,073	3,546,590	1.51%	2.66%
1969	2,408,469	3,641,015	1.49%	2.66%
1970	2,437,590	3,738,448	1.21%	2.68%
1971	2,460,611	3,837,691	0.94%	2.65%
1972	2,484,742	3,939,436	0.98%	2.65%
1973	2,510,584	4,045,592	1.04%	2.69%
1974	2,538,164	4,151,842	1.1%	2.63%
1975	2,566,998	4,257,535	1.14%	2.55%
1976	2,596,491	4,365,812	1.15%	2.54%
1977	2,626,298	4,484,050	1.15%	2.71%
1978	2,656,211	4,814,892	1.14%	7.38%
1979	2,683,035	5,449,117	1.01%	13.2%
1980	2,708,675	5,936,154	0.96%	8.94%
1981	2,735,987	5,982,849	1.01%	0.79%
1982	2,763,101	6,003,840	0.99%	0.35%
1983	2,791,207	6,198,430	1.02%	3.24%
1984	2,820,518	6,428,389	1.05%	3.71%
1985	2,850,787	6,693,289	1.07%	4.12%
1986	2,883,057	6,974,788	1.13%	4.21%
1987	2,916,306	7,228,302	1.15%	3.63%
1988	2,948,891	7,235,360	1.12%	0.1%
1989	2,970,039	7,114,817	0.72%	-1.67%
1990	2,977,912	7,082,811	0.27%	-0.45%
1991	2,981,566	6,813,760	0.12%	-3.8%
1992	2,980,965	6,495,107	-0.02%	-4.68%
1993	2,975,966	6,681,399	-0.17%	2.87%
1994	2,966,745	7,026,797	-0.31%	5.17%
1995	2,953,200	7,285,007	-0.46%	3.67%
1996	2,947,293	7,554,474	-0.2%	3.7%
1997	2,936,413	7,824,525	-0.37%	3.57%
1998	2,935,227	8,155,417	-0.04%	4.23%
1999	2,930,622	8,492,059	-0.16%	4.13%
2000	2,924,668	8,838,713	-0.2%	4.08%
2001	2,918,135	9,198,493	-0.22%	4.07%
2002	2,911,385	9,550,063	-0.23%	3.82%
2003	2,903,198	9,909,157	-0.28%	3.76%
2004	2,896,023	10,280,998	-0.25%	3.75%
2005	2,888,985	10,644,228	-0.24%	3.53%
2006	2,880,967	10,975,502	-0.28%	3.11%
2007	2,874,299	11,322,582	-0.23%	3.16%
2008	2,868,833	11,663,084	-0.19%	3.01%
2009	2,865,213	11,961,201	-0.13%	2.56%
2010	2,862,354	12,261,756	-0.1%	2.51%
2011	2,860,699	12,348,830	-0.06%	0.71%
2012	2,860,324	12,461,160	-0.01%	0.91%
2013	2,859,558	12,869,594	-0.03%	3.28%
2014	2,857,815	13,339,491	-0.06%	3.65%
2015	2,835,978	13,806,963	-0.76%	3.5%
2016	2,803,186	14,348,740	-1.16%	3.92%
2017	2,755,189	14,916,629	-1.71%	3.96%
2018	2,707,203	15,452,487	-1.74%	3.59%
2019	2,664,224	16,030,971	-1.59%	3.74%
2020	2,635,130	16,651,191	-1.09%	3.87%
2021	2,595,809	17,271,431	-1.49%	3.72%
2022	2,528,654	17,801,897	-2.59%	3.07%
2023	2,457,783	18,358,615	-2.8%	3.13%
2024	2,389,275	19,009,151	-2.79%	3.54%
2025	2,358,679	19,654,737	-1.28%	3.4%
2026	2,331,249	20,305,905	-1.16%	3.31%
2027	2,308,519	20,959,056	-0.97%	3.22%
2028	2,285,773	21,601,810	-0.99%	3.07%
2029	2,262,909	22,247,714	-1%	2.99%
2030	2,239,915	22,915,042	-1.02%	3%
2031	2,217,099	23,589,793	-1.02%	2.94%
2032	2,194,590	24,258,789	-1.02%	2.84%
2033	2,172,083	24,921,830	-1.03%	2.73%
2034	2,149,558	25,593,666	-1.04%	2.7%
2035	2,127,153	26,294,943	-1.04%	2.74%
2036	2,105,178	27,009,199	-1.03%	2.72%
2037	2,083,762	27,731,170	-1.02%	2.67%
2038	2,062,803	28,455,755	-1.01%	2.61%
2039	2,042,214	29,167,897	-1%	2.5%
2040	2,022,294	29,896,286	-0.98%	2.5%
2041	2,003,296	30,635,956	-0.94%	2.47%
2042	1,984,924	31,350,028	-0.92%	2.33%
2043	1,966,961	32,057,980	-0.9%	2.26%
2044	1,949,608	32,780,417	-0.88%	2.25%
2045	1,932,647	33,510,163	-0.87%	2.23%
2046	1,915,982	34,248,030	-0.86%	2.2%
2047	1,899,781	34,996,366	-0.85%	2.19%
2048	1,883,795	35,743,960	-0.84%	2.14%
2049	1,867,636	36,474,683	-0.86%	2.04%
2050	1,851,456	37,206,497	-0.87%	2.01%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Somalia gained 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Somalia's population increased by 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Somalia was ranked 75th in 2005 and ranked 66th 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 Somalia will increase by 84.4% to 37,206,497 people and rank change from 66th to 57th.