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	2,402,306	19,009,151	-2.26%	3.54%
2025	2,371,543	19,654,737	-1.28%	3.4%
2026	2,343,963	20,305,905	-1.16%	3.31%
2027	2,321,110	20,959,056	-0.97%	3.22%
2028	2,298,239	21,601,810	-0.99%	3.07%
2029	2,275,251	22,247,714	-1%	2.99%
2030	2,252,131	22,915,042	-1.02%	3%
2031	2,229,191	23,589,793	-1.02%	2.94%
2032	2,206,559	24,258,789	-1.02%	2.84%
2033	2,183,929	24,921,830	-1.03%	2.73%
2034	2,161,282	25,593,666	-1.04%	2.7%
2035	2,138,754	26,294,943	-1.04%	2.74%
2036	2,116,659	27,009,199	-1.03%	2.72%
2037	2,095,127	27,731,170	-1.02%	2.67%
2038	2,074,054	28,455,755	-1.01%	2.61%
2039	2,053,352	29,167,897	-1%	2.5%
2040	2,033,323	29,896,286	-0.98%	2.5%
2041	2,014,222	30,635,956	-0.94%	2.47%
2042	1,995,750	31,350,028	-0.92%	2.33%
2043	1,977,688	32,057,980	-0.9%	2.26%
2044	1,960,241	32,780,417	-0.88%	2.25%
2045	1,943,187	33,510,163	-0.87%	2.23%
2046	1,926,432	34,248,030	-0.86%	2.2%
2047	1,910,142	34,996,366	-0.85%	2.19%
2048	1,894,069	35,743,960	-0.84%	2.14%
2049	1,877,822	36,474,683	-0.86%	2.04%
2050	1,861,554	37,206,497	-0.87%	2.01%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Moldova decreased by 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline), while Somalia gained 3,373,238 people (a 30.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Moldova lost -459,223 (a 16.4% decline), while Somalia's population increased by 5,964,303 (a 41.6% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2006 and is 144th in 2026. Somalia was ranked 75th in 2006 and ranked 66th 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 Somalia will increase by 83.2% to 37,206,497 people and rank change from 66th to 57th.