Population in Moldova compared to South Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Moldova and South Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	South Korea	Moldova	South Korea
1960	2,058,020	25,012,374	-	-
1961	2,103,327	25,765,673	2.2%	3.01%
1962	2,147,227	26,513,030	2.09%	2.9%
1963	2,188,895	27,261,747	1.94%	2.82%
1964	2,228,000	27,984,155	1.79%	2.65%
1965	2,265,287	28,704,674	1.67%	2.57%
1966	2,301,871	29,435,571	1.61%	2.55%
1967	2,337,695	30,130,983	1.56%	2.36%
1968	2,373,073	30,838,302	1.51%	2.35%
1969	2,408,469	31,544,266	1.49%	2.29%
1970	2,437,590	32,240,827	1.21%	2.21%
1971	2,460,611	32,882,704	0.94%	1.99%
1972	2,484,742	33,505,406	0.98%	1.89%
1973	2,510,584	34,103,149	1.04%	1.78%
1974	2,538,164	34,692,266	1.1%	1.73%
1975	2,566,998	35,280,725	1.14%	1.7%
1976	2,596,491	35,848,523	1.15%	1.61%
1977	2,626,298	36,411,795	1.15%	1.57%
1978	2,656,211	36,969,185	1.14%	1.53%
1979	2,683,035	37,534,236	1.01%	1.53%
1980	2,708,675	38,123,775	0.96%	1.57%
1981	2,735,987	38,723,248	1.01%	1.57%
1982	2,763,101	39,326,352	0.99%	1.56%
1983	2,791,207	39,910,403	1.02%	1.49%
1984	2,820,518	40,405,956	1.05%	1.24%
1985	2,850,787	40,805,744	1.07%	0.99%
1986	2,883,057	41,213,674	1.13%	1%
1987	2,916,306	41,621,690	1.15%	0.99%
1988	2,948,891	42,031,247	1.12%	0.98%
1989	2,970,039	42,449,038	0.72%	0.99%
1990	2,977,912	42,869,283	0.27%	0.99%
1991	2,981,566	43,295,704	0.12%	0.99%
1992	2,980,965	43,747,962	-0.02%	1.04%
1993	2,975,966	44,194,628	-0.17%	1.02%
1994	2,966,745	44,641,540	-0.31%	1.01%
1995	2,953,200	45,092,991	-0.46%	1.01%
1996	2,947,293	45,524,681	-0.2%	0.96%
1997	2,936,413	45,953,580	-0.37%	0.94%
1998	2,935,227	46,286,503	-0.04%	0.72%
1999	2,930,622	46,616,677	-0.16%	0.71%
2000	2,924,668	47,008,111	-0.2%	0.84%
2001	2,918,135	47,370,164	-0.22%	0.77%
2002	2,911,385	47,644,736	-0.23%	0.58%
2003	2,903,198	47,892,330	-0.28%	0.52%
2004	2,896,023	48,082,519	-0.25%	0.4%
2005	2,888,985	48,184,561	-0.24%	0.21%
2006	2,880,967	48,438,292	-0.28%	0.53%
2007	2,874,299	48,683,638	-0.23%	0.51%
2008	2,868,833	49,054,708	-0.19%	0.76%
2009	2,865,213	49,307,835	-0.13%	0.52%
2010	2,862,354	49,554,112	-0.1%	0.5%
2011	2,860,699	49,936,638	-0.06%	0.77%
2012	2,860,324	50,199,853	-0.01%	0.53%
2013	2,859,558	50,428,893	-0.03%	0.46%
2014	2,857,815	50,746,659	-0.06%	0.63%
2015	2,835,978	51,014,947	-0.76%	0.53%
2016	2,803,186	51,217,803	-1.16%	0.4%
2017	2,755,189	51,361,911	-1.71%	0.28%
2018	2,707,203	51,585,058	-1.74%	0.43%
2019	2,664,224	51,764,822	-1.59%	0.35%
2020	2,635,130	51,836,239	-1.09%	0.14%
2021	2,595,809	51,769,539	-1.49%	-0.13%
2022	2,528,654	51,672,569	-2.59%	-0.19%
2023	2,457,783	51,712,619	-2.8%	0.08%
2024	2,389,275	51,751,065	-2.79%	0.07%
2025	2,358,679	51,700,480	-1.28%	-0.1%
2026	2,331,249	51,633,793	-1.16%	-0.13%
2027	2,308,519	51,552,198	-0.97%	-0.16%
2028	2,285,773	51,456,707	-0.99%	-0.19%
2029	2,262,909	51,347,230	-1%	-0.21%
2030	2,239,915	51,221,713	-1.02%	-0.24%
2031	2,217,099	51,081,220	-1.02%	-0.27%
2032	2,194,590	50,924,233	-1.02%	-0.31%
2033	2,172,083	50,747,132	-1.03%	-0.35%
2034	2,149,558	50,549,508	-1.04%	-0.39%
2035	2,127,153	50,333,286	-1.04%	-0.43%
2036	2,105,178	50,098,951	-1.03%	-0.47%
2037	2,083,762	49,845,669	-1.02%	-0.51%
2038	2,062,803	49,573,234	-1.01%	-0.55%
2039	2,042,214	49,283,770	-1%	-0.58%
2040	2,022,294	48,980,369	-0.98%	-0.62%
2041	2,003,296	48,661,905	-0.94%	-0.65%
2042	1,984,924	48,331,004	-0.92%	-0.68%
2043	1,966,961	47,990,085	-0.9%	-0.71%
2044	1,949,608	47,634,183	-0.88%	-0.74%
2045	1,932,647	47,263,526	-0.87%	-0.78%
2046	1,915,982	46,881,228	-0.86%	-0.81%
2047	1,899,781	46,482,133	-0.85%	-0.85%
2048	1,883,795	46,063,595	-0.84%	-0.9%
2049	1,867,636	45,626,805	-0.86%	-0.95%
2050	1,851,456	45,172,356	-0.87%	-1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.