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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Spain	Moldova	Spain
1960	2,058,020	30,455,000	-	-
1961	2,103,327	30,739,250	2.2%	0.93%
1962	2,147,227	31,023,366	2.09%	0.92%
1963	2,188,895	31,296,651	1.94%	0.88%
1964	2,228,000	31,609,195	1.79%	1%
1965	2,265,287	31,954,292	1.67%	1.09%
1966	2,301,871	32,283,194	1.61%	1.03%
1967	2,337,695	32,682,947	1.56%	1.24%
1968	2,373,073	33,113,134	1.51%	1.32%
1969	2,408,469	33,441,054	1.49%	0.99%
1970	2,437,590	33,814,531	1.21%	1.12%
1971	2,460,611	34,224,490	0.94%	1.21%
1972	2,484,742	34,604,469	0.98%	1.11%
1973	2,510,584	34,988,947	1.04%	1.11%
1974	2,538,164	35,373,335	1.1%	1.1%
1975	2,566,998	35,757,900	1.14%	1.09%
1976	2,596,491	36,137,812	1.15%	1.06%
1977	2,626,298	36,511,638	1.15%	1.03%
1978	2,656,211	36,864,898	1.14%	0.97%
1979	2,683,035	37,191,330	1.01%	0.89%
1980	2,708,675	37,491,165	0.96%	0.81%
1981	2,735,987	37,758,631	1.01%	0.71%
1982	2,763,101	37,986,012	0.99%	0.6%
1983	2,791,207	38,171,525	1.02%	0.49%
1984	2,820,518	38,330,364	1.05%	0.42%
1985	2,850,787	38,469,512	1.07%	0.36%
1986	2,883,057	38,584,624	1.13%	0.3%
1987	2,916,306	38,684,815	1.15%	0.26%
1988	2,948,891	38,766,939	1.12%	0.21%
1989	2,970,039	38,827,764	0.72%	0.16%
1990	2,977,912	38,867,322	0.27%	0.1%
1991	2,981,566	38,966,376	0.12%	0.25%
1992	2,980,965	39,157,685	-0.02%	0.49%
1993	2,975,966	39,361,262	-0.17%	0.52%
1994	2,966,745	39,549,108	-0.31%	0.48%
1995	2,953,200	39,724,050	-0.46%	0.44%
1996	2,947,293	39,889,852	-0.2%	0.42%
1997	2,936,413	40,057,389	-0.37%	0.42%
1998	2,935,227	40,223,509	-0.04%	0.41%
1999	2,930,622	40,386,875	-0.16%	0.41%
2000	2,924,668	40,567,864	-0.2%	0.45%
2001	2,918,135	40,850,412	-0.22%	0.7%
2002	2,911,385	41,431,558	-0.23%	1.42%
2003	2,903,198	42,187,645	-0.28%	1.82%
2004	2,896,023	42,921,895	-0.25%	1.74%
2005	2,888,985	43,653,155	-0.24%	1.7%
2006	2,880,967	44,397,319	-0.28%	1.7%
2007	2,874,299	45,226,803	-0.23%	1.87%
2008	2,868,833	45,954,106	-0.19%	1.61%
2009	2,865,213	46,362,946	-0.13%	0.89%
2010	2,862,354	46,576,897	-0.1%	0.46%
2011	2,860,699	46,742,697	-0.06%	0.36%
2012	2,860,324	46,773,055	-0.01%	0.06%
2013	2,859,558	46,604,197	-0.03%	-0.36%
2014	2,857,815	46,460,733	-0.06%	-0.31%
2015	2,835,978	46,422,303	-0.76%	-0.08%
2016	2,803,186	46,458,139	-1.16%	0.08%
2017	2,755,189	46,571,232	-1.71%	0.24%
2018	2,707,203	46,782,011	-1.74%	0.45%
2019	2,664,224	47,118,501	-1.59%	0.72%
2020	2,635,130	47,359,424	-1.09%	0.51%
2021	2,595,809	47,443,821	-1.49%	0.18%
2022	2,528,654	47,786,102	-2.59%	0.72%
2023	2,457,783	48,352,528	-2.8%	1.19%
2024	2,402,306	48,848,840	-2.26%	1.03%
2025	2,371,543	48,827,866	-1.28%	-0.04%
2026	2,343,963	48,787,930	-1.16%	-0.08%
2027	2,321,110	48,738,456	-0.97%	-0.1%
2028	2,298,239	48,683,694	-0.99%	-0.11%
2029	2,275,251	48,619,674	-1%	-0.13%
2030	2,252,131	48,542,955	-1.02%	-0.16%
2031	2,229,191	48,454,221	-1.02%	-0.18%
2032	2,206,559	48,362,482	-1.02%	-0.19%
2033	2,183,929	48,271,264	-1.03%	-0.19%
2034	2,161,282	48,177,551	-1.04%	-0.19%
2035	2,138,754	48,077,695	-1.04%	-0.21%
2036	2,116,659	47,970,911	-1.03%	-0.22%
2037	2,095,127	47,860,116	-1.02%	-0.23%
2038	2,074,054	47,747,343	-1.01%	-0.24%
2039	2,053,352	47,629,540	-1%	-0.25%
2040	2,033,323	47,504,152	-0.98%	-0.26%
2041	2,014,222	47,373,061	-0.94%	-0.28%
2042	1,995,750	47,234,914	-0.92%	-0.29%
2043	1,977,688	47,092,497	-0.9%	-0.3%
2044	1,960,241	46,942,712	-0.88%	-0.32%
2045	1,943,187	46,778,501	-0.87%	-0.35%
2046	1,926,432	46,604,170	-0.86%	-0.37%
2047	1,910,142	46,421,312	-0.85%	-0.39%
2048	1,894,069	46,230,109	-0.84%	-0.41%
2049	1,877,822	46,024,720	-0.86%	-0.44%
2050	1,861,554	45,808,469	-0.87%	-0.47%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Moldova decreased by 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline), while Spain gained 2,060,820 people (a 4.64% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Moldova lost -459,223 (a 16.4% decline), while Spain's population increased by 2,329,791 (a 5.01% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2006 and is 144th in 2026. Spain was ranked 28th in 2006 and ranked 32nd 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 Spain will decrease by 6.11% to 45,808,469 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.