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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Syria	Moldova	Syria
1960	2,058,020	4,673,500	-	-
1961	2,103,327	4,815,466	2.2%	3.04%
1962	2,147,227	4,959,340	2.09%	2.99%
1963	2,188,895	5,110,467	1.94%	3.05%
1964	2,228,000	5,269,087	1.79%	3.1%
1965	2,265,287	5,435,267	1.67%	3.15%
1966	2,301,871	5,609,047	1.61%	3.2%
1967	2,337,695	5,790,198	1.56%	3.23%
1968	2,373,073	5,978,742	1.51%	3.26%
1969	2,408,469	6,175,166	1.49%	3.29%
1970	2,437,590	6,380,609	1.21%	3.33%
1971	2,460,611	6,598,094	0.94%	3.41%
1972	2,484,742	6,826,024	0.98%	3.45%
1973	2,510,584	7,060,321	1.04%	3.43%
1974	2,538,164	7,302,160	1.1%	3.43%
1975	2,566,998	7,554,364	1.14%	3.45%
1976	2,596,491	7,817,320	1.15%	3.48%
1977	2,626,298	8,090,501	1.15%	3.49%
1978	2,656,211	8,372,759	1.14%	3.49%
1979	2,683,035	8,661,909	1.01%	3.45%
1980	2,708,675	8,957,663	0.96%	3.41%
1981	2,735,987	9,260,189	1.01%	3.38%
1982	2,763,101	9,572,511	0.99%	3.37%
1983	2,791,207	9,904,809	1.02%	3.47%
1984	2,820,518	10,258,398	1.05%	3.57%
1985	2,850,787	10,625,672	1.07%	3.58%
1986	2,883,057	11,002,844	1.13%	3.55%
1987	2,916,306	11,388,923	1.15%	3.51%
1988	2,948,891	11,782,264	1.12%	3.45%
1989	2,970,039	12,179,060	0.72%	3.37%
1990	2,977,912	12,579,208	0.27%	3.29%
1991	2,981,566	12,980,821	0.12%	3.19%
1992	2,980,965	13,385,571	-0.02%	3.12%
1993	2,975,966	13,795,686	-0.17%	3.06%
1994	2,966,745	14,208,583	-0.31%	2.99%
1995	2,953,200	14,616,801	-0.46%	2.87%
1996	2,947,293	15,018,104	-0.2%	2.75%
1997	2,936,413	15,417,542	-0.37%	2.66%
1998	2,935,227	15,820,413	-0.04%	2.61%
1999	2,930,622	16,228,061	-0.16%	2.58%
2000	2,924,668	16,637,888	-0.2%	2.53%
2001	2,918,135	17,051,338	-0.22%	2.48%
2002	2,911,385	17,468,332	-0.23%	2.45%
2003	2,903,198	17,889,296	-0.28%	2.41%
2004	2,896,023	18,336,875	-0.25%	2.5%
2005	2,888,985	18,814,091	-0.24%	2.6%
2006	2,880,967	19,637,022	-0.28%	4.37%
2007	2,874,299	20,884,125	-0.23%	6.35%
2008	2,868,833	21,636,564	-0.19%	3.6%
2009	2,865,213	21,976,969	-0.13%	1.57%
2010	2,862,354	22,482,421	-0.1%	2.3%
2011	2,860,699	22,878,098	-0.06%	1.76%
2012	2,860,324	22,759,763	-0.01%	-0.52%
2013	2,859,558	21,666,917	-0.03%	-4.8%
2014	2,857,815	20,273,659	-0.06%	-6.43%
2015	2,835,978	19,424,618	-0.76%	-4.19%
2016	2,803,186	19,193,834	-1.16%	-1.19%
2017	2,755,189	19,224,668	-1.71%	0.16%
2018	2,707,203	19,577,845	-1.74%	1.84%
2019	2,664,224	20,353,534	-1.59%	3.96%
2020	2,635,130	21,049,429	-1.09%	3.42%
2021	2,595,809	21,628,839	-1.49%	2.75%
2022	2,528,654	22,462,173	-2.59%	3.85%
2023	2,457,783	23,594,623	-2.8%	5.04%
2024	2,389,275	24,672,760	-2.79%	4.57%
2025	2,358,679	25,620,422	-1.28%	3.84%
2026	2,331,249	26,472,499	-1.16%	3.33%
2027	2,308,519	27,261,544	-0.97%	2.98%
2028	2,285,773	28,006,558	-0.99%	2.73%
2029	2,262,909	28,719,309	-1%	2.54%
2030	2,239,915	29,395,545	-1.02%	2.35%
2031	2,217,099	30,029,824	-1.02%	2.16%
2032	2,194,590	30,633,661	-1.02%	2.01%
2033	2,172,083	31,212,478	-1.03%	1.89%
2034	2,149,558	31,768,138	-1.04%	1.78%
2035	2,127,153	32,294,792	-1.04%	1.66%
2036	2,105,178	32,788,153	-1.03%	1.53%
2037	2,083,762	33,258,407	-1.02%	1.43%
2038	2,062,803	33,710,718	-1.01%	1.36%
2039	2,042,214	34,131,238	-1%	1.25%
2040	2,022,294	34,533,185	-0.98%	1.18%
2041	2,003,296	34,916,936	-0.94%	1.11%
2042	1,984,924	35,279,863	-0.92%	1.04%
2043	1,966,961	35,623,325	-0.9%	0.97%
2044	1,949,608	35,944,394	-0.88%	0.9%
2045	1,932,647	36,265,295	-0.87%	0.89%
2046	1,915,982	36,583,260	-0.86%	0.88%
2047	1,899,781	36,878,640	-0.85%	0.81%
2048	1,883,795	37,171,029	-0.84%	0.79%
2049	1,867,636	37,477,690	-0.86%	0.83%
2050	1,851,456	37,793,378	-0.87%	0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.