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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Moldova was 2,389,275 in 2024 vs 68,560,157 people in Tanzania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Moldova's population is 2,358,679 people compared to 72,166,806 in Tanzania.

Population statistics:

  • Tanzania's population is 30.6 times bigger than Moldova's.
  • Moldova is ranked the 145th most populous country in the world, while Tanzania is the 20th.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.03% for Moldova vs 0.87% for Tanzania.
  • For the last 10 years, Moldova has had an average growth rate of -1.62% per year vs +3.13% in Tanzania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Moldova has decreased from 2.89M people to 2.36M (18.4% decline), while Tanzania has grown from 39.2M to 72.2M (84.2% growth).
  • Tanzania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 263M people, while Moldova's population already peaked in 1991 at 2.98M people and is projected to decrease to 1.17M people by 2100.

Moldova vs Tanzania: live population counter

Moldova Tanzania
Current population
2358679
72166806
Population rank 145/197 20/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.87%
One net population change
7.67 minutes
16.2 seconds
One birth every
19.9 minutes
13.4 seconds
One death every
15.7 minutes
1.36 minutes
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
17.6 minutes
Annual migration change -27,088 -29,865
Daily growth/decline -188 +5,322
Annual growth/decline -68,508 +1,942,551
Annual growth/decline rate -2.79% +2.92%
Population growth rate rank 196/197 19/197

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

Moldova
Population

Growth rate
Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Moldova Tanzania Moldova Tanzania
1960 2,058,020 9,901,419 - -
1961 2,103,327 10,187,886 2.2% 2.89%
1962 2,147,227 10,487,756 2.09% 2.94%
1963 2,188,895 10,799,528 1.94% 2.97%
1964 2,228,000 11,127,826 1.79% 3.04%
1965 2,265,287 11,470,728 1.67% 3.08%
1966 2,301,871 11,827,459 1.61% 3.11%
1967 2,337,695 12,200,109 1.56% 3.15%
1968 2,373,073 12,602,076 1.51% 3.29%
1969 2,408,469 13,036,700 1.49% 3.45%
1970 2,437,590 13,492,677 1.21% 3.5%
1971 2,460,611 13,971,451 0.94% 3.55%
1972 2,484,742 14,479,308 0.98% 3.63%
1973 2,510,584 15,010,101 1.04% 3.67%
1974 2,538,164 15,561,630 1.1% 3.67%
1975 2,566,998 16,138,361 1.14% 3.71%
1976 2,596,491 16,736,211 1.15% 3.7%
1977 2,626,298 17,352,929 1.15% 3.68%
1978 2,656,211 17,976,566 1.14% 3.59%
1979 2,683,035 18,592,038 1.01% 3.42%
1980 2,708,675 19,189,769 0.96% 3.21%
1981 2,735,987 19,784,703 1.01% 3.1%
1982 2,763,101 20,398,571 0.99% 3.1%
1983 2,791,207 21,079,874 1.02% 3.34%
1984 2,820,518 21,779,066 1.05% 3.32%
1985 2,850,787 22,501,693 1.07% 3.32%
1986 2,883,057 23,258,959 1.13% 3.37%
1987 2,916,306 24,030,378 1.15% 3.32%
1988 2,948,891 24,769,686 1.12% 3.08%
1989 2,970,039 25,438,759 0.72% 2.7%
1990 2,977,912 26,110,207 0.27% 2.64%
1991 2,981,566 26,780,436 0.12% 2.57%
1992 2,980,965 27,457,588 -0.02% 2.53%
1993 2,975,966 28,332,692 -0.17% 3.19%
1994 2,966,745 29,442,356 -0.31% 3.92%
1995 2,953,200 30,383,497 -0.46% 3.2%
1996 2,947,293 30,945,762 -0.2% 1.85%
1997 2,936,413 31,578,089 -0.37% 2.04%
1998 2,935,227 32,420,458 -0.04% 2.67%
1999 2,930,622 33,300,330 -0.16% 2.71%
2000 2,924,668 34,260,139 -0.2% 2.88%
2001 2,918,135 35,198,299 -0.22% 2.74%
2002 2,911,385 36,121,304 -0.23% 2.62%
2003 2,903,198 37,089,555 -0.28% 2.68%
2004 2,896,023 38,109,668 -0.25% 2.75%
2005 2,888,985 39,182,076 -0.24% 2.81%
2006 2,880,967 40,294,902 -0.28% 2.84%
2007 2,874,299 41,435,512 -0.23% 2.83%
2008 2,868,833 42,570,728 -0.19% 2.74%
2009 2,865,213 43,633,982 -0.13% 2.5%
2010 2,862,354 44,758,488 -0.1% 2.58%
2011 2,860,699 46,029,367 -0.06% 2.84%
2012 2,860,324 47,374,260 -0.01% 2.92%
2013 2,859,558 48,824,128 -0.03% 3.06%
2014 2,857,815 50,351,512 -0.06% 3.13%
2015 2,835,978 52,020,962 -0.76% 3.32%
2016 2,803,186 53,824,013 -1.16% 3.47%
2017 2,755,189 55,652,890 -1.71% 3.4%
2018 2,707,203 57,437,145 -1.74% 3.21%
2019 2,664,224 59,174,891 -1.59% 3.03%
2020 2,635,130 60,972,798 -1.09% 3.04%
2021 2,595,809 62,830,412 -1.49% 3.05%
2022 2,528,654 64,711,821 -2.59% 2.99%
2023 2,457,783 66,617,606 -2.8% 2.95%
2024 2,389,275 68,560,157 -2.79% 2.92%
2025 2,358,679 70,545,858 -1.28% 2.9%
2026 2,331,249 72,563,773 -1.16% 2.86%
2027 2,308,519 74,604,804 -0.97% 2.81%
2028 2,285,773 76,670,483 -0.99% 2.77%
2029 2,262,909 78,773,192 -1% 2.74%
2030 2,239,915 80,913,118 -1.02% 2.72%
2031 2,217,099 83,087,927 -1.02% 2.69%
2032 2,194,590 85,293,126 -1.02% 2.65%
2033 2,172,083 87,520,491 -1.03% 2.61%
2034 2,149,558 89,788,673 -1.04% 2.59%
2035 2,127,153 92,091,418 -1.04% 2.56%
2036 2,105,178 94,420,808 -1.03% 2.53%
2037 2,083,762 96,775,766 -1.02% 2.49%
2038 2,062,803 99,156,465 -1.01% 2.46%
2039 2,042,214 101,567,525 -1% 2.43%
2040 2,022,294 103,999,350 -0.98% 2.39%
2041 2,003,296 106,448,475 -0.94% 2.35%
2042 1,984,924 108,926,272 -0.92% 2.33%
2043 1,966,961 111,433,788 -0.9% 2.3%
2044 1,949,608 113,966,263 -0.88% 2.27%
2045 1,932,647 116,525,463 -0.87% 2.25%
2046 1,915,982 119,109,670 -0.86% 2.22%
2047 1,899,781 121,721,018 -0.85% 2.19%
2048 1,883,795 124,351,294 -0.84% 2.16%
2049 1,867,636 126,981,394 -0.86% 2.12%
2050 1,851,456 129,621,083 -0.87% 2.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Tanzania gained 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Tanzania's population increased by 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Tanzania was ranked 31st in 2005 and ranked 20th 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 Tanzania will increase by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people and rank change from 20th to 15th.

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