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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Turkey	Moldova	Turkey
1960	2,058,020	28,329,898	-	-
1961	2,103,327	29,119,238	2.2%	2.79%
1962	2,147,227	29,916,147	2.09%	2.74%
1963	2,188,895	30,726,841	1.94%	2.71%
1964	2,228,000	31,543,072	1.79%	2.66%
1965	2,265,287	32,345,220	1.67%	2.54%
1966	2,301,871	33,177,672	1.61%	2.57%
1967	2,337,695	34,050,421	1.56%	2.63%
1968	2,373,073	34,921,684	1.51%	2.56%
1969	2,408,469	35,787,774	1.49%	2.48%
1970	2,437,590	36,638,465	1.21%	2.38%
1971	2,460,611	37,518,611	0.94%	2.4%
1972	2,484,742	38,430,221	0.98%	2.43%
1973	2,510,584	39,329,533	1.04%	2.34%
1974	2,538,164	40,210,234	1.1%	2.24%
1975	2,566,998	41,053,126	1.14%	2.1%
1976	2,596,491	41,899,984	1.15%	2.06%
1977	2,626,298	42,773,298	1.15%	2.08%
1978	2,656,211	43,645,306	1.14%	2.04%
1979	2,683,035	44,510,429	1.01%	1.98%
1980	2,708,675	45,408,815	0.96%	2.02%
1981	2,735,987	46,321,190	1.01%	2.01%
1982	2,763,101	47,322,096	0.99%	2.16%
1983	2,791,207	48,447,410	1.02%	2.38%
1984	2,820,518	49,574,069	1.05%	2.33%
1985	2,850,787	50,687,115	1.07%	2.25%
1986	2,883,057	51,777,772	1.13%	2.15%
1987	2,916,306	52,843,670	1.15%	2.06%
1988	2,948,891	53,909,626	1.12%	2.02%
1989	2,970,039	54,976,723	0.72%	1.98%
1990	2,977,912	56,015,628	0.27%	1.89%
1991	2,981,566	57,009,887	0.12%	1.77%
1992	2,980,965	57,990,118	-0.02%	1.72%
1993	2,975,966	58,999,167	-0.17%	1.74%
1994	2,966,745	60,033,836	-0.31%	1.75%
1995	2,953,200	61,024,503	-0.46%	1.65%
1996	2,947,293	61,951,134	-0.2%	1.52%
1997	2,936,413	62,852,966	-0.37%	1.46%
1998	2,935,227	63,734,383	-0.04%	1.4%
1999	2,930,622	64,591,923	-0.16%	1.35%
2000	2,924,668	65,425,961	-0.2%	1.29%
2001	2,918,135	66,245,128	-0.22%	1.25%
2002	2,911,385	67,048,795	-0.23%	1.21%
2003	2,903,198	67,831,730	-0.28%	1.17%
2004	2,896,023	68,592,617	-0.25%	1.12%
2005	2,888,985	69,329,557	-0.24%	1.07%
2006	2,880,967	70,045,349	-0.28%	1.03%
2007	2,874,299	70,158,112	-0.23%	0.16%
2008	2,868,833	71,051,678	-0.19%	1.27%
2009	2,865,213	72,039,206	-0.13%	1.39%
2010	2,862,354	73,142,150	-0.1%	1.53%
2011	2,860,699	74,223,629	-0.06%	1.48%
2012	2,860,324	75,175,827	-0.01%	1.28%
2013	2,859,558	76,147,624	-0.03%	1.29%
2014	2,857,815	77,181,884	-0.06%	1.36%
2015	2,835,978	78,218,479	-0.76%	1.34%
2016	2,803,186	79,277,962	-1.16%	1.35%
2017	2,755,189	80,312,698	-1.71%	1.31%
2018	2,707,203	81,407,204	-1.74%	1.36%
2019	2,664,224	82,579,440	-1.59%	1.44%
2020	2,635,130	83,384,680	-1.09%	0.98%
2021	2,595,809	84,147,318	-1.49%	0.91%
2022	2,528,654	84,979,913	-2.59%	0.99%
2023	2,457,783	85,325,965	-2.8%	0.41%
2024	2,389,275	85,518,661	-2.79%	0.23%
2025	2,358,679	85,725,557	-1.28%	0.24%
2026	2,331,249	85,960,835	-1.16%	0.27%
2027	2,308,519	86,227,115	-0.97%	0.31%
2028	2,285,773	86,502,744	-0.99%	0.32%
2029	2,262,909	86,771,652	-1%	0.31%
2030	2,239,915	87,037,680	-1.02%	0.31%
2031	2,217,099	87,297,191	-1.02%	0.3%
2032	2,194,590	87,537,075	-1.02%	0.27%
2033	2,172,083	87,762,403	-1.03%	0.26%
2034	2,149,558	87,974,138	-1.04%	0.24%
2035	2,127,153	88,172,739	-1.04%	0.23%
2036	2,105,178	88,364,318	-1.03%	0.22%
2037	2,083,762	88,545,669	-1.02%	0.21%
2038	2,062,803	88,707,268	-1.01%	0.18%
2039	2,042,214	88,849,956	-1%	0.16%
2040	2,022,294	88,975,510	-0.98%	0.14%
2041	2,003,296	89,083,304	-0.94%	0.12%
2042	1,984,924	89,177,769	-0.92%	0.11%
2043	1,966,961	89,254,147	-0.9%	0.09%
2044	1,949,608	89,311,458	-0.88%	0.06%
2045	1,932,647	89,349,806	-0.87%	0.04%
2046	1,915,982	89,375,429	-0.86%	0.03%
2047	1,899,781	89,383,765	-0.85%	0.009%
2048	1,883,795	89,361,174	-0.84%	-0.03%
2049	1,867,636	89,306,566	-0.86%	-0.06%
2050	1,851,456	89,218,346	-0.87%	-0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.