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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Ukraine	Moldova	Ukraine
1960	2,058,020	42,824,093	-	-
1961	2,103,327	43,399,766	2.2%	1.34%
1962	2,147,227	43,943,674	2.09%	1.25%
1963	2,188,895	44,462,372	1.94%	1.18%
1964	2,228,000	44,951,156	1.79%	1.1%
1965	2,265,287	45,386,892	1.67%	0.97%
1966	2,301,871	45,802,519	1.61%	0.92%
1967	2,337,695	46,215,988	1.56%	0.9%
1968	2,373,073	46,614,325	1.51%	0.86%
1969	2,408,469	46,976,256	1.49%	0.78%
1970	2,437,590	47,261,306	1.21%	0.61%
1971	2,460,611	47,573,287	0.94%	0.66%
1972	2,484,742	47,946,893	0.98%	0.79%
1973	2,510,584	48,277,121	1.04%	0.69%
1974	2,538,164	48,576,570	1.1%	0.62%
1975	2,566,998	48,865,229	1.14%	0.59%
1976	2,596,491	49,120,842	1.15%	0.52%
1977	2,626,298	49,336,481	1.15%	0.44%
1978	2,656,211	49,521,243	1.14%	0.37%
1979	2,683,035	49,721,381	1.01%	0.4%
1980	2,708,675	49,955,152	0.96%	0.47%
1981	2,735,987	50,189,281	1.01%	0.47%
1982	2,763,101	50,402,724	0.99%	0.43%
1983	2,791,207	50,637,029	1.02%	0.46%
1984	2,820,518	50,887,599	1.05%	0.49%
1985	2,850,787	51,108,770	1.07%	0.43%
1986	2,883,057	51,318,745	1.13%	0.41%
1987	2,916,306	51,515,732	1.15%	0.38%
1988	2,948,891	51,724,853	1.12%	0.41%
1989	2,970,039	51,917,817	0.72%	0.37%
1990	2,977,912	52,054,092	0.27%	0.26%
1991	2,981,566	52,170,961	0.12%	0.22%
1992	2,980,965	52,323,671	-0.02%	0.29%
1993	2,975,966	52,350,126	-0.17%	0.05%
1994	2,966,745	52,075,998	-0.31%	-0.52%
1995	2,953,200	51,665,539	-0.46%	-0.79%
1996	2,947,293	51,226,109	-0.2%	-0.85%
1997	2,936,413	50,786,885	-0.37%	-0.86%
1998	2,935,227	50,379,731	-0.04%	-0.8%
1999	2,930,622	49,976,446	-0.16%	-0.8%
2000	2,924,668	49,556,660	-0.2%	-0.84%
2001	2,918,135	49,106,855	-0.22%	-0.91%
2002	2,911,385	48,677,281	-0.23%	-0.87%
2003	2,903,198	48,315,136	-0.28%	-0.74%
2004	2,896,023	47,979,507	-0.25%	-0.69%
2005	2,888,985	47,585,556	-0.24%	-0.82%
2006	2,880,967	47,278,694	-0.28%	-0.64%
2007	2,874,299	47,062,798	-0.23%	-0.46%
2008	2,868,833	46,819,175	-0.19%	-0.52%
2009	2,865,213	46,623,731	-0.13%	-0.42%
2010	2,862,354	46,456,003	-0.1%	-0.36%
2011	2,860,699	46,307,853	-0.06%	-0.32%
2012	2,860,324	46,210,056	-0.01%	-0.21%
2013	2,859,558	46,126,770	-0.03%	-0.18%
2014	2,857,815	45,972,380	-0.06%	-0.33%
2015	2,835,978	45,784,896	-0.76%	-0.41%
2016	2,803,186	45,616,832	-1.16%	-0.37%
2017	2,755,189	45,436,041	-1.71%	-0.4%
2018	2,707,203	45,208,907	-1.74%	-0.5%
2019	2,664,224	44,957,458	-1.59%	-0.56%
2020	2,635,130	44,680,014	-1.09%	-0.62%
2021	2,595,809	44,298,640	-1.49%	-0.85%
2022	2,528,654	41,048,766	-2.59%	-7.34%
2023	2,457,783	37,732,836	-2.8%	-8.08%
2024	2,402,306	37,860,221	-2.26%	0.34%
2025	2,371,543	38,980,379	-1.28%	2.96%
2026	2,343,963	39,535,850	-1.16%	1.43%
2027	2,321,110	39,245,208	-0.97%	-0.74%
2028	2,298,239	38,952,086	-0.99%	-0.75%
2029	2,275,251	38,654,416	-1%	-0.76%
2030	2,252,131	38,353,848	-1.02%	-0.78%
2031	2,229,191	38,050,624	-1.02%	-0.79%
2032	2,206,559	37,746,688	-1.02%	-0.8%
2033	2,183,929	37,442,088	-1.03%	-0.81%
2034	2,161,282	37,135,839	-1.04%	-0.82%
2035	2,138,754	36,828,149	-1.04%	-0.83%
2036	2,116,659	36,519,767	-1.03%	-0.84%
2037	2,095,127	36,209,679	-1.02%	-0.85%
2038	2,074,054	35,897,705	-1.01%	-0.86%
2039	2,053,352	35,584,263	-1%	-0.87%
2040	2,033,323	35,270,911	-0.98%	-0.88%
2041	2,014,222	34,957,580	-0.94%	-0.89%
2042	1,995,750	34,641,778	-0.92%	-0.9%
2043	1,977,688	34,324,132	-0.9%	-0.92%
2044	1,960,241	34,004,074	-0.88%	-0.93%
2045	1,943,187	33,680,448	-0.87%	-0.95%
2046	1,926,432	33,351,499	-0.86%	-0.98%
2047	1,910,142	33,017,828	-0.85%	-1%
2048	1,894,069	32,680,968	-0.84%	-1.02%
2049	1,877,822	32,338,515	-0.86%	-1.05%
2050	1,861,554	31,990,136	-0.87%	-1.08%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Moldova decreased by 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,661,862 people (a 3.52% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Moldova lost -459,223 (a 16.4% decline), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,080,982 (a 13.3% decline).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2006 and is 144th in 2026. Ukraine was ranked 27th in 2006 and ranked 40th 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 Ukraine will decrease by 19.1% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.