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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Moldova was 2,389,275 in 2024 vs 100,987,686 people in Vietnam in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Moldova's population is 2,358,679 people compared to 102,063,551 in Vietnam.

Population statistics:

  • Vietnam's population is 43.3 times bigger than Moldova's.
  • Moldova is ranked the 145th most populous country in the world, while Vietnam is the 16th.
  • The countries together account for 1.26% of the world: 0.03% for Moldova vs 1.23% for Vietnam.
  • For the last 10 years, Moldova has had an average growth rate of -1.62% per year vs +0.99% in Vietnam.
  • Since 2005, the population of Moldova has decreased from 2.89M people to 2.36M (18.4% decline), while Vietnam has grown from 81.1M to 102M (25.9% growth).
  • Vietnam is projected to reach its peak in 2049 at 110M 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 Vietnam: live population counter

Moldova Vietnam
Current population
2358679
102063551
Population rank 145/197 16/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 1.23%
One net population change
7.67 minutes
49.6 seconds
One birth every
19.9 minutes
22.7 seconds
One death every
15.7 minutes
47.8 seconds
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
8.81 minutes
Annual migration change -27,088 -59,645
Daily growth/decline -188 +1,741
Annual growth/decline -68,508 +635,494
Annual growth/decline rate -2.79% +0.63%
Population growth rate rank 196/197 124/197

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

Moldova
Population

Growth rate
Vietnam
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Moldova Vietnam Moldova Vietnam
1960 2,058,020 32,531,933 - -
1961 2,103,327 33,409,059 2.2% 2.7%
1962 2,147,227 34,288,560 2.09% 2.63%
1963 2,188,895 35,249,101 1.94% 2.8%
1964 2,228,000 36,201,563 1.79% 2.7%
1965 2,265,287 37,129,656 1.67% 2.56%
1966 2,301,871 38,024,836 1.61% 2.41%
1967 2,337,695 38,895,080 1.56% 2.29%
1968 2,373,073 39,734,609 1.51% 2.16%
1969 2,408,469 40,582,096 1.49% 2.13%
1970 2,437,590 41,475,230 1.21% 2.2%
1971 2,460,611 42,449,276 0.94% 2.35%
1972 2,484,742 43,429,168 0.98% 2.31%
1973 2,510,584 44,409,861 1.04% 2.26%
1974 2,538,164 45,413,537 1.1% 2.26%
1975 2,566,998 46,482,903 1.14% 2.35%
1976 2,596,491 47,684,931 1.15% 2.59%
1977 2,626,298 48,954,872 1.15% 2.66%
1978 2,656,211 50,249,552 1.14% 2.64%
1979 2,683,035 51,378,211 1.01% 2.25%
1980 2,708,675 52,490,101 0.96% 2.16%
1981 2,735,987 53,738,141 1.01% 2.38%
1982 2,763,101 55,011,289 0.99% 2.37%
1983 2,791,207 56,337,921 1.02% 2.41%
1984 2,820,518 57,706,067 1.05% 2.43%
1985 2,850,787 59,060,622 1.07% 2.35%
1986 2,883,057 60,347,048 1.13% 2.18%
1987 2,916,306 61,584,651 1.15% 2.05%
1988 2,948,891 62,843,228 1.12% 2.04%
1989 2,970,039 64,147,348 0.72% 2.08%
1990 2,977,912 65,504,552 0.27% 2.12%
1991 2,981,566 66,891,775 0.12% 2.12%
1992 2,980,965 68,260,337 -0.02% 2.05%
1993 2,975,966 69,586,384 -0.17% 1.94%
1994 2,966,745 70,854,391 -0.31% 1.82%
1995 2,953,200 72,049,940 -0.46% 1.69%
1996 2,947,293 73,156,447 -0.2% 1.54%
1997 2,936,413 74,226,889 -0.37% 1.46%
1998 2,935,227 75,299,660 -0.04% 1.45%
1999 2,930,622 76,287,452 -0.16% 1.31%
2000 2,924,668 77,154,011 -0.2% 1.14%
2001 2,918,135 77,969,361 -0.22% 1.06%
2002 2,911,385 78,772,224 -0.23% 1.03%
2003 2,903,198 79,563,777 -0.28% 1%
2004 2,896,023 80,338,971 -0.25% 0.97%
2005 2,888,985 81,088,313 -0.24% 0.93%
2006 2,880,967 82,167,897 -0.28% 1.33%
2007 2,874,299 83,633,375 -0.23% 1.78%
2008 2,868,833 85,175,788 -0.19% 1.84%
2009 2,865,213 86,460,018 -0.13% 1.51%
2010 2,862,354 87,455,152 -0.1% 1.15%
2011 2,860,699 88,468,314 -0.06% 1.16%
2012 2,860,324 89,510,356 -0.01% 1.18%
2013 2,859,558 90,573,104 -0.03% 1.19%
2014 2,857,815 91,679,578 -0.06% 1.22%
2015 2,835,978 92,823,254 -0.76% 1.25%
2016 2,803,186 94,000,117 -1.16% 1.27%
2017 2,755,189 95,176,977 -1.71% 1.25%
2018 2,707,203 96,237,319 -1.74% 1.11%
2019 2,664,224 97,173,776 -1.59% 0.97%
2020 2,635,130 98,079,191 -1.09% 0.93%
2021 2,595,809 98,935,098 -1.49% 0.87%
2022 2,528,654 99,680,655 -2.59% 0.75%
2023 2,457,783 100,352,192 -2.8% 0.67%
2024 2,389,275 100,987,686 -2.79% 0.63%
2025 2,358,679 101,598,531 -1.28% 0.6%
2026 2,331,249 102,177,434 -1.16% 0.57%
2027 2,308,519 102,727,392 -0.97% 0.54%
2028 2,285,773 103,255,746 -0.99% 0.51%
2029 2,262,909 103,761,151 -1% 0.49%
2030 2,239,915 104,254,900 -1.02% 0.48%
2031 2,217,099 104,737,913 -1.02% 0.46%
2032 2,194,590 105,204,401 -1.02% 0.45%
2033 2,172,083 105,656,307 -1.03% 0.43%
2034 2,149,558 106,097,515 -1.04% 0.42%
2035 2,127,153 106,530,671 -1.04% 0.41%
2036 2,105,178 106,945,842 -1.03% 0.39%
2037 2,083,762 107,346,046 -1.02% 0.37%
2038 2,062,803 107,732,019 -1.01% 0.36%
2039 2,042,214 108,097,653 -1% 0.34%
2040 2,022,294 108,437,634 -0.98% 0.31%
2041 2,003,296 108,752,199 -0.94% 0.29%
2042 1,984,924 109,040,314 -0.92% 0.26%
2043 1,966,961 109,292,559 -0.9% 0.23%
2044 1,949,608 109,506,274 -0.88% 0.2%
2045 1,932,647 109,685,396 -0.87% 0.16%
2046 1,915,982 109,827,664 -0.86% 0.13%
2047 1,899,781 109,930,243 -0.85% 0.09%
2048 1,883,795 109,994,024 -0.84% 0.06%
2049 1,867,636 110,018,017 -0.86% 0.02%
2050 1,851,456 110,008,910 -0.87% -0.008%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Vietnam gained 11,734,941 people (a 14.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Vietnam's population increased by 9,240,297 (a 9.95% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Vietnam was ranked 15th in 2005 and ranked 16th 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 Vietnam will increase by 7.78% to 110,008,910 people and will still be ranked 16th.

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