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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Moldova was 2,389,275 in 2024 vs 40,583,164 people in Yemen in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Moldova's population is 2,358,679 people compared to 42,727,988 in Yemen.

Population statistics:

  • Yemen's population is 18.1 times bigger than Moldova's.
  • Moldova is ranked the 145th most populous country in the world, while Yemen is the 37th.
  • The countries together account for 0.55% of the world: 0.03% for Moldova vs 0.52% for Yemen.
  • For the last 10 years, Moldova has had an average growth rate of -1.62% per year vs +3% in Yemen.
  • Since 2005, the population of Moldova has decreased from 2.89M people to 2.36M (18.4% decline), while Yemen has grown from 22.8M to 42.7M (87.5% growth).
  • Yemen is projected to reach its peak in 2100 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 Yemen: live population counter

Moldova Yemen
Current population
2358679
42727988
Population rank 145/197 37/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.52%
One net population change
7.67 minutes
26.4 seconds
One birth every
19.9 minutes
22.7 seconds
One death every
15.7 minutes
2.78 minutes
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
50.1 minutes
Annual migration change -27,088 -10,482
Daily growth/decline -188 +3,267
Annual growth/decline -68,508 +1,192,365
Annual growth/decline rate -2.79% +3.03%
Population growth rate rank 196/197 14/197

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

Moldova
Population

Growth rate
Yemen
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Moldova Yemen Moldova Yemen
1960 2,058,020 5,532,301 - -
1961 2,103,327 5,655,232 2.2% 2.22%
1962 2,147,227 5,782,221 2.09% 2.25%
1963 2,188,895 5,911,135 1.94% 2.23%
1964 2,228,000 6,048,006 1.79% 2.32%
1965 2,265,287 6,195,593 1.67% 2.44%
1966 2,301,871 6,351,494 1.61% 2.52%
1967 2,337,695 6,516,444 1.56% 2.6%
1968 2,373,073 6,690,524 1.51% 2.67%
1969 2,408,469 6,875,859 1.49% 2.77%
1970 2,437,590 7,065,279 1.21% 2.75%
1971 2,460,611 7,257,462 0.94% 2.72%
1972 2,484,742 7,460,068 0.98% 2.79%
1973 2,510,584 7,672,796 1.04% 2.85%
1974 2,538,164 7,896,783 1.1% 2.92%
1975 2,566,998 8,133,598 1.14% 3%
1976 2,596,491 8,384,113 1.15% 3.08%
1977 2,626,298 8,648,222 1.15% 3.15%
1978 2,656,211 8,926,586 1.14% 3.22%
1979 2,683,035 9,224,194 1.01% 3.33%
1980 2,708,675 9,543,358 0.96% 3.46%
1981 2,735,987 9,882,362 1.01% 3.55%
1982 2,763,101 10,241,006 0.99% 3.63%
1983 2,791,207 10,621,499 1.02% 3.72%
1984 2,820,518 11,025,597 1.05% 3.8%
1985 2,850,787 11,453,825 1.07% 3.88%
1986 2,883,057 11,901,040 1.13% 3.9%
1987 2,916,306 12,369,912 1.15% 3.94%
1988 2,948,891 12,859,708 1.12% 3.96%
1989 2,970,039 13,364,174 0.72% 3.92%
1990 2,977,912 13,887,862 0.27% 3.92%
1991 2,981,566 14,430,201 0.12% 3.91%
1992 2,980,965 14,989,494 -0.02% 3.88%
1993 2,975,966 15,563,914 -0.17% 3.83%
1994 2,966,745 16,149,147 -0.31% 3.76%
1995 2,953,200 16,740,058 -0.46% 3.66%
1996 2,947,293 17,313,177 -0.2% 3.42%
1997 2,936,413 17,873,936 -0.37% 3.24%
1998 2,935,227 18,446,013 -0.04% 3.2%
1999 2,930,622 19,029,420 -0.16% 3.16%
2000 2,924,668 19,624,141 -0.2% 3.13%
2001 2,918,135 20,226,147 -0.22% 3.07%
2002 2,911,385 20,835,086 -0.23% 3.01%
2003 2,903,198 21,456,379 -0.28% 2.98%
2004 2,896,023 22,095,167 -0.25% 2.98%
2005 2,888,985 22,790,085 -0.24% 3.15%
2006 2,880,967 23,543,083 -0.28% 3.3%
2007 2,874,299 24,318,082 -0.23% 3.29%
2008 2,868,833 25,111,941 -0.19% 3.26%
2009 2,865,213 25,927,724 -0.13% 3.25%
2010 2,862,354 26,754,387 -0.1% 3.19%
2011 2,860,699 27,582,897 -0.06% 3.1%
2012 2,860,324 28,433,647 -0.01% 3.08%
2013 2,859,558 29,312,952 -0.03% 3.09%
2014 2,857,815 30,226,309 -0.06% 3.12%
2015 2,835,978 31,159,379 -0.76% 3.09%
2016 2,803,186 32,109,010 -1.16% 3.05%
2017 2,755,189 33,090,921 -1.71% 3.06%
2018 2,707,203 34,085,182 -1.74% 3%
2019 2,664,224 35,111,408 -1.59% 3.01%
2020 2,635,130 36,134,863 -1.09% 2.91%
2021 2,595,809 37,140,230 -1.49% 2.78%
2022 2,528,654 38,222,876 -2.59% 2.92%
2023 2,457,783 39,390,799 -2.8% 3.06%
2024 2,389,275 40,583,164 -2.79% 3.03%
2025 2,358,679 41,773,871 -1.28% 2.93%
2026 2,331,249 42,961,650 -1.16% 2.84%
2027 2,308,519 44,145,620 -0.97% 2.76%
2028 2,285,773 45,323,685 -0.99% 2.67%
2029 2,262,909 46,497,573 -1% 2.59%
2030 2,239,915 47,667,649 -1.02% 2.52%
2031 2,217,099 48,827,503 -1.02% 2.43%
2032 2,194,590 49,979,089 -1.02% 2.36%
2033 2,172,083 51,129,867 -1.03% 2.3%
2034 2,149,558 52,279,989 -1.04% 2.25%
2035 2,127,153 53,429,308 -1.04% 2.2%
2036 2,105,178 54,578,046 -1.03% 2.15%
2037 2,083,762 55,724,259 -1.02% 2.1%
2038 2,062,803 56,872,152 -1.01% 2.06%
2039 2,042,214 58,024,713 -1% 2.03%
2040 2,022,294 59,181,514 -0.98% 1.99%
2041 2,003,296 60,345,667 -0.94% 1.97%
2042 1,984,924 61,517,965 -0.92% 1.94%
2043 1,966,961 62,696,517 -0.9% 1.92%
2044 1,949,608 63,880,172 -0.88% 1.89%
2045 1,932,647 65,066,344 -0.87% 1.86%
2046 1,915,982 66,253,578 -0.86% 1.82%
2047 1,899,781 67,438,796 -0.85% 1.79%
2048 1,883,795 68,620,844 -0.84% 1.75%
2049 1,867,636 69,799,794 -0.86% 1.72%
2050 1,851,456 70,976,389 -0.87% 1.69%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Moldova decreased by 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline), while Yemen gained 8,369,294 people (a 36.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Moldova lost -477,299 (a 16.8% decline), while Yemen's population increased by 11,568,609 (a 37.1% growth).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2005 and is 145th in 2025. Yemen was ranked 47th in 2005 and ranked 37th 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 Yemen will increase by 66.1% to 70,976,389 people and rank change from 37th to 29th.

Biggest cities by population

Moldova
City Population
Chisinau 639K
Tiraspol 134K
Balti 97.9K
Bender 76.2K
Ungheni 30.8K
Cahul 30K
Dubasari 28.5K
Soroca 22.2K
Orhei 21.1K
Comrat 19.9K
Yemen
City Population
Sanaa 2.96M
Al Hudaydah 618K
Taiz 615K
Aden 507K
Ibb 351K
Dhamar 160K
Mukalla 144K
Sa'dah 70.2K
Sayyan 70K
Zabid 50.8K

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