Population in Namibia compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Namibia and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Namibia	Papua New Guinea	Namibia	Papua New Guinea
1960	591,465	1,995,110	-	-
1961	603,067	2,046,127	1.96%	2.56%
1962	615,759	2,093,919	2.1%	2.34%
1963	629,589	2,141,376	2.25%	2.27%
1964	644,530	2,188,325	2.37%	2.19%
1965	660,558	2,235,820	2.49%	2.17%
1966	677,655	2,285,774	2.59%	2.23%
1967	696,045	2,337,532	2.71%	2.26%
1968	715,542	2,390,803	2.8%	2.28%
1969	736,120	2,446,927	2.88%	2.35%
1970	757,868	2,505,628	2.95%	2.4%
1971	780,584	2,566,421	3%	2.43%
1972	804,399	2,628,432	3.05%	2.42%
1973	828,928	2,690,629	3.05%	2.37%
1974	854,320	2,752,671	3.06%	2.31%
1975	881,032	2,814,820	3.13%	2.26%
1976	906,566	2,877,327	2.9%	2.22%
1977	931,104	2,940,327	2.71%	2.19%
1978	947,269	3,003,714	1.74%	2.16%
1979	962,825	3,067,341	1.64%	2.12%
1980	981,434	3,131,512	1.93%	2.09%
1981	992,500	3,197,019	1.13%	2.09%
1982	1,010,308	3,264,291	1.79%	2.1%
1983	1,037,511	3,333,633	2.69%	2.12%
1984	1,065,989	3,405,198	2.74%	2.15%
1985	1,096,890	3,478,936	2.9%	2.17%
1986	1,131,081	3,554,793	3.12%	2.18%
1987	1,167,889	3,632,543	3.25%	2.19%
1988	1,209,696	3,711,880	3.58%	2.18%
1989	1,288,947	3,796,078	6.55%	2.27%
1990	1,369,303	3,896,481	6.23%	2.64%
1991	1,415,684	4,021,837	3.39%	3.22%
1992	1,461,322	4,166,699	3.22%	3.6%
1993	1,508,697	4,320,872	3.24%	3.7%
1994	1,556,304	4,480,208	3.16%	3.69%
1995	1,602,170	4,644,278	2.95%	3.66%
1996	1,646,103	4,813,361	2.74%	3.64%
1997	1,689,264	4,987,883	2.62%	3.63%
1998	1,732,745	5,166,390	2.57%	3.58%
1999	1,776,368	5,349,333	2.52%	3.54%
2000	1,818,647	5,537,064	2.38%	3.51%
2001	1,857,048	5,728,435	2.11%	3.46%
2002	1,889,970	5,924,003	1.77%	3.41%
2003	1,917,464	6,123,997	1.45%	3.38%
2004	1,942,082	6,328,041	1.28%	3.33%
2005	1,966,582	6,535,905	1.26%	3.28%
2006	1,991,888	6,747,720	1.29%	3.24%
2007	2,018,600	6,963,345	1.34%	3.2%
2008	2,047,056	7,183,002	1.41%	3.15%
2009	2,077,394	7,406,438	1.48%	3.11%
2010	2,109,811	7,633,523	1.56%	3.07%
2011	2,146,325	7,859,346	1.73%	2.96%
2012	2,194,654	8,081,390	2.25%	2.83%
2013	2,252,508	8,302,698	2.64%	2.74%
2014	2,312,139	8,523,441	2.65%	2.66%
2015	2,374,300	8,743,246	2.69%	2.58%
2016	2,439,213	8,961,718	2.73%	2.5%
2017	2,506,853	9,178,714	2.77%	2.42%
2018	2,577,327	9,394,513	2.81%	2.35%
2019	2,650,494	9,609,010	2.84%	2.28%
2020	2,728,762	9,815,746	2.95%	2.15%
2021	2,810,548	10,012,896	3%	2.01%
2022	2,889,662	10,203,169	2.81%	1.9%
2023	2,963,095	10,389,635	2.54%	1.83%
2024	3,030,131	10,576,502	2.26%	1.8%
2025	3,092,826	10,762,813	2.07%	1.76%
2026	3,153,252	10,947,845	1.95%	1.72%
2027	3,212,910	11,131,268	1.89%	1.68%
2028	3,272,166	11,312,895	1.84%	1.63%
2029	3,330,819	11,492,799	1.79%	1.59%
2030	3,389,961	11,671,420	1.78%	1.55%
2031	3,449,508	11,848,221	1.76%	1.51%
2032	3,508,245	12,023,121	1.7%	1.48%
2033	3,565,349	12,196,639	1.63%	1.44%
2034	3,621,829	12,369,248	1.58%	1.42%
2035	3,678,888	12,540,596	1.58%	1.39%
2036	3,735,939	12,710,682	1.55%	1.36%
2037	3,792,807	12,879,737	1.52%	1.33%
2038	3,850,310	13,047,122	1.52%	1.3%
2039	3,907,182	13,212,668	1.48%	1.27%
2040	3,962,414	13,376,156	1.41%	1.24%
2041	4,017,690	13,537,361	1.4%	1.21%
2042	4,073,359	13,696,139	1.39%	1.17%
2043	4,129,577	13,853,410	1.38%	1.15%
2044	4,186,114	14,009,926	1.37%	1.13%
2045	4,243,359	14,165,578	1.37%	1.11%
2046	4,299,969	14,318,889	1.33%	1.08%
2047	4,355,507	14,469,210	1.29%	1.05%
2048	4,409,459	14,617,364	1.24%	1.02%
2049	4,460,507	14,763,600	1.16%	1%
2050	4,512,307	14,906,584	1.16%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Namibia increased by 407,718 people (a 20.7% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Namibia gained 767,064 (a 32.3% growth), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Namibia was ranked 143rd most populous country in 2005 and is 134th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Namibia's population will grow by 43.6% to 4,512,307 people with a rank change from 134th to 131st. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.