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Population in Namibia compared to Thailand: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Namibia was 3,030,131 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Namibia's population is 3,141,364 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 22.8 times bigger than Namibia's.
  • Namibia is ranked the 134th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.04% for Namibia vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Namibia has had an average growth rate of +2.73% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Namibia has increased from 1.97M people to 3.14M (59.7% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Namibia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 5.9M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Namibia vs Thailand: live population counter

Namibia Thailand
Current population
3141364
71619867
Population rank 134/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 0.87%
One net population change
7.84 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
6.85 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
28.8 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
2.08 hours
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change +4,211 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +184 -94
Annual growth/decline +67,036 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +2.26% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 43/197 170/197

Namibia and Thailand: population history and growth rate by year chart

Namibia
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Namibia Thailand Namibia Thailand
1960 591,465 26,851,747 - -
1961 603,067 27,650,334 1.96% 2.97%
1962 615,759 28,481,040 2.1% 3%
1963 629,589 29,342,322 2.25% 3.02%
1964 644,530 30,232,141 2.37% 3.03%
1965 660,558 31,149,337 2.49% 3.03%
1966 677,655 32,086,071 2.59% 3.01%
1967 696,045 33,037,801 2.71% 2.97%
1968 715,542 34,002,560 2.8% 2.92%
1969 736,120 34,973,782 2.88% 2.86%
1970 757,868 35,954,408 2.95% 2.8%
1971 780,584 36,937,387 3% 2.73%
1972 804,399 37,933,929 3.05% 2.7%
1973 828,928 38,947,787 3.05% 2.67%
1974 854,320 39,952,891 3.06% 2.58%
1975 881,032 40,940,005 3.13% 2.47%
1976 906,566 41,896,504 2.9% 2.34%
1977 931,104 42,843,974 2.71% 2.26%
1978 947,269 43,788,976 1.74% 2.21%
1979 962,825 44,718,434 1.64% 2.12%
1980 981,434 45,650,022 1.93% 2.08%
1981 992,500 46,575,855 1.13% 2.03%
1982 1,010,308 47,494,577 1.79% 1.97%
1983 1,037,511 48,423,309 2.69% 1.96%
1984 1,065,989 49,351,708 2.74% 1.92%
1985 1,096,890 50,270,753 2.9% 1.86%
1986 1,131,081 51,177,834 3.12% 1.8%
1987 1,167,889 52,074,105 3.25% 1.75%
1988 1,209,696 52,969,595 3.58% 1.72%
1989 1,288,947 53,848,956 6.55% 1.66%
1990 1,369,303 54,738,329 6.23% 1.65%
1991 1,415,684 55,637,434 3.39% 1.64%
1992 1,461,322 56,528,834 3.22% 1.6%
1993 1,508,697 57,408,198 3.24% 1.56%
1994 1,556,304 58,260,854 3.16% 1.49%
1995 1,602,170 59,098,232 2.95% 1.44%
1996 1,646,103 59,920,064 2.74% 1.39%
1997 1,689,264 60,724,584 2.62% 1.34%
1998 1,732,745 61,522,630 2.57% 1.31%
1999 1,776,368 62,299,043 2.52% 1.26%
2000 1,818,647 63,007,815 2.38% 1.14%
2001 1,857,048 63,651,141 2.11% 1.02%
2002 1,889,970 64,266,437 1.77% 0.97%
2003 1,917,464 64,868,166 1.45% 0.94%
2004 1,942,082 65,452,047 1.28% 0.9%
2005 1,966,582 66,017,420 1.26% 0.86%
2006 1,991,888 66,567,687 1.29% 0.83%
2007 2,018,600 67,102,394 1.34% 0.8%
2008 2,047,056 67,619,830 1.41% 0.77%
2009 2,077,394 68,121,080 1.48% 0.74%
2010 2,109,811 68,579,447 1.56% 0.67%
2011 2,146,325 69,007,208 1.73% 0.62%
2012 2,194,654 69,436,098 2.25% 0.62%
2013 2,252,508 69,845,114 2.64% 0.59%
2014 2,312,139 70,216,367 2.65% 0.53%
2015 2,374,300 70,540,795 2.69% 0.46%
2016 2,439,213 70,859,841 2.73% 0.45%
2017 2,506,853 71,160,187 2.77% 0.42%
2018 2,577,327 71,376,079 2.81% 0.3%
2019 2,650,494 71,522,271 2.84% 0.2%
2020 2,728,762 71,641,484 2.95% 0.17%
2021 2,810,548 71,727,332 3% 0.12%
2022 2,889,662 71,735,329 2.81% 0.01%
2023 2,963,095 71,702,435 2.54% -0.05%
2024 3,030,131 71,668,011 2.26% -0.05%
2025 3,092,826 71,619,867 2.07% -0.07%
2026 3,153,252 71,559,621 1.95% -0.08%
2027 3,212,910 71,488,156 1.89% -0.1%
2028 3,272,166 71,406,996 1.84% -0.11%
2029 3,330,819 71,316,195 1.79% -0.13%
2030 3,389,961 71,215,017 1.78% -0.14%
2031 3,449,508 71,104,025 1.76% -0.16%
2032 3,508,245 70,982,286 1.7% -0.17%
2033 3,565,349 70,847,947 1.63% -0.19%
2034 3,621,829 70,701,651 1.58% -0.21%
2035 3,678,888 70,540,884 1.58% -0.23%
2036 3,735,939 70,366,496 1.55% -0.25%
2037 3,792,807 70,180,031 1.52% -0.26%
2038 3,850,310 69,979,034 1.52% -0.29%
2039 3,907,182 69,763,928 1.48% -0.31%
2040 3,962,414 69,535,003 1.41% -0.33%
2041 4,017,690 69,288,477 1.4% -0.35%
2042 4,073,359 69,025,348 1.39% -0.38%
2043 4,129,577 68,748,075 1.38% -0.4%
2044 4,186,114 68,456,533 1.37% -0.42%
2045 4,243,359 68,150,148 1.37% -0.45%
2046 4,299,969 67,827,309 1.33% -0.47%
2047 4,355,507 67,489,358 1.29% -0.5%
2048 4,409,459 67,136,737 1.24% -0.52%
2049 4,460,507 66,767,316 1.16% -0.55%
2050 4,512,307 66,382,732 1.16% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Namibia increased by 407,718 people (a 20.7% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Namibia gained 767,064 (a 32.3% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Namibia was ranked 143rd most populous country in 2005 and is 134th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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