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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Nauru	Papua New Guinea	Nauru	Papua New Guinea
1960	4,607	1,995,110	-	-
1961	4,774	2,046,127	3.62%	2.56%
1962	4,979	2,093,919	4.29%	2.34%
1963	5,226	2,141,376	4.96%	2.27%
1964	5,515	2,188,325	5.53%	2.19%
1965	5,832	2,235,820	5.75%	2.17%
1966	6,043	2,285,774	3.62%	2.23%
1967	6,135	2,337,532	1.52%	2.26%
1968	6,328	2,390,803	3.15%	2.28%
1969	6,581	2,446,927	4%	2.35%
1970	6,710	2,505,628	1.96%	2.4%
1971	6,762	2,566,421	0.77%	2.43%
1972	6,812	2,628,432	0.74%	2.42%
1973	6,866	2,690,629	0.79%	2.37%
1974	6,923	2,752,671	0.83%	2.31%
1975	6,987	2,814,820	0.92%	2.26%
1976	7,064	2,877,327	1.1%	2.22%
1977	7,163	2,940,327	1.4%	2.19%
1978	7,298	3,003,714	1.88%	2.16%
1979	7,468	3,067,341	2.33%	2.12%
1980	7,649	3,131,512	2.42%	2.09%
1981	7,839	3,197,019	2.48%	2.09%
1982	8,040	3,264,291	2.56%	2.1%
1983	8,216	3,333,633	2.19%	2.12%
1984	8,377	3,405,198	1.96%	2.15%
1985	8,551	3,478,936	2.08%	2.17%
1986	8,742	3,554,793	2.23%	2.18%
1987	8,946	3,632,543	2.33%	2.19%
1988	9,165	3,711,880	2.45%	2.18%
1989	9,390	3,796,078	2.45%	2.27%
1990	9,622	3,896,481	2.47%	2.64%
1991	9,850	4,021,837	2.37%	3.22%
1992	10,021	4,166,699	1.74%	3.6%
1993	10,102	4,320,872	0.81%	3.7%
1994	10,137	4,480,208	0.35%	3.69%
1995	10,165	4,644,278	0.28%	3.66%
1996	10,183	4,813,361	0.18%	3.64%
1997	10,197	4,987,883	0.14%	3.63%
1998	10,198	5,166,390	0.01%	3.58%
1999	10,187	5,349,333	-0.11%	3.54%
2000	10,168	5,537,064	-0.19%	3.51%
2001	10,130	5,728,435	-0.37%	3.46%
2002	10,082	5,924,003	-0.47%	3.41%
2003	10,059	6,123,997	-0.23%	3.38%
2004	10,060	6,328,041	0.01%	3.33%
2005	10,049	6,535,905	-0.11%	3.28%
2006	10,034	6,747,720	-0.15%	3.24%
2007	10,020	6,963,345	-0.14%	3.2%
2008	10,009	7,183,002	-0.11%	3.15%
2009	10,016	7,406,438	0.07%	3.11%
2010	10,043	7,633,523	0.27%	3.07%
2011	10,098	7,859,346	0.55%	2.96%
2012	10,267	8,081,390	1.67%	2.83%
2013	10,517	8,302,698	2.43%	2.74%
2014	10,742	8,523,441	2.14%	2.66%
2015	10,954	8,743,246	1.97%	2.58%
2016	11,150	8,961,718	1.79%	2.5%
2017	11,324	9,178,714	1.56%	2.42%
2018	11,477	9,394,513	1.35%	2.35%
2019	11,587	9,609,010	0.96%	2.28%
2020	11,643	9,815,746	0.48%	2.15%
2021	11,709	10,012,896	0.57%	2.01%
2022	11,801	10,203,169	0.79%	1.9%
2023	11,875	10,389,635	0.63%	1.83%
2024	11,947	10,576,502	0.61%	1.8%
2025	12,030	10,762,813	0.7%	1.76%
2026	12,103	10,947,845	0.61%	1.72%
2027	12,196	11,131,268	0.77%	1.68%
2028	12,296	11,312,895	0.82%	1.63%
2029	12,403	11,492,799	0.87%	1.59%
2030	12,519	11,671,420	0.94%	1.55%
2031	12,645	11,848,221	1%	1.51%
2032	12,785	12,023,121	1.11%	1.48%
2033	12,921	12,196,639	1.06%	1.44%
2034	13,071	12,369,248	1.16%	1.42%
2035	13,230	12,540,596	1.22%	1.39%
2036	13,391	12,710,682	1.21%	1.36%
2037	13,541	12,879,737	1.12%	1.33%
2038	13,697	13,047,122	1.16%	1.3%
2039	13,857	13,212,668	1.17%	1.27%
2040	14,041	13,376,156	1.33%	1.24%
2041	14,220	13,537,361	1.27%	1.21%
2042	14,402	13,696,139	1.28%	1.17%
2043	14,579	13,853,410	1.23%	1.15%
2044	14,754	14,009,926	1.2%	1.13%
2045	14,920	14,165,578	1.13%	1.11%
2046	15,098	14,318,889	1.19%	1.08%
2047	15,268	14,469,210	1.12%	1.05%
2048	15,431	14,617,364	1.07%	1.02%
2049	15,595	14,763,600	1.06%	1%
2050	15,751	14,906,584	1%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Nauru increased by 905 people (a 9.01% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Nauru gained 1,134 (a 10.4% growth), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Nauru was ranked 195th most populous country in 2005 and is still 195th 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) Nauru's population will grow by 30.3% to 15,751 people with a rank change from 195th to 194th. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.