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Population in New Zealand compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of New Zealand was 5,338,500 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current New Zealand's population is 5,406,623 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • Romania's population is 3.51 times bigger than New Zealand's.
  • New Zealand is ranked the 124th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 0.29% of the world: 0.07% for New Zealand vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, New Zealand has had an average growth rate of +1.69% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of New Zealand has increased from 4.13M people to 5.41M (30.8% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • New Zealand is projected to reach its peak in 2078 at 6.01M people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

New Zealand vs Romania: live population counter

New Zealand Romania
Current population
5406623
18962595
Population rank 124/197 69/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.23%
One net population change
5.62 minutes
53.3 minutes
One birth every
9.23 minutes
3.45 minutes
One death every
13.9 minutes
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
28 minutes
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change +18,766 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +256 +27
Annual growth/decline +93,500 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +1.78% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 63/197 162/197

New Zealand and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

New Zealand
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
New Zealand Romania New Zealand Romania
1960 2,371,800 18,406,905 - -
1961 2,419,700 18,555,250 2.02% 0.81%
1962 2,482,000 18,676,550 2.57% 0.65%
1963 2,531,800 18,797,850 2.01% 0.65%
1964 2,585,400 18,919,126 2.12% 0.65%
1965 2,628,400 19,031,576 1.66% 0.59%
1966 2,675,900 19,215,450 1.81% 0.97%
1967 2,724,100 19,534,242 1.8% 1.66%
1968 2,748,100 19,799,831 0.88% 1.36%
1969 2,772,800 20,009,141 0.9% 1.06%
1970 2,810,700 20,250,398 1.37% 1.21%
1971 2,853,000 20,461,567 1.5% 1.04%
1972 2,903,900 20,657,957 1.78% 0.96%
1973 2,961,300 20,835,681 1.98% 0.86%
1974 3,023,700 21,029,429 2.11% 0.93%
1975 3,083,100 21,293,583 1.96% 1.26%
1976 3,110,500 21,551,634 0.89% 1.21%
1977 3,120,200 21,756,096 0.31% 0.95%
1978 3,121,200 21,951,464 0.03% 0.9%
1979 3,109,000 22,090,488 -0.39% 0.63%
1980 3,112,900 22,207,282 0.13% 0.53%
1981 3,124,900 22,353,070 0.39% 0.66%
1982 3,156,100 22,475,741 1% 0.55%
1983 3,199,300 22,560,478 1.37% 0.38%
1984 3,227,100 22,640,547 0.87% 0.35%
1985 3,247,100 22,732,999 0.62% 0.41%
1986 3,246,300 22,836,841 -0.02% 0.46%
1987 3,274,400 22,949,430 0.87% 0.49%
1988 3,283,400 23,057,662 0.27% 0.47%
1989 3,299,200 23,161,458 0.48% 0.45%
1990 3,329,800 23,201,835 0.93% 0.17%
1991 3,495,100 23,001,155 4.96% -0.86%
1992 3,531,700 22,794,284 1.05% -0.9%
1993 3,572,200 22,763,280 1.15% -0.14%
1994 3,620,000 22,730,211 1.34% -0.15%
1995 3,673,400 22,684,270 1.48% -0.2%
1996 3,732,000 22,619,004 1.6% -0.29%
1997 3,781,300 22,553,978 1.32% -0.29%
1998 3,815,000 22,507,344 0.89% -0.21%
1999 3,835,100 22,472,040 0.53% -0.16%
2000 3,857,700 22,442,971 0.59% -0.13%
2001 3,880,500 22,131,970 0.59% -1.39%
2002 3,948,500 21,730,496 1.75% -1.81%
2003 4,027,200 21,574,326 1.99% -0.72%
2004 4,087,500 21,451,748 1.5% -0.57%
2005 4,133,900 21,319,685 1.14% -0.62%
2006 4,184,600 21,193,760 1.23% -0.59%
2007 4,223,800 20,882,982 0.94% -1.47%
2008 4,259,800 20,537,875 0.85% -1.65%
2009 4,302,600 20,367,487 1% -0.83%
2010 4,350,700 20,246,871 1.12% -0.59%
2011 4,384,000 20,147,528 0.77% -0.49%
2012 4,408,100 20,058,035 0.55% -0.44%
2013 4,442,100 19,983,693 0.77% -0.37%
2014 4,516,500 19,908,979 1.67% -0.37%
2015 4,609,400 19,815,616 2.06% -0.47%
2016 4,714,100 19,702,267 2.27% -0.57%
2017 4,813,600 19,588,715 2.11% -0.58%
2018 4,900,600 19,473,970 1.81% -0.59%
2019 4,979,200 19,371,648 1.6% -0.53%
2020 5,090,200 19,265,250 2.23% -0.55%
2021 5,111,300 19,122,059 0.41% -0.74%
2022 5,117,100 19,048,502 0.11% -0.38%
2023 5,245,000 19,059,479 2.5% 0.06%
2024 5,338,500 19,069,340 1.78% 0.05%
2025 5,377,360 18,962,595 0.73% -0.56%
2026 5,413,790 18,854,232 0.68% -0.57%
2027 5,447,979 18,744,883 0.63% -0.58%
2028 5,479,675 18,634,894 0.58% -0.59%
2029 5,509,133 18,523,736 0.54% -0.6%
2030 5,536,522 18,411,878 0.5% -0.6%
2031 5,562,256 18,299,820 0.46% -0.61%
2032 5,586,456 18,187,406 0.44% -0.61%
2033 5,609,501 18,074,282 0.41% -0.62%
2034 5,631,457 17,960,330 0.39% -0.63%
2035 5,652,480 17,845,182 0.37% -0.64%
2036 5,673,146 17,728,480 0.37% -0.65%
2037 5,693,185 17,611,384 0.35% -0.66%
2038 5,713,185 17,493,684 0.35% -0.67%
2039 5,732,750 17,375,991 0.34% -0.67%
2040 5,751,482 17,258,810 0.33% -0.67%
2041 5,770,413 17,140,535 0.33% -0.69%
2042 5,789,187 17,022,168 0.33% -0.69%
2043 5,806,468 16,904,427 0.3% -0.69%
2044 5,822,166 16,786,029 0.27% -0.7%
2045 5,836,730 16,667,734 0.25% -0.7%
2046 5,849,932 16,550,066 0.23% -0.71%
2047 5,861,661 16,431,566 0.2% -0.72%
2048 5,872,796 16,312,099 0.19% -0.73%
2049 5,882,711 16,192,424 0.17% -0.73%
2050 5,892,766 16,072,989 0.17% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of New Zealand increased by 475,500 people (a 11.5% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, New Zealand gained 797,223 (a 17.3% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

New Zealand was ranked 122nd most populous country in 2005 and is 124th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) New Zealand's population will grow by 8.99% to 5,892,766 people with a rank change from 124th to 122nd. The population of Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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