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Population in New Zealand compared to the Seychelles: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of New Zealand was 5,338,500 in 2024 vs 121,354 people in the Seychelles in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current New Zealand's population is 5,406,623 people compared to 125,181 in the Seychelles.

Population statistics:

  • New Zealand's population is 43.2 times bigger than the Seychelles'.
  • New Zealand is ranked the 124th most populous country in the world, while the Seychelles is the 181st.
  • The countries together account for 0.07% of the world: 0.07% for New Zealand vs 0.002% for the Seychelles.
  • For the last 10 years, New Zealand has had an average growth rate of +1.69% per year vs +2.9% in the Seychelles.
  • Since 2005, the population of New Zealand has increased from 4.13M people to 5.41M (30.8% growth), while the Seychelles has grown from 82.9K to 125K (51.1% growth).
  • New Zealand is projected to reach its peak in 2078 at 6.01M people compared to the peak of 133K people in 2042 for the Seychelles.

New Zealand vs Seychelles: live population counter

New Zealand Seychelles
Current population
5406623
125181
Population rank 124/197 181/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.002%
One net population change
5.62 minutes
5.54 hours
One birth every
9.23 minutes
5.63 hours
One death every
13.9 minutes
10 hours
One migration net change every
28 minutes
5.01 hours
Annual migration change +18,766 +1,747
Daily growth/decline +256 +4
Annual growth/decline +93,500 +1,581
Annual growth/decline rate +1.78% +1.32%
Population growth rate rank 63/197 83/197

New Zealand and the Seychelles: population history and growth rate by year chart

New Zealand
Population

Growth rate
Seychelles
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
New Zealand Seychelles New Zealand Seychelles
1960 2,371,800 41,700 - -
1961 2,419,700 42,889 2.02% 2.85%
1962 2,482,000 44,042 2.57% 2.69%
1963 2,531,800 45,176 2.01% 2.57%
1964 2,585,400 46,322 2.12% 2.54%
1965 2,628,400 47,500 1.66% 2.54%
1966 2,675,900 48,699 1.81% 2.52%
1967 2,724,100 49,911 1.8% 2.49%
1968 2,748,100 51,134 0.88% 2.45%
1969 2,772,800 52,365 0.9% 2.41%
1970 2,810,700 53,600 1.37% 2.36%
1971 2,853,000 54,695 1.5% 2.04%
1972 2,903,900 56,029 1.78% 2.44%
1973 2,961,300 56,892 1.98% 1.54%
1974 3,023,700 57,937 2.11% 1.84%
1975 3,083,100 59,292 1.96% 2.34%
1976 3,110,500 60,504 0.89% 2.04%
1977 3,120,200 61,786 0.31% 2.12%
1978 3,121,200 62,150 0.03% 0.59%
1979 3,109,000 62,686 -0.39% 0.86%
1980 3,112,900 63,261 0.13% 0.92%
1981 3,124,900 64,035 0.39% 1.22%
1982 3,156,100 64,413 1% 0.59%
1983 3,199,300 64,335 1.37% -0.12%
1984 3,227,100 64,717 0.87% 0.59%
1985 3,247,100 65,244 0.62% 0.81%
1986 3,246,300 65,652 -0.02% 0.63%
1987 3,274,400 68,499 0.87% 4.34%
1988 3,283,400 68,755 0.27% 0.37%
1989 3,299,200 69,167 0.48% 0.6%
1990 3,329,800 69,507 0.93% 0.49%
1991 3,495,100 70,439 4.96% 1.34%
1992 3,531,700 70,763 1.05% 0.46%
1993 3,572,200 72,253 1.15% 2.11%
1994 3,620,000 74,205 1.34% 2.7%
1995 3,673,400 75,304 1.48% 1.48%
1996 3,732,000 76,417 1.6% 1.48%
1997 3,781,300 77,319 1.32% 1.18%
1998 3,815,000 78,846 0.89% 1.97%
1999 3,835,100 80,410 0.53% 1.98%
2000 3,857,700 81,131 0.59% 0.9%
2001 3,880,500 81,202 0.59% 0.09%
2002 3,948,500 83,723 1.75% 3.1%
2003 4,027,200 82,781 1.99% -1.13%
2004 4,087,500 82,475 1.5% -0.37%
2005 4,133,900 82,858 1.14% 0.46%
2006 4,184,600 84,600 1.23% 2.1%
2007 4,223,800 85,033 0.94% 0.51%
2008 4,259,800 86,956 0.85% 2.26%
2009 4,302,600 87,298 1% 0.39%
2010 4,350,700 89,770 1.12% 2.83%
2011 4,384,000 87,441 0.77% -2.59%
2012 4,408,100 88,303 0.55% 0.99%
2013 4,442,100 89,949 0.77% 1.86%
2014 4,516,500 91,359 1.67% 1.57%
2015 4,609,400 93,419 2.06% 2.25%
2016 4,714,100 94,677 2.27% 1.35%
2017 4,813,600 95,843 2.11% 1.23%
2018 4,900,600 96,762 1.81% 0.96%
2019 4,979,200 97,625 1.6% 0.89%
2020 5,090,200 98,462 2.23% 0.86%
2021 5,111,300 99,258 0.41% 0.81%
2022 5,117,100 119,878 0.11% 20.8%
2023 5,245,000 119,773 2.5% -0.09%
2024 5,338,500 121,354 1.78% 1.32%
2025 5,377,360 123,549 0.73% 1.81%
2026 5,413,790 125,581 0.68% 1.64%
2027 5,447,979 127,380 0.63% 1.43%
2028 5,479,675 128,883 0.58% 1.18%
2029 5,509,133 130,011 0.54% 0.87%
2030 5,536,522 130,635 0.5% 0.48%
2031 5,562,256 130,989 0.46% 0.27%
2032 5,586,456 131,305 0.44% 0.24%
2033 5,609,501 131,578 0.41% 0.21%
2034 5,631,457 131,816 0.39% 0.18%
2035 5,652,480 132,027 0.37% 0.16%
2036 5,673,146 132,202 0.37% 0.13%
2037 5,693,185 132,348 0.35% 0.11%
2038 5,713,185 132,467 0.35% 0.09%
2039 5,732,750 132,552 0.34% 0.06%
2040 5,751,482 132,631 0.33% 0.06%
2041 5,770,413 132,681 0.33% 0.04%
2042 5,789,187 132,700 0.33% 0.01%
2043 5,806,468 132,698 0.3% -0.001%
2044 5,822,166 132,665 0.27% -0.03%
2045 5,836,730 132,613 0.25% -0.04%
2046 5,849,932 132,531 0.23% -0.06%
2047 5,861,661 132,415 0.2% -0.09%
2048 5,872,796 132,264 0.19% -0.11%
2049 5,882,711 132,085 0.17% -0.14%
2050 5,892,766 131,885 0.17% -0.15%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of New Zealand increased by 475,500 people (a 11.5% growth), while the Seychelles gained 10,561 people (a 12.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, New Zealand gained 797,223 (a 17.3% growth), while the Seychelles' population increased by 31,762 (a 34% growth).

New Zealand was ranked 122nd most populous country in 2005 and is 124th in 2025. The Seychelles was ranked 184th in 2005 and ranked 181st 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 the Seychelles will increase by 5.36% to 131,885 people and will still be ranked 181st.

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