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Population in Nicaragua compared to Sudan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Nicaragua was 6,916,140 in 2024 vs 50,448,963 people in Sudan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Nicaragua's population is 7,079,664 people compared to 52,963,918 in Sudan.

Population statistics:

  • Sudan's population is 7.48 times bigger than Nicaragua's.
  • Nicaragua is ranked the 107th most populous country in the world, while Sudan is the 29th.
  • The countries together account for 0.73% of the world: 0.09% for Nicaragua vs 0.64% for Sudan.
  • For the last 10 years, Nicaragua has had an average growth rate of +1.33% per year vs +2.67% in Sudan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Nicaragua has increased from 5.34M people to 7.08M (32.5% growth), while Sudan has grown from 31.3M to 53M (69.4% growth).
  • Nicaragua is projected to reach its peak in 2071 at 9.24M people compared to the peak of 137M people in 2100 for Sudan.

Nicaragua vs Sudan: live population counter

Nicaragua Sudan
Current population
7079664
52963918
Population rank 107/197 29/197
Percent of world population 0.09% 0.64%
One net population change
5.68 minutes
1.29 minutes
One birth every
3.98 minutes
18.7 seconds
One death every
16.8 minutes
1.64 minutes
One migration net change every
1.07 hours
57.9 seconds
Annual migration change -8,189 -544,257
Daily growth/decline +253 +1,113
Annual growth/decline +92,527 +406,172
Annual growth/decline rate +1.36% +0.81%
Population growth rate rank 81/197 118/197

Nicaragua and Sudan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Nicaragua
Population

Growth rate
Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Nicaragua Sudan Nicaragua Sudan
1960 1,782,370 8,364,489 - -
1961 1,836,451 8,634,941 3.03% 3.23%
1962 1,892,320 8,919,028 3.04% 3.29%
1963 1,950,159 9,218,077 3.06% 3.35%
1964 2,010,176 9,531,109 3.08% 3.4%
1965 2,072,681 9,858,030 3.11% 3.43%
1966 2,137,820 10,197,578 3.14% 3.44%
1967 2,205,567 10,550,597 3.17% 3.46%
1968 2,275,836 10,917,999 3.19% 3.48%
1969 2,348,398 11,298,936 3.19% 3.49%
1970 2,423,065 11,695,771 3.18% 3.51%
1971 2,499,825 12,105,539 3.17% 3.5%
1972 2,573,578 12,527,856 2.95% 3.49%
1973 2,649,278 13,049,315 2.94% 4.16%
1974 2,732,075 13,580,723 3.13% 4.07%
1975 2,816,943 14,064,798 3.11% 3.56%
1976 2,903,851 14,569,716 3.09% 3.59%
1977 2,992,534 15,086,614 3.05% 3.55%
1978 3,080,314 15,695,003 2.93% 4.03%
1979 3,164,525 16,355,352 2.73% 4.21%
1980 3,252,403 17,058,905 2.78% 4.3%
1981 3,345,674 17,780,572 2.87% 4.23%
1982 3,438,745 18,486,645 2.78% 3.97%
1983 3,530,282 19,109,770 2.66% 3.37%
1984 3,619,104 19,546,528 2.52% 2.29%
1985 3,706,479 19,905,872 2.41% 1.84%
1986 3,794,157 20,288,238 2.37% 1.92%
1987 3,882,164 20,704,904 2.32% 2.05%
1988 3,972,320 21,138,431 2.32% 2.09%
1989 4,066,476 21,578,022 2.37% 2.08%
1990 4,162,559 22,021,481 2.36% 2.06%
1991 4,259,637 22,470,676 2.33% 2.04%
1992 4,357,026 22,927,355 2.29% 2.03%
1993 4,453,732 23,445,592 2.22% 2.26%
1994 4,549,316 24,043,948 2.15% 2.55%
1995 4,642,931 24,672,143 2.06% 2.61%
1996 4,729,974 25,231,528 1.87% 2.27%
1997 4,809,573 25,799,821 1.68% 2.25%
1998 4,883,655 26,458,999 1.54% 2.55%
1999 4,954,018 27,130,613 1.44% 2.54%
2000 5,022,633 27,816,745 1.39% 2.53%
2001 5,087,825 28,516,770 1.3% 2.52%
2002 5,149,909 29,228,727 1.22% 2.5%
2003 5,210,963 29,896,035 1.19% 2.28%
2004 5,272,912 30,556,637 1.19% 2.21%
2005 5,342,105 31,262,444 1.31% 2.31%
2006 5,418,855 31,992,435 1.44% 2.34%
2007 5,497,243 32,764,135 1.45% 2.41%
2008 5,576,593 33,623,980 1.44% 2.62%
2009 5,656,601 34,569,113 1.43% 2.81%
2010 5,737,450 35,414,399 1.43% 2.45%
2011 5,819,051 36,140,806 1.42% 2.05%
2012 5,901,287 36,923,178 1.41% 2.16%
2013 5,983,845 37,785,849 1.4% 2.34%
2014 6,066,492 38,823,318 1.38% 2.75%
2015 6,149,417 40,024,431 1.37% 3.09%
2016 6,232,666 41,259,892 1.35% 3.09%
2017 6,316,231 42,714,306 1.34% 3.53%
2018 6,400,080 44,230,596 1.33% 3.55%
2019 6,483,657 45,548,175 1.31% 2.98%
2020 6,565,267 46,789,231 1.26% 2.72%
2021 6,644,741 48,066,924 1.21% 2.73%
2022 6,730,654 49,383,346 1.29% 2.74%
2023 6,823,613 50,042,791 1.38% 1.34%
2024 6,916,140 50,448,963 1.36% 0.81%
2025 7,007,511 51,662,152 1.32% 2.4%
2026 7,097,335 53,282,718 1.28% 3.14%
2027 7,185,724 54,724,215 1.25% 2.71%
2028 7,272,691 55,993,833 1.21% 2.32%
2029 7,358,003 57,275,443 1.17% 2.29%
2030 7,441,612 58,571,624 1.14% 2.26%
2031 7,523,773 59,872,936 1.1% 2.22%
2032 7,604,398 61,179,476 1.07% 2.18%
2033 7,683,391 62,497,205 1.04% 2.15%
2034 7,760,901 63,822,356 1.01% 2.12%
2035 7,836,706 65,148,317 0.98% 2.08%
2036 7,910,787 66,470,018 0.95% 2.03%
2037 7,983,295 67,791,240 0.92% 1.99%
2038 8,054,140 69,107,712 0.89% 1.94%
2039 8,122,959 70,416,631 0.85% 1.89%
2040 8,189,916 71,730,604 0.82% 1.87%
2041 8,255,163 73,056,213 0.8% 1.85%
2042 8,318,515 74,387,562 0.77% 1.82%
2043 8,380,014 75,723,670 0.74% 1.8%
2044 8,439,720 77,066,454 0.71% 1.77%
2045 8,497,618 78,415,205 0.69% 1.75%
2046 8,553,413 79,767,271 0.66% 1.72%
2047 8,607,283 81,115,241 0.63% 1.69%
2048 8,659,292 82,463,202 0.6% 1.66%
2049 8,708,929 83,828,356 0.57% 1.66%
2050 8,756,439 85,206,384 0.55% 1.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Nicaragua increased by 807,312 people (a 15.1% growth), while Sudan gained 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Nicaragua gained 930,247 (a 15.1% growth), while Sudan's population increased by 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth).

Nicaragua was ranked 110th most populous country in 2005 and is 107th in 2025. Sudan was ranked 36th in 2005 and ranked 29th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Nicaragua's population will grow by 23.7% to 8,756,439 people with a rank change from 107th to 109th. The population of Sudan will increase by 60.9% to 85,206,384 people and rank change from 29th to 21st.

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