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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Nicaragua was 6,916,140 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Nicaragua's population is 7,079,664 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 10.1 times bigger than Nicaragua's.
  • Nicaragua is ranked the 107th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.95% of the world: 0.09% for Nicaragua vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Nicaragua has had an average growth rate of +1.33% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Nicaragua has increased from 5.34M people to 7.08M (32.5% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Nicaragua is projected to reach its peak in 2071 at 9.24M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Nicaragua vs Thailand: live population counter

Nicaragua Thailand
Current population
7079664
71619867
Population rank 107/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.09% 0.87%
One net population change
5.68 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
3.98 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
16.8 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.07 hours
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -8,189 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +253 -94
Annual growth/decline +92,527 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +1.36% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 81/197 170/197

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

Nicaragua
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Nicaragua Thailand Nicaragua Thailand
1960 1,782,370 26,851,747 - -
1961 1,836,451 27,650,334 3.03% 2.97%
1962 1,892,320 28,481,040 3.04% 3%
1963 1,950,159 29,342,322 3.06% 3.02%
1964 2,010,176 30,232,141 3.08% 3.03%
1965 2,072,681 31,149,337 3.11% 3.03%
1966 2,137,820 32,086,071 3.14% 3.01%
1967 2,205,567 33,037,801 3.17% 2.97%
1968 2,275,836 34,002,560 3.19% 2.92%
1969 2,348,398 34,973,782 3.19% 2.86%
1970 2,423,065 35,954,408 3.18% 2.8%
1971 2,499,825 36,937,387 3.17% 2.73%
1972 2,573,578 37,933,929 2.95% 2.7%
1973 2,649,278 38,947,787 2.94% 2.67%
1974 2,732,075 39,952,891 3.13% 2.58%
1975 2,816,943 40,940,005 3.11% 2.47%
1976 2,903,851 41,896,504 3.09% 2.34%
1977 2,992,534 42,843,974 3.05% 2.26%
1978 3,080,314 43,788,976 2.93% 2.21%
1979 3,164,525 44,718,434 2.73% 2.12%
1980 3,252,403 45,650,022 2.78% 2.08%
1981 3,345,674 46,575,855 2.87% 2.03%
1982 3,438,745 47,494,577 2.78% 1.97%
1983 3,530,282 48,423,309 2.66% 1.96%
1984 3,619,104 49,351,708 2.52% 1.92%
1985 3,706,479 50,270,753 2.41% 1.86%
1986 3,794,157 51,177,834 2.37% 1.8%
1987 3,882,164 52,074,105 2.32% 1.75%
1988 3,972,320 52,969,595 2.32% 1.72%
1989 4,066,476 53,848,956 2.37% 1.66%
1990 4,162,559 54,738,329 2.36% 1.65%
1991 4,259,637 55,637,434 2.33% 1.64%
1992 4,357,026 56,528,834 2.29% 1.6%
1993 4,453,732 57,408,198 2.22% 1.56%
1994 4,549,316 58,260,854 2.15% 1.49%
1995 4,642,931 59,098,232 2.06% 1.44%
1996 4,729,974 59,920,064 1.87% 1.39%
1997 4,809,573 60,724,584 1.68% 1.34%
1998 4,883,655 61,522,630 1.54% 1.31%
1999 4,954,018 62,299,043 1.44% 1.26%
2000 5,022,633 63,007,815 1.39% 1.14%
2001 5,087,825 63,651,141 1.3% 1.02%
2002 5,149,909 64,266,437 1.22% 0.97%
2003 5,210,963 64,868,166 1.19% 0.94%
2004 5,272,912 65,452,047 1.19% 0.9%
2005 5,342,105 66,017,420 1.31% 0.86%
2006 5,418,855 66,567,687 1.44% 0.83%
2007 5,497,243 67,102,394 1.45% 0.8%
2008 5,576,593 67,619,830 1.44% 0.77%
2009 5,656,601 68,121,080 1.43% 0.74%
2010 5,737,450 68,579,447 1.43% 0.67%
2011 5,819,051 69,007,208 1.42% 0.62%
2012 5,901,287 69,436,098 1.41% 0.62%
2013 5,983,845 69,845,114 1.4% 0.59%
2014 6,066,492 70,216,367 1.38% 0.53%
2015 6,149,417 70,540,795 1.37% 0.46%
2016 6,232,666 70,859,841 1.35% 0.45%
2017 6,316,231 71,160,187 1.34% 0.42%
2018 6,400,080 71,376,079 1.33% 0.3%
2019 6,483,657 71,522,271 1.31% 0.2%
2020 6,565,267 71,641,484 1.26% 0.17%
2021 6,644,741 71,727,332 1.21% 0.12%
2022 6,730,654 71,735,329 1.29% 0.01%
2023 6,823,613 71,702,435 1.38% -0.05%
2024 6,916,140 71,668,011 1.36% -0.05%
2025 7,007,511 71,619,867 1.32% -0.07%
2026 7,097,335 71,559,621 1.28% -0.08%
2027 7,185,724 71,488,156 1.25% -0.1%
2028 7,272,691 71,406,996 1.21% -0.11%
2029 7,358,003 71,316,195 1.17% -0.13%
2030 7,441,612 71,215,017 1.14% -0.14%
2031 7,523,773 71,104,025 1.1% -0.16%
2032 7,604,398 70,982,286 1.07% -0.17%
2033 7,683,391 70,847,947 1.04% -0.19%
2034 7,760,901 70,701,651 1.01% -0.21%
2035 7,836,706 70,540,884 0.98% -0.23%
2036 7,910,787 70,366,496 0.95% -0.25%
2037 7,983,295 70,180,031 0.92% -0.26%
2038 8,054,140 69,979,034 0.89% -0.29%
2039 8,122,959 69,763,928 0.85% -0.31%
2040 8,189,916 69,535,003 0.82% -0.33%
2041 8,255,163 69,288,477 0.8% -0.35%
2042 8,318,515 69,025,348 0.77% -0.38%
2043 8,380,014 68,748,075 0.74% -0.4%
2044 8,439,720 68,456,533 0.71% -0.42%
2045 8,497,618 68,150,148 0.69% -0.45%
2046 8,553,413 67,827,309 0.66% -0.47%
2047 8,607,283 67,489,358 0.63% -0.5%
2048 8,659,292 67,136,737 0.6% -0.52%
2049 8,708,929 66,767,316 0.57% -0.55%
2050 8,756,439 66,382,732 0.55% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Nicaragua increased by 807,312 people (a 15.1% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Nicaragua gained 930,247 (a 15.1% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Nicaragua was ranked 110th most populous country in 2005 and is 107th 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) Nicaragua's population will grow by 23.7% to 8,756,439 people with a rank change from 107th to 109th. 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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