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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Nicaragua was 6,916,140 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Nicaragua's population is 7,079,664 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 12.1 times bigger than Nicaragua's.
  • Nicaragua is ranked the 107th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.12% of the world: 0.09% for Nicaragua vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Nicaragua has had an average growth rate of +1.33% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Nicaragua has increased from 5.34M people to 7.08M (32.5% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Nicaragua is projected to reach its peak in 2071 at 9.24M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Nicaragua vs Turkey: live population counter

Nicaragua Turkey
Current population
7079664
85914550
Population rank 107/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.09% 1.04%
One net population change
5.68 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
3.98 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
16.8 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
1.07 hours
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -8,189 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +253 +528
Annual growth/decline +92,527 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +1.36% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 81/197 153/197

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

Nicaragua
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Nicaragua Turkey Nicaragua Turkey
1960 1,782,370 28,329,898 - -
1961 1,836,451 29,119,238 3.03% 2.79%
1962 1,892,320 29,916,147 3.04% 2.74%
1963 1,950,159 30,726,841 3.06% 2.71%
1964 2,010,176 31,543,072 3.08% 2.66%
1965 2,072,681 32,345,220 3.11% 2.54%
1966 2,137,820 33,177,672 3.14% 2.57%
1967 2,205,567 34,050,421 3.17% 2.63%
1968 2,275,836 34,921,684 3.19% 2.56%
1969 2,348,398 35,787,774 3.19% 2.48%
1970 2,423,065 36,638,465 3.18% 2.38%
1971 2,499,825 37,518,611 3.17% 2.4%
1972 2,573,578 38,430,221 2.95% 2.43%
1973 2,649,278 39,329,533 2.94% 2.34%
1974 2,732,075 40,210,234 3.13% 2.24%
1975 2,816,943 41,053,126 3.11% 2.1%
1976 2,903,851 41,899,984 3.09% 2.06%
1977 2,992,534 42,773,298 3.05% 2.08%
1978 3,080,314 43,645,306 2.93% 2.04%
1979 3,164,525 44,510,429 2.73% 1.98%
1980 3,252,403 45,408,815 2.78% 2.02%
1981 3,345,674 46,321,190 2.87% 2.01%
1982 3,438,745 47,322,096 2.78% 2.16%
1983 3,530,282 48,447,410 2.66% 2.38%
1984 3,619,104 49,574,069 2.52% 2.33%
1985 3,706,479 50,687,115 2.41% 2.25%
1986 3,794,157 51,777,772 2.37% 2.15%
1987 3,882,164 52,843,670 2.32% 2.06%
1988 3,972,320 53,909,626 2.32% 2.02%
1989 4,066,476 54,976,723 2.37% 1.98%
1990 4,162,559 56,015,628 2.36% 1.89%
1991 4,259,637 57,009,887 2.33% 1.77%
1992 4,357,026 57,990,118 2.29% 1.72%
1993 4,453,732 58,999,167 2.22% 1.74%
1994 4,549,316 60,033,836 2.15% 1.75%
1995 4,642,931 61,024,503 2.06% 1.65%
1996 4,729,974 61,951,134 1.87% 1.52%
1997 4,809,573 62,852,966 1.68% 1.46%
1998 4,883,655 63,734,383 1.54% 1.4%
1999 4,954,018 64,591,923 1.44% 1.35%
2000 5,022,633 65,425,961 1.39% 1.29%
2001 5,087,825 66,245,128 1.3% 1.25%
2002 5,149,909 67,048,795 1.22% 1.21%
2003 5,210,963 67,831,730 1.19% 1.17%
2004 5,272,912 68,592,617 1.19% 1.12%
2005 5,342,105 69,329,557 1.31% 1.07%
2006 5,418,855 70,045,349 1.44% 1.03%
2007 5,497,243 70,158,112 1.45% 0.16%
2008 5,576,593 71,051,678 1.44% 1.27%
2009 5,656,601 72,039,206 1.43% 1.39%
2010 5,737,450 73,142,150 1.43% 1.53%
2011 5,819,051 74,223,629 1.42% 1.48%
2012 5,901,287 75,175,827 1.41% 1.28%
2013 5,983,845 76,147,624 1.4% 1.29%
2014 6,066,492 77,181,884 1.38% 1.36%
2015 6,149,417 78,218,479 1.37% 1.34%
2016 6,232,666 79,277,962 1.35% 1.35%
2017 6,316,231 80,312,698 1.34% 1.31%
2018 6,400,080 81,407,204 1.33% 1.36%
2019 6,483,657 82,579,440 1.31% 1.44%
2020 6,565,267 83,384,680 1.26% 0.98%
2021 6,644,741 84,147,318 1.21% 0.91%
2022 6,730,654 84,979,913 1.29% 0.99%
2023 6,823,613 85,325,965 1.38% 0.41%
2024 6,916,140 85,518,661 1.36% 0.23%
2025 7,007,511 85,725,557 1.32% 0.24%
2026 7,097,335 85,960,835 1.28% 0.27%
2027 7,185,724 86,227,115 1.25% 0.31%
2028 7,272,691 86,502,744 1.21% 0.32%
2029 7,358,003 86,771,652 1.17% 0.31%
2030 7,441,612 87,037,680 1.14% 0.31%
2031 7,523,773 87,297,191 1.1% 0.3%
2032 7,604,398 87,537,075 1.07% 0.27%
2033 7,683,391 87,762,403 1.04% 0.26%
2034 7,760,901 87,974,138 1.01% 0.24%
2035 7,836,706 88,172,739 0.98% 0.23%
2036 7,910,787 88,364,318 0.95% 0.22%
2037 7,983,295 88,545,669 0.92% 0.21%
2038 8,054,140 88,707,268 0.89% 0.18%
2039 8,122,959 88,849,956 0.85% 0.16%
2040 8,189,916 88,975,510 0.82% 0.14%
2041 8,255,163 89,083,304 0.8% 0.12%
2042 8,318,515 89,177,769 0.77% 0.11%
2043 8,380,014 89,254,147 0.74% 0.09%
2044 8,439,720 89,311,458 0.71% 0.06%
2045 8,497,618 89,349,806 0.69% 0.04%
2046 8,553,413 89,375,429 0.66% 0.03%
2047 8,607,283 89,383,765 0.63% 0.009%
2048 8,659,292 89,361,174 0.6% -0.03%
2049 8,708,929 89,306,566 0.57% -0.06%
2050 8,756,439 89,218,346 0.55% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Nicaragua increased by 807,312 people (a 15.1% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Nicaragua gained 930,247 (a 15.1% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Nicaragua was ranked 110th most populous country in 2005 and is 107th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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