Population in Pakistan compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Pakistan and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Pakistan	Papua New Guinea	Pakistan	Papua New Guinea
1960	45,709,310	1,995,110	-	-
1961	46,921,277	2,046,127	2.65%	2.56%
1962	48,156,128	2,093,919	2.63%	2.34%
1963	49,447,776	2,141,376	2.68%	2.27%
1964	50,799,999	2,188,325	2.73%	2.19%
1965	52,209,010	2,235,820	2.77%	2.17%
1966	53,678,667	2,285,774	2.81%	2.23%
1967	55,214,768	2,337,532	2.86%	2.26%
1968	56,810,507	2,390,803	2.89%	2.28%
1969	58,460,939	2,446,927	2.91%	2.35%
1970	60,166,719	2,505,628	2.92%	2.4%
1971	61,847,899	2,566,421	2.79%	2.43%
1972	63,583,194	2,628,432	2.81%	2.42%
1973	65,461,912	2,690,629	2.95%	2.37%
1974	67,415,487	2,752,671	2.98%	2.31%
1975	69,461,175	2,814,820	3.03%	2.26%
1976	71,620,254	2,877,327	3.11%	2.22%
1977	73,901,827	2,940,327	3.19%	2.19%
1978	76,307,379	3,003,714	3.26%	2.16%
1979	78,997,039	3,067,341	3.52%	2.12%
1980	82,291,010	3,131,512	4.17%	2.09%
1981	85,802,049	3,197,019	4.27%	2.09%
1982	89,089,246	3,264,291	3.83%	2.1%
1983	92,227,711	3,333,633	3.52%	2.12%
1984	95,164,936	3,405,198	3.18%	2.15%
1985	98,229,285	3,478,936	3.22%	2.17%
1986	101,606,764	3,554,793	3.44%	2.18%
1987	105,130,717	3,632,543	3.47%	2.19%
1988	108,724,739	3,711,880	3.42%	2.18%
1989	112,336,629	3,796,078	3.32%	2.27%
1990	116,155,576	3,896,481	3.4%	2.64%
1991	120,060,406	4,021,837	3.36%	3.22%
1992	123,546,848	4,166,699	2.9%	3.6%
1993	127,020,117	4,320,872	2.81%	3.7%
1994	130,748,083	4,480,208	2.93%	3.69%
1995	134,582,253	4,644,278	2.93%	3.66%
1996	138,557,092	4,813,361	2.95%	3.64%
1997	142,531,804	4,987,883	2.87%	3.63%
1998	146,522,356	5,166,390	2.8%	3.58%
1999	150,565,377	5,349,333	2.76%	3.54%
2000	154,879,127	5,537,064	2.87%	3.51%
2001	159,270,907	5,728,435	2.84%	3.46%
2002	163,222,549	5,924,003	2.48%	3.41%
2003	167,110,248	6,123,997	2.38%	3.38%
2004	171,286,000	6,328,041	2.5%	3.33%
2005	175,453,212	6,535,905	2.43%	3.28%
2006	179,682,690	6,747,720	2.41%	3.24%
2007	184,493,231	6,963,345	2.68%	3.2%
2008	189,499,113	7,183,002	2.71%	3.15%
2009	194,376,534	7,406,438	2.57%	3.11%
2010	199,239,047	7,633,523	2.5%	3.07%
2011	203,746,065	7,859,346	2.26%	2.96%
2012	207,667,125	8,081,390	1.92%	2.83%
2013	211,073,978	8,302,698	1.64%	2.74%
2014	214,264,647	8,523,441	1.51%	2.66%
2015	217,290,883	8,743,246	1.41%	2.58%
2016	220,138,869	8,961,718	1.31%	2.5%
2017	223,273,967	9,178,714	1.42%	2.42%
2018	226,928,892	9,394,513	1.64%	2.35%
2019	230,800,899	9,609,010	1.71%	2.28%
2020	235,001,746	9,815,746	1.82%	2.15%
2021	239,477,801	10,012,896	1.9%	2.01%
2022	243,700,667	10,203,169	1.76%	1.9%
2023	247,504,495	10,389,635	1.56%	1.83%
2024	251,269,164	10,576,502	1.52%	1.8%
2025	255,219,564	10,762,813	1.57%	1.76%
2026	259,299,796	10,947,845	1.6%	1.72%
2027	263,515,827	11,131,268	1.63%	1.68%
2028	267,881,923	11,312,895	1.66%	1.63%
2029	272,337,520	11,492,799	1.66%	1.59%
2030	276,883,261	11,671,420	1.67%	1.55%
2031	281,528,070	11,848,221	1.68%	1.51%
2032	286,241,141	12,023,121	1.67%	1.48%
2033	291,012,268	12,196,639	1.67%	1.44%
2034	295,820,153	12,369,248	1.65%	1.42%
2035	300,643,518	12,540,596	1.63%	1.39%
2036	305,491,504	12,710,682	1.61%	1.36%
2037	310,353,293	12,879,737	1.59%	1.33%
2038	315,227,709	13,047,122	1.57%	1.3%
2039	320,105,882	13,212,668	1.55%	1.27%
2040	324,937,703	13,376,156	1.51%	1.24%
2041	329,746,478	13,537,361	1.48%	1.21%
2042	334,551,874	13,696,139	1.46%	1.17%
2043	339,334,851	13,853,410	1.43%	1.15%
2044	344,095,467	14,009,926	1.4%	1.13%
2045	348,837,732	14,165,578	1.38%	1.11%
2046	353,552,859	14,318,889	1.35%	1.08%
2047	358,207,159	14,469,210	1.32%	1.05%
2048	362,796,532	14,617,364	1.28%	1.02%
2049	367,344,429	14,763,600	1.25%	1%
2050	371,863,804	14,906,584	1.23%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Pakistan increased by 41,837,671 people (a 23.8% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Pakistan gained 41,206,244 (a 19% growth), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Pakistan was ranked 6th most populous country in 2005 and is 5th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Pakistan's population will grow by 43.9% to 371,863,804 people with a rank change from 5th to 4th. The population of Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.