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Population in Pakistan compared to Spain: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Pakistan was 251,269,164 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Pakistan's population is 258,497,127 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Pakistan's population is 5.3 times bigger than Spain's.
  • Pakistan is ranked the 5th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 3.72% of the world: 3.13% for Pakistan vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Pakistan has had an average growth rate of +1.6% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Pakistan has increased from 175M people to 258M (47.3% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Pakistan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 511M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Pakistan vs Spain: live population counter

Pakistan Spain
Current population
258497127
48786181
Population rank 5/197 32/197
Percent of world population 3.13% 0.59%
One net population change
8.38 seconds
1.14 minutes
One birth every
4.58 seconds
1.62 minutes
One death every
19.7 seconds
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
22.5 seconds
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change -1,401,173 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +10,314 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +3,764,669 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +1.52% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 73/197 108/197

Pakistan and Spain: population history and growth rate by year chart

Pakistan
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Pakistan Spain Pakistan Spain
1960 45,709,310 30,455,000 - -
1961 46,921,277 30,739,250 2.65% 0.93%
1962 48,156,128 31,023,366 2.63% 0.92%
1963 49,447,776 31,296,651 2.68% 0.88%
1964 50,799,999 31,609,195 2.73% 1%
1965 52,209,010 31,954,292 2.77% 1.09%
1966 53,678,667 32,283,194 2.81% 1.03%
1967 55,214,768 32,682,947 2.86% 1.24%
1968 56,810,507 33,113,134 2.89% 1.32%
1969 58,460,939 33,441,054 2.91% 0.99%
1970 60,166,719 33,814,531 2.92% 1.12%
1971 61,847,899 34,224,490 2.79% 1.21%
1972 63,583,194 34,604,469 2.81% 1.11%
1973 65,461,912 34,988,947 2.95% 1.11%
1974 67,415,487 35,373,335 2.98% 1.1%
1975 69,461,175 35,757,900 3.03% 1.09%
1976 71,620,254 36,137,812 3.11% 1.06%
1977 73,901,827 36,511,638 3.19% 1.03%
1978 76,307,379 36,864,898 3.26% 0.97%
1979 78,997,039 37,191,330 3.52% 0.89%
1980 82,291,010 37,491,165 4.17% 0.81%
1981 85,802,049 37,758,631 4.27% 0.71%
1982 89,089,246 37,986,012 3.83% 0.6%
1983 92,227,711 38,171,525 3.52% 0.49%
1984 95,164,936 38,330,364 3.18% 0.42%
1985 98,229,285 38,469,512 3.22% 0.36%
1986 101,606,764 38,584,624 3.44% 0.3%
1987 105,130,717 38,684,815 3.47% 0.26%
1988 108,724,739 38,766,939 3.42% 0.21%
1989 112,336,629 38,827,764 3.32% 0.16%
1990 116,155,576 38,867,322 3.4% 0.1%
1991 120,060,406 38,966,376 3.36% 0.25%
1992 123,546,848 39,157,685 2.9% 0.49%
1993 127,020,117 39,361,262 2.81% 0.52%
1994 130,748,083 39,549,108 2.93% 0.48%
1995 134,582,253 39,724,050 2.93% 0.44%
1996 138,557,092 39,889,852 2.95% 0.42%
1997 142,531,804 40,057,389 2.87% 0.42%
1998 146,522,356 40,223,509 2.8% 0.41%
1999 150,565,377 40,386,875 2.76% 0.41%
2000 154,879,127 40,567,864 2.87% 0.45%
2001 159,270,907 40,850,412 2.84% 0.7%
2002 163,222,549 41,431,558 2.48% 1.42%
2003 167,110,248 42,187,645 2.38% 1.82%
2004 171,286,000 42,921,895 2.5% 1.74%
2005 175,453,212 43,653,155 2.43% 1.7%
2006 179,682,690 44,397,319 2.41% 1.7%
2007 184,493,231 45,226,803 2.68% 1.87%
2008 189,499,113 45,954,106 2.71% 1.61%
2009 194,376,534 46,362,946 2.57% 0.89%
2010 199,239,047 46,576,897 2.5% 0.46%
2011 203,746,065 46,742,697 2.26% 0.36%
2012 207,667,125 46,773,055 1.92% 0.06%
2013 211,073,978 46,604,197 1.64% -0.36%
2014 214,264,647 46,460,733 1.51% -0.31%
2015 217,290,883 46,422,303 1.41% -0.08%
2016 220,138,869 46,458,139 1.31% 0.08%
2017 223,273,967 46,571,232 1.42% 0.24%
2018 226,928,892 46,782,011 1.64% 0.45%
2019 230,800,899 47,118,501 1.71% 0.72%
2020 235,001,746 47,359,424 1.82% 0.51%
2021 239,477,801 47,443,821 1.9% 0.18%
2022 243,700,667 47,786,102 1.76% 0.72%
2023 247,504,495 48,347,910 1.56% 1.18%
2024 251,269,164 48,807,137 1.52% 0.95%
2025 255,219,564 48,786,181 1.57% -0.04%
2026 259,299,796 48,746,279 1.6% -0.08%
2027 263,515,827 48,696,847 1.63% -0.1%
2028 267,881,923 48,642,132 1.66% -0.11%
2029 272,337,520 48,578,166 1.66% -0.13%
2030 276,883,261 48,501,513 1.67% -0.16%
2031 281,528,070 48,412,854 1.68% -0.18%
2032 286,241,141 48,321,195 1.67% -0.19%
2033 291,012,268 48,230,054 1.67% -0.19%
2034 295,820,153 48,136,421 1.65% -0.19%
2035 300,643,518 48,036,650 1.63% -0.21%
2036 305,491,504 47,929,957 1.61% -0.22%
2037 310,353,293 47,819,257 1.59% -0.23%
2038 315,227,709 47,706,580 1.57% -0.24%
2039 320,105,882 47,588,878 1.55% -0.25%
2040 324,937,703 47,463,597 1.51% -0.26%
2041 329,746,478 47,332,618 1.48% -0.28%
2042 334,551,874 47,194,588 1.46% -0.29%
2043 339,334,851 47,052,293 1.43% -0.3%
2044 344,095,467 46,902,636 1.4% -0.32%
2045 348,837,732 46,738,565 1.38% -0.35%
2046 353,552,859 46,564,383 1.35% -0.37%
2047 358,207,159 46,381,681 1.32% -0.39%
2048 362,796,532 46,190,642 1.28% -0.41%
2049 367,344,429 45,985,428 1.25% -0.44%
2050 371,863,804 45,769,362 1.23% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Pakistan increased by 41,837,671 people (a 23.8% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Pakistan gained 41,206,244 (a 19% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Pakistan was ranked 6th most populous country in 2005 and is 5th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd 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 Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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