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Population in Palau compared to Tanzania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Palau was 17,695 in 2024 vs 68,560,157 people in Tanzania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Palau's population is 17,663 people compared to 72,166,806 in Tanzania.

Population statistics:

  • Tanzania's population is 4,086 times bigger than Palau's.
  • Palau is ranked the 194th most populous country in the world, while Tanzania is the 20th.
  • The countries together account for 0.87% of the world: 0.0002% for Palau vs 0.87% for Tanzania.
  • For the last 10 years, Palau has had an average growth rate of +0.02% per year vs +3.13% in Tanzania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Palau has decreased from 19.8K people to 17.7K (10.9% decline), while Tanzania has grown from 39.2M to 72.2M (84.2% growth).
  • Tanzania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 263M people, while Palau's population already peaked in 2004 at 19.8K people and is projected to decrease to 11.1K people by 2100.

Palau vs Tanzania: live population counter

Palau Tanzania
Current population
17663
72166806
Population rank 194/197 20/197
Percent of world population 0.0002% 0.87%
One net population change
1.63 weeks
16.2 seconds
One birth every
1.89 days
13.4 seconds
One death every
1.8 days
1.36 minutes
One migration net change every
3.72 weeks
17.6 minutes
Annual migration change -14 -29,865
Daily growth/decline +0 +5,322
Annual growth/decline -32 +1,942,551
Annual growth/decline rate -0.18% +2.92%
Population growth rate rank 176/197 19/197

Palau and Tanzania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Palau
Population

Growth rate
Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Palau Tanzania Palau Tanzania
1960 9,328 9,901,419 - -
1961 9,555 10,187,886 2.43% 2.89%
1962 9,793 10,487,756 2.49% 2.94%
1963 10,037 10,799,528 2.49% 2.97%
1964 10,292 11,127,826 2.54% 3.04%
1965 10,547 11,470,728 2.48% 3.08%
1966 10,805 11,827,459 2.45% 3.11%
1967 10,988 12,200,109 1.69% 3.15%
1968 11,080 12,602,076 0.84% 3.29%
1969 11,159 13,036,700 0.71% 3.45%
1970 11,368 13,492,677 1.87% 3.5%
1971 11,759 13,971,451 3.44% 3.55%
1972 12,194 14,479,308 3.7% 3.63%
1973 12,552 15,010,101 2.94% 3.67%
1974 12,687 15,561,630 1.08% 3.67%
1975 12,655 16,138,361 -0.25% 3.71%
1976 12,598 16,736,211 -0.45% 3.7%
1977 12,525 17,352,929 -0.58% 3.68%
1978 12,440 17,976,566 -0.68% 3.59%
1979 12,337 18,592,038 -0.83% 3.42%
1980 12,271 19,189,769 -0.53% 3.21%
1981 12,402 19,784,703 1.07% 3.1%
1982 12,694 20,398,571 2.35% 3.1%
1983 13,006 21,079,874 2.46% 3.34%
1984 13,337 21,779,066 2.54% 3.32%
1985 13,688 22,501,693 2.63% 3.32%
1986 14,024 23,258,959 2.45% 3.37%
1987 14,334 24,030,378 2.21% 3.32%
1988 14,645 24,769,686 2.17% 3.08%
1989 14,945 25,438,759 2.05% 2.7%
1990 15,259 26,110,207 2.1% 2.64%
1991 15,614 26,780,436 2.33% 2.57%
1992 15,989 27,457,588 2.4% 2.53%
1993 16,372 28,332,692 2.4% 3.19%
1994 16,770 29,442,356 2.43% 3.92%
1995 17,195 30,383,497 2.53% 3.2%
1996 17,654 30,945,762 2.67% 1.85%
1997 18,108 31,578,089 2.57% 2.04%
1998 18,524 32,420,458 2.3% 2.67%
1999 18,901 33,300,330 2.04% 2.71%
2000 19,178 34,260,139 1.47% 2.88%
2001 19,352 35,198,299 0.91% 2.74%
2002 19,503 36,121,304 0.78% 2.62%
2003 19,659 37,089,555 0.8% 2.68%
2004 19,820 38,109,668 0.82% 2.75%
2005 19,819 39,182,076 -0.005% 2.81%
2006 19,593 40,294,902 -1.14% 2.84%
2007 19,302 41,435,512 -1.49% 2.83%
2008 19,009 42,570,728 -1.52% 2.74%
2009 18,709 43,633,982 -1.58% 2.5%
2010 18,396 44,758,488 -1.67% 2.58%
2011 18,078 46,029,367 -1.73% 2.84%
2012 17,765 47,374,260 -1.73% 2.92%
2013 17,648 48,824,128 -0.66% 3.06%
2014 17,715 50,351,512 0.38% 3.13%
2015 17,770 52,020,962 0.31% 3.32%
2016 17,797 53,824,013 0.15% 3.47%
2017 17,812 55,652,890 0.08% 3.4%
2018 17,814 57,437,145 0.01% 3.21%
2019 17,798 59,174,891 -0.09% 3.03%
2020 17,792 60,972,798 -0.03% 3.04%
2021 17,783 62,830,412 -0.05% 3.05%
2022 17,759 64,711,821 -0.13% 2.99%
2023 17,727 66,617,606 -0.18% 2.95%
2024 17,695 68,560,157 -0.18% 2.92%
2025 17,663 70,545,858 -0.18% 2.9%
2026 17,618 72,563,773 -0.25% 2.86%
2027 17,564 74,604,804 -0.31% 2.81%
2028 17,504 76,670,483 -0.34% 2.77%
2029 17,436 78,773,192 -0.39% 2.74%
2030 17,376 80,913,118 -0.34% 2.72%
2031 17,299 83,087,927 -0.44% 2.69%
2032 17,228 85,293,126 -0.41% 2.65%
2033 17,163 87,520,491 -0.38% 2.61%
2034 17,092 89,788,673 -0.41% 2.59%
2035 17,012 92,091,418 -0.47% 2.56%
2036 16,940 94,420,808 -0.43% 2.53%
2037 16,858 96,775,766 -0.48% 2.49%
2038 16,779 99,156,465 -0.47% 2.46%
2039 16,689 101,567,525 -0.54% 2.43%
2040 16,604 103,999,350 -0.51% 2.39%
2041 16,510 106,448,475 -0.57% 2.35%
2042 16,403 108,926,272 -0.65% 2.33%
2043 16,302 111,433,788 -0.61% 2.3%
2044 16,202 113,966,263 -0.62% 2.27%
2045 16,097 116,525,463 -0.65% 2.25%
2046 15,977 119,109,670 -0.74% 2.22%
2047 15,863 121,721,018 -0.71% 2.19%
2048 15,749 124,351,294 -0.72% 2.16%
2049 15,632 126,981,394 -0.74% 2.12%
2050 15,515 129,621,083 -0.75% 2.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Palau decreased by 2,049 people (a 10.3% decline), while Tanzania gained 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Palau lost -107 (a 0.6% decline), while Tanzania's population increased by 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth).

Palau was ranked 194th most populous country in 2005 and is still 194th in 2025. Tanzania was ranked 31st in 2005 and ranked 20th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Palau's population will shrink by 12.2% to 15,515 people with a rank change from 194th to 195th. The population of Tanzania will increase by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people and rank change from 20th to 15th.

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