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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Palau was 17,695 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Palau's population is 17,663 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 4,864 times bigger than Palau's.
  • Palau is ranked the 194th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.04% of the world: 0.0002% for Palau vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Palau has had an average growth rate of +0.02% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Palau has decreased from 19.8K people to 17.7K (10.9% decline), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Turkey is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 89.4M 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 Turkey: live population counter

Palau Turkey
Current population
17663
85914550
Population rank 194/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.0002% 1.04%
One net population change
1.63 weeks
2.73 minutes
One birth every
1.89 days
33 seconds
One death every
1.8 days
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
3.72 weeks
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -14 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +0 +528
Annual growth/decline -32 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate -0.18% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 176/197 153/197

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

Palau
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Palau Turkey Palau Turkey
1960 9,328 28,329,898 - -
1961 9,555 29,119,238 2.43% 2.79%
1962 9,793 29,916,147 2.49% 2.74%
1963 10,037 30,726,841 2.49% 2.71%
1964 10,292 31,543,072 2.54% 2.66%
1965 10,547 32,345,220 2.48% 2.54%
1966 10,805 33,177,672 2.45% 2.57%
1967 10,988 34,050,421 1.69% 2.63%
1968 11,080 34,921,684 0.84% 2.56%
1969 11,159 35,787,774 0.71% 2.48%
1970 11,368 36,638,465 1.87% 2.38%
1971 11,759 37,518,611 3.44% 2.4%
1972 12,194 38,430,221 3.7% 2.43%
1973 12,552 39,329,533 2.94% 2.34%
1974 12,687 40,210,234 1.08% 2.24%
1975 12,655 41,053,126 -0.25% 2.1%
1976 12,598 41,899,984 -0.45% 2.06%
1977 12,525 42,773,298 -0.58% 2.08%
1978 12,440 43,645,306 -0.68% 2.04%
1979 12,337 44,510,429 -0.83% 1.98%
1980 12,271 45,408,815 -0.53% 2.02%
1981 12,402 46,321,190 1.07% 2.01%
1982 12,694 47,322,096 2.35% 2.16%
1983 13,006 48,447,410 2.46% 2.38%
1984 13,337 49,574,069 2.54% 2.33%
1985 13,688 50,687,115 2.63% 2.25%
1986 14,024 51,777,772 2.45% 2.15%
1987 14,334 52,843,670 2.21% 2.06%
1988 14,645 53,909,626 2.17% 2.02%
1989 14,945 54,976,723 2.05% 1.98%
1990 15,259 56,015,628 2.1% 1.89%
1991 15,614 57,009,887 2.33% 1.77%
1992 15,989 57,990,118 2.4% 1.72%
1993 16,372 58,999,167 2.4% 1.74%
1994 16,770 60,033,836 2.43% 1.75%
1995 17,195 61,024,503 2.53% 1.65%
1996 17,654 61,951,134 2.67% 1.52%
1997 18,108 62,852,966 2.57% 1.46%
1998 18,524 63,734,383 2.3% 1.4%
1999 18,901 64,591,923 2.04% 1.35%
2000 19,178 65,425,961 1.47% 1.29%
2001 19,352 66,245,128 0.91% 1.25%
2002 19,503 67,048,795 0.78% 1.21%
2003 19,659 67,831,730 0.8% 1.17%
2004 19,820 68,592,617 0.82% 1.12%
2005 19,819 69,329,557 -0.005% 1.07%
2006 19,593 70,045,349 -1.14% 1.03%
2007 19,302 70,158,112 -1.49% 0.16%
2008 19,009 71,051,678 -1.52% 1.27%
2009 18,709 72,039,206 -1.58% 1.39%
2010 18,396 73,142,150 -1.67% 1.53%
2011 18,078 74,223,629 -1.73% 1.48%
2012 17,765 75,175,827 -1.73% 1.28%
2013 17,648 76,147,624 -0.66% 1.29%
2014 17,715 77,181,884 0.38% 1.36%
2015 17,770 78,218,479 0.31% 1.34%
2016 17,797 79,277,962 0.15% 1.35%
2017 17,812 80,312,698 0.08% 1.31%
2018 17,814 81,407,204 0.01% 1.36%
2019 17,798 82,579,440 -0.09% 1.44%
2020 17,792 83,384,680 -0.03% 0.98%
2021 17,783 84,147,318 -0.05% 0.91%
2022 17,759 84,979,913 -0.13% 0.99%
2023 17,727 85,325,965 -0.18% 0.41%
2024 17,695 85,518,661 -0.18% 0.23%
2025 17,663 85,725,557 -0.18% 0.24%
2026 17,618 85,960,835 -0.25% 0.27%
2027 17,564 86,227,115 -0.31% 0.31%
2028 17,504 86,502,744 -0.34% 0.32%
2029 17,436 86,771,652 -0.39% 0.31%
2030 17,376 87,037,680 -0.34% 0.31%
2031 17,299 87,297,191 -0.44% 0.3%
2032 17,228 87,537,075 -0.41% 0.27%
2033 17,163 87,762,403 -0.38% 0.26%
2034 17,092 87,974,138 -0.41% 0.24%
2035 17,012 88,172,739 -0.47% 0.23%
2036 16,940 88,364,318 -0.43% 0.22%
2037 16,858 88,545,669 -0.48% 0.21%
2038 16,779 88,707,268 -0.47% 0.18%
2039 16,689 88,849,956 -0.54% 0.16%
2040 16,604 88,975,510 -0.51% 0.14%
2041 16,510 89,083,304 -0.57% 0.12%
2042 16,403 89,177,769 -0.65% 0.11%
2043 16,302 89,254,147 -0.61% 0.09%
2044 16,202 89,311,458 -0.62% 0.06%
2045 16,097 89,349,806 -0.65% 0.04%
2046 15,977 89,375,429 -0.74% 0.03%
2047 15,863 89,383,765 -0.71% 0.009%
2048 15,749 89,361,174 -0.72% -0.03%
2049 15,632 89,306,566 -0.74% -0.06%
2050 15,515 89,218,346 -0.75% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Palau decreased by 2,049 people (a 10.3% decline), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Palau lost -107 (a 0.6% decline), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Palau was ranked 194th most populous country in 2005 and is still 194th 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) Palau's population will shrink by 12.2% to 15,515 people with a rank change from 194th to 195th. The population of Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

Biggest cities by population

Palau
City Population
Ngerulmud 318
Melekeok 299
Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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