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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Papua New Guinea	Romania	Papua New Guinea	Romania
1960	1,995,110	18,406,905	-	-
1961	2,046,127	18,555,250	2.56%	0.81%
1962	2,093,919	18,676,550	2.34%	0.65%
1963	2,141,376	18,797,850	2.27%	0.65%
1964	2,188,325	18,919,126	2.19%	0.65%
1965	2,235,820	19,031,576	2.17%	0.59%
1966	2,285,774	19,215,450	2.23%	0.97%
1967	2,337,532	19,534,242	2.26%	1.66%
1968	2,390,803	19,799,831	2.28%	1.36%
1969	2,446,927	20,009,141	2.35%	1.06%
1970	2,505,628	20,250,398	2.4%	1.21%
1971	2,566,421	20,461,567	2.43%	1.04%
1972	2,628,432	20,657,957	2.42%	0.96%
1973	2,690,629	20,835,681	2.37%	0.86%
1974	2,752,671	21,029,429	2.31%	0.93%
1975	2,814,820	21,293,583	2.26%	1.26%
1976	2,877,327	21,551,634	2.22%	1.21%
1977	2,940,327	21,756,096	2.19%	0.95%
1978	3,003,714	21,951,464	2.16%	0.9%
1979	3,067,341	22,090,488	2.12%	0.63%
1980	3,131,512	22,207,282	2.09%	0.53%
1981	3,197,019	22,353,070	2.09%	0.66%
1982	3,264,291	22,475,741	2.1%	0.55%
1983	3,333,633	22,560,478	2.12%	0.38%
1984	3,405,198	22,640,547	2.15%	0.35%
1985	3,478,936	22,732,999	2.17%	0.41%
1986	3,554,793	22,836,841	2.18%	0.46%
1987	3,632,543	22,949,430	2.19%	0.49%
1988	3,711,880	23,057,662	2.18%	0.47%
1989	3,796,078	23,161,458	2.27%	0.45%
1990	3,896,481	23,201,835	2.64%	0.17%
1991	4,021,837	23,001,155	3.22%	-0.86%
1992	4,166,699	22,794,284	3.6%	-0.9%
1993	4,320,872	22,763,280	3.7%	-0.14%
1994	4,480,208	22,730,211	3.69%	-0.15%
1995	4,644,278	22,684,270	3.66%	-0.2%
1996	4,813,361	22,619,004	3.64%	-0.29%
1997	4,987,883	22,553,978	3.63%	-0.29%
1998	5,166,390	22,507,344	3.58%	-0.21%
1999	5,349,333	22,472,040	3.54%	-0.16%
2000	5,537,064	22,442,971	3.51%	-0.13%
2001	5,728,435	22,131,970	3.46%	-1.39%
2002	5,924,003	21,730,496	3.41%	-1.81%
2003	6,123,997	21,574,326	3.38%	-0.72%
2004	6,328,041	21,451,748	3.33%	-0.57%
2005	6,535,905	21,319,685	3.28%	-0.62%
2006	6,747,720	21,193,760	3.24%	-0.59%
2007	6,963,345	20,882,982	3.2%	-1.47%
2008	7,183,002	20,537,875	3.15%	-1.65%
2009	7,406,438	20,367,487	3.11%	-0.83%
2010	7,633,523	20,246,871	3.07%	-0.59%
2011	7,859,346	20,147,528	2.96%	-0.49%
2012	8,081,390	20,058,035	2.83%	-0.44%
2013	8,302,698	19,983,693	2.74%	-0.37%
2014	8,523,441	19,908,979	2.66%	-0.37%
2015	8,743,246	19,815,616	2.58%	-0.47%
2016	8,961,718	19,702,267	2.5%	-0.57%
2017	9,178,714	19,588,715	2.42%	-0.58%
2018	9,394,513	19,473,970	2.35%	-0.59%
2019	9,609,010	19,371,648	2.28%	-0.53%
2020	9,815,746	19,265,250	2.15%	-0.55%
2021	10,012,896	19,122,059	2.01%	-0.74%
2022	10,203,169	19,048,502	1.9%	-0.38%
2023	10,389,635	19,061,062	1.83%	0.07%
2024	10,576,502	19,051,804	1.8%	-0.05%
2025	10,762,813	18,945,157	1.76%	-0.56%
2026	10,947,845	18,836,893	1.72%	-0.57%
2027	11,131,268	18,727,645	1.68%	-0.58%
2028	11,312,895	18,617,757	1.63%	-0.59%
2029	11,492,799	18,506,702	1.59%	-0.6%
2030	11,671,420	18,394,947	1.55%	-0.6%
2031	11,848,221	18,282,991	1.51%	-0.61%
2032	12,023,121	18,170,681	1.48%	-0.61%
2033	12,196,639	18,057,661	1.44%	-0.62%
2034	12,369,248	17,943,814	1.42%	-0.63%
2035	12,540,596	17,828,772	1.39%	-0.64%
2036	12,710,682	17,712,177	1.36%	-0.65%
2037	12,879,737	17,595,189	1.33%	-0.66%
2038	13,047,122	17,477,597	1.3%	-0.67%
2039	13,212,668	17,360,012	1.27%	-0.67%
2040	13,376,156	17,242,939	1.24%	-0.67%
2041	13,537,361	17,124,773	1.21%	-0.69%
2042	13,696,139	17,006,515	1.17%	-0.69%
2043	13,853,410	16,888,882	1.15%	-0.69%
2044	14,009,926	16,770,593	1.13%	-0.7%
2045	14,165,578	16,652,406	1.11%	-0.7%
2046	14,318,889	16,534,847	1.08%	-0.71%
2047	14,469,210	16,416,456	1.05%	-0.72%
2048	14,617,364	16,297,099	1.02%	-0.73%
2049	14,763,600	16,177,534	1%	-0.73%
2050	14,906,584	16,058,209	0.97%	-0.74%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,213,998 people (a 32.8% growth), while Romania lost 1,491,493 people (a 7.04% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Papua New Guinea gained 1,988,131 (a 22.2% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -865,374 (a 4.39% decline).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2006 and is 89th in 2026. Romania was ranked 51st in 2006 and ranked 70th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Papua New Guinea's population will grow by 36.1% to 14,906,584 people with a rank change from 89th to 85th. The population of Romania will decrease by 14.8% to 16,058,209 people and rank change from 70th to 81st.