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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Papua New Guinea	South Korea	Papua New Guinea	South Korea
1960	1,995,110	25,012,374	-	-
1961	2,046,127	25,765,673	2.56%	3.01%
1962	2,093,919	26,513,030	2.34%	2.9%
1963	2,141,376	27,261,747	2.27%	2.82%
1964	2,188,325	27,984,155	2.19%	2.65%
1965	2,235,820	28,704,674	2.17%	2.57%
1966	2,285,774	29,435,571	2.23%	2.55%
1967	2,337,532	30,130,983	2.26%	2.36%
1968	2,390,803	30,838,302	2.28%	2.35%
1969	2,446,927	31,544,266	2.35%	2.29%
1970	2,505,628	32,240,827	2.4%	2.21%
1971	2,566,421	32,882,704	2.43%	1.99%
1972	2,628,432	33,505,406	2.42%	1.89%
1973	2,690,629	34,103,149	2.37%	1.78%
1974	2,752,671	34,692,266	2.31%	1.73%
1975	2,814,820	35,280,725	2.26%	1.7%
1976	2,877,327	35,848,523	2.22%	1.61%
1977	2,940,327	36,411,795	2.19%	1.57%
1978	3,003,714	36,969,185	2.16%	1.53%
1979	3,067,341	37,534,236	2.12%	1.53%
1980	3,131,512	38,123,775	2.09%	1.57%
1981	3,197,019	38,723,248	2.09%	1.57%
1982	3,264,291	39,326,352	2.1%	1.56%
1983	3,333,633	39,910,403	2.12%	1.49%
1984	3,405,198	40,405,956	2.15%	1.24%
1985	3,478,936	40,805,744	2.17%	0.99%
1986	3,554,793	41,213,674	2.18%	1%
1987	3,632,543	41,621,690	2.19%	0.99%
1988	3,711,880	42,031,247	2.18%	0.98%
1989	3,796,078	42,449,038	2.27%	0.99%
1990	3,896,481	42,869,283	2.64%	0.99%
1991	4,021,837	43,295,704	3.22%	0.99%
1992	4,166,699	43,747,962	3.6%	1.04%
1993	4,320,872	44,194,628	3.7%	1.02%
1994	4,480,208	44,641,540	3.69%	1.01%
1995	4,644,278	45,092,991	3.66%	1.01%
1996	4,813,361	45,524,681	3.64%	0.96%
1997	4,987,883	45,953,580	3.63%	0.94%
1998	5,166,390	46,286,503	3.58%	0.72%
1999	5,349,333	46,616,677	3.54%	0.71%
2000	5,537,064	47,008,111	3.51%	0.84%
2001	5,728,435	47,370,164	3.46%	0.77%
2002	5,924,003	47,644,736	3.41%	0.58%
2003	6,123,997	47,892,330	3.38%	0.52%
2004	6,328,041	48,082,519	3.33%	0.4%
2005	6,535,905	48,184,561	3.28%	0.21%
2006	6,747,720	48,438,292	3.24%	0.53%
2007	6,963,345	48,683,638	3.2%	0.51%
2008	7,183,002	49,054,708	3.15%	0.76%
2009	7,406,438	49,307,835	3.11%	0.52%
2010	7,633,523	49,554,112	3.07%	0.5%
2011	7,859,346	49,936,638	2.96%	0.77%
2012	8,081,390	50,199,853	2.83%	0.53%
2013	8,302,698	50,428,893	2.74%	0.46%
2014	8,523,441	50,746,659	2.66%	0.63%
2015	8,743,246	51,014,947	2.58%	0.53%
2016	8,961,718	51,217,803	2.5%	0.4%
2017	9,178,714	51,361,911	2.42%	0.28%
2018	9,394,513	51,585,058	2.35%	0.43%
2019	9,609,010	51,764,822	2.28%	0.35%
2020	9,815,746	51,836,239	2.15%	0.14%
2021	10,012,896	51,769,539	2.01%	-0.13%
2022	10,203,169	51,672,569	1.9%	-0.19%
2023	10,389,635	51,712,619	1.83%	0.08%
2024	10,576,502	51,751,065	1.8%	0.07%
2025	10,762,813	51,700,480	1.76%	-0.1%
2026	10,947,845	51,633,793	1.72%	-0.13%
2027	11,131,268	51,552,198	1.68%	-0.16%
2028	11,312,895	51,456,707	1.63%	-0.19%
2029	11,492,799	51,347,230	1.59%	-0.21%
2030	11,671,420	51,221,713	1.55%	-0.24%
2031	11,848,221	51,081,220	1.51%	-0.27%
2032	12,023,121	50,924,233	1.48%	-0.31%
2033	12,196,639	50,747,132	1.44%	-0.35%
2034	12,369,248	50,549,508	1.42%	-0.39%
2035	12,540,596	50,333,286	1.39%	-0.43%
2036	12,710,682	50,098,951	1.36%	-0.47%
2037	12,879,737	49,845,669	1.33%	-0.51%
2038	13,047,122	49,573,234	1.3%	-0.55%
2039	13,212,668	49,283,770	1.27%	-0.58%
2040	13,376,156	48,980,369	1.24%	-0.62%
2041	13,537,361	48,661,905	1.21%	-0.65%
2042	13,696,139	48,331,004	1.17%	-0.68%
2043	13,853,410	47,990,085	1.15%	-0.71%
2044	14,009,926	47,634,183	1.13%	-0.74%
2045	14,165,578	47,263,526	1.11%	-0.78%
2046	14,318,889	46,881,228	1.08%	-0.81%
2047	14,469,210	46,482,133	1.05%	-0.85%
2048	14,617,364	46,063,595	1.02%	-0.9%
2049	14,763,600	45,626,805	1%	-0.95%
2050	14,906,584	45,172,356	0.97%	-1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Papua New Guinea gained 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2005 and is 90th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Papua New Guinea's population will grow by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people with a rank change from 90th to 85th. The population of South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.