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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Papua New Guinea	Syria	Papua New Guinea	Syria
1960	1,995,110	4,673,500	-	-
1961	2,046,127	4,815,466	2.56%	3.04%
1962	2,093,919	4,959,340	2.34%	2.99%
1963	2,141,376	5,110,467	2.27%	3.05%
1964	2,188,325	5,269,087	2.19%	3.1%
1965	2,235,820	5,435,267	2.17%	3.15%
1966	2,285,774	5,609,047	2.23%	3.2%
1967	2,337,532	5,790,198	2.26%	3.23%
1968	2,390,803	5,978,742	2.28%	3.26%
1969	2,446,927	6,175,166	2.35%	3.29%
1970	2,505,628	6,380,609	2.4%	3.33%
1971	2,566,421	6,598,094	2.43%	3.41%
1972	2,628,432	6,826,024	2.42%	3.45%
1973	2,690,629	7,060,321	2.37%	3.43%
1974	2,752,671	7,302,160	2.31%	3.43%
1975	2,814,820	7,554,364	2.26%	3.45%
1976	2,877,327	7,817,320	2.22%	3.48%
1977	2,940,327	8,090,501	2.19%	3.49%
1978	3,003,714	8,372,759	2.16%	3.49%
1979	3,067,341	8,661,909	2.12%	3.45%
1980	3,131,512	8,957,663	2.09%	3.41%
1981	3,197,019	9,260,189	2.09%	3.38%
1982	3,264,291	9,572,511	2.1%	3.37%
1983	3,333,633	9,904,809	2.12%	3.47%
1984	3,405,198	10,258,398	2.15%	3.57%
1985	3,478,936	10,625,672	2.17%	3.58%
1986	3,554,793	11,002,844	2.18%	3.55%
1987	3,632,543	11,388,923	2.19%	3.51%
1988	3,711,880	11,782,264	2.18%	3.45%
1989	3,796,078	12,179,060	2.27%	3.37%
1990	3,896,481	12,579,208	2.64%	3.29%
1991	4,021,837	12,980,821	3.22%	3.19%
1992	4,166,699	13,385,571	3.6%	3.12%
1993	4,320,872	13,795,686	3.7%	3.06%
1994	4,480,208	14,208,583	3.69%	2.99%
1995	4,644,278	14,616,801	3.66%	2.87%
1996	4,813,361	15,018,104	3.64%	2.75%
1997	4,987,883	15,417,542	3.63%	2.66%
1998	5,166,390	15,820,413	3.58%	2.61%
1999	5,349,333	16,228,061	3.54%	2.58%
2000	5,537,064	16,637,888	3.51%	2.53%
2001	5,728,435	17,051,338	3.46%	2.48%
2002	5,924,003	17,468,332	3.41%	2.45%
2003	6,123,997	17,889,296	3.38%	2.41%
2004	6,328,041	18,336,875	3.33%	2.5%
2005	6,535,905	18,814,091	3.28%	2.6%
2006	6,747,720	19,637,022	3.24%	4.37%
2007	6,963,345	20,884,125	3.2%	6.35%
2008	7,183,002	21,636,564	3.15%	3.6%
2009	7,406,438	21,976,969	3.11%	1.57%
2010	7,633,523	22,482,421	3.07%	2.3%
2011	7,859,346	22,878,098	2.96%	1.76%
2012	8,081,390	22,759,763	2.83%	-0.52%
2013	8,302,698	21,666,917	2.74%	-4.8%
2014	8,523,441	20,273,659	2.66%	-6.43%
2015	8,743,246	19,424,618	2.58%	-4.19%
2016	8,961,718	19,193,834	2.5%	-1.19%
2017	9,178,714	19,224,668	2.42%	0.16%
2018	9,394,513	19,577,845	2.35%	1.84%
2019	9,609,010	20,353,534	2.28%	3.96%
2020	9,815,746	21,049,429	2.15%	3.42%
2021	10,012,896	21,628,839	2.01%	2.75%
2022	10,203,169	22,462,173	1.9%	3.85%
2023	10,389,635	23,594,623	1.83%	5.04%
2024	10,576,502	24,672,760	1.8%	4.57%
2025	10,762,813	25,620,422	1.76%	3.84%
2026	10,947,845	26,472,499	1.72%	3.33%
2027	11,131,268	27,261,544	1.68%	2.98%
2028	11,312,895	28,006,558	1.63%	2.73%
2029	11,492,799	28,719,309	1.59%	2.54%
2030	11,671,420	29,395,545	1.55%	2.35%
2031	11,848,221	30,029,824	1.51%	2.16%
2032	12,023,121	30,633,661	1.48%	2.01%
2033	12,196,639	31,212,478	1.44%	1.89%
2034	12,369,248	31,768,138	1.42%	1.78%
2035	12,540,596	32,294,792	1.39%	1.66%
2036	12,710,682	32,788,153	1.36%	1.53%
2037	12,879,737	33,258,407	1.33%	1.43%
2038	13,047,122	33,710,718	1.3%	1.36%
2039	13,212,668	34,131,238	1.27%	1.25%
2040	13,376,156	34,533,185	1.24%	1.18%
2041	13,537,361	34,916,936	1.21%	1.11%
2042	13,696,139	35,279,863	1.17%	1.04%
2043	13,853,410	35,623,325	1.15%	0.97%
2044	14,009,926	35,944,394	1.13%	0.9%
2045	14,165,578	36,265,295	1.11%	0.89%
2046	14,318,889	36,583,260	1.08%	0.88%
2047	14,469,210	36,878,640	1.05%	0.81%
2048	14,617,364	37,171,029	1.02%	0.79%
2049	14,763,600	37,477,690	1%	0.83%
2050	14,906,584	37,793,378	0.97%	0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Papua New Guinea gained 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2005 and is 90th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.