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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Papua New Guinea	Taiwan	Papua New Guinea	Taiwan
1960	1,995,110	-	-	-
1961	2,046,127	11,030,385	2.56%	-
1962	2,093,919	11,392,513	2.34%	3.28%
1963	2,141,376	11,762,101	2.27%	3.24%
1964	2,188,325	12,137,143	2.19%	3.19%
1965	2,235,820	12,511,863	2.17%	3.09%
1966	2,285,774	12,874,153	2.23%	2.9%
1967	2,337,532	13,210,344	2.26%	2.61%
1968	2,390,803	13,548,537	2.28%	2.56%
1969	2,446,927	14,068,984	2.35%	3.84%
1970	2,505,628	14,582,944	2.4%	3.65%
1971	2,566,421	14,913,564	2.43%	2.27%
1972	2,628,432	15,220,495	2.42%	2.06%
1973	2,690,629	15,505,121	2.37%	1.87%
1974	2,752,671	15,784,817	2.31%	1.8%
1975	2,814,820	16,075,128	2.26%	1.84%
1976	2,877,327	16,401,413	2.22%	2.03%
1977	2,940,327	16,730,895	2.19%	2.01%
1978	3,003,714	17,042,272	2.16%	1.86%
1979	3,067,341	17,372,779	2.12%	1.94%
1980	3,131,512	17,704,538	2.09%	1.91%
1981	3,197,019	18,029,982	2.09%	1.84%
1982	3,264,291	18,354,855	2.1%	1.8%
1983	3,333,633	18,653,146	2.12%	1.63%
1984	3,405,198	18,929,866	2.15%	1.48%
1985	3,478,936	19,191,510	2.17%	1.38%
1986	3,554,793	19,411,454	2.18%	1.15%
1987	3,632,543	19,617,046	2.19%	1.06%
1988	3,711,880	19,839,704	2.18%	1.14%
1989	3,796,078	20,055,492	2.27%	1.09%
1990	3,896,481	20,278,946	2.64%	1.11%
1991	4,021,837	20,503,568	3.22%	1.11%
1992	4,166,699	20,704,227	3.6%	0.98%
1993	4,320,872	20,899,019	3.7%	0.94%
1994	4,480,208	21,086,645	3.69%	0.9%
1995	4,644,278	21,267,653	3.66%	0.86%
1996	4,813,361	21,441,432	3.64%	0.82%
1997	4,987,883	21,634,124	3.63%	0.9%
1998	5,166,390	21,835,703	3.58%	0.93%
1999	5,349,333	22,010,489	3.54%	0.8%
2000	5,537,064	22,184,530	3.51%	0.79%
2001	5,728,435	22,341,120	3.46%	0.71%
2002	5,924,003	22,463,172	3.41%	0.55%
2003	6,123,997	22,562,663	3.38%	0.44%
2004	6,328,041	22,646,836	3.33%	0.37%
2005	6,535,905	22,729,753	3.28%	0.37%
2006	6,747,720	22,823,455	3.24%	0.41%
2007	6,963,345	22,917,444	3.2%	0.41%
2008	7,183,002	22,997,696	3.15%	0.35%
2009	7,406,438	23,078,402	3.11%	0.35%
2010	7,633,523	23,140,948	3.07%	0.27%
2011	7,859,346	23,193,518	2.96%	0.23%
2012	8,081,390	23,270,367	2.83%	0.33%
2013	8,302,698	23,344,670	2.74%	0.32%
2014	8,523,441	23,403,635	2.66%	0.25%
2015	8,743,246	23,462,914	2.58%	0.25%
2016	8,961,718	23,515,945	2.5%	0.23%
2017	9,178,714	23,555,522	2.42%	0.17%
2018	9,394,513	23,580,080	2.35%	0.1%
2019	9,609,010	23,596,027	2.28%	0.07%
2020	9,815,746	23,582,179	2.15%	-0.06%
2021	10,012,896	23,468,275	2.01%	-0.48%
2022	10,203,169	23,319,977	1.9%	-0.63%
2023	10,389,635	23,342,541	1.83%	0.1%
2024	10,576,502	23,410,331	1.8%	0.29%
2025	10,762,813	23,308,308	1.76%	-0.44%
2026	10,947,845	23,205,944	1.72%	-0.44%
2027	11,131,268	23,102,120	1.68%	-0.45%
2028	11,312,895	22,996,693	1.63%	-0.46%
2029	11,492,799	22,890,335	1.59%	-0.46%
2030	11,671,420	22,781,040	1.55%	-0.48%
2031	11,848,221	22,667,327	1.51%	-0.5%
2032	12,023,121	22,549,689	1.48%	-0.52%
2033	12,196,639	22,428,721	1.44%	-0.54%
2034	12,369,248	22,302,402	1.42%	-0.56%
2035	12,540,596	22,170,689	1.39%	-0.59%
2036	12,710,682	22,034,775	1.36%	-0.61%
2037	12,879,737	21,893,029	1.33%	-0.64%
2038	13,047,122	21,746,001	1.3%	-0.67%
2039	13,212,668	21,594,236	1.27%	-0.7%
2040	13,376,156	21,436,947	1.24%	-0.73%
2041	13,537,361	21,274,187	1.21%	-0.76%
2042	13,696,139	21,105,682	1.17%	-0.79%
2043	13,853,410	20,932,105	1.15%	-0.82%
2044	14,009,926	20,754,623	1.13%	-0.85%
2045	14,165,578	20,571,741	1.11%	-0.88%
2046	14,318,889	20,384,903	1.08%	-0.91%
2047	14,469,210	20,194,425	1.05%	-0.93%
2048	14,617,364	19,999,753	1.02%	-0.96%
2049	14,763,600	19,801,293	1%	-0.99%
2050	14,906,584	19,598,997	0.97%	-1.02%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,213,998 people (a 32.8% growth), while Taiwan gained 692,490 people (a 3.03% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Papua New Guinea gained 1,988,131 (a 22.2% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -310,001 (a 1.32% decline).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2006 and is 89th in 2026. Taiwan was ranked 49th in 2006 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.5% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.