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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Papua New Guinea	Thailand	Papua New Guinea	Thailand
1960	1,995,110	26,851,747	-	-
1961	2,046,127	27,650,334	2.56%	2.97%
1962	2,093,919	28,481,040	2.34%	3%
1963	2,141,376	29,342,322	2.27%	3.02%
1964	2,188,325	30,232,141	2.19%	3.03%
1965	2,235,820	31,149,337	2.17%	3.03%
1966	2,285,774	32,086,071	2.23%	3.01%
1967	2,337,532	33,037,801	2.26%	2.97%
1968	2,390,803	34,002,560	2.28%	2.92%
1969	2,446,927	34,973,782	2.35%	2.86%
1970	2,505,628	35,954,408	2.4%	2.8%
1971	2,566,421	36,937,387	2.43%	2.73%
1972	2,628,432	37,933,929	2.42%	2.7%
1973	2,690,629	38,947,787	2.37%	2.67%
1974	2,752,671	39,952,891	2.31%	2.58%
1975	2,814,820	40,940,005	2.26%	2.47%
1976	2,877,327	41,896,504	2.22%	2.34%
1977	2,940,327	42,843,974	2.19%	2.26%
1978	3,003,714	43,788,976	2.16%	2.21%
1979	3,067,341	44,718,434	2.12%	2.12%
1980	3,131,512	45,650,022	2.09%	2.08%
1981	3,197,019	46,575,855	2.09%	2.03%
1982	3,264,291	47,494,577	2.1%	1.97%
1983	3,333,633	48,423,309	2.12%	1.96%
1984	3,405,198	49,351,708	2.15%	1.92%
1985	3,478,936	50,270,753	2.17%	1.86%
1986	3,554,793	51,177,834	2.18%	1.8%
1987	3,632,543	52,074,105	2.19%	1.75%
1988	3,711,880	52,969,595	2.18%	1.72%
1989	3,796,078	53,848,956	2.27%	1.66%
1990	3,896,481	54,738,329	2.64%	1.65%
1991	4,021,837	55,637,434	3.22%	1.64%
1992	4,166,699	56,528,834	3.6%	1.6%
1993	4,320,872	57,408,198	3.7%	1.56%
1994	4,480,208	58,260,854	3.69%	1.49%
1995	4,644,278	59,098,232	3.66%	1.44%
1996	4,813,361	59,920,064	3.64%	1.39%
1997	4,987,883	60,724,584	3.63%	1.34%
1998	5,166,390	61,522,630	3.58%	1.31%
1999	5,349,333	62,299,043	3.54%	1.26%
2000	5,537,064	63,007,815	3.51%	1.14%
2001	5,728,435	63,651,141	3.46%	1.02%
2002	5,924,003	64,266,437	3.41%	0.97%
2003	6,123,997	64,868,166	3.38%	0.94%
2004	6,328,041	65,452,047	3.33%	0.9%
2005	6,535,905	66,017,420	3.28%	0.86%
2006	6,747,720	66,567,687	3.24%	0.83%
2007	6,963,345	67,102,394	3.2%	0.8%
2008	7,183,002	67,619,830	3.15%	0.77%
2009	7,406,438	68,121,080	3.11%	0.74%
2010	7,633,523	68,579,447	3.07%	0.67%
2011	7,859,346	69,007,208	2.96%	0.62%
2012	8,081,390	69,436,098	2.83%	0.62%
2013	8,302,698	69,845,114	2.74%	0.59%
2014	8,523,441	70,216,367	2.66%	0.53%
2015	8,743,246	70,540,795	2.58%	0.46%
2016	8,961,718	70,859,841	2.5%	0.45%
2017	9,178,714	71,160,187	2.42%	0.42%
2018	9,394,513	71,376,079	2.35%	0.3%
2019	9,609,010	71,522,271	2.28%	0.2%
2020	9,815,746	71,641,484	2.15%	0.17%
2021	10,012,896	71,727,332	2.01%	0.12%
2022	10,203,169	71,735,329	1.9%	0.01%
2023	10,389,635	71,702,435	1.83%	-0.05%
2024	10,576,502	71,668,011	1.8%	-0.05%
2025	10,762,813	71,619,867	1.76%	-0.07%
2026	10,947,845	71,559,621	1.72%	-0.08%
2027	11,131,268	71,488,156	1.68%	-0.1%
2028	11,312,895	71,406,996	1.63%	-0.11%
2029	11,492,799	71,316,195	1.59%	-0.13%
2030	11,671,420	71,215,017	1.55%	-0.14%
2031	11,848,221	71,104,025	1.51%	-0.16%
2032	12,023,121	70,982,286	1.48%	-0.17%
2033	12,196,639	70,847,947	1.44%	-0.19%
2034	12,369,248	70,701,651	1.42%	-0.21%
2035	12,540,596	70,540,884	1.39%	-0.23%
2036	12,710,682	70,366,496	1.36%	-0.25%
2037	12,879,737	70,180,031	1.33%	-0.26%
2038	13,047,122	69,979,034	1.3%	-0.29%
2039	13,212,668	69,763,928	1.27%	-0.31%
2040	13,376,156	69,535,003	1.24%	-0.33%
2041	13,537,361	69,288,477	1.21%	-0.35%
2042	13,696,139	69,025,348	1.17%	-0.38%
2043	13,853,410	68,748,075	1.15%	-0.4%
2044	14,009,926	68,456,533	1.13%	-0.42%
2045	14,165,578	68,150,148	1.11%	-0.45%
2046	14,318,889	67,827,309	1.08%	-0.47%
2047	14,469,210	67,489,358	1.05%	-0.5%
2048	14,617,364	67,136,737	1.02%	-0.52%
2049	14,763,600	66,767,316	1%	-0.55%
2050	14,906,584	66,382,732	0.97%	-0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Papua New Guinea gained 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2005 and is 90th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.