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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Papua New Guinea was 10,576,502 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Papua New Guinea's population is 10,911,445 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 7.87 times bigger than Papua New Guinea's.
  • Papua New Guinea is ranked the 90th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.17% of the world: 0.13% for Papua New Guinea vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Papua New Guinea has had an average growth rate of +2.23% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Papua New Guinea has increased from 6.54M people to 10.9M (66.9% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Papua New Guinea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 18.6M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Papua New Guinea vs Turkey: live population counter

Papua New Guinea Turkey
Current population
10911445
85914550
Population rank 90/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 1.04%
One net population change
2.81 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
2.06 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
7.76 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
12.4 hours
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -707 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +512 +528
Annual growth/decline +186,867 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +1.8% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 61/197 153/197

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

Papua New Guinea
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Papua New Guinea Turkey Papua New Guinea Turkey
1960 1,995,110 28,329,898 - -
1961 2,046,127 29,119,238 2.56% 2.79%
1962 2,093,919 29,916,147 2.34% 2.74%
1963 2,141,376 30,726,841 2.27% 2.71%
1964 2,188,325 31,543,072 2.19% 2.66%
1965 2,235,820 32,345,220 2.17% 2.54%
1966 2,285,774 33,177,672 2.23% 2.57%
1967 2,337,532 34,050,421 2.26% 2.63%
1968 2,390,803 34,921,684 2.28% 2.56%
1969 2,446,927 35,787,774 2.35% 2.48%
1970 2,505,628 36,638,465 2.4% 2.38%
1971 2,566,421 37,518,611 2.43% 2.4%
1972 2,628,432 38,430,221 2.42% 2.43%
1973 2,690,629 39,329,533 2.37% 2.34%
1974 2,752,671 40,210,234 2.31% 2.24%
1975 2,814,820 41,053,126 2.26% 2.1%
1976 2,877,327 41,899,984 2.22% 2.06%
1977 2,940,327 42,773,298 2.19% 2.08%
1978 3,003,714 43,645,306 2.16% 2.04%
1979 3,067,341 44,510,429 2.12% 1.98%
1980 3,131,512 45,408,815 2.09% 2.02%
1981 3,197,019 46,321,190 2.09% 2.01%
1982 3,264,291 47,322,096 2.1% 2.16%
1983 3,333,633 48,447,410 2.12% 2.38%
1984 3,405,198 49,574,069 2.15% 2.33%
1985 3,478,936 50,687,115 2.17% 2.25%
1986 3,554,793 51,777,772 2.18% 2.15%
1987 3,632,543 52,843,670 2.19% 2.06%
1988 3,711,880 53,909,626 2.18% 2.02%
1989 3,796,078 54,976,723 2.27% 1.98%
1990 3,896,481 56,015,628 2.64% 1.89%
1991 4,021,837 57,009,887 3.22% 1.77%
1992 4,166,699 57,990,118 3.6% 1.72%
1993 4,320,872 58,999,167 3.7% 1.74%
1994 4,480,208 60,033,836 3.69% 1.75%
1995 4,644,278 61,024,503 3.66% 1.65%
1996 4,813,361 61,951,134 3.64% 1.52%
1997 4,987,883 62,852,966 3.63% 1.46%
1998 5,166,390 63,734,383 3.58% 1.4%
1999 5,349,333 64,591,923 3.54% 1.35%
2000 5,537,064 65,425,961 3.51% 1.29%
2001 5,728,435 66,245,128 3.46% 1.25%
2002 5,924,003 67,048,795 3.41% 1.21%
2003 6,123,997 67,831,730 3.38% 1.17%
2004 6,328,041 68,592,617 3.33% 1.12%
2005 6,535,905 69,329,557 3.28% 1.07%
2006 6,747,720 70,045,349 3.24% 1.03%
2007 6,963,345 70,158,112 3.2% 0.16%
2008 7,183,002 71,051,678 3.15% 1.27%
2009 7,406,438 72,039,206 3.11% 1.39%
2010 7,633,523 73,142,150 3.07% 1.53%
2011 7,859,346 74,223,629 2.96% 1.48%
2012 8,081,390 75,175,827 2.83% 1.28%
2013 8,302,698 76,147,624 2.74% 1.29%
2014 8,523,441 77,181,884 2.66% 1.36%
2015 8,743,246 78,218,479 2.58% 1.34%
2016 8,961,718 79,277,962 2.5% 1.35%
2017 9,178,714 80,312,698 2.42% 1.31%
2018 9,394,513 81,407,204 2.35% 1.36%
2019 9,609,010 82,579,440 2.28% 1.44%
2020 9,815,746 83,384,680 2.15% 0.98%
2021 10,012,896 84,147,318 2.01% 0.91%
2022 10,203,169 84,979,913 1.9% 0.99%
2023 10,389,635 85,325,965 1.83% 0.41%
2024 10,576,502 85,518,661 1.8% 0.23%
2025 10,762,813 85,725,557 1.76% 0.24%
2026 10,947,845 85,960,835 1.72% 0.27%
2027 11,131,268 86,227,115 1.68% 0.31%
2028 11,312,895 86,502,744 1.63% 0.32%
2029 11,492,799 86,771,652 1.59% 0.31%
2030 11,671,420 87,037,680 1.55% 0.31%
2031 11,848,221 87,297,191 1.51% 0.3%
2032 12,023,121 87,537,075 1.48% 0.27%
2033 12,196,639 87,762,403 1.44% 0.26%
2034 12,369,248 87,974,138 1.42% 0.24%
2035 12,540,596 88,172,739 1.39% 0.23%
2036 12,710,682 88,364,318 1.36% 0.22%
2037 12,879,737 88,545,669 1.33% 0.21%
2038 13,047,122 88,707,268 1.3% 0.18%
2039 13,212,668 88,849,956 1.27% 0.16%
2040 13,376,156 88,975,510 1.24% 0.14%
2041 13,537,361 89,083,304 1.21% 0.12%
2042 13,696,139 89,177,769 1.17% 0.11%
2043 13,853,410 89,254,147 1.15% 0.09%
2044 14,009,926 89,311,458 1.13% 0.06%
2045 14,165,578 89,349,806 1.11% 0.04%
2046 14,318,889 89,375,429 1.08% 0.03%
2047 14,469,210 89,383,765 1.05% 0.009%
2048 14,617,364 89,361,174 1.02% -0.03%
2049 14,763,600 89,306,566 1% -0.06%
2050 14,906,584 89,218,346 0.97% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Papua New Guinea gained 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2005 and is 90th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

Biggest cities by population

Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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