Population in Papua New Guinea compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Papua New Guinea and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Papua New Guinea	United Kingdom	Papua New Guinea	United Kingdom
1960	1,995,110	52,400,000	-	-
1961	2,046,127	52,800,000	2.56%	0.76%
1962	2,093,919	53,250,000	2.34%	0.85%
1963	2,141,376	53,650,000	2.27%	0.75%
1964	2,188,325	54,000,000	2.19%	0.65%
1965	2,235,820	54,348,050	2.17%	0.64%
1966	2,285,774	54,648,500	2.23%	0.55%
1967	2,337,532	54,943,600	2.26%	0.54%
1968	2,390,803	55,211,700	2.28%	0.49%
1969	2,446,927	55,441,750	2.35%	0.42%
1970	2,505,628	55,663,250	2.4%	0.4%
1971	2,566,421	55,896,223	2.43%	0.42%
1972	2,628,432	56,086,065	2.42%	0.34%
1973	2,690,629	56,194,527	2.37%	0.19%
1974	2,752,671	56,229,974	2.31%	0.06%
1975	2,814,820	56,225,800	2.26%	-0.007%
1976	2,877,327	56,211,968	2.22%	-0.02%
1977	2,940,327	56,193,492	2.19%	-0.03%
1978	3,003,714	56,196,504	2.16%	0.005%
1979	3,067,341	56,246,951	2.12%	0.09%
1980	3,131,512	56,314,216	2.09%	0.12%
1981	3,197,019	56,333,829	2.09%	0.03%
1982	3,264,291	56,313,641	2.1%	-0.04%
1983	3,333,633	56,332,848	2.12%	0.03%
1984	3,405,198	56,422,072	2.15%	0.16%
1985	3,478,936	56,550,268	2.17%	0.23%
1986	3,554,793	56,681,396	2.18%	0.23%
1987	3,632,543	56,802,050	2.19%	0.21%
1988	3,711,880	56,928,327	2.18%	0.22%
1989	3,796,078	57,076,711	2.27%	0.26%
1990	3,896,481	57,247,586	2.64%	0.3%
1991	4,021,837	57,424,897	3.22%	0.31%
1992	4,166,699	57,580,402	3.6%	0.27%
1993	4,320,872	57,718,614	3.7%	0.24%
1994	4,480,208	57,865,745	3.69%	0.25%
1995	4,644,278	58,019,030	3.66%	0.26%
1996	4,813,361	58,166,950	3.64%	0.25%
1997	4,987,883	58,316,954	3.63%	0.26%
1998	5,166,390	58,487,141	3.58%	0.29%
1999	5,349,333	58,682,466	3.54%	0.33%
2000	5,537,064	58,892,514	3.51%	0.36%
2001	5,728,435	59,119,673	3.46%	0.39%
2002	5,924,003	59,370,479	3.41%	0.42%
2003	6,123,997	59,647,577	3.38%	0.47%
2004	6,328,041	59,987,905	3.33%	0.57%
2005	6,535,905	60,401,206	3.28%	0.69%
2006	6,747,720	60,846,820	3.24%	0.74%
2007	6,963,345	61,322,463	3.2%	0.78%
2008	7,183,002	61,806,995	3.15%	0.79%
2009	7,406,438	62,276,270	3.11%	0.76%
2010	7,633,523	62,766,365	3.07%	0.79%
2011	7,859,346	63,258,810	2.96%	0.78%
2012	8,081,390	63,711,000	2.83%	0.71%
2013	8,302,698	64,139,000	2.74%	0.67%
2014	8,523,441	64,620,000	2.66%	0.75%
2015	8,743,246	65,088,000	2.58%	0.72%
2016	8,961,718	65,607,000	2.5%	0.8%
2017	9,178,714	65,966,000	2.42%	0.55%
2018	9,394,513	66,289,000	2.35%	0.49%
2019	9,609,010	66,631,000	2.28%	0.52%
2020	9,815,746	66,744,000	2.15%	0.17%
2021	10,012,896	66,984,000	2.01%	0.36%
2022	10,203,169	67,604,000	1.9%	0.93%
2023	10,389,635	68,492,000	1.83%	1.31%
2024	10,576,502	69,226,000	1.8%	1.07%
2025	10,762,813	69,639,673	1.76%	0.6%
2026	10,947,845	70,020,350	1.72%	0.55%
2027	11,131,268	70,382,853	1.68%	0.52%
2028	11,312,895	70,732,699	1.63%	0.5%
2029	11,492,799	71,061,482	1.59%	0.46%
2030	11,671,420	71,377,535	1.55%	0.44%
2031	11,848,221	71,678,351	1.51%	0.42%
2032	12,023,121	71,959,934	1.48%	0.39%
2033	12,196,639	72,234,509	1.44%	0.38%
2034	12,369,248	72,497,650	1.42%	0.36%
2035	12,540,596	72,749,096	1.39%	0.35%
2036	12,710,682	72,990,847	1.36%	0.33%
2037	12,879,737	73,218,850	1.33%	0.31%
2038	13,047,122	73,441,349	1.3%	0.3%
2039	13,212,668	73,658,392	1.27%	0.3%
2040	13,376,156	73,868,334	1.24%	0.29%
2041	13,537,361	74,074,316	1.21%	0.28%
2042	13,696,139	74,275,779	1.17%	0.27%
2043	13,853,410	74,475,035	1.15%	0.27%
2044	14,009,926	74,667,284	1.13%	0.26%
2045	14,165,578	74,848,605	1.11%	0.24%
2046	14,318,889	75,020,949	1.08%	0.23%
2047	14,469,210	75,184,478	1.05%	0.22%
2048	14,617,364	75,337,543	1.02%	0.2%
2049	14,763,600	75,476,141	1%	0.18%
2050	14,906,584	75,600,588	0.97%	0.16%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Papua New Guinea increased by 2,213,998 people (a 32.8% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,760,180 people (a 7.82% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Papua New Guinea gained 1,988,131 (a 22.2% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,417,311 (a 6.73% growth).

Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th most populous country in 2006 and is 89th in 2026. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2006 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 7.96% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.