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Population in the Philippines compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of the Philippines was 115,843,670 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Philippines' population is 117,540,050 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • The Philippines' population is 6.2 times bigger than Romania's.
  • The Philippines is ranked the 14th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 1.65% of the world: 1.42% for the Philippines vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, the Philippines has had an average growth rate of +1.16% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of the Philippines has increased from 88M people to 118M (33.5% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • The Philippines is projected to reach its peak in 2057 at 135M people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

Philippines vs Romania: live population counter

Philippines Romania
Current population
117540050
18962595
Population rank 14/197 69/197
Percent of world population 1.42% 0.23%
One net population change
33.1 seconds
53.3 minutes
One birth every
17.1 seconds
3.45 minutes
One death every
44 seconds
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
3.28 minutes
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change -160,373 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +2,610 +27
Annual growth/decline +952,471 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +0.83% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 115/197 162/197

the Philippines and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Philippines
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Philippines Romania Philippines Romania
1960 27,891,897 18,406,905 - -
1961 28,792,621 18,555,250 3.23% 0.81%
1962 29,723,536 18,676,550 3.23% 0.65%
1963 30,674,731 18,797,850 3.2% 0.65%
1964 31,643,032 18,919,126 3.16% 0.65%
1965 32,625,316 19,031,576 3.1% 0.59%
1966 33,617,170 19,215,450 3.04% 0.97%
1967 34,621,320 19,534,242 2.99% 1.66%
1968 35,638,342 19,799,831 2.94% 1.36%
1969 36,660,799 20,009,141 2.87% 1.06%
1970 37,622,204 20,250,398 2.62% 1.21%
1971 38,518,659 20,461,567 2.38% 1.04%
1972 39,408,560 20,657,957 2.31% 0.96%
1973 40,294,130 20,835,681 2.25% 0.86%
1974 41,174,341 21,029,429 2.18% 0.93%
1975 42,120,826 21,293,583 2.3% 1.26%
1976 43,201,488 21,551,634 2.57% 1.21%
1977 44,367,962 21,756,096 2.7% 0.95%
1978 45,575,281 21,951,464 2.72% 0.9%
1979 46,807,103 22,090,488 2.7% 0.63%
1980 48,043,740 22,207,282 2.64% 0.53%
1981 49,311,727 22,353,070 2.64% 0.66%
1982 50,695,707 22,475,741 2.81% 0.55%
1983 52,194,620 22,560,478 2.96% 0.38%
1984 53,726,181 22,640,547 2.93% 0.35%
1985 55,213,006 22,732,999 2.77% 0.41%
1986 56,645,077 22,836,841 2.59% 0.46%
1987 58,157,496 22,949,430 2.67% 0.49%
1988 59,739,052 23,057,662 2.72% 0.47%
1989 61,265,260 23,161,458 2.55% 0.45%
1990 62,854,666 23,201,835 2.59% 0.17%
1991 64,382,249 23,001,155 2.43% -0.86%
1992 65,926,125 22,794,284 2.4% -0.9%
1993 67,530,621 22,763,280 2.43% -0.14%
1994 69,019,291 22,730,211 2.2% -0.15%
1995 70,546,246 22,684,270 2.21% -0.2%
1996 72,190,242 22,619,004 2.33% -0.29%
1997 73,908,810 22,553,978 2.38% -0.29%
1998 75,791,024 22,507,344 2.55% -0.21%
1999 77,753,257 22,472,040 2.59% -0.16%
2000 79,625,397 22,442,971 2.41% -0.13%
2001 81,401,488 22,131,970 2.23% -1.39%
2002 83,068,889 21,730,496 2.05% -1.81%
2003 84,731,835 21,574,326 2% -0.72%
2004 86,394,504 21,451,748 1.96% -0.57%
2005 88,015,962 21,319,685 1.88% -0.62%
2006 89,508,986 21,193,760 1.7% -0.59%
2007 91,075,184 20,882,982 1.75% -1.47%
2008 92,699,095 20,537,875 1.78% -1.65%
2009 94,384,250 20,367,487 1.82% -0.83%
2010 96,337,125 20,246,871 2.07% -0.59%
2011 98,248,614 20,147,528 1.98% -0.49%
2012 100,175,512 20,058,035 1.96% -0.44%
2013 102,076,336 19,983,693 1.9% -0.37%
2014 103,767,130 19,908,979 1.66% -0.37%
2015 105,312,992 19,815,616 1.49% -0.47%
2016 106,735,719 19,702,267 1.35% -0.57%
2017 108,119,693 19,588,715 1.3% -0.58%
2018 109,465,287 19,473,970 1.24% -0.59%
2019 110,804,683 19,371,648 1.22% -0.53%
2020 112,081,264 19,265,250 1.15% -0.55%
2021 113,100,950 19,122,059 0.91% -0.74%
2022 113,964,338 19,048,502 0.76% -0.38%
2023 114,891,199 19,059,479 0.81% 0.06%
2024 115,843,670 19,069,340 0.83% 0.05%
2025 116,786,968 18,962,595 0.81% -0.56%
2026 117,724,479 18,854,232 0.8% -0.57%
2027 118,656,426 18,744,883 0.79% -0.58%
2028 119,583,984 18,634,894 0.78% -0.59%
2029 120,502,132 18,523,736 0.77% -0.6%
2030 121,408,897 18,411,878 0.75% -0.6%
2031 122,301,606 18,299,820 0.74% -0.61%
2032 123,180,341 18,187,406 0.72% -0.61%
2033 124,049,036 18,074,282 0.71% -0.62%
2034 124,904,124 17,960,330 0.69% -0.63%
2035 125,740,977 17,845,182 0.67% -0.64%
2036 126,558,232 17,728,480 0.65% -0.65%
2037 127,352,607 17,611,384 0.63% -0.66%
2038 128,118,535 17,493,684 0.6% -0.67%
2039 128,850,047 17,375,991 0.57% -0.67%
2040 129,546,666 17,258,810 0.54% -0.67%
2041 130,209,810 17,140,535 0.51% -0.69%
2042 130,837,005 17,022,168 0.48% -0.69%
2043 131,427,404 16,904,427 0.45% -0.69%
2044 131,979,673 16,786,029 0.42% -0.7%
2045 132,492,038 16,667,734 0.39% -0.7%
2046 132,962,001 16,550,066 0.35% -0.71%
2047 133,385,290 16,431,566 0.32% -0.72%
2048 133,759,436 16,312,099 0.28% -0.73%
2049 134,089,011 16,192,424 0.25% -0.73%
2050 134,373,439 16,072,989 0.21% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Philippines increased by 17,297,030 people (a 19.7% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Philippines gained 12,227,058 (a 11.6% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

The Philippines was ranked 12th most populous country in 2005 and is 14th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) the Philippines' population will grow by 14.3% to 134,373,439 people and will still be ranked 14th. The population of Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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