Population in Portugal compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Portugal and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Portugal	United Kingdom	Portugal	United Kingdom
1960	8,857,716	52,400,000	-	-
1961	8,929,316	52,800,000	0.81%	0.76%
1962	8,993,985	53,250,000	0.72%	0.85%
1963	9,030,355	53,650,000	0.4%	0.75%
1964	9,035,365	54,000,000	0.06%	0.65%
1965	8,998,595	54,348,050	-0.41%	0.64%
1966	8,930,990	54,648,500	-0.75%	0.55%
1967	8,874,520	54,943,600	-0.63%	0.54%
1968	8,836,650	55,211,700	-0.43%	0.49%
1969	8,757,705	55,441,750	-0.89%	0.42%
1970	8,680,431	55,663,250	-0.88%	0.4%
1971	8,643,756	55,896,223	-0.42%	0.42%
1972	8,630,430	56,086,065	-0.15%	0.34%
1973	8,633,100	56,194,527	0.03%	0.19%
1974	8,754,365	56,229,974	1.4%	0.06%
1975	9,093,470	56,225,800	3.87%	-0.007%
1976	9,355,810	56,211,968	2.88%	-0.02%
1977	9,455,675	56,193,492	1.07%	-0.03%
1978	9,558,250	56,196,504	1.08%	0.005%
1979	9,661,265	56,246,951	1.08%	0.09%
1980	9,766,312	56,314,216	1.09%	0.12%
1981	9,851,362	56,333,829	0.87%	0.03%
1982	9,911,771	56,313,641	0.61%	-0.04%
1983	9,957,865	56,332,848	0.47%	0.03%
1984	9,996,232	56,422,072	0.39%	0.16%
1985	10,023,613	56,550,268	0.27%	0.23%
1986	10,032,734	56,681,396	0.09%	0.23%
1987	10,030,031	56,802,050	-0.03%	0.21%
1988	10,019,610	56,928,327	-0.1%	0.22%
1989	10,005,000	57,076,711	-0.15%	0.26%
1990	9,983,218	57,247,586	-0.22%	0.3%
1991	9,960,235	57,424,897	-0.23%	0.31%
1992	9,952,494	57,580,402	-0.08%	0.27%
1993	9,964,675	57,718,614	0.12%	0.24%
1994	9,991,525	57,865,745	0.27%	0.25%
1995	10,026,176	58,019,030	0.35%	0.26%
1996	10,063,945	58,166,950	0.38%	0.25%
1997	10,108,977	58,316,954	0.45%	0.26%
1998	10,160,196	58,487,141	0.51%	0.29%
1999	10,217,828	58,682,466	0.57%	0.33%
2000	10,289,898	58,892,514	0.71%	0.36%
2001	10,362,722	59,119,673	0.71%	0.39%
2002	10,419,631	59,370,479	0.55%	0.42%
2003	10,458,821	59,647,577	0.38%	0.47%
2004	10,483,861	59,987,905	0.24%	0.57%
2005	10,503,330	60,401,206	0.19%	0.69%
2006	10,522,288	60,846,820	0.18%	0.74%
2007	10,542,964	61,322,463	0.2%	0.78%
2008	10,558,177	61,806,995	0.14%	0.79%
2009	10,568,247	62,276,270	0.1%	0.76%
2010	10,573,100	62,766,365	0.05%	0.79%
2011	10,557,560	63,258,810	-0.15%	0.78%
2012	10,514,844	63,711,000	-0.4%	0.71%
2013	10,457,295	64,139,000	-0.55%	0.67%
2014	10,401,062	64,620,000	-0.54%	0.75%
2015	10,358,076	65,088,000	-0.41%	0.72%
2016	10,325,452	65,607,000	-0.31%	0.8%
2017	10,300,300	65,966,000	-0.24%	0.55%
2018	10,283,822	66,289,000	-0.16%	0.49%
2019	10,286,263	66,631,000	0.02%	0.52%
2020	10,297,081	66,744,000	0.11%	0.17%
2021	10,361,831	66,984,000	0.63%	0.36%
2022	10,434,332	67,604,000	0.7%	0.93%
2023	10,578,174	68,492,000	1.38%	1.31%
2024	10,701,636	69,226,000	1.17%	1.07%
2025	10,687,819	69,639,673	-0.13%	0.6%
2026	10,670,917	70,020,350	-0.16%	0.55%
2027	10,653,073	70,382,853	-0.17%	0.52%
2028	10,632,868	70,732,699	-0.19%	0.5%
2029	10,611,484	71,061,482	-0.2%	0.46%
2030	10,591,436	71,377,535	-0.19%	0.44%
2031	10,571,418	71,678,351	-0.19%	0.42%
2032	10,549,456	71,959,934	-0.21%	0.39%
2033	10,526,482	72,234,509	-0.22%	0.38%
2034	10,502,882	72,497,650	-0.22%	0.36%
2035	10,478,843	72,749,096	-0.23%	0.35%
2036	10,454,630	72,990,847	-0.23%	0.33%
2037	10,430,128	73,218,850	-0.23%	0.31%
2038	10,404,947	73,441,349	-0.24%	0.3%
2039	10,377,968	73,658,392	-0.26%	0.3%
2040	10,349,515	73,868,334	-0.27%	0.29%
2041	10,321,577	74,074,316	-0.27%	0.28%
2042	10,294,106	74,275,779	-0.27%	0.27%
2043	10,264,596	74,475,035	-0.29%	0.27%
2044	10,233,543	74,667,284	-0.3%	0.26%
2045	10,201,832	74,848,605	-0.31%	0.24%
2046	10,168,932	75,020,949	-0.32%	0.23%
2047	10,135,159	75,184,478	-0.33%	0.22%
2048	10,101,419	75,337,543	-0.33%	0.2%
2049	10,066,064	75,476,141	-0.35%	0.18%
2050	10,029,252	75,600,588	-0.37%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Portugal decreased by 145,254 people (a 1.38% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Portugal gained 329,743 (a 3.18% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Portugal was ranked 76th most populous country in 2005 and is 92nd in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Portugal's population will shrink by 6.16% to 10,029,252 people with a rank change from 92nd to 97th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.