Population in Senegal compared to Somalia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Senegal and Somalia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Senegal	Somalia	Senegal	Somalia
1960	3,340,907	2,876,331	-	-
1961	3,436,375	2,952,054	2.86%	2.63%
1962	3,534,686	3,030,091	2.86%	2.64%
1963	3,635,876	3,110,361	2.86%	2.65%
1964	3,740,535	3,192,796	2.88%	2.65%
1965	3,849,788	3,277,874	2.92%	2.66%
1966	3,964,299	3,365,106	2.97%	2.66%
1967	4,083,870	3,454,537	3.02%	2.66%
1968	4,207,587	3,546,590	3.03%	2.66%
1969	4,334,974	3,641,015	3.03%	2.66%
1970	4,466,328	3,738,448	3.03%	2.68%
1971	4,601,864	3,837,691	3.03%	2.65%
1972	4,741,631	3,939,436	3.04%	2.65%
1973	4,885,181	4,045,592	3.03%	2.69%
1974	5,029,437	4,151,842	2.95%	2.63%
1975	5,170,810	4,257,535	2.81%	2.55%
1976	5,308,564	4,365,812	2.66%	2.54%
1977	5,439,549	4,484,050	2.47%	2.71%
1978	5,568,096	4,814,892	2.36%	7.38%
1979	5,702,895	5,449,117	2.42%	13.2%
1980	5,845,638	5,936,154	2.5%	8.94%
1981	5,997,160	5,982,849	2.59%	0.79%
1982	6,156,961	6,003,840	2.66%	0.35%
1983	6,324,504	6,198,430	2.72%	3.24%
1984	6,499,364	6,428,389	2.76%	3.71%
1985	6,683,287	6,693,289	2.83%	4.12%
1986	6,878,192	6,974,788	2.92%	4.21%
1987	7,081,530	7,228,302	2.96%	3.63%
1988	7,289,618	7,235,360	2.94%	0.1%
1989	7,502,207	7,114,817	2.92%	-1.67%
1990	7,720,523	7,082,811	2.91%	-0.45%
1991	7,943,085	6,813,760	2.88%	-3.8%
1992	8,168,395	6,495,107	2.84%	-4.68%
1993	8,396,288	6,681,399	2.79%	2.87%
1994	8,624,078	7,026,797	2.71%	5.17%
1995	8,848,101	7,285,007	2.6%	3.67%
1996	9,067,014	7,554,474	2.47%	3.7%
1997	9,283,495	7,824,525	2.39%	3.57%
1998	9,502,952	8,155,417	2.36%	4.23%
1999	9,730,887	8,492,059	2.4%	4.13%
2000	9,968,260	8,838,713	2.44%	4.08%
2001	10,212,942	9,198,493	2.45%	4.07%
2002	10,466,214	9,550,063	2.48%	3.82%
2003	10,721,176	9,909,157	2.44%	3.76%
2004	10,975,704	10,280,998	2.37%	3.75%
2005	11,235,472	10,644,228	2.37%	3.53%
2006	11,500,094	10,975,502	2.36%	3.11%
2007	11,770,344	11,322,582	2.35%	3.16%
2008	12,048,959	11,663,084	2.37%	3.01%
2009	12,337,389	11,961,201	2.39%	2.56%
2010	12,635,413	12,261,756	2.42%	2.51%
2011	12,958,897	12,348,830	2.56%	0.71%
2012	13,310,495	12,461,160	2.71%	0.91%
2013	13,710,849	12,869,594	3.01%	3.28%
2014	14,152,102	13,339,491	3.22%	3.65%
2015	14,593,331	13,806,963	3.12%	3.5%
2016	15,034,521	14,348,740	3.02%	3.92%
2017	15,475,002	14,916,629	2.93%	3.96%
2018	15,914,498	15,452,487	2.84%	3.59%
2019	16,352,922	16,030,971	2.75%	3.74%
2020	16,789,219	16,651,191	2.67%	3.87%
2021	17,220,867	17,271,431	2.57%	3.72%
2022	17,651,103	17,801,897	2.5%	3.07%
2023	18,077,573	18,358,615	2.42%	3.13%
2024	18,501,984	19,009,151	2.35%	3.54%
2025	18,931,964	19,654,737	2.32%	3.4%
2026	19,366,546	20,305,905	2.3%	3.31%
2027	19,807,242	20,959,056	2.28%	3.22%
2028	20,254,562	21,601,810	2.26%	3.07%
2029	20,706,628	22,247,714	2.23%	2.99%
2030	21,163,189	22,915,042	2.2%	3%
2031	21,623,709	23,589,793	2.18%	2.94%
2032	22,085,928	24,258,789	2.14%	2.84%
2033	22,548,831	24,921,830	2.1%	2.73%
2034	23,012,018	25,593,666	2.05%	2.7%
2035	23,476,591	26,294,943	2.02%	2.74%
2036	23,942,221	27,009,199	1.98%	2.72%
2037	24,407,574	27,731,170	1.94%	2.67%
2038	24,872,512	28,455,755	1.9%	2.61%
2039	25,335,991	29,167,897	1.86%	2.5%
2040	25,797,506	29,896,286	1.82%	2.5%
2041	26,257,464	30,635,956	1.78%	2.47%
2042	26,716,424	31,350,028	1.75%	2.33%
2043	27,174,896	32,057,980	1.72%	2.26%
2044	27,632,997	32,780,417	1.69%	2.25%
2045	28,089,695	33,510,163	1.65%	2.23%
2046	28,546,280	34,248,030	1.63%	2.2%
2047	29,002,001	34,996,366	1.6%	2.19%
2048	29,457,233	35,743,960	1.57%	2.14%
2049	29,911,840	36,474,683	1.54%	2.04%
2050	30,364,944	37,206,497	1.51%	2.01%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Senegal increased by 3,357,859 people (a 29.9% growth), while Somalia gained 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Senegal gained 4,687,723 (a 32.1% growth), while Somalia's population increased by 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth).

Senegal was ranked 73rd most populous country in 2005 and is 68th in 2025. Somalia was ranked 75th in 2005 and ranked 66th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Senegal's population will grow by 57.5% to 30,364,944 people with a rank change from 68th to 63rd. The population of Somalia will increase by 84.4% to 37,206,497 people and rank change from 66th to 57th.