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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Senegal was 18,501,984 in 2024 vs 50,448,963 people in Sudan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Senegal's population is 19,281,054 people compared to 52,963,918 in Sudan.

Population statistics:

  • Sudan's population is 2.75 times bigger than Senegal's.
  • Senegal is ranked the 68th most populous country in the world, while Sudan is the 29th.
  • The countries together account for 0.87% of the world: 0.23% for Senegal vs 0.64% for Sudan.
  • For the last 10 years, Senegal has had an average growth rate of +2.76% per year vs +2.67% in Sudan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Senegal has increased from 11.2M people to 19.3M (71.6% growth), while Sudan has grown from 31.3M to 53M (69.4% growth).
  • Senegal is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 47M people compared to the peak of 137M people in 2100 for Sudan.

Senegal vs Sudan: live population counter

Senegal Sudan
Current population
19281054
52963918
Population rank 68/197 29/197
Percent of world population 0.23% 0.64%
One net population change
1.24 minutes
1.29 minutes
One birth every
59.3 seconds
18.7 seconds
One death every
5.21 minutes
1.64 minutes
One migration net change every
51 minutes
57.9 seconds
Annual migration change -10,307 -544,257
Daily growth/decline +1,163 +1,113
Annual growth/decline +424,411 +406,172
Annual growth/decline rate +2.35% +0.81%
Population growth rate rank 37/197 118/197

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

Senegal
Population

Growth rate
Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Senegal Sudan Senegal Sudan
1960 3,340,907 8,364,489 - -
1961 3,436,375 8,634,941 2.86% 3.23%
1962 3,534,686 8,919,028 2.86% 3.29%
1963 3,635,876 9,218,077 2.86% 3.35%
1964 3,740,535 9,531,109 2.88% 3.4%
1965 3,849,788 9,858,030 2.92% 3.43%
1966 3,964,299 10,197,578 2.97% 3.44%
1967 4,083,870 10,550,597 3.02% 3.46%
1968 4,207,587 10,917,999 3.03% 3.48%
1969 4,334,974 11,298,936 3.03% 3.49%
1970 4,466,328 11,695,771 3.03% 3.51%
1971 4,601,864 12,105,539 3.03% 3.5%
1972 4,741,631 12,527,856 3.04% 3.49%
1973 4,885,181 13,049,315 3.03% 4.16%
1974 5,029,437 13,580,723 2.95% 4.07%
1975 5,170,810 14,064,798 2.81% 3.56%
1976 5,308,564 14,569,716 2.66% 3.59%
1977 5,439,549 15,086,614 2.47% 3.55%
1978 5,568,096 15,695,003 2.36% 4.03%
1979 5,702,895 16,355,352 2.42% 4.21%
1980 5,845,638 17,058,905 2.5% 4.3%
1981 5,997,160 17,780,572 2.59% 4.23%
1982 6,156,961 18,486,645 2.66% 3.97%
1983 6,324,504 19,109,770 2.72% 3.37%
1984 6,499,364 19,546,528 2.76% 2.29%
1985 6,683,287 19,905,872 2.83% 1.84%
1986 6,878,192 20,288,238 2.92% 1.92%
1987 7,081,530 20,704,904 2.96% 2.05%
1988 7,289,618 21,138,431 2.94% 2.09%
1989 7,502,207 21,578,022 2.92% 2.08%
1990 7,720,523 22,021,481 2.91% 2.06%
1991 7,943,085 22,470,676 2.88% 2.04%
1992 8,168,395 22,927,355 2.84% 2.03%
1993 8,396,288 23,445,592 2.79% 2.26%
1994 8,624,078 24,043,948 2.71% 2.55%
1995 8,848,101 24,672,143 2.6% 2.61%
1996 9,067,014 25,231,528 2.47% 2.27%
1997 9,283,495 25,799,821 2.39% 2.25%
1998 9,502,952 26,458,999 2.36% 2.55%
1999 9,730,887 27,130,613 2.4% 2.54%
2000 9,968,260 27,816,745 2.44% 2.53%
2001 10,212,942 28,516,770 2.45% 2.52%
2002 10,466,214 29,228,727 2.48% 2.5%
2003 10,721,176 29,896,035 2.44% 2.28%
2004 10,975,704 30,556,637 2.37% 2.21%
2005 11,235,472 31,262,444 2.37% 2.31%
2006 11,500,094 31,992,435 2.36% 2.34%
2007 11,770,344 32,764,135 2.35% 2.41%
2008 12,048,959 33,623,980 2.37% 2.62%
2009 12,337,389 34,569,113 2.39% 2.81%
2010 12,635,413 35,414,399 2.42% 2.45%
2011 12,958,897 36,140,806 2.56% 2.05%
2012 13,310,495 36,923,178 2.71% 2.16%
2013 13,710,849 37,785,849 3.01% 2.34%
2014 14,152,102 38,823,318 3.22% 2.75%
2015 14,593,331 40,024,431 3.12% 3.09%
2016 15,034,521 41,259,892 3.02% 3.09%
2017 15,475,002 42,714,306 2.93% 3.53%
2018 15,914,498 44,230,596 2.84% 3.55%
2019 16,352,922 45,548,175 2.75% 2.98%
2020 16,789,219 46,789,231 2.67% 2.72%
2021 17,220,867 48,066,924 2.57% 2.73%
2022 17,651,103 49,383,346 2.5% 2.74%
2023 18,077,573 50,042,791 2.42% 1.34%
2024 18,501,984 50,448,963 2.35% 0.81%
2025 18,931,964 51,662,152 2.32% 2.4%
2026 19,366,546 53,282,718 2.3% 3.14%
2027 19,807,242 54,724,215 2.28% 2.71%
2028 20,254,562 55,993,833 2.26% 2.32%
2029 20,706,628 57,275,443 2.23% 2.29%
2030 21,163,189 58,571,624 2.2% 2.26%
2031 21,623,709 59,872,936 2.18% 2.22%
2032 22,085,928 61,179,476 2.14% 2.18%
2033 22,548,831 62,497,205 2.1% 2.15%
2034 23,012,018 63,822,356 2.05% 2.12%
2035 23,476,591 65,148,317 2.02% 2.08%
2036 23,942,221 66,470,018 1.98% 2.03%
2037 24,407,574 67,791,240 1.94% 1.99%
2038 24,872,512 69,107,712 1.9% 1.94%
2039 25,335,991 70,416,631 1.86% 1.89%
2040 25,797,506 71,730,604 1.82% 1.87%
2041 26,257,464 73,056,213 1.78% 1.85%
2042 26,716,424 74,387,562 1.75% 1.82%
2043 27,174,896 75,723,670 1.72% 1.8%
2044 27,632,997 77,066,454 1.69% 1.77%
2045 28,089,695 78,415,205 1.65% 1.75%
2046 28,546,280 79,767,271 1.63% 1.72%
2047 29,002,001 81,115,241 1.6% 1.69%
2048 29,457,233 82,463,202 1.57% 1.66%
2049 29,911,840 83,828,356 1.54% 1.66%
2050 30,364,944 85,206,384 1.51% 1.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Senegal increased by 3,357,859 people (a 29.9% growth), while Sudan gained 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Senegal gained 4,687,723 (a 32.1% growth), while Sudan's population increased by 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth).

Senegal was ranked 73rd most populous country in 2005 and is 68th in 2025. Sudan was ranked 36th in 2005 and ranked 29th 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 Sudan will increase by 60.9% to 85,206,384 people and rank change from 29th to 21st.

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