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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Senegal was 18,501,984 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Senegal's population is 19,281,054 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 4.46 times bigger than Senegal's.
  • Senegal is ranked the 68th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.27% of the world: 0.23% for Senegal vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Senegal has had an average growth rate of +2.76% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Senegal has increased from 11.2M people to 19.3M (71.6% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Senegal is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 47M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Senegal vs Turkey: live population counter

Senegal Turkey
Current population
19281054
85914550
Population rank 68/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.23% 1.04%
One net population change
1.24 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
59.3 seconds
33 seconds
One death every
5.21 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
51 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -10,307 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +1,163 +528
Annual growth/decline +424,411 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +2.35% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 37/197 153/197

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

Senegal
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Senegal Turkey Senegal Turkey
1960 3,340,907 28,329,898 - -
1961 3,436,375 29,119,238 2.86% 2.79%
1962 3,534,686 29,916,147 2.86% 2.74%
1963 3,635,876 30,726,841 2.86% 2.71%
1964 3,740,535 31,543,072 2.88% 2.66%
1965 3,849,788 32,345,220 2.92% 2.54%
1966 3,964,299 33,177,672 2.97% 2.57%
1967 4,083,870 34,050,421 3.02% 2.63%
1968 4,207,587 34,921,684 3.03% 2.56%
1969 4,334,974 35,787,774 3.03% 2.48%
1970 4,466,328 36,638,465 3.03% 2.38%
1971 4,601,864 37,518,611 3.03% 2.4%
1972 4,741,631 38,430,221 3.04% 2.43%
1973 4,885,181 39,329,533 3.03% 2.34%
1974 5,029,437 40,210,234 2.95% 2.24%
1975 5,170,810 41,053,126 2.81% 2.1%
1976 5,308,564 41,899,984 2.66% 2.06%
1977 5,439,549 42,773,298 2.47% 2.08%
1978 5,568,096 43,645,306 2.36% 2.04%
1979 5,702,895 44,510,429 2.42% 1.98%
1980 5,845,638 45,408,815 2.5% 2.02%
1981 5,997,160 46,321,190 2.59% 2.01%
1982 6,156,961 47,322,096 2.66% 2.16%
1983 6,324,504 48,447,410 2.72% 2.38%
1984 6,499,364 49,574,069 2.76% 2.33%
1985 6,683,287 50,687,115 2.83% 2.25%
1986 6,878,192 51,777,772 2.92% 2.15%
1987 7,081,530 52,843,670 2.96% 2.06%
1988 7,289,618 53,909,626 2.94% 2.02%
1989 7,502,207 54,976,723 2.92% 1.98%
1990 7,720,523 56,015,628 2.91% 1.89%
1991 7,943,085 57,009,887 2.88% 1.77%
1992 8,168,395 57,990,118 2.84% 1.72%
1993 8,396,288 58,999,167 2.79% 1.74%
1994 8,624,078 60,033,836 2.71% 1.75%
1995 8,848,101 61,024,503 2.6% 1.65%
1996 9,067,014 61,951,134 2.47% 1.52%
1997 9,283,495 62,852,966 2.39% 1.46%
1998 9,502,952 63,734,383 2.36% 1.4%
1999 9,730,887 64,591,923 2.4% 1.35%
2000 9,968,260 65,425,961 2.44% 1.29%
2001 10,212,942 66,245,128 2.45% 1.25%
2002 10,466,214 67,048,795 2.48% 1.21%
2003 10,721,176 67,831,730 2.44% 1.17%
2004 10,975,704 68,592,617 2.37% 1.12%
2005 11,235,472 69,329,557 2.37% 1.07%
2006 11,500,094 70,045,349 2.36% 1.03%
2007 11,770,344 70,158,112 2.35% 0.16%
2008 12,048,959 71,051,678 2.37% 1.27%
2009 12,337,389 72,039,206 2.39% 1.39%
2010 12,635,413 73,142,150 2.42% 1.53%
2011 12,958,897 74,223,629 2.56% 1.48%
2012 13,310,495 75,175,827 2.71% 1.28%
2013 13,710,849 76,147,624 3.01% 1.29%
2014 14,152,102 77,181,884 3.22% 1.36%
2015 14,593,331 78,218,479 3.12% 1.34%
2016 15,034,521 79,277,962 3.02% 1.35%
2017 15,475,002 80,312,698 2.93% 1.31%
2018 15,914,498 81,407,204 2.84% 1.36%
2019 16,352,922 82,579,440 2.75% 1.44%
2020 16,789,219 83,384,680 2.67% 0.98%
2021 17,220,867 84,147,318 2.57% 0.91%
2022 17,651,103 84,979,913 2.5% 0.99%
2023 18,077,573 85,325,965 2.42% 0.41%
2024 18,501,984 85,518,661 2.35% 0.23%
2025 18,931,964 85,725,557 2.32% 0.24%
2026 19,366,546 85,960,835 2.3% 0.27%
2027 19,807,242 86,227,115 2.28% 0.31%
2028 20,254,562 86,502,744 2.26% 0.32%
2029 20,706,628 86,771,652 2.23% 0.31%
2030 21,163,189 87,037,680 2.2% 0.31%
2031 21,623,709 87,297,191 2.18% 0.3%
2032 22,085,928 87,537,075 2.14% 0.27%
2033 22,548,831 87,762,403 2.1% 0.26%
2034 23,012,018 87,974,138 2.05% 0.24%
2035 23,476,591 88,172,739 2.02% 0.23%
2036 23,942,221 88,364,318 1.98% 0.22%
2037 24,407,574 88,545,669 1.94% 0.21%
2038 24,872,512 88,707,268 1.9% 0.18%
2039 25,335,991 88,849,956 1.86% 0.16%
2040 25,797,506 88,975,510 1.82% 0.14%
2041 26,257,464 89,083,304 1.78% 0.12%
2042 26,716,424 89,177,769 1.75% 0.11%
2043 27,174,896 89,254,147 1.72% 0.09%
2044 27,632,997 89,311,458 1.69% 0.06%
2045 28,089,695 89,349,806 1.65% 0.04%
2046 28,546,280 89,375,429 1.63% 0.03%
2047 29,002,001 89,383,765 1.6% 0.009%
2048 29,457,233 89,361,174 1.57% -0.03%
2049 29,911,840 89,306,566 1.54% -0.06%
2050 30,364,944 89,218,346 1.51% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Senegal increased by 3,357,859 people (a 29.9% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Senegal gained 4,687,723 (a 32.1% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Senegal was ranked 73rd most populous country in 2005 and is 68th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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