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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Serbia was 6,587,202 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Serbia's population is 6,541,064 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 13.1 times bigger than Serbia's.
  • Serbia is ranked the 110th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.12% of the world: 0.08% for Serbia vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Serbia has had an average growth rate of -0.76% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Serbia has decreased from 7.44M people to 6.54M (12.1% decline), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Turkey is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 89.4M people, while Serbia's population already peaked in 1990 at 7.9M people and is projected to decrease to 3.62M people by 2100.

Serbia vs Turkey: live population counter

Serbia Turkey
Current population
6541064
85914550
Population rank 110/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.08% 1.04%
One net population change
14.6 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
8.63 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
5.4 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
1.08 hours
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -8,132 -275,952
Daily growth/decline -99 +528
Annual growth/decline -35,981 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate -0.54% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 186/197 153/197

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

Serbia
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Serbia Turkey Serbia Turkey
1960 6,638,992 28,329,898 - -
1961 6,689,077 29,119,238 0.75% 2.79%
1962 6,740,264 29,916,147 0.77% 2.74%
1963 6,787,950 30,726,841 0.71% 2.71%
1964 6,832,855 31,543,072 0.66% 2.66%
1965 6,876,624 32,345,220 0.64% 2.54%
1966 6,927,969 33,177,672 0.75% 2.57%
1967 6,966,522 34,050,421 0.56% 2.63%
1968 7,007,586 34,921,684 0.59% 2.56%
1969 7,123,249 35,787,774 1.65% 2.48%
1970 7,164,993 36,638,465 0.59% 2.38%
1971 7,211,716 37,518,611 0.65% 2.4%
1972 7,252,012 38,430,221 0.56% 2.43%
1973 7,283,902 39,329,533 0.44% 2.34%
1974 7,326,043 40,210,234 0.58% 2.24%
1975 7,368,717 41,053,126 0.58% 2.1%
1976 7,418,973 41,899,984 0.68% 2.06%
1977 7,462,783 42,773,298 0.59% 2.08%
1978 7,504,017 43,645,306 0.55% 2.04%
1979 7,541,997 44,510,429 0.51% 1.98%
1980 7,709,544 45,408,815 2.22% 2.02%
1981 7,736,787 46,321,190 0.35% 2.01%
1982 7,763,335 47,322,096 0.34% 2.16%
1983 7,788,100 48,447,410 0.32% 2.38%
1984 7,813,549 49,574,069 0.33% 2.33%
1985 7,835,902 50,687,115 0.29% 2.25%
1986 7,853,824 51,777,772 0.23% 2.15%
1987 7,868,027 52,843,670 0.18% 2.06%
1988 7,884,218 53,909,626 0.21% 2.02%
1989 7,893,787 54,976,723 0.12% 1.98%
1990 7,897,937 56,015,628 0.05% 1.89%
1991 7,595,636 57,009,887 -3.83% 1.77%
1992 7,604,063 57,990,118 0.11% 1.72%
1993 7,614,328 58,999,167 0.13% 1.74%
1994 7,622,711 60,033,836 0.11% 1.75%
1995 7,628,264 61,024,503 0.07% 1.65%
1996 7,622,185 61,951,134 -0.08% 1.52%
1997 7,598,538 62,852,966 -0.31% 1.46%
1998 7,567,745 63,734,383 -0.41% 1.4%
1999 7,540,401 64,591,923 -0.36% 1.35%
2000 7,516,346 65,425,961 -0.32% 1.29%
2001 7,503,433 66,245,128 -0.17% 1.25%
2002 7,500,031 67,048,795 -0.05% 1.21%
2003 7,480,591 67,831,730 -0.26% 1.17%
2004 7,463,157 68,592,617 -0.23% 1.12%
2005 7,440,769 69,329,557 -0.3% 1.07%
2006 7,411,569 70,045,349 -0.39% 1.03%
2007 7,381,579 70,158,112 -0.4% 0.16%
2008 7,350,222 71,051,678 -0.42% 1.27%
2009 7,320,807 72,039,206 -0.4% 1.39%
2010 7,291,436 73,142,150 -0.4% 1.53%
2011 7,236,519 74,223,629 -0.75% 1.48%
2012 7,201,497 75,175,827 -0.48% 1.28%
2013 7,166,553 76,147,624 -0.49% 1.29%
2014 7,131,787 77,181,884 -0.49% 1.36%
2015 7,095,383 78,218,479 -0.51% 1.34%
2016 7,058,322 79,277,962 -0.52% 1.35%
2017 7,020,858 80,312,698 -0.53% 1.31%
2018 6,982,604 81,407,204 -0.54% 1.36%
2019 6,945,235 82,579,440 -0.54% 1.44%
2020 6,899,126 83,384,680 -0.66% 0.98%
2021 6,834,326 84,147,318 -0.94% 0.91%
2022 6,664,449 84,979,913 -2.49% 0.99%
2023 6,623,183 85,325,965 -0.62% 0.41%
2024 6,587,202 85,518,661 -0.54% 0.23%
2025 6,541,064 85,725,557 -0.7% 0.24%
2026 6,495,033 85,960,835 -0.7% 0.27%
2027 6,451,587 86,227,115 -0.67% 0.31%
2028 6,407,523 86,502,744 -0.68% 0.32%
2029 6,363,135 86,771,652 -0.69% 0.31%
2030 6,318,273 87,037,680 -0.71% 0.31%
2031 6,272,974 87,297,191 -0.72% 0.3%
2032 6,227,395 87,537,075 -0.73% 0.27%
2033 6,181,396 87,762,403 -0.74% 0.26%
2034 6,135,163 87,974,138 -0.75% 0.24%
2035 6,088,832 88,172,739 -0.76% 0.23%
2036 6,042,364 88,364,318 -0.76% 0.22%
2037 5,995,710 88,545,669 -0.77% 0.21%
2038 5,948,872 88,707,268 -0.78% 0.18%
2039 5,901,891 88,849,956 -0.79% 0.16%
2040 5,855,009 88,975,510 -0.79% 0.14%
2041 5,808,317 89,083,304 -0.8% 0.12%
2042 5,761,829 89,177,769 -0.8% 0.11%
2043 5,715,931 89,254,147 -0.8% 0.09%
2044 5,670,687 89,311,458 -0.79% 0.06%
2045 5,625,991 89,349,806 -0.79% 0.04%
2046 5,581,867 89,375,429 -0.78% 0.03%
2047 5,538,323 89,383,765 -0.78% 0.009%
2048 5,495,303 89,361,174 -0.78% -0.03%
2049 5,452,676 89,306,566 -0.78% -0.06%
2050 5,410,466 89,218,346 -0.77% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Serbia decreased by 345,386 people (a 4.64% decline), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Serbia lost -554,319 (a 7.81% decline), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Serbia was ranked 96th most populous country in 2005 and is 110th 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) Serbia's population will shrink by 17.3% to 5,410,466 people with a rank change from 110th to 125th. 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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