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Population in Singapore compared to Spain: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Singapore was 6,036,860 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Singapore's population is 6,105,665 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 7.99 times bigger than Singapore's.
  • Singapore is ranked the 113th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.66% of the world: 0.07% for Singapore vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Singapore has had an average growth rate of +1.04% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Singapore has increased from 4.27M people to 6.11M (43.1% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Singapore is projected to reach its peak in 2040 at 6.41M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Singapore vs Spain: live population counter

Singapore Spain
Current population
6105665
48786181
Population rank 113/197 32/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.59%
One net population change
4.41 minutes
1.14 minutes
One birth every
12 minutes
1.62 minutes
One death every
14.3 minutes
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
26.3 minutes
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change +20,011 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +327 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +119,212 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +2.01% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 53/197 108/197

Singapore and Spain: population history and growth rate by year chart

Singapore
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Singapore Spain Singapore Spain
1960 1,646,400 30,455,000 - -
1961 1,702,400 30,739,250 3.4% 0.93%
1962 1,750,200 31,023,366 2.81% 0.92%
1963 1,795,000 31,296,651 2.56% 0.88%
1964 1,841,600 31,609,195 2.6% 1%
1965 1,886,900 31,954,292 2.46% 1.09%
1966 1,934,400 32,283,194 2.52% 1.03%
1967 1,977,600 32,682,947 2.23% 1.24%
1968 2,012,000 33,113,134 1.74% 1.32%
1969 2,042,500 33,441,054 1.52% 0.99%
1970 2,074,507 33,814,531 1.57% 1.12%
1971 2,112,900 34,224,490 1.85% 1.21%
1972 2,152,400 34,604,469 1.87% 1.11%
1973 2,193,000 34,988,947 1.89% 1.11%
1974 2,229,800 35,373,335 1.68% 1.1%
1975 2,262,600 35,757,900 1.47% 1.09%
1976 2,293,300 36,137,812 1.36% 1.06%
1977 2,325,300 36,511,638 1.4% 1.03%
1978 2,353,600 36,864,898 1.22% 0.97%
1979 2,383,500 37,191,330 1.27% 0.89%
1980 2,413,945 37,491,165 1.28% 0.81%
1981 2,532,835 37,758,631 4.93% 0.71%
1982 2,646,466 37,986,012 4.49% 0.6%
1983 2,681,061 38,171,525 1.31% 0.49%
1984 2,732,221 38,330,364 1.91% 0.42%
1985 2,735,957 38,469,512 0.14% 0.36%
1986 2,733,373 38,584,624 -0.09% 0.3%
1987 2,774,789 38,684,815 1.52% 0.26%
1988 2,846,108 38,766,939 2.57% 0.21%
1989 2,930,901 38,827,764 2.98% 0.16%
1990 3,047,132 38,867,322 3.97% 0.1%
1991 3,135,083 38,966,376 2.89% 0.25%
1992 3,230,698 39,157,685 3.05% 0.49%
1993 3,313,471 39,361,262 2.56% 0.52%
1994 3,419,048 39,549,108 3.19% 0.48%
1995 3,524,506 39,724,050 3.08% 0.44%
1996 3,670,704 39,889,852 4.15% 0.42%
1997 3,796,038 40,057,389 3.41% 0.42%
1998 3,927,213 40,223,509 3.46% 0.41%
1999 3,958,723 40,386,875 0.8% 0.41%
2000 4,027,887 40,567,864 1.75% 0.45%
2001 4,138,012 40,850,412 2.73% 0.7%
2002 4,175,950 41,431,558 0.92% 1.42%
2003 4,114,826 42,187,645 -1.46% 1.82%
2004 4,166,664 42,921,895 1.26% 1.74%
2005 4,265,762 43,653,155 2.38% 1.7%
2006 4,401,365 44,397,319 3.18% 1.7%
2007 4,588,599 45,226,803 4.25% 1.87%
2008 4,839,396 45,954,106 5.47% 1.61%
2009 4,987,573 46,362,946 3.06% 0.89%
2010 5,076,732 46,576,897 1.79% 0.46%
2011 5,183,688 46,742,697 2.11% 0.36%
2012 5,312,437 46,773,055 2.48% 0.06%
2013 5,399,162 46,604,197 1.63% -0.36%
2014 5,469,724 46,460,733 1.31% -0.31%
2015 5,535,002 46,422,303 1.19% -0.08%
2016 5,607,283 46,458,139 1.31% 0.08%
2017 5,612,253 46,571,232 0.09% 0.24%
2018 5,638,676 46,782,011 0.47% 0.45%
2019 5,703,569 47,118,501 1.15% 0.72%
2020 5,685,807 47,359,424 -0.31% 0.51%
2021 5,453,566 47,443,821 -4.08% 0.18%
2022 5,637,022 47,786,102 3.36% 0.72%
2023 5,917,648 48,347,910 4.98% 1.18%
2024 6,036,860 48,807,137 2.01% 0.95%
2025 6,076,565 48,786,181 0.66% -0.04%
2026 6,112,792 48,746,279 0.6% -0.08%
2027 6,147,775 48,696,847 0.57% -0.1%
2028 6,182,764 48,642,132 0.57% -0.11%
2029 6,214,576 48,578,166 0.51% -0.13%
2030 6,242,825 48,501,513 0.45% -0.16%
2031 6,270,800 48,412,854 0.45% -0.18%
2032 6,298,559 48,321,195 0.44% -0.19%
2033 6,325,401 48,230,054 0.43% -0.19%
2034 6,349,852 48,136,421 0.39% -0.19%
2035 6,368,948 48,036,650 0.3% -0.21%
2036 6,383,048 47,929,957 0.22% -0.22%
2037 6,394,813 47,819,257 0.18% -0.23%
2038 6,404,994 47,706,580 0.16% -0.24%
2039 6,411,057 47,588,878 0.09% -0.25%
2040 6,411,962 47,463,597 0.01% -0.26%
2041 6,408,383 47,332,618 -0.06% -0.28%
2042 6,402,235 47,194,588 -0.1% -0.29%
2043 6,394,872 47,052,293 -0.12% -0.3%
2044 6,384,418 46,902,636 -0.16% -0.32%
2045 6,372,013 46,738,565 -0.19% -0.35%
2046 6,358,982 46,564,383 -0.2% -0.37%
2047 6,343,000 46,381,681 -0.25% -0.39%
2048 6,327,523 46,190,642 -0.24% -0.41%
2049 6,312,515 45,985,428 -0.24% -0.44%
2050 6,294,905 45,769,362 -0.28% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Singapore increased by 1,269,240 people (a 29.8% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Singapore gained 570,663 (a 10.3% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Singapore was ranked 119th most populous country in 2005 and is 113th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Singapore's population will grow by 3.1% to 6,294,905 people with a rank change from 113th to 118th. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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