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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Singapore	Taiwan	Singapore	Taiwan
1960	1,646,400	-	-	-
1961	1,702,400	11,030,385	3.4%	-
1962	1,750,200	11,392,513	2.81%	3.28%
1963	1,795,000	11,762,101	2.56%	3.24%
1964	1,841,600	12,137,143	2.6%	3.19%
1965	1,886,900	12,511,863	2.46%	3.09%
1966	1,934,400	12,874,153	2.52%	2.9%
1967	1,977,600	13,210,344	2.23%	2.61%
1968	2,012,000	13,548,537	1.74%	2.56%
1969	2,042,500	14,068,984	1.52%	3.84%
1970	2,074,507	14,582,944	1.57%	3.65%
1971	2,112,900	14,913,564	1.85%	2.27%
1972	2,152,400	15,220,495	1.87%	2.06%
1973	2,193,000	15,505,121	1.89%	1.87%
1974	2,229,800	15,784,817	1.68%	1.8%
1975	2,262,600	16,075,128	1.47%	1.84%
1976	2,293,300	16,401,413	1.36%	2.03%
1977	2,325,300	16,730,895	1.4%	2.01%
1978	2,353,600	17,042,272	1.22%	1.86%
1979	2,383,500	17,372,779	1.27%	1.94%
1980	2,413,945	17,704,538	1.28%	1.91%
1981	2,532,835	18,029,982	4.93%	1.84%
1982	2,646,466	18,354,855	4.49%	1.8%
1983	2,681,061	18,653,146	1.31%	1.63%
1984	2,732,221	18,929,866	1.91%	1.48%
1985	2,735,957	19,191,510	0.14%	1.38%
1986	2,733,373	19,411,454	-0.09%	1.15%
1987	2,774,789	19,617,046	1.52%	1.06%
1988	2,846,108	19,839,704	2.57%	1.14%
1989	2,930,901	20,055,492	2.98%	1.09%
1990	3,047,132	20,278,946	3.97%	1.11%
1991	3,135,083	20,503,568	2.89%	1.11%
1992	3,230,698	20,704,227	3.05%	0.98%
1993	3,313,471	20,899,019	2.56%	0.94%
1994	3,419,048	21,086,645	3.19%	0.9%
1995	3,524,506	21,267,653	3.08%	0.86%
1996	3,670,704	21,441,432	4.15%	0.82%
1997	3,796,038	21,634,124	3.41%	0.9%
1998	3,927,213	21,835,703	3.46%	0.93%
1999	3,958,723	22,010,489	0.8%	0.8%
2000	4,027,887	22,184,530	1.75%	0.79%
2001	4,138,012	22,341,120	2.73%	0.71%
2002	4,175,950	22,463,172	0.92%	0.55%
2003	4,114,826	22,562,663	-1.46%	0.44%
2004	4,166,664	22,646,836	1.26%	0.37%
2005	4,265,762	22,729,753	2.38%	0.37%
2006	4,401,365	22,823,455	3.18%	0.41%
2007	4,588,599	22,917,444	4.25%	0.41%
2008	4,839,396	22,997,696	5.47%	0.35%
2009	4,987,573	23,078,402	3.06%	0.35%
2010	5,076,732	23,140,948	1.79%	0.27%
2011	5,183,688	23,193,518	2.11%	0.23%
2012	5,312,437	23,270,367	2.48%	0.33%
2013	5,399,162	23,344,670	1.63%	0.32%
2014	5,469,724	23,403,635	1.31%	0.25%
2015	5,535,002	23,462,914	1.19%	0.25%
2016	5,607,283	23,515,945	1.31%	0.23%
2017	5,612,253	23,555,522	0.09%	0.17%
2018	5,638,676	23,580,080	0.47%	0.1%
2019	5,703,569	23,596,027	1.15%	0.07%
2020	5,685,807	23,582,179	-0.31%	-0.06%
2021	5,453,566	23,468,275	-4.08%	-0.48%
2022	5,637,022	23,319,977	3.36%	-0.63%
2023	5,917,648	23,342,541	4.98%	0.1%
2024	6,036,860	23,410,331	2.01%	0.29%
2025	6,076,565	23,308,308	0.66%	-0.44%
2026	6,112,792	23,205,944	0.6%	-0.44%
2027	6,147,775	23,102,120	0.57%	-0.45%
2028	6,182,764	22,996,693	0.57%	-0.46%
2029	6,214,576	22,890,335	0.51%	-0.46%
2030	6,242,825	22,781,040	0.45%	-0.48%
2031	6,270,800	22,667,327	0.45%	-0.5%
2032	6,298,559	22,549,689	0.44%	-0.52%
2033	6,325,401	22,428,721	0.43%	-0.54%
2034	6,349,852	22,302,402	0.39%	-0.56%
2035	6,368,948	22,170,689	0.3%	-0.59%
2036	6,383,048	22,034,775	0.22%	-0.61%
2037	6,394,813	21,893,029	0.18%	-0.64%
2038	6,404,994	21,746,001	0.16%	-0.67%
2039	6,411,057	21,594,236	0.09%	-0.7%
2040	6,411,962	21,436,947	0.01%	-0.73%
2041	6,408,383	21,274,187	-0.06%	-0.76%
2042	6,402,235	21,105,682	-0.1%	-0.79%
2043	6,394,872	20,932,105	-0.12%	-0.82%
2044	6,384,418	20,754,623	-0.16%	-0.85%
2045	6,372,013	20,571,741	-0.19%	-0.88%
2046	6,358,982	20,384,903	-0.2%	-0.91%
2047	6,343,000	20,194,425	-0.25%	-0.93%
2048	6,327,523	19,999,753	-0.24%	-0.96%
2049	6,312,515	19,801,293	-0.24%	-0.99%
2050	6,294,905	19,598,997	-0.28%	-1.02%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Singapore increased by 1,205,918 people (a 27.4% growth), while Taiwan gained 692,490 people (a 3.03% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Singapore gained 505,891 (a 9.02% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -310,001 (a 1.32% decline).

Singapore was ranked 117th most populous country in 2006 and is 113th in 2026. Taiwan was ranked 49th in 2006 and ranked 60th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Singapore's population will grow by 2.97% to 6,294,905 people with a rank change from 113th to 118th. The population of Taiwan will decrease by 15.5% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.