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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Singapore was 6,036,860 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Singapore's population is 6,105,665 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 14.1 times bigger than Singapore's.
  • Singapore is ranked the 113th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.11% of the world: 0.07% for Singapore vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Singapore has had an average growth rate of +1.04% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Singapore has increased from 4.27M people to 6.11M (43.1% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Singapore is projected to reach its peak in 2040 at 6.41M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Singapore vs Turkey: live population counter

Singapore Turkey
Current population
6105665
85914550
Population rank 113/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 1.04%
One net population change
4.41 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
12 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
14.3 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
26.3 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change +20,011 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +327 +528
Annual growth/decline +119,212 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +2.01% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 53/197 153/197

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

Singapore
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Singapore Turkey Singapore Turkey
1960 1,646,400 28,329,898 - -
1961 1,702,400 29,119,238 3.4% 2.79%
1962 1,750,200 29,916,147 2.81% 2.74%
1963 1,795,000 30,726,841 2.56% 2.71%
1964 1,841,600 31,543,072 2.6% 2.66%
1965 1,886,900 32,345,220 2.46% 2.54%
1966 1,934,400 33,177,672 2.52% 2.57%
1967 1,977,600 34,050,421 2.23% 2.63%
1968 2,012,000 34,921,684 1.74% 2.56%
1969 2,042,500 35,787,774 1.52% 2.48%
1970 2,074,507 36,638,465 1.57% 2.38%
1971 2,112,900 37,518,611 1.85% 2.4%
1972 2,152,400 38,430,221 1.87% 2.43%
1973 2,193,000 39,329,533 1.89% 2.34%
1974 2,229,800 40,210,234 1.68% 2.24%
1975 2,262,600 41,053,126 1.47% 2.1%
1976 2,293,300 41,899,984 1.36% 2.06%
1977 2,325,300 42,773,298 1.4% 2.08%
1978 2,353,600 43,645,306 1.22% 2.04%
1979 2,383,500 44,510,429 1.27% 1.98%
1980 2,413,945 45,408,815 1.28% 2.02%
1981 2,532,835 46,321,190 4.93% 2.01%
1982 2,646,466 47,322,096 4.49% 2.16%
1983 2,681,061 48,447,410 1.31% 2.38%
1984 2,732,221 49,574,069 1.91% 2.33%
1985 2,735,957 50,687,115 0.14% 2.25%
1986 2,733,373 51,777,772 -0.09% 2.15%
1987 2,774,789 52,843,670 1.52% 2.06%
1988 2,846,108 53,909,626 2.57% 2.02%
1989 2,930,901 54,976,723 2.98% 1.98%
1990 3,047,132 56,015,628 3.97% 1.89%
1991 3,135,083 57,009,887 2.89% 1.77%
1992 3,230,698 57,990,118 3.05% 1.72%
1993 3,313,471 58,999,167 2.56% 1.74%
1994 3,419,048 60,033,836 3.19% 1.75%
1995 3,524,506 61,024,503 3.08% 1.65%
1996 3,670,704 61,951,134 4.15% 1.52%
1997 3,796,038 62,852,966 3.41% 1.46%
1998 3,927,213 63,734,383 3.46% 1.4%
1999 3,958,723 64,591,923 0.8% 1.35%
2000 4,027,887 65,425,961 1.75% 1.29%
2001 4,138,012 66,245,128 2.73% 1.25%
2002 4,175,950 67,048,795 0.92% 1.21%
2003 4,114,826 67,831,730 -1.46% 1.17%
2004 4,166,664 68,592,617 1.26% 1.12%
2005 4,265,762 69,329,557 2.38% 1.07%
2006 4,401,365 70,045,349 3.18% 1.03%
2007 4,588,599 70,158,112 4.25% 0.16%
2008 4,839,396 71,051,678 5.47% 1.27%
2009 4,987,573 72,039,206 3.06% 1.39%
2010 5,076,732 73,142,150 1.79% 1.53%
2011 5,183,688 74,223,629 2.11% 1.48%
2012 5,312,437 75,175,827 2.48% 1.28%
2013 5,399,162 76,147,624 1.63% 1.29%
2014 5,469,724 77,181,884 1.31% 1.36%
2015 5,535,002 78,218,479 1.19% 1.34%
2016 5,607,283 79,277,962 1.31% 1.35%
2017 5,612,253 80,312,698 0.09% 1.31%
2018 5,638,676 81,407,204 0.47% 1.36%
2019 5,703,569 82,579,440 1.15% 1.44%
2020 5,685,807 83,384,680 -0.31% 0.98%
2021 5,453,566 84,147,318 -4.08% 0.91%
2022 5,637,022 84,979,913 3.36% 0.99%
2023 5,917,648 85,325,965 4.98% 0.41%
2024 6,036,860 85,518,661 2.01% 0.23%
2025 6,076,565 85,725,557 0.66% 0.24%
2026 6,112,792 85,960,835 0.6% 0.27%
2027 6,147,775 86,227,115 0.57% 0.31%
2028 6,182,764 86,502,744 0.57% 0.32%
2029 6,214,576 86,771,652 0.51% 0.31%
2030 6,242,825 87,037,680 0.45% 0.31%
2031 6,270,800 87,297,191 0.45% 0.3%
2032 6,298,559 87,537,075 0.44% 0.27%
2033 6,325,401 87,762,403 0.43% 0.26%
2034 6,349,852 87,974,138 0.39% 0.24%
2035 6,368,948 88,172,739 0.3% 0.23%
2036 6,383,048 88,364,318 0.22% 0.22%
2037 6,394,813 88,545,669 0.18% 0.21%
2038 6,404,994 88,707,268 0.16% 0.18%
2039 6,411,057 88,849,956 0.09% 0.16%
2040 6,411,962 88,975,510 0.01% 0.14%
2041 6,408,383 89,083,304 -0.06% 0.12%
2042 6,402,235 89,177,769 -0.1% 0.11%
2043 6,394,872 89,254,147 -0.12% 0.09%
2044 6,384,418 89,311,458 -0.16% 0.06%
2045 6,372,013 89,349,806 -0.19% 0.04%
2046 6,358,982 89,375,429 -0.2% 0.03%
2047 6,343,000 89,383,765 -0.25% 0.009%
2048 6,327,523 89,361,174 -0.24% -0.03%
2049 6,312,515 89,306,566 -0.24% -0.06%
2050 6,294,905 89,218,346 -0.28% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Singapore increased by 1,269,240 people (a 29.8% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Singapore gained 570,663 (a 10.3% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Singapore was ranked 119th most populous country in 2005 and is 113th 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) Singapore's population will grow by 3.1% to 6,294,905 people with a rank change from 113th to 118th. The population of Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

Biggest cities by population

Singapore
City Population
Singapore 5.87M
Bukit Merah 152K
Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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