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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Singapore was 6,036,860 in 2024 vs 327,777 people in Vanuatu in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Singapore's population is 6,105,665 people compared to 341,110 in Vanuatu.

Population statistics:

  • Singapore's population is 17.9 times bigger than Vanuatu's.
  • Singapore is ranked the 113th most populous country in the world, while Vanuatu is the 174th.
  • The countries together account for 0.08% of the world: 0.07% for Singapore vs 0.004% for Vanuatu.
  • For the last 10 years, Singapore has had an average growth rate of +1.04% per year vs +2.33% in Vanuatu.
  • Since 2005, the population of Singapore has increased from 4.27M people to 6.11M (43.1% growth), while Vanuatu has grown from 211K to 341K (61.8% growth).
  • Singapore is projected to reach its peak in 2040 at 6.41M people compared to the peak of 875K people in 2100 for Vanuatu.

Singapore vs Vanuatu: live population counter

Singapore Vanuatu
Current population
6105665
341110
Population rank 113/197 174/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.004%
One net population change
4.41 minutes
1.19 hours
One birth every
12 minutes
58.5 minutes
One death every
14.3 minutes
5.38 hours
One migration net change every
26.3 minutes
1.21 weeks
Annual migration change +20,011 -43
Daily growth/decline +327 +20
Annual growth/decline +119,212 +7,368
Annual growth/decline rate +2.01% +2.3%
Population growth rate rank 53/197 40/197

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

Singapore
Population

Growth rate
Vanuatu
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Singapore Vanuatu Singapore Vanuatu
1960 1,646,400 64,431 - -
1961 1,702,400 66,264 3.4% 2.84%
1962 1,750,200 68,174 2.81% 2.88%
1963 1,795,000 70,159 2.56% 2.91%
1964 1,841,600 72,219 2.6% 2.94%
1965 1,886,900 74,358 2.46% 2.96%
1966 1,934,400 76,590 2.52% 3%
1967 1,977,600 78,921 2.23% 3.04%
1968 2,012,000 81,314 1.74% 3.03%
1969 2,042,500 83,755 1.52% 3%
1970 2,074,507 86,266 1.57% 3%
1971 2,112,900 88,862 1.85% 3.01%
1972 2,152,400 91,562 1.87% 3.04%
1973 2,193,000 94,362 1.89% 3.06%
1974 2,229,800 97,260 1.68% 3.07%
1975 2,262,600 100,269 1.47% 3.09%
1976 2,293,300 103,388 1.36% 3.11%
1977 2,325,300 106,618 1.4% 3.12%
1978 2,353,600 109,963 1.22% 3.14%
1979 2,383,500 113,040 1.27% 2.8%
1980 2,413,945 115,660 1.28% 2.32%
1981 2,532,835 118,249 4.93% 2.24%
1982 2,646,466 121,035 4.49% 2.36%
1983 2,681,061 123,998 1.31% 2.45%
1984 2,732,221 127,109 1.91% 2.51%
1985 2,735,957 130,356 0.14% 2.55%
1986 2,733,373 133,720 -0.09% 2.58%
1987 2,774,789 137,187 1.52% 2.59%
1988 2,846,108 140,756 2.57% 2.6%
1989 2,930,901 144,393 2.98% 2.58%
1990 3,047,132 148,063 3.97% 2.54%
1991 3,135,083 151,793 2.89% 2.52%
1992 3,230,698 155,608 3.05% 2.51%
1993 3,313,471 159,463 2.56% 2.48%
1994 3,419,048 163,314 3.19% 2.41%
1995 3,524,506 167,137 3.08% 2.34%
1996 3,670,704 170,911 4.15% 2.26%
1997 3,796,038 174,626 3.41% 2.17%
1998 3,927,213 178,313 3.46% 2.11%
1999 3,958,723 182,048 0.8% 2.09%
2000 4,027,887 186,281 1.75% 2.33%
2001 4,138,012 191,031 2.73% 2.55%
2002 4,175,950 195,863 0.92% 2.53%
2003 4,114,826 200,746 -1.46% 2.49%
2004 4,166,664 205,711 1.26% 2.47%
2005 4,265,762 210,760 2.38% 2.45%
2006 4,401,365 215,923 3.18% 2.45%
2007 4,588,599 221,276 4.25% 2.48%
2008 4,839,396 226,896 5.47% 2.54%
2009 4,987,573 232,731 3.06% 2.57%
2010 5,076,732 238,248 1.79% 2.37%
2011 5,183,688 243,474 2.11% 2.19%
2012 5,312,437 248,883 2.48% 2.22%
2013 5,399,162 254,482 1.63% 2.25%
2014 5,469,724 260,240 1.31% 2.26%
2015 5,535,002 266,101 1.19% 2.25%
2016 5,607,283 272,087 1.31% 2.25%
2017 5,612,253 278,507 0.09% 2.36%
2018 5,638,676 285,259 0.47% 2.42%
2019 5,703,569 291,985 1.15% 2.36%
2020 5,685,807 298,858 -0.31% 2.35%
2021 5,453,566 305,868 -4.08% 2.35%
2022 5,637,022 313,046 3.36% 2.35%
2023 5,917,648 320,409 4.98% 2.35%
2024 6,036,860 327,777 2.01% 2.3%
2025 6,076,565 335,169 0.66% 2.26%
2026 6,112,792 342,565 0.6% 2.21%
2027 6,147,775 349,970 0.57% 2.16%
2028 6,182,764 357,397 0.57% 2.12%
2029 6,214,576 364,883 0.51% 2.09%
2030 6,242,825 372,429 0.45% 2.07%
2031 6,270,800 380,015 0.45% 2.04%
2032 6,298,559 387,657 0.44% 2.01%
2033 6,325,401 395,366 0.43% 1.99%
2034 6,349,852 403,188 0.39% 1.98%
2035 6,368,948 411,061 0.3% 1.95%
2036 6,383,048 419,006 0.22% 1.93%
2037 6,394,813 427,031 0.18% 1.92%
2038 6,404,994 435,150 0.16% 1.9%
2039 6,411,057 443,311 0.09% 1.88%
2040 6,411,962 451,509 0.01% 1.85%
2041 6,408,383 459,733 -0.06% 1.82%
2042 6,402,235 468,003 -0.1% 1.8%
2043 6,394,872 476,308 -0.12% 1.77%
2044 6,384,418 484,636 -0.16% 1.75%
2045 6,372,013 492,989 -0.19% 1.72%
2046 6,358,982 501,316 -0.2% 1.69%
2047 6,343,000 509,621 -0.25% 1.66%
2048 6,327,523 517,889 -0.24% 1.62%
2049 6,312,515 526,138 -0.24% 1.59%
2050 6,294,905 534,374 -0.28% 1.57%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Singapore increased by 1,269,240 people (a 29.8% growth), while Vanuatu gained 55,341 people (a 26.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Singapore gained 570,663 (a 10.3% growth), while Vanuatu's population increased by 75,009 (a 28.2% growth).

Singapore was ranked 119th most populous country in 2005 and is 113th in 2025. Vanuatu was ranked 175th in 2005 and ranked 174th 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 Vanuatu will increase by 56.7% to 534,374 people and rank change from 174th to 169th.

Biggest cities by population

Singapore
City Population
Singapore 5.87M
Bukit Merah 152K
Vanuatu
City Population
Port Vila 49K
Luganville 17.7K

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