Population in Somalia compared to South Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Somalia and South Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Somalia	South Korea	Somalia	South Korea
1960	2,876,331	25,012,374	-	-
1961	2,952,054	25,765,673	2.63%	3.01%
1962	3,030,091	26,513,030	2.64%	2.9%
1963	3,110,361	27,261,747	2.65%	2.82%
1964	3,192,796	27,984,155	2.65%	2.65%
1965	3,277,874	28,704,674	2.66%	2.57%
1966	3,365,106	29,435,571	2.66%	2.55%
1967	3,454,537	30,130,983	2.66%	2.36%
1968	3,546,590	30,838,302	2.66%	2.35%
1969	3,641,015	31,544,266	2.66%	2.29%
1970	3,738,448	32,240,827	2.68%	2.21%
1971	3,837,691	32,882,704	2.65%	1.99%
1972	3,939,436	33,505,406	2.65%	1.89%
1973	4,045,592	34,103,149	2.69%	1.78%
1974	4,151,842	34,692,266	2.63%	1.73%
1975	4,257,535	35,280,725	2.55%	1.7%
1976	4,365,812	35,848,523	2.54%	1.61%
1977	4,484,050	36,411,795	2.71%	1.57%
1978	4,814,892	36,969,185	7.38%	1.53%
1979	5,449,117	37,534,236	13.2%	1.53%
1980	5,936,154	38,123,775	8.94%	1.57%
1981	5,982,849	38,723,248	0.79%	1.57%
1982	6,003,840	39,326,352	0.35%	1.56%
1983	6,198,430	39,910,403	3.24%	1.49%
1984	6,428,389	40,405,956	3.71%	1.24%
1985	6,693,289	40,805,744	4.12%	0.99%
1986	6,974,788	41,213,674	4.21%	1%
1987	7,228,302	41,621,690	3.63%	0.99%
1988	7,235,360	42,031,247	0.1%	0.98%
1989	7,114,817	42,449,038	-1.67%	0.99%
1990	7,082,811	42,869,283	-0.45%	0.99%
1991	6,813,760	43,295,704	-3.8%	0.99%
1992	6,495,107	43,747,962	-4.68%	1.04%
1993	6,681,399	44,194,628	2.87%	1.02%
1994	7,026,797	44,641,540	5.17%	1.01%
1995	7,285,007	45,092,991	3.67%	1.01%
1996	7,554,474	45,524,681	3.7%	0.96%
1997	7,824,525	45,953,580	3.57%	0.94%
1998	8,155,417	46,286,503	4.23%	0.72%
1999	8,492,059	46,616,677	4.13%	0.71%
2000	8,838,713	47,008,111	4.08%	0.84%
2001	9,198,493	47,370,164	4.07%	0.77%
2002	9,550,063	47,644,736	3.82%	0.58%
2003	9,909,157	47,892,330	3.76%	0.52%
2004	10,280,998	48,082,519	3.75%	0.4%
2005	10,644,228	48,184,561	3.53%	0.21%
2006	10,975,502	48,438,292	3.11%	0.53%
2007	11,322,582	48,683,638	3.16%	0.51%
2008	11,663,084	49,054,708	3.01%	0.76%
2009	11,961,201	49,307,835	2.56%	0.52%
2010	12,261,756	49,554,112	2.51%	0.5%
2011	12,348,830	49,936,638	0.71%	0.77%
2012	12,461,160	50,199,853	0.91%	0.53%
2013	12,869,594	50,428,893	3.28%	0.46%
2014	13,339,491	50,746,659	3.65%	0.63%
2015	13,806,963	51,014,947	3.5%	0.53%
2016	14,348,740	51,217,803	3.92%	0.4%
2017	14,916,629	51,361,911	3.96%	0.28%
2018	15,452,487	51,585,058	3.59%	0.43%
2019	16,030,971	51,764,822	3.74%	0.35%
2020	16,651,191	51,836,239	3.87%	0.14%
2021	17,271,431	51,769,539	3.72%	-0.13%
2022	17,801,897	51,672,569	3.07%	-0.19%
2023	18,358,615	51,712,619	3.13%	0.08%
2024	19,009,151	51,751,065	3.54%	0.07%
2025	19,654,737	51,700,480	3.4%	-0.1%
2026	20,305,905	51,633,793	3.31%	-0.13%
2027	20,959,056	51,552,198	3.22%	-0.16%
2028	21,601,810	51,456,707	3.07%	-0.19%
2029	22,247,714	51,347,230	2.99%	-0.21%
2030	22,915,042	51,221,713	3%	-0.24%
2031	23,589,793	51,081,220	2.94%	-0.27%
2032	24,258,789	50,924,233	2.84%	-0.31%
2033	24,921,830	50,747,132	2.73%	-0.35%
2034	25,593,666	50,549,508	2.7%	-0.39%
2035	26,294,943	50,333,286	2.74%	-0.43%
2036	27,009,199	50,098,951	2.72%	-0.47%
2037	27,731,170	49,845,669	2.67%	-0.51%
2038	28,455,755	49,573,234	2.61%	-0.55%
2039	29,167,897	49,283,770	2.5%	-0.58%
2040	29,896,286	48,980,369	2.5%	-0.62%
2041	30,635,956	48,661,905	2.47%	-0.65%
2042	31,350,028	48,331,004	2.33%	-0.68%
2043	32,057,980	47,990,085	2.26%	-0.71%
2044	32,780,417	47,634,183	2.25%	-0.74%
2045	33,510,163	47,263,526	2.23%	-0.78%
2046	34,248,030	46,881,228	2.2%	-0.81%
2047	34,996,366	46,482,133	2.19%	-0.85%
2048	35,743,960	46,063,595	2.14%	-0.9%
2049	36,474,683	45,626,805	2.04%	-0.95%
2050	37,206,497	45,172,356	2.01%	-1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Somalia increased by 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Somalia gained 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2005 and is 66th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Somalia's population will grow by 84.4% to 37,206,497 people with a rank change from 66th to 57th. The population of South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.