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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Somalia	Spain	Somalia	Spain
1960	2,876,331	30,455,000	-	-
1961	2,952,054	30,739,250	2.63%	0.93%
1962	3,030,091	31,023,366	2.64%	0.92%
1963	3,110,361	31,296,651	2.65%	0.88%
1964	3,192,796	31,609,195	2.65%	1%
1965	3,277,874	31,954,292	2.66%	1.09%
1966	3,365,106	32,283,194	2.66%	1.03%
1967	3,454,537	32,682,947	2.66%	1.24%
1968	3,546,590	33,113,134	2.66%	1.32%
1969	3,641,015	33,441,054	2.66%	0.99%
1970	3,738,448	33,814,531	2.68%	1.12%
1971	3,837,691	34,224,490	2.65%	1.21%
1972	3,939,436	34,604,469	2.65%	1.11%
1973	4,045,592	34,988,947	2.69%	1.11%
1974	4,151,842	35,373,335	2.63%	1.1%
1975	4,257,535	35,757,900	2.55%	1.09%
1976	4,365,812	36,137,812	2.54%	1.06%
1977	4,484,050	36,511,638	2.71%	1.03%
1978	4,814,892	36,864,898	7.38%	0.97%
1979	5,449,117	37,191,330	13.2%	0.89%
1980	5,936,154	37,491,165	8.94%	0.81%
1981	5,982,849	37,758,631	0.79%	0.71%
1982	6,003,840	37,986,012	0.35%	0.6%
1983	6,198,430	38,171,525	3.24%	0.49%
1984	6,428,389	38,330,364	3.71%	0.42%
1985	6,693,289	38,469,512	4.12%	0.36%
1986	6,974,788	38,584,624	4.21%	0.3%
1987	7,228,302	38,684,815	3.63%	0.26%
1988	7,235,360	38,766,939	0.1%	0.21%
1989	7,114,817	38,827,764	-1.67%	0.16%
1990	7,082,811	38,867,322	-0.45%	0.1%
1991	6,813,760	38,966,376	-3.8%	0.25%
1992	6,495,107	39,157,685	-4.68%	0.49%
1993	6,681,399	39,361,262	2.87%	0.52%
1994	7,026,797	39,549,108	5.17%	0.48%
1995	7,285,007	39,724,050	3.67%	0.44%
1996	7,554,474	39,889,852	3.7%	0.42%
1997	7,824,525	40,057,389	3.57%	0.42%
1998	8,155,417	40,223,509	4.23%	0.41%
1999	8,492,059	40,386,875	4.13%	0.41%
2000	8,838,713	40,567,864	4.08%	0.45%
2001	9,198,493	40,850,412	4.07%	0.7%
2002	9,550,063	41,431,558	3.82%	1.42%
2003	9,909,157	42,187,645	3.76%	1.82%
2004	10,280,998	42,921,895	3.75%	1.74%
2005	10,644,228	43,653,155	3.53%	1.7%
2006	10,975,502	44,397,319	3.11%	1.7%
2007	11,322,582	45,226,803	3.16%	1.87%
2008	11,663,084	45,954,106	3.01%	1.61%
2009	11,961,201	46,362,946	2.56%	0.89%
2010	12,261,756	46,576,897	2.51%	0.46%
2011	12,348,830	46,742,697	0.71%	0.36%
2012	12,461,160	46,773,055	0.91%	0.06%
2013	12,869,594	46,604,197	3.28%	-0.36%
2014	13,339,491	46,460,733	3.65%	-0.31%
2015	13,806,963	46,422,303	3.5%	-0.08%
2016	14,348,740	46,458,139	3.92%	0.08%
2017	14,916,629	46,571,232	3.96%	0.24%
2018	15,452,487	46,782,011	3.59%	0.45%
2019	16,030,971	47,118,501	3.74%	0.72%
2020	16,651,191	47,359,424	3.87%	0.51%
2021	17,271,431	47,443,821	3.72%	0.18%
2022	17,801,897	47,786,102	3.07%	0.72%
2023	18,358,615	48,347,910	3.13%	1.18%
2024	19,009,151	48,807,137	3.54%	0.95%
2025	19,654,737	48,786,181	3.4%	-0.04%
2026	20,305,905	48,746,279	3.31%	-0.08%
2027	20,959,056	48,696,847	3.22%	-0.1%
2028	21,601,810	48,642,132	3.07%	-0.11%
2029	22,247,714	48,578,166	2.99%	-0.13%
2030	22,915,042	48,501,513	3%	-0.16%
2031	23,589,793	48,412,854	2.94%	-0.18%
2032	24,258,789	48,321,195	2.84%	-0.19%
2033	24,921,830	48,230,054	2.73%	-0.19%
2034	25,593,666	48,136,421	2.7%	-0.19%
2035	26,294,943	48,036,650	2.74%	-0.21%
2036	27,009,199	47,929,957	2.72%	-0.22%
2037	27,731,170	47,819,257	2.67%	-0.23%
2038	28,455,755	47,706,580	2.61%	-0.24%
2039	29,167,897	47,588,878	2.5%	-0.25%
2040	29,896,286	47,463,597	2.5%	-0.26%
2041	30,635,956	47,332,618	2.47%	-0.28%
2042	31,350,028	47,194,588	2.33%	-0.29%
2043	32,057,980	47,052,293	2.26%	-0.3%
2044	32,780,417	46,902,636	2.25%	-0.32%
2045	33,510,163	46,738,565	2.23%	-0.35%
2046	34,248,030	46,564,383	2.2%	-0.37%
2047	34,996,366	46,381,681	2.19%	-0.39%
2048	35,743,960	46,190,642	2.14%	-0.41%
2049	36,474,683	45,985,428	2.04%	-0.44%
2050	37,206,497	45,769,362	2.01%	-0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Somalia increased by 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Somalia gained 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2005 and is 66th 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) Somalia's population will grow by 84.4% to 37,206,497 people with a rank change from 66th to 57th. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.