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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Somalia	Thailand	Somalia	Thailand
1960	2,876,331	26,851,747	-	-
1961	2,952,054	27,650,334	2.63%	2.97%
1962	3,030,091	28,481,040	2.64%	3%
1963	3,110,361	29,342,322	2.65%	3.02%
1964	3,192,796	30,232,141	2.65%	3.03%
1965	3,277,874	31,149,337	2.66%	3.03%
1966	3,365,106	32,086,071	2.66%	3.01%
1967	3,454,537	33,037,801	2.66%	2.97%
1968	3,546,590	34,002,560	2.66%	2.92%
1969	3,641,015	34,973,782	2.66%	2.86%
1970	3,738,448	35,954,408	2.68%	2.8%
1971	3,837,691	36,937,387	2.65%	2.73%
1972	3,939,436	37,933,929	2.65%	2.7%
1973	4,045,592	38,947,787	2.69%	2.67%
1974	4,151,842	39,952,891	2.63%	2.58%
1975	4,257,535	40,940,005	2.55%	2.47%
1976	4,365,812	41,896,504	2.54%	2.34%
1977	4,484,050	42,843,974	2.71%	2.26%
1978	4,814,892	43,788,976	7.38%	2.21%
1979	5,449,117	44,718,434	13.2%	2.12%
1980	5,936,154	45,650,022	8.94%	2.08%
1981	5,982,849	46,575,855	0.79%	2.03%
1982	6,003,840	47,494,577	0.35%	1.97%
1983	6,198,430	48,423,309	3.24%	1.96%
1984	6,428,389	49,351,708	3.71%	1.92%
1985	6,693,289	50,270,753	4.12%	1.86%
1986	6,974,788	51,177,834	4.21%	1.8%
1987	7,228,302	52,074,105	3.63%	1.75%
1988	7,235,360	52,969,595	0.1%	1.72%
1989	7,114,817	53,848,956	-1.67%	1.66%
1990	7,082,811	54,738,329	-0.45%	1.65%
1991	6,813,760	55,637,434	-3.8%	1.64%
1992	6,495,107	56,528,834	-4.68%	1.6%
1993	6,681,399	57,408,198	2.87%	1.56%
1994	7,026,797	58,260,854	5.17%	1.49%
1995	7,285,007	59,098,232	3.67%	1.44%
1996	7,554,474	59,920,064	3.7%	1.39%
1997	7,824,525	60,724,584	3.57%	1.34%
1998	8,155,417	61,522,630	4.23%	1.31%
1999	8,492,059	62,299,043	4.13%	1.26%
2000	8,838,713	63,007,815	4.08%	1.14%
2001	9,198,493	63,651,141	4.07%	1.02%
2002	9,550,063	64,266,437	3.82%	0.97%
2003	9,909,157	64,868,166	3.76%	0.94%
2004	10,280,998	65,452,047	3.75%	0.9%
2005	10,644,228	66,017,420	3.53%	0.86%
2006	10,975,502	66,567,687	3.11%	0.83%
2007	11,322,582	67,102,394	3.16%	0.8%
2008	11,663,084	67,619,830	3.01%	0.77%
2009	11,961,201	68,121,080	2.56%	0.74%
2010	12,261,756	68,579,447	2.51%	0.67%
2011	12,348,830	69,007,208	0.71%	0.62%
2012	12,461,160	69,436,098	0.91%	0.62%
2013	12,869,594	69,845,114	3.28%	0.59%
2014	13,339,491	70,216,367	3.65%	0.53%
2015	13,806,963	70,540,795	3.5%	0.46%
2016	14,348,740	70,859,841	3.92%	0.45%
2017	14,916,629	71,160,187	3.96%	0.42%
2018	15,452,487	71,376,079	3.59%	0.3%
2019	16,030,971	71,522,271	3.74%	0.2%
2020	16,651,191	71,641,484	3.87%	0.17%
2021	17,271,431	71,727,332	3.72%	0.12%
2022	17,801,897	71,735,329	3.07%	0.01%
2023	18,358,615	71,702,435	3.13%	-0.05%
2024	19,009,151	71,668,011	3.54%	-0.05%
2025	19,654,737	71,619,867	3.4%	-0.07%
2026	20,305,905	71,559,621	3.31%	-0.08%
2027	20,959,056	71,488,156	3.22%	-0.1%
2028	21,601,810	71,406,996	3.07%	-0.11%
2029	22,247,714	71,316,195	2.99%	-0.13%
2030	22,915,042	71,215,017	3%	-0.14%
2031	23,589,793	71,104,025	2.94%	-0.16%
2032	24,258,789	70,982,286	2.84%	-0.17%
2033	24,921,830	70,847,947	2.73%	-0.19%
2034	25,593,666	70,701,651	2.7%	-0.21%
2035	26,294,943	70,540,884	2.74%	-0.23%
2036	27,009,199	70,366,496	2.72%	-0.25%
2037	27,731,170	70,180,031	2.67%	-0.26%
2038	28,455,755	69,979,034	2.61%	-0.29%
2039	29,167,897	69,763,928	2.5%	-0.31%
2040	29,896,286	69,535,003	2.5%	-0.33%
2041	30,635,956	69,288,477	2.47%	-0.35%
2042	31,350,028	69,025,348	2.33%	-0.38%
2043	32,057,980	68,748,075	2.26%	-0.4%
2044	32,780,417	68,456,533	2.25%	-0.42%
2045	33,510,163	68,150,148	2.23%	-0.45%
2046	34,248,030	67,827,309	2.2%	-0.47%
2047	34,996,366	67,489,358	2.19%	-0.5%
2048	35,743,960	67,136,737	2.14%	-0.52%
2049	36,474,683	66,767,316	2.04%	-0.55%
2050	37,206,497	66,382,732	2.01%	-0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Somalia increased by 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Somalia gained 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2005 and is 66th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.