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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Somalia	Turkmenistan	Somalia	Turkmenistan
1960	2,876,331	1,643,457	-	-
1961	2,952,054	1,695,400	2.63%	3.16%
1962	3,030,091	1,749,214	2.64%	3.17%
1963	3,110,361	1,804,272	2.65%	3.15%
1964	3,192,796	1,859,997	2.65%	3.09%
1965	3,277,874	1,915,916	2.66%	3.01%
1966	3,365,106	1,971,737	2.66%	2.91%
1967	3,454,537	2,027,403	2.66%	2.82%
1968	3,546,590	2,083,069	2.66%	2.75%
1969	3,641,015	2,139,024	2.66%	2.69%
1970	3,738,448	2,195,616	2.68%	2.65%
1971	3,837,691	2,253,119	2.65%	2.62%
1972	3,939,436	2,311,430	2.65%	2.59%
1973	4,045,592	2,370,919	2.69%	2.57%
1974	4,151,842	2,432,028	2.63%	2.58%
1975	4,257,535	2,494,570	2.55%	2.57%
1976	4,365,812	2,558,521	2.54%	2.56%
1977	4,484,050	2,623,948	2.71%	2.56%
1978	4,814,892	2,691,088	7.38%	2.56%
1979	5,449,117	2,760,358	13.2%	2.57%
1980	5,936,154	2,832,203	8.94%	2.6%
1981	5,982,849	2,907,187	0.79%	2.65%
1982	6,003,840	2,985,557	0.35%	2.7%
1983	6,198,430	3,067,534	3.24%	2.75%
1984	6,428,389	3,154,079	3.71%	2.82%
1985	6,693,289	3,247,534	4.12%	2.96%
1986	6,974,788	3,347,809	4.21%	3.09%
1987	7,228,302	3,452,731	3.63%	3.13%
1988	7,235,360	3,559,363	0.1%	3.09%
1989	7,114,817	3,662,459	-1.67%	2.9%
1990	7,082,811	3,760,562	-0.45%	2.68%
1991	6,813,760	3,855,894	-3.8%	2.54%
1992	6,495,107	3,944,689	-4.68%	2.3%
1993	6,681,399	4,032,407	2.87%	2.22%
1994	7,026,797	4,116,662	5.17%	2.09%
1995	7,285,007	4,191,203	3.67%	1.81%
1996	7,554,474	4,263,819	3.7%	1.73%
1997	7,824,525	4,336,730	3.57%	1.71%
1998	8,155,417	4,410,507	4.23%	1.7%
1999	8,492,059	4,492,170	4.13%	1.85%
2000	8,838,713	4,582,677	4.08%	2.01%
2001	9,198,493	4,675,409	4.07%	2.02%
2002	9,550,063	4,769,465	3.82%	2.01%
2003	9,909,157	4,863,865	3.76%	1.98%
2004	10,280,998	4,958,093	3.75%	1.94%
2005	10,644,228	5,052,257	3.53%	1.9%
2006	10,975,502	5,147,105	3.11%	1.88%
2007	11,322,582	5,244,046	3.16%	1.88%
2008	11,663,084	5,345,029	3.01%	1.93%
2009	11,961,201	5,451,592	2.56%	1.99%
2010	12,261,756	5,564,356	2.51%	2.07%
2011	12,348,830	5,683,417	0.71%	2.14%
2012	12,461,160	5,808,546	0.91%	2.2%
2013	12,869,594	5,939,341	3.28%	2.25%
2014	13,339,491	6,075,283	3.65%	2.29%
2015	13,806,963	6,215,770	3.5%	2.31%
2016	14,348,740	6,360,041	3.92%	2.32%
2017	14,916,629	6,507,061	3.96%	2.31%
2018	15,452,487	6,655,524	3.59%	2.28%
2019	16,030,971	6,803,944	3.74%	2.23%
2020	16,651,191	6,949,912	3.87%	2.15%
2021	17,271,431	7,092,043	3.72%	2.05%
2022	17,801,897	7,230,193	3.07%	1.95%
2023	18,358,615	7,364,438	3.13%	1.86%
2024	19,009,151	7,494,498	3.54%	1.77%
2025	19,654,737	7,618,855	3.4%	1.66%
2026	20,305,905	7,736,635	3.31%	1.55%
2027	20,959,056	7,847,563	3.22%	1.43%
2028	21,601,810	7,951,300	3.07%	1.32%
2029	22,247,714	8,047,445	2.99%	1.21%
2030	22,915,042	8,135,732	3%	1.1%
2031	23,589,793	8,218,959	2.94%	1.02%
2032	24,258,789	8,300,260	2.84%	0.99%
2033	24,921,830	8,380,356	2.73%	0.96%
2034	25,593,666	8,459,731	2.7%	0.95%
2035	26,294,943	8,538,678	2.74%	0.93%
2036	27,009,199	8,617,567	2.72%	0.92%
2037	27,731,170	8,696,458	2.67%	0.92%
2038	28,455,755	8,775,204	2.61%	0.91%
2039	29,167,897	8,853,842	2.5%	0.9%
2040	29,896,286	8,932,237	2.5%	0.89%
2041	30,635,956	9,010,272	2.47%	0.87%
2042	31,350,028	9,087,668	2.33%	0.86%
2043	32,057,980	9,164,056	2.26%	0.84%
2044	32,780,417	9,239,278	2.25%	0.82%
2045	33,510,163	9,312,825	2.23%	0.8%
2046	34,248,030	9,384,188	2.2%	0.77%
2047	34,996,366	9,452,893	2.19%	0.73%
2048	35,743,960	9,518,558	2.14%	0.69%
2049	36,474,683	9,580,906	2.04%	0.66%
2050	37,206,497	9,639,711	2.01%	0.61%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Somalia increased by 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth), while Turkmenistan gained 1,163,513 people (a 23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Somalia gained 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth), while Turkmenistan's population increased by 1,497,695 (a 24.1% growth).

Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2005 and is 66th in 2025. Turkmenistan was ranked 113th in 2005 and ranked 104th 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 Turkmenistan will increase by 25% to 9,639,711 people and rank change from 104th to 101st.