Population in Somalia compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Somalia and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Somalia	United Kingdom	Somalia	United Kingdom
1960	2,876,331	52,400,000	-	-
1961	2,952,054	52,800,000	2.63%	0.76%
1962	3,030,091	53,250,000	2.64%	0.85%
1963	3,110,361	53,650,000	2.65%	0.75%
1964	3,192,796	54,000,000	2.65%	0.65%
1965	3,277,874	54,348,050	2.66%	0.64%
1966	3,365,106	54,648,500	2.66%	0.55%
1967	3,454,537	54,943,600	2.66%	0.54%
1968	3,546,590	55,211,700	2.66%	0.49%
1969	3,641,015	55,441,750	2.66%	0.42%
1970	3,738,448	55,663,250	2.68%	0.4%
1971	3,837,691	55,896,223	2.65%	0.42%
1972	3,939,436	56,086,065	2.65%	0.34%
1973	4,045,592	56,194,527	2.69%	0.19%
1974	4,151,842	56,229,974	2.63%	0.06%
1975	4,257,535	56,225,800	2.55%	-0.007%
1976	4,365,812	56,211,968	2.54%	-0.02%
1977	4,484,050	56,193,492	2.71%	-0.03%
1978	4,814,892	56,196,504	7.38%	0.005%
1979	5,449,117	56,246,951	13.2%	0.09%
1980	5,936,154	56,314,216	8.94%	0.12%
1981	5,982,849	56,333,829	0.79%	0.03%
1982	6,003,840	56,313,641	0.35%	-0.04%
1983	6,198,430	56,332,848	3.24%	0.03%
1984	6,428,389	56,422,072	3.71%	0.16%
1985	6,693,289	56,550,268	4.12%	0.23%
1986	6,974,788	56,681,396	4.21%	0.23%
1987	7,228,302	56,802,050	3.63%	0.21%
1988	7,235,360	56,928,327	0.1%	0.22%
1989	7,114,817	57,076,711	-1.67%	0.26%
1990	7,082,811	57,247,586	-0.45%	0.3%
1991	6,813,760	57,424,897	-3.8%	0.31%
1992	6,495,107	57,580,402	-4.68%	0.27%
1993	6,681,399	57,718,614	2.87%	0.24%
1994	7,026,797	57,865,745	5.17%	0.25%
1995	7,285,007	58,019,030	3.67%	0.26%
1996	7,554,474	58,166,950	3.7%	0.25%
1997	7,824,525	58,316,954	3.57%	0.26%
1998	8,155,417	58,487,141	4.23%	0.29%
1999	8,492,059	58,682,466	4.13%	0.33%
2000	8,838,713	58,892,514	4.08%	0.36%
2001	9,198,493	59,119,673	4.07%	0.39%
2002	9,550,063	59,370,479	3.82%	0.42%
2003	9,909,157	59,647,577	3.76%	0.47%
2004	10,280,998	59,987,905	3.75%	0.57%
2005	10,644,228	60,401,206	3.53%	0.69%
2006	10,975,502	60,846,820	3.11%	0.74%
2007	11,322,582	61,322,463	3.16%	0.78%
2008	11,663,084	61,806,995	3.01%	0.79%
2009	11,961,201	62,276,270	2.56%	0.76%
2010	12,261,756	62,766,365	2.51%	0.79%
2011	12,348,830	63,258,810	0.71%	0.78%
2012	12,461,160	63,711,000	0.91%	0.71%
2013	12,869,594	64,139,000	3.28%	0.67%
2014	13,339,491	64,620,000	3.65%	0.75%
2015	13,806,963	65,088,000	3.5%	0.72%
2016	14,348,740	65,607,000	3.92%	0.8%
2017	14,916,629	65,966,000	3.96%	0.55%
2018	15,452,487	66,289,000	3.59%	0.49%
2019	16,030,971	66,631,000	3.74%	0.52%
2020	16,651,191	66,744,000	3.87%	0.17%
2021	17,271,431	66,984,000	3.72%	0.36%
2022	17,801,897	67,604,000	3.07%	0.93%
2023	18,358,615	68,492,000	3.13%	1.31%
2024	19,009,151	69,226,000	3.54%	1.07%
2025	19,654,737	69,639,673	3.4%	0.6%
2026	20,305,905	70,020,350	3.31%	0.55%
2027	20,959,056	70,382,853	3.22%	0.52%
2028	21,601,810	70,732,699	3.07%	0.5%
2029	22,247,714	71,061,482	2.99%	0.46%
2030	22,915,042	71,377,535	3%	0.44%
2031	23,589,793	71,678,351	2.94%	0.42%
2032	24,258,789	71,959,934	2.84%	0.39%
2033	24,921,830	72,234,509	2.73%	0.38%
2034	25,593,666	72,497,650	2.7%	0.36%
2035	26,294,943	72,749,096	2.74%	0.35%
2036	27,009,199	72,990,847	2.72%	0.33%
2037	27,731,170	73,218,850	2.67%	0.31%
2038	28,455,755	73,441,349	2.61%	0.3%
2039	29,167,897	73,658,392	2.5%	0.3%
2040	29,896,286	73,868,334	2.5%	0.29%
2041	30,635,956	74,074,316	2.47%	0.28%
2042	31,350,028	74,275,779	2.33%	0.27%
2043	32,057,980	74,475,035	2.26%	0.27%
2044	32,780,417	74,667,284	2.25%	0.26%
2045	33,510,163	74,848,605	2.23%	0.24%
2046	34,248,030	75,020,949	2.2%	0.23%
2047	34,996,366	75,184,478	2.19%	0.22%
2048	35,743,960	75,337,543	2.14%	0.2%
2049	36,474,683	75,476,141	2.04%	0.18%
2050	37,206,497	75,600,588	2.01%	0.16%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Somalia increased by 3,373,238 people (a 30.7% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,760,180 people (a 7.82% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Somalia gained 5,964,303 (a 41.6% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,417,311 (a 6.73% growth).

Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2006 and is 66th in 2026. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2006 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Somalia's population will grow by 83.2% to 37,206,497 people with a rank change from 66th to 57th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 7.96% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.