The latest officially reported population of Somalia was 19,009,151 in 2024 vs 3,386,588 people in Uruguay in 2024. In 2026, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Somalia's population is 20,313,043 people compared to 3,382,543 in Uruguay.
Population statistics:
- Somalia's population is 6.01 times bigger than Uruguay's.
- Somalia is ranked the 66th most populous country in the world, while Uruguay is the 133rd.
- The countries together account for 0.29% of the world: 0.25% for Somalia vs 0.04% for Uruguay.
- For the last 10 years, Somalia has had an average growth rate of +3.61% per year vs +0.11% in Uruguay.
- Since 2006, the population of Somalia has increased from 11M people to 20.3M (85.1% growth), while Uruguay has grown from 3.29M to 3.38M (2.83% growth).
- Somalia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 67.4M people, while Uruguay's population already peaked in 2020 at 3.4M people and is projected to decrease to 2.25M people by 2100.
Somalia vs Uruguay: live population counter
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| Current population |
20313043
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3382543
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| Population rank | 66/197 | 133/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.25% | 0.04% |
| One net population change |
48.5 seconds
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5.87 hours
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| One birth every |
40 seconds
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15.7 minutes
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| One death every |
2.91 minutes
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15.9 minutes
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| One migration net change every |
19.6 minutes
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6.5 hours
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| Annual migration change | +26,859 | -1,348 |
| Daily growth/decline | +1,782 | -4 |
| Annual growth/decline | +650,536 | -1,493 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +3.54% | -0.04% |
| Population growth rate rank | 8/197 | 168/197 |
Somalia and Uruguay: population history and growth rate by year chart
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
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| 1960 | 2,876,331 | 2,529,957 | - | - |
| 1961 | 2,952,054 | 2,562,044 | 2.63% | 1.27% |
| 1962 | 3,030,091 | 2,593,298 | 2.64% | 1.22% |
| 1963 | 3,110,361 | 2,623,766 | 2.65% | 1.17% |
| 1964 | 3,192,796 | 2,653,180 | 2.65% | 1.12% |
| 1965 | 3,277,874 | 2,681,169 | 2.66% | 1.05% |
| 1966 | 3,365,106 | 2,707,646 | 2.66% | 0.99% |
| 1967 | 3,454,537 | 2,732,277 | 2.66% | 0.91% |
| 1968 | 3,546,590 | 2,754,606 | 2.66% | 0.82% |
| 1969 | 3,641,015 | 2,773,974 | 2.66% | 0.7% |
| 1970 | 3,738,448 | 2,790,807 | 2.68% | 0.61% |
| 1971 | 3,837,691 | 2,806,462 | 2.65% | 0.56% |
| 1972 | 3,939,436 | 2,821,644 | 2.65% | 0.54% |
| 1973 | 4,045,592 | 2,837,133 | 2.69% | 0.55% |
| 1974 | 4,151,842 | 2,853,944 | 2.63% | 0.59% |
| 1975 | 4,257,535 | 2,872,320 | 2.55% | 0.64% |
| 1976 | 4,365,812 | 2,891,392 | 2.54% | 0.66% |
| 1977 | 4,484,050 | 2,909,461 | 2.71% | 0.62% |
| 1978 | 4,814,892 | 2,925,715 | 7.38% | 0.56% |
| 1979 | 5,449,117 | 2,939,903 | 13.2% | 0.48% |
| 1980 | 5,936,154 | 2,951,953 | 8.94% | 0.41% |
| 1981 | 5,982,849 | 2,963,246 | 0.79% | 0.38% |
| 1982 | 6,003,840 | 2,975,492 | 0.35% | 0.41% |
| 1983 | 6,198,430 | 2,988,778 | 3.24% | 0.45% |
| 1984 | 6,428,389 | 3,002,488 | 3.71% | 0.46% |
| 1985 | 6,693,289 | 3,017,037 | 4.12% | 0.48% |
| 1986 | 6,974,788 | 3,032,845 | 4.21% | 0.52% |
| 1987 | 7,228,302 | 3,049,896 | 3.63% | 0.56% |
| 1988 | 7,235,360 | 3,067,961 | 0.1% | 0.59% |
| 1989 | 7,114,817 | 3,086,255 | -1.67% | 0.6% |
| 1990 | 7,082,811 | 3,104,403 | -0.45% | 0.59% |
| 1991 | 6,813,760 | 3,122,354 | -3.8% | 0.58% |
| 1992 | 6,495,107 | 3,139,702 | -4.68% | 0.56% |
| 1993 | 6,681,399 | 3,156,345 | 2.87% | 0.53% |
| 1994 | 7,026,797 | 3,172,834 | 5.17% | 0.52% |
| 1995 | 7,285,007 | 3,189,440 | 3.67% | 0.52% |
| 1996 | 7,554,474 | 3,206,324 | 3.7% | 0.53% |
| 1997 | 7,824,525 | 3,223,345 | 3.57% | 0.53% |
| 1998 | 8,155,417 | 3,239,280 | 4.23% | 0.49% |
| 1999 | 8,492,059 | 3,254,015 | 4.13% | 0.45% |
| 2000 | 8,838,713 | 3,266,206 | 4.08% | 0.37% |
| 2001 | 9,198,493 | 3,274,251 | 4.07% | 0.25% |
| 2002 | 9,550,063 | 3,278,867 | 3.82% | 0.14% |
| 2003 | 9,909,157 | 3,281,186 | 3.76% | 0.07% |
| 2004 | 10,280,998 | 3,283,148 | 3.75% | 0.06% |
| 2005 | 10,644,228 | 3,285,771 | 3.53% | 0.08% |
| 2006 | 10,975,502 | 3,289,506 | 3.11% | 0.11% |
| 2007 | 11,322,582 | 3,295,153 | 3.16% | 0.17% |
| 2008 | 11,663,084 | 3,302,177 | 3.01% | 0.21% |
| 2009 | 11,961,201 | 3,310,091 | 2.56% | 0.24% |
| 2010 | 12,261,756 | 3,318,580 | 2.51% | 0.26% |
| 2011 | 12,348,830 | 3,326,825 | 0.71% | 0.25% |
| 2012 | 12,461,160 | 3,335,401 | 0.91% | 0.26% |
| 2013 | 12,869,594 | 3,345,337 | 3.28% | 0.3% |
| 2014 | 13,339,491 | 3,356,334 | 3.65% | 0.33% |
| 2015 | 13,806,963 | 3,368,017 | 3.5% | 0.35% |
| 2016 | 14,348,740 | 3,379,283 | 3.92% | 0.33% |
| 2017 | 14,916,629 | 3,388,438 | 3.96% | 0.27% |
| 2018 | 15,452,487 | 3,394,534 | 3.59% | 0.18% |
| 2019 | 16,030,971 | 3,397,206 | 3.74% | 0.08% |
| 2020 | 16,651,191 | 3,398,968 | 3.87% | 0.05% |
| 2021 | 17,271,431 | 3,396,695 | 3.72% | -0.07% |
| 2022 | 17,801,897 | 3,390,913 | 3.07% | -0.17% |
| 2023 | 18,358,615 | 3,388,081 | 3.13% | -0.08% |
| 2024 | 19,009,151 | 3,386,588 | 3.54% | -0.04% |
| 2025 | 19,654,737 | 3,384,690 | 3.4% | -0.06% |
| 2026 | 20,305,905 | 3,382,543 | 3.31% | -0.06% |
| 2027 | 20,959,056 | 3,380,245 | 3.22% | -0.07% |
| 2028 | 21,601,810 | 3,377,893 | 3.07% | -0.07% |
| 2029 | 22,247,714 | 3,375,428 | 2.99% | -0.07% |
| 2030 | 22,915,042 | 3,372,892 | 3% | -0.08% |
| 2031 | 23,589,793 | 3,370,285 | 2.94% | -0.08% |
| 2032 | 24,258,789 | 3,367,544 | 2.84% | -0.08% |
| 2033 | 24,921,830 | 3,364,654 | 2.73% | -0.09% |
| 2034 | 25,593,666 | 3,361,591 | 2.7% | -0.09% |
| 2035 | 26,294,943 | 3,358,284 | 2.74% | -0.1% |
| 2036 | 27,009,199 | 3,354,682 | 2.72% | -0.11% |
| 2037 | 27,731,170 | 3,350,735 | 2.67% | -0.12% |
| 2038 | 28,455,755 | 3,346,431 | 2.61% | -0.13% |
| 2039 | 29,167,897 | 3,341,676 | 2.5% | -0.14% |
| 2040 | 29,896,286 | 3,336,469 | 2.5% | -0.16% |
| 2041 | 30,635,956 | 3,330,804 | 2.47% | -0.17% |
| 2042 | 31,350,028 | 3,324,643 | 2.33% | -0.18% |
| 2043 | 32,057,980 | 3,317,939 | 2.26% | -0.2% |
| 2044 | 32,780,417 | 3,310,611 | 2.25% | -0.22% |
| 2045 | 33,510,163 | 3,302,680 | 2.23% | -0.24% |
| 2046 | 34,248,030 | 3,294,196 | 2.2% | -0.26% |
| 2047 | 34,996,366 | 3,285,160 | 2.19% | -0.27% |
| 2048 | 35,743,960 | 3,275,507 | 2.14% | -0.29% |
| 2049 | 36,474,683 | 3,265,260 | 2.04% | -0.31% |
| 2050 | 37,206,497 | 3,254,361 | 2.01% | -0.33% |
From 2006 to 2016, the population of Somalia increased by 3,373,238 people (a 30.7% growth), while Uruguay gained 89,777 people (a 2.73% growth).
For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Somalia gained 5,964,303 (a 41.6% growth), while Uruguay's population increased by 3,260 (a 0.1% growth).
Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2006 and is 66th in 2026. Uruguay was ranked 129th in 2006 and ranked 133rd 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 Uruguay will decrease by 3.79% to 3,254,361 people and rank change from 133rd to 138th.
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Population differences between Somalia and Uruguay
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| Life expectancy | 59.3 years | 78.6 years |
| Average age | 21.2 years | 38.9 years |
| Median age | 16.6 years | 37.2 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 50.1:49.9 | 48.5:51.5 |
| Fertility rate | 6.13 births per woman | 1.41 births per woman |
| Population density | 78.5 ppl/mi² | 50.1 ppl/mi² |
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