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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Somalia was 19,009,151 in 2024 vs 36,361,859 people in Uzbekistan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Somalia's population is 20,177,806 people compared to 37,592,263 in Uzbekistan.

Population statistics:

  • Uzbekistan's population is 1.86 times bigger than Somalia's.
  • Somalia is ranked the 66th most populous country in the world, while Uzbekistan is the 42nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.7% of the world: 0.24% for Somalia vs 0.45% for Uzbekistan.
  • For the last 10 years, Somalia has had an average growth rate of +3.61% per year vs +1.85% in Uzbekistan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Somalia has increased from 10.6M people to 20.2M (89.6% growth), while Uzbekistan has grown from 26.4M to 37.6M (42.6% growth).
  • Somalia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 67.4M people compared to the peak of 74.3M people in 2100 for Uzbekistan.

Somalia vs Uzbekistan: live population counter

Somalia Uzbekistan
Current population
20177806
37592263
Population rank 66/197 42/197
Percent of world population 0.24% 0.45%
One net population change
48.5 seconds
44.4 seconds
One birth every
40 seconds
33.4 seconds
One death every
2.91 minutes
2.38 minutes
One migration net change every
19.6 minutes
1.24 hours
Annual migration change +26,859 -7,066
Daily growth/decline +1,782 +1,944
Annual growth/decline +650,536 +709,552
Annual growth/decline rate +3.54% +1.99%
Population growth rate rank 9/197 54/197

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

Somalia
Population

Growth rate
Uzbekistan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Somalia Uzbekistan Somalia Uzbekistan
1960 2,876,331 8,209,109 - -
1961 2,952,054 8,517,711 2.63% 3.76%
1962 3,030,091 8,854,368 2.64% 3.95%
1963 3,110,361 9,202,246 2.65% 3.93%
1964 3,192,796 9,557,611 2.65% 3.86%
1965 3,277,874 9,921,681 2.66% 3.81%
1966 3,365,106 10,289,294 2.66% 3.71%
1967 3,454,537 10,659,180 2.66% 3.59%
1968 3,546,590 11,032,155 2.66% 3.5%
1969 3,641,015 11,403,150 2.66% 3.36%
1970 3,738,448 11,762,638 2.68% 3.15%
1971 3,837,691 12,111,511 2.65% 2.97%
1972 3,939,436 12,465,106 2.65% 2.92%
1973 4,045,592 12,831,047 2.69% 2.94%
1974 4,151,842 13,209,011 2.63% 2.95%
1975 4,257,535 13,598,521 2.55% 2.95%
1976 4,365,812 13,998,620 2.54% 2.94%
1977 4,484,050 14,408,822 2.71% 2.93%
1978 4,814,892 14,816,349 7.38% 2.83%
1979 5,449,117 15,215,587 13.2% 2.69%
1980 5,936,154 15,619,936 8.94% 2.66%
1981 5,982,849 16,035,032 0.79% 2.66%
1982 6,003,840 16,462,736 0.35% 2.67%
1983 6,198,430 16,908,400 3.24% 2.71%
1984 6,428,389 17,378,846 3.71% 2.78%
1985 6,693,289 17,875,339 4.12% 2.86%
1986 6,974,788 18,395,621 4.21% 2.91%
1987 7,228,302 18,930,070 3.63% 2.91%
1988 7,235,360 19,460,630 0.1% 2.8%
1989 7,114,817 19,977,183 -1.67% 2.65%
1990 7,082,811 20,464,956 -0.45% 2.44%
1991 6,813,760 20,962,910 -3.8% 2.43%
1992 6,495,107 21,485,090 -4.68% 2.49%
1993 6,681,399 21,987,955 2.87% 2.34%
1994 7,026,797 22,463,291 5.17% 2.16%
1995 7,285,007 22,917,589 3.67% 2.02%
1996 7,554,474 23,351,981 3.7% 1.9%
1997 7,824,525 23,758,960 3.57% 1.74%
1998 8,155,417 24,134,929 4.23% 1.58%
1999 8,492,059 24,476,008 4.13% 1.41%
2000 8,838,713 24,787,054 4.08% 1.27%
2001 9,198,493 25,090,283 4.07% 1.22%
2002 9,550,063 25,399,980 3.82% 1.23%
2003 9,909,157 25,711,259 3.76% 1.23%
2004 10,280,998 26,029,350 3.75% 1.24%
2005 10,644,228 26,356,975 3.53% 1.26%
2006 10,975,502 26,699,043 3.11% 1.3%
2007 11,322,582 27,076,008 3.16% 1.41%
2008 11,663,084 27,494,774 3.01% 1.55%
2009 11,961,201 27,939,328 2.56% 1.62%
2010 12,261,756 28,385,506 2.51% 1.6%
2011 12,348,830 28,823,196 0.71% 1.54%
2012 12,461,160 29,261,903 0.91% 1.52%
2013 12,869,594 29,724,065 3.28% 1.58%
2014 13,339,491 30,222,994 3.65% 1.68%
2015 13,806,963 30,749,346 3.5% 1.74%
2016 14,348,740 31,284,568 3.92% 1.74%
2017 14,916,629 31,819,178 3.96% 1.71%
2018 15,452,487 32,373,490 3.59% 1.74%
2019 16,030,971 32,964,701 3.74% 1.83%
2020 16,651,191 33,586,372 3.87% 1.89%
2021 17,271,431 34,243,696 3.72% 1.96%
2022 17,801,897 34,938,955 3.07% 2.03%
2023 18,358,615 35,652,307 3.13% 2.04%
2024 19,009,151 36,361,859 3.54% 1.99%
2025 19,654,737 37,053,425 3.4% 1.9%
2026 20,305,905 37,724,224 3.31% 1.81%
2027 20,959,056 38,376,104 3.22% 1.73%
2028 21,601,810 39,010,995 3.07% 1.65%
2029 22,247,714 39,634,353 2.99% 1.6%
2030 22,915,042 40,248,246 3% 1.55%
2031 23,589,793 40,850,310 2.94% 1.5%
2032 24,258,789 41,442,243 2.84% 1.45%
2033 24,921,830 42,026,366 2.73% 1.41%
2034 25,593,666 42,603,253 2.7% 1.37%
2035 26,294,943 43,175,104 2.74% 1.34%
2036 27,009,199 43,744,382 2.72% 1.32%
2037 27,731,170 44,313,638 2.67% 1.3%
2038 28,455,755 44,885,866 2.61% 1.29%
2039 29,167,897 45,461,988 2.5% 1.28%
2040 29,896,286 46,044,151 2.5% 1.28%
2041 30,635,956 46,636,742 2.47% 1.29%
2042 31,350,028 47,240,035 2.33% 1.29%
2043 32,057,980 47,851,671 2.26% 1.29%
2044 32,780,417 48,470,624 2.25% 1.29%
2045 33,510,163 49,096,060 2.23% 1.29%
2046 34,248,030 49,724,395 2.2% 1.28%
2047 34,996,366 50,351,710 2.19% 1.26%
2048 35,743,960 50,975,927 2.14% 1.24%
2049 36,474,683 51,596,108 2.04% 1.22%
2050 37,206,497 52,210,749 2.01% 1.19%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Somalia increased by 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth), while Uzbekistan gained 4,392,371 people (a 16.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Somalia gained 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth), while Uzbekistan's population increased by 6,842,917 (a 22.3% growth).

Somalia was ranked 75th most populous country in 2005 and is 66th in 2025. Uzbekistan was ranked 42nd in 2005 and still ranked 42nd 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 Uzbekistan will increase by 38.9% to 52,210,749 people and rank change from 42nd to 39th.

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