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Population in Spain compared to Taiwan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Spain was 48,807,137 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Spain's population is 48,786,181 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 2.09 times bigger than Taiwan's.
  • Spain is ranked the 32nd most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.87% of the world: 0.59% for Spain vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Spain has had an average growth rate of +0.42% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Spain has increased from 43.7M people to 48.8M (11.8% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 21.4% of the population in Spain and 39.5% in Taiwan.

Spain vs Taiwan: live population counter

Spain Taiwan
Current population
48786181
23308308
Population rank 32/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.59% 0.28%
One net population change
1.14 minutes
7.75 minutes
One birth every
1.62 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
1.21 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
4.71 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +111,674 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +1,258 +186
Annual growth/decline +459,227 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +0.95% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 108/197 150/197

Spain and Taiwan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Spain
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Spain Taiwan Spain Taiwan
1960 30,455,000 - - -
1961 30,739,250 11,030,385 0.93% -
1962 31,023,366 11,392,513 0.92% 3.28%
1963 31,296,651 11,762,101 0.88% 3.24%
1964 31,609,195 12,137,143 1% 3.19%
1965 31,954,292 12,511,863 1.09% 3.09%
1966 32,283,194 12,874,153 1.03% 2.9%
1967 32,682,947 13,210,344 1.24% 2.61%
1968 33,113,134 13,548,537 1.32% 2.56%
1969 33,441,054 14,068,984 0.99% 3.84%
1970 33,814,531 14,582,944 1.12% 3.65%
1971 34,224,490 14,913,564 1.21% 2.27%
1972 34,604,469 15,220,495 1.11% 2.06%
1973 34,988,947 15,505,121 1.11% 1.87%
1974 35,373,335 15,784,817 1.1% 1.8%
1975 35,757,900 16,075,128 1.09% 1.84%
1976 36,137,812 16,401,413 1.06% 2.03%
1977 36,511,638 16,730,895 1.03% 2.01%
1978 36,864,898 17,042,272 0.97% 1.86%
1979 37,191,330 17,372,779 0.89% 1.94%
1980 37,491,165 17,704,538 0.81% 1.91%
1981 37,758,631 18,029,982 0.71% 1.84%
1982 37,986,012 18,354,855 0.6% 1.8%
1983 38,171,525 18,653,146 0.49% 1.63%
1984 38,330,364 18,929,866 0.42% 1.48%
1985 38,469,512 19,191,510 0.36% 1.38%
1986 38,584,624 19,411,454 0.3% 1.15%
1987 38,684,815 19,617,046 0.26% 1.06%
1988 38,766,939 19,839,704 0.21% 1.14%
1989 38,827,764 20,055,492 0.16% 1.09%
1990 38,867,322 20,278,946 0.1% 1.11%
1991 38,966,376 20,503,568 0.25% 1.11%
1992 39,157,685 20,704,227 0.49% 0.98%
1993 39,361,262 20,899,019 0.52% 0.94%
1994 39,549,108 21,086,645 0.48% 0.9%
1995 39,724,050 21,267,653 0.44% 0.86%
1996 39,889,852 21,441,432 0.42% 0.82%
1997 40,057,389 21,634,124 0.42% 0.9%
1998 40,223,509 21,835,703 0.41% 0.93%
1999 40,386,875 22,010,489 0.41% 0.8%
2000 40,567,864 22,184,530 0.45% 0.79%
2001 40,850,412 22,341,120 0.7% 0.71%
2002 41,431,558 22,463,172 1.42% 0.55%
2003 42,187,645 22,562,663 1.82% 0.44%
2004 42,921,895 22,646,836 1.74% 0.37%
2005 43,653,155 22,729,753 1.7% 0.37%
2006 44,397,319 22,823,455 1.7% 0.41%
2007 45,226,803 22,917,444 1.87% 0.41%
2008 45,954,106 22,997,696 1.61% 0.35%
2009 46,362,946 23,078,402 0.89% 0.35%
2010 46,576,897 23,140,948 0.46% 0.27%
2011 46,742,697 23,193,518 0.36% 0.23%
2012 46,773,055 23,270,367 0.06% 0.33%
2013 46,604,197 23,344,670 -0.36% 0.32%
2014 46,460,733 23,403,635 -0.31% 0.25%
2015 46,422,303 23,462,914 -0.08% 0.25%
2016 46,458,139 23,515,945 0.08% 0.23%
2017 46,571,232 23,555,522 0.24% 0.17%
2018 46,782,011 23,580,080 0.45% 0.1%
2019 47,118,501 23,596,027 0.72% 0.07%
2020 47,359,424 23,582,179 0.51% -0.06%
2021 47,443,821 23,468,275 0.18% -0.48%
2022 47,786,102 23,319,977 0.72% -0.63%
2023 48,347,910 23,342,541 1.18% 0.1%
2024 48,807,137 23,410,331 0.95% 0.29%
2025 48,786,181 23,308,308 -0.04% -0.44%
2026 48,746,279 23,205,944 -0.08% -0.44%
2027 48,696,847 23,102,120 -0.1% -0.45%
2028 48,642,132 22,996,693 -0.11% -0.46%
2029 48,578,166 22,890,335 -0.13% -0.46%
2030 48,501,513 22,781,040 -0.16% -0.48%
2031 48,412,854 22,667,327 -0.18% -0.5%
2032 48,321,195 22,549,689 -0.19% -0.52%
2033 48,230,054 22,428,721 -0.19% -0.54%
2034 48,136,421 22,302,402 -0.19% -0.56%
2035 48,036,650 22,170,689 -0.21% -0.59%
2036 47,929,957 22,034,775 -0.22% -0.61%
2037 47,819,257 21,893,029 -0.23% -0.64%
2038 47,706,580 21,746,001 -0.24% -0.67%
2039 47,588,878 21,594,236 -0.25% -0.7%
2040 47,463,597 21,436,947 -0.26% -0.73%
2041 47,332,618 21,274,187 -0.28% -0.76%
2042 47,194,588 21,105,682 -0.29% -0.79%
2043 47,052,293 20,932,105 -0.3% -0.82%
2044 46,902,636 20,754,623 -0.32% -0.85%
2045 46,738,565 20,571,741 -0.35% -0.88%
2046 46,564,383 20,384,903 -0.37% -0.91%
2047 46,381,681 20,194,425 -0.39% -0.93%
2048 46,190,642 19,999,753 -0.41% -0.96%
2049 45,985,428 19,801,293 -0.44% -0.99%
2050 45,769,362 19,598,997 -0.47% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Spain increased by 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Spain gained 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Spain was ranked 28th most populous country in 2005 and is 32nd in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Spain's population will shrink by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people with a rank change from 32nd to 47th. The population of Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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