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Population in Sudan compared to Thailand: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Sudan was 50,448,963 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Sudan's population is 52,963,918 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 1.35 times bigger than Sudan's.
  • Sudan is ranked the 29th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.51% of the world: 0.64% for Sudan vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Sudan has had an average growth rate of +2.67% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Sudan has increased from 31.3M people to 53M (69.4% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Sudan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 137M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Sudan vs Thailand: live population counter

Sudan Thailand
Current population
52963918
71619867
Population rank 29/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.64% 0.87%
One net population change
1.29 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
18.7 seconds
53.3 seconds
One death every
1.64 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
57.9 seconds
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -544,257 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +1,113 -94
Annual growth/decline +406,172 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +0.81% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 118/197 170/197

Sudan and Thailand: population history and growth rate by year chart

Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Sudan Thailand Sudan Thailand
1960 8,364,489 26,851,747 - -
1961 8,634,941 27,650,334 3.23% 2.97%
1962 8,919,028 28,481,040 3.29% 3%
1963 9,218,077 29,342,322 3.35% 3.02%
1964 9,531,109 30,232,141 3.4% 3.03%
1965 9,858,030 31,149,337 3.43% 3.03%
1966 10,197,578 32,086,071 3.44% 3.01%
1967 10,550,597 33,037,801 3.46% 2.97%
1968 10,917,999 34,002,560 3.48% 2.92%
1969 11,298,936 34,973,782 3.49% 2.86%
1970 11,695,771 35,954,408 3.51% 2.8%
1971 12,105,539 36,937,387 3.5% 2.73%
1972 12,527,856 37,933,929 3.49% 2.7%
1973 13,049,315 38,947,787 4.16% 2.67%
1974 13,580,723 39,952,891 4.07% 2.58%
1975 14,064,798 40,940,005 3.56% 2.47%
1976 14,569,716 41,896,504 3.59% 2.34%
1977 15,086,614 42,843,974 3.55% 2.26%
1978 15,695,003 43,788,976 4.03% 2.21%
1979 16,355,352 44,718,434 4.21% 2.12%
1980 17,058,905 45,650,022 4.3% 2.08%
1981 17,780,572 46,575,855 4.23% 2.03%
1982 18,486,645 47,494,577 3.97% 1.97%
1983 19,109,770 48,423,309 3.37% 1.96%
1984 19,546,528 49,351,708 2.29% 1.92%
1985 19,905,872 50,270,753 1.84% 1.86%
1986 20,288,238 51,177,834 1.92% 1.8%
1987 20,704,904 52,074,105 2.05% 1.75%
1988 21,138,431 52,969,595 2.09% 1.72%
1989 21,578,022 53,848,956 2.08% 1.66%
1990 22,021,481 54,738,329 2.06% 1.65%
1991 22,470,676 55,637,434 2.04% 1.64%
1992 22,927,355 56,528,834 2.03% 1.6%
1993 23,445,592 57,408,198 2.26% 1.56%
1994 24,043,948 58,260,854 2.55% 1.49%
1995 24,672,143 59,098,232 2.61% 1.44%
1996 25,231,528 59,920,064 2.27% 1.39%
1997 25,799,821 60,724,584 2.25% 1.34%
1998 26,458,999 61,522,630 2.55% 1.31%
1999 27,130,613 62,299,043 2.54% 1.26%
2000 27,816,745 63,007,815 2.53% 1.14%
2001 28,516,770 63,651,141 2.52% 1.02%
2002 29,228,727 64,266,437 2.5% 0.97%
2003 29,896,035 64,868,166 2.28% 0.94%
2004 30,556,637 65,452,047 2.21% 0.9%
2005 31,262,444 66,017,420 2.31% 0.86%
2006 31,992,435 66,567,687 2.34% 0.83%
2007 32,764,135 67,102,394 2.41% 0.8%
2008 33,623,980 67,619,830 2.62% 0.77%
2009 34,569,113 68,121,080 2.81% 0.74%
2010 35,414,399 68,579,447 2.45% 0.67%
2011 36,140,806 69,007,208 2.05% 0.62%
2012 36,923,178 69,436,098 2.16% 0.62%
2013 37,785,849 69,845,114 2.34% 0.59%
2014 38,823,318 70,216,367 2.75% 0.53%
2015 40,024,431 70,540,795 3.09% 0.46%
2016 41,259,892 70,859,841 3.09% 0.45%
2017 42,714,306 71,160,187 3.53% 0.42%
2018 44,230,596 71,376,079 3.55% 0.3%
2019 45,548,175 71,522,271 2.98% 0.2%
2020 46,789,231 71,641,484 2.72% 0.17%
2021 48,066,924 71,727,332 2.73% 0.12%
2022 49,383,346 71,735,329 2.74% 0.01%
2023 50,042,791 71,702,435 1.34% -0.05%
2024 50,448,963 71,668,011 0.81% -0.05%
2025 51,662,152 71,619,867 2.4% -0.07%
2026 53,282,718 71,559,621 3.14% -0.08%
2027 54,724,215 71,488,156 2.71% -0.1%
2028 55,993,833 71,406,996 2.32% -0.11%
2029 57,275,443 71,316,195 2.29% -0.13%
2030 58,571,624 71,215,017 2.26% -0.14%
2031 59,872,936 71,104,025 2.22% -0.16%
2032 61,179,476 70,982,286 2.18% -0.17%
2033 62,497,205 70,847,947 2.15% -0.19%
2034 63,822,356 70,701,651 2.12% -0.21%
2035 65,148,317 70,540,884 2.08% -0.23%
2036 66,470,018 70,366,496 2.03% -0.25%
2037 67,791,240 70,180,031 1.99% -0.26%
2038 69,107,712 69,979,034 1.94% -0.29%
2039 70,416,631 69,763,928 1.89% -0.31%
2040 71,730,604 69,535,003 1.87% -0.33%
2041 73,056,213 69,288,477 1.85% -0.35%
2042 74,387,562 69,025,348 1.82% -0.38%
2043 75,723,670 68,748,075 1.8% -0.4%
2044 77,066,454 68,456,533 1.77% -0.42%
2045 78,415,205 68,150,148 1.75% -0.45%
2046 79,767,271 67,827,309 1.72% -0.47%
2047 81,115,241 67,489,358 1.69% -0.5%
2048 82,463,202 67,136,737 1.66% -0.52%
2049 83,828,356 66,767,316 1.66% -0.55%
2050 85,206,384 66,382,732 1.64% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Sudan increased by 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Sudan gained 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Sudan was ranked 36th most populous country in 2005 and is 29th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Sudan's population will grow by 60.9% to 85,206,384 people with a rank change from 29th to 21st. The population of Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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