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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Sudan was 50,448,963 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Sudan's population is 52,963,918 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 1.62 times bigger than Sudan's.
  • Sudan is ranked the 29th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.68% of the world: 0.64% for Sudan vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Sudan has had an average growth rate of +2.67% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Sudan has increased from 31.3M people to 53M (69.4% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Sudan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 137M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Sudan vs Turkey: live population counter

Sudan Turkey
Current population
52963918
85914550
Population rank 29/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.64% 1.04%
One net population change
1.29 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
18.7 seconds
33 seconds
One death every
1.64 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
57.9 seconds
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -544,257 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +1,113 +528
Annual growth/decline +406,172 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +0.81% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 118/197 153/197

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

Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Sudan Turkey Sudan Turkey
1960 8,364,489 28,329,898 - -
1961 8,634,941 29,119,238 3.23% 2.79%
1962 8,919,028 29,916,147 3.29% 2.74%
1963 9,218,077 30,726,841 3.35% 2.71%
1964 9,531,109 31,543,072 3.4% 2.66%
1965 9,858,030 32,345,220 3.43% 2.54%
1966 10,197,578 33,177,672 3.44% 2.57%
1967 10,550,597 34,050,421 3.46% 2.63%
1968 10,917,999 34,921,684 3.48% 2.56%
1969 11,298,936 35,787,774 3.49% 2.48%
1970 11,695,771 36,638,465 3.51% 2.38%
1971 12,105,539 37,518,611 3.5% 2.4%
1972 12,527,856 38,430,221 3.49% 2.43%
1973 13,049,315 39,329,533 4.16% 2.34%
1974 13,580,723 40,210,234 4.07% 2.24%
1975 14,064,798 41,053,126 3.56% 2.1%
1976 14,569,716 41,899,984 3.59% 2.06%
1977 15,086,614 42,773,298 3.55% 2.08%
1978 15,695,003 43,645,306 4.03% 2.04%
1979 16,355,352 44,510,429 4.21% 1.98%
1980 17,058,905 45,408,815 4.3% 2.02%
1981 17,780,572 46,321,190 4.23% 2.01%
1982 18,486,645 47,322,096 3.97% 2.16%
1983 19,109,770 48,447,410 3.37% 2.38%
1984 19,546,528 49,574,069 2.29% 2.33%
1985 19,905,872 50,687,115 1.84% 2.25%
1986 20,288,238 51,777,772 1.92% 2.15%
1987 20,704,904 52,843,670 2.05% 2.06%
1988 21,138,431 53,909,626 2.09% 2.02%
1989 21,578,022 54,976,723 2.08% 1.98%
1990 22,021,481 56,015,628 2.06% 1.89%
1991 22,470,676 57,009,887 2.04% 1.77%
1992 22,927,355 57,990,118 2.03% 1.72%
1993 23,445,592 58,999,167 2.26% 1.74%
1994 24,043,948 60,033,836 2.55% 1.75%
1995 24,672,143 61,024,503 2.61% 1.65%
1996 25,231,528 61,951,134 2.27% 1.52%
1997 25,799,821 62,852,966 2.25% 1.46%
1998 26,458,999 63,734,383 2.55% 1.4%
1999 27,130,613 64,591,923 2.54% 1.35%
2000 27,816,745 65,425,961 2.53% 1.29%
2001 28,516,770 66,245,128 2.52% 1.25%
2002 29,228,727 67,048,795 2.5% 1.21%
2003 29,896,035 67,831,730 2.28% 1.17%
2004 30,556,637 68,592,617 2.21% 1.12%
2005 31,262,444 69,329,557 2.31% 1.07%
2006 31,992,435 70,045,349 2.34% 1.03%
2007 32,764,135 70,158,112 2.41% 0.16%
2008 33,623,980 71,051,678 2.62% 1.27%
2009 34,569,113 72,039,206 2.81% 1.39%
2010 35,414,399 73,142,150 2.45% 1.53%
2011 36,140,806 74,223,629 2.05% 1.48%
2012 36,923,178 75,175,827 2.16% 1.28%
2013 37,785,849 76,147,624 2.34% 1.29%
2014 38,823,318 77,181,884 2.75% 1.36%
2015 40,024,431 78,218,479 3.09% 1.34%
2016 41,259,892 79,277,962 3.09% 1.35%
2017 42,714,306 80,312,698 3.53% 1.31%
2018 44,230,596 81,407,204 3.55% 1.36%
2019 45,548,175 82,579,440 2.98% 1.44%
2020 46,789,231 83,384,680 2.72% 0.98%
2021 48,066,924 84,147,318 2.73% 0.91%
2022 49,383,346 84,979,913 2.74% 0.99%
2023 50,042,791 85,325,965 1.34% 0.41%
2024 50,448,963 85,518,661 0.81% 0.23%
2025 51,662,152 85,725,557 2.4% 0.24%
2026 53,282,718 85,960,835 3.14% 0.27%
2027 54,724,215 86,227,115 2.71% 0.31%
2028 55,993,833 86,502,744 2.32% 0.32%
2029 57,275,443 86,771,652 2.29% 0.31%
2030 58,571,624 87,037,680 2.26% 0.31%
2031 59,872,936 87,297,191 2.22% 0.3%
2032 61,179,476 87,537,075 2.18% 0.27%
2033 62,497,205 87,762,403 2.15% 0.26%
2034 63,822,356 87,974,138 2.12% 0.24%
2035 65,148,317 88,172,739 2.08% 0.23%
2036 66,470,018 88,364,318 2.03% 0.22%
2037 67,791,240 88,545,669 1.99% 0.21%
2038 69,107,712 88,707,268 1.94% 0.18%
2039 70,416,631 88,849,956 1.89% 0.16%
2040 71,730,604 88,975,510 1.87% 0.14%
2041 73,056,213 89,083,304 1.85% 0.12%
2042 74,387,562 89,177,769 1.82% 0.11%
2043 75,723,670 89,254,147 1.8% 0.09%
2044 77,066,454 89,311,458 1.77% 0.06%
2045 78,415,205 89,349,806 1.75% 0.04%
2046 79,767,271 89,375,429 1.72% 0.03%
2047 81,115,241 89,383,765 1.69% 0.009%
2048 82,463,202 89,361,174 1.66% -0.03%
2049 83,828,356 89,306,566 1.66% -0.06%
2050 85,206,384 89,218,346 1.64% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Sudan increased by 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Sudan gained 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Sudan was ranked 36th most populous country in 2005 and is 29th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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