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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Sudan was 50,448,963 in 2024 vs 40,583,164 people in Yemen in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Sudan's population is 52,963,918 people compared to 42,727,988 in Yemen.

Population statistics:

  • Sudan's population is 1.24 times bigger than Yemen's.
  • Sudan is ranked the 29th most populous country in the world, while Yemen is the 37th.
  • The countries together account for 1.16% of the world: 0.64% for Sudan vs 0.52% for Yemen.
  • For the last 10 years, Sudan has had an average growth rate of +2.67% per year vs +3% in Yemen.
  • Since 2005, the population of Sudan has increased from 31.3M people to 53M (69.4% growth), while Yemen has grown from 22.8M to 42.7M (87.5% growth).
  • Sudan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 137M people compared to the peak of 110M people in 2100 for Yemen.

Sudan vs Yemen: live population counter

Sudan Yemen
Current population
52963918
42727988
Population rank 29/197 37/197
Percent of world population 0.64% 0.52%
One net population change
1.29 minutes
26.4 seconds
One birth every
18.7 seconds
22.7 seconds
One death every
1.64 minutes
2.78 minutes
One migration net change every
57.9 seconds
50.1 minutes
Annual migration change -544,257 -10,482
Daily growth/decline +1,113 +3,267
Annual growth/decline +406,172 +1,192,365
Annual growth/decline rate +0.81% +3.03%
Population growth rate rank 118/197 14/197

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

Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Yemen
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Sudan Yemen Sudan Yemen
1960 8,364,489 5,532,301 - -
1961 8,634,941 5,655,232 3.23% 2.22%
1962 8,919,028 5,782,221 3.29% 2.25%
1963 9,218,077 5,911,135 3.35% 2.23%
1964 9,531,109 6,048,006 3.4% 2.32%
1965 9,858,030 6,195,593 3.43% 2.44%
1966 10,197,578 6,351,494 3.44% 2.52%
1967 10,550,597 6,516,444 3.46% 2.6%
1968 10,917,999 6,690,524 3.48% 2.67%
1969 11,298,936 6,875,859 3.49% 2.77%
1970 11,695,771 7,065,279 3.51% 2.75%
1971 12,105,539 7,257,462 3.5% 2.72%
1972 12,527,856 7,460,068 3.49% 2.79%
1973 13,049,315 7,672,796 4.16% 2.85%
1974 13,580,723 7,896,783 4.07% 2.92%
1975 14,064,798 8,133,598 3.56% 3%
1976 14,569,716 8,384,113 3.59% 3.08%
1977 15,086,614 8,648,222 3.55% 3.15%
1978 15,695,003 8,926,586 4.03% 3.22%
1979 16,355,352 9,224,194 4.21% 3.33%
1980 17,058,905 9,543,358 4.3% 3.46%
1981 17,780,572 9,882,362 4.23% 3.55%
1982 18,486,645 10,241,006 3.97% 3.63%
1983 19,109,770 10,621,499 3.37% 3.72%
1984 19,546,528 11,025,597 2.29% 3.8%
1985 19,905,872 11,453,825 1.84% 3.88%
1986 20,288,238 11,901,040 1.92% 3.9%
1987 20,704,904 12,369,912 2.05% 3.94%
1988 21,138,431 12,859,708 2.09% 3.96%
1989 21,578,022 13,364,174 2.08% 3.92%
1990 22,021,481 13,887,862 2.06% 3.92%
1991 22,470,676 14,430,201 2.04% 3.91%
1992 22,927,355 14,989,494 2.03% 3.88%
1993 23,445,592 15,563,914 2.26% 3.83%
1994 24,043,948 16,149,147 2.55% 3.76%
1995 24,672,143 16,740,058 2.61% 3.66%
1996 25,231,528 17,313,177 2.27% 3.42%
1997 25,799,821 17,873,936 2.25% 3.24%
1998 26,458,999 18,446,013 2.55% 3.2%
1999 27,130,613 19,029,420 2.54% 3.16%
2000 27,816,745 19,624,141 2.53% 3.13%
2001 28,516,770 20,226,147 2.52% 3.07%
2002 29,228,727 20,835,086 2.5% 3.01%
2003 29,896,035 21,456,379 2.28% 2.98%
2004 30,556,637 22,095,167 2.21% 2.98%
2005 31,262,444 22,790,085 2.31% 3.15%
2006 31,992,435 23,543,083 2.34% 3.3%
2007 32,764,135 24,318,082 2.41% 3.29%
2008 33,623,980 25,111,941 2.62% 3.26%
2009 34,569,113 25,927,724 2.81% 3.25%
2010 35,414,399 26,754,387 2.45% 3.19%
2011 36,140,806 27,582,897 2.05% 3.1%
2012 36,923,178 28,433,647 2.16% 3.08%
2013 37,785,849 29,312,952 2.34% 3.09%
2014 38,823,318 30,226,309 2.75% 3.12%
2015 40,024,431 31,159,379 3.09% 3.09%
2016 41,259,892 32,109,010 3.09% 3.05%
2017 42,714,306 33,090,921 3.53% 3.06%
2018 44,230,596 34,085,182 3.55% 3%
2019 45,548,175 35,111,408 2.98% 3.01%
2020 46,789,231 36,134,863 2.72% 2.91%
2021 48,066,924 37,140,230 2.73% 2.78%
2022 49,383,346 38,222,876 2.74% 2.92%
2023 50,042,791 39,390,799 1.34% 3.06%
2024 50,448,963 40,583,164 0.81% 3.03%
2025 51,662,152 41,773,871 2.4% 2.93%
2026 53,282,718 42,961,650 3.14% 2.84%
2027 54,724,215 44,145,620 2.71% 2.76%
2028 55,993,833 45,323,685 2.32% 2.67%
2029 57,275,443 46,497,573 2.29% 2.59%
2030 58,571,624 47,667,649 2.26% 2.52%
2031 59,872,936 48,827,503 2.22% 2.43%
2032 61,179,476 49,979,089 2.18% 2.36%
2033 62,497,205 51,129,867 2.15% 2.3%
2034 63,822,356 52,279,989 2.12% 2.25%
2035 65,148,317 53,429,308 2.08% 2.2%
2036 66,470,018 54,578,046 2.03% 2.15%
2037 67,791,240 55,724,259 1.99% 2.1%
2038 69,107,712 56,872,152 1.94% 2.06%
2039 70,416,631 58,024,713 1.89% 2.03%
2040 71,730,604 59,181,514 1.87% 1.99%
2041 73,056,213 60,345,667 1.85% 1.97%
2042 74,387,562 61,517,965 1.82% 1.94%
2043 75,723,670 62,696,517 1.8% 1.92%
2044 77,066,454 63,880,172 1.77% 1.89%
2045 78,415,205 65,066,344 1.75% 1.86%
2046 79,767,271 66,253,578 1.72% 1.82%
2047 81,115,241 67,438,796 1.69% 1.79%
2048 82,463,202 68,620,844 1.66% 1.75%
2049 83,828,356 69,799,794 1.66% 1.72%
2050 85,206,384 70,976,389 1.64% 1.69%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Sudan increased by 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth), while Yemen gained 8,369,294 people (a 36.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Sudan gained 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth), while Yemen's population increased by 11,568,609 (a 37.1% growth).

Sudan was ranked 36th most populous country in 2005 and is 29th in 2025. Yemen was ranked 47th in 2005 and ranked 37th 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 Yemen will increase by 66.1% to 70,976,389 people and rank change from 37th to 29th.

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