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Population in Suriname compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Suriname was 634,431 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Suriname's population is 644,193 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • The United Kingdom's population is 108.6 times bigger than Suriname's.
  • Suriname is ranked the 165th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.85% of the world: 0.008% for Suriname vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Suriname has had an average growth rate of +0.99% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Suriname has increased from 519K people to 644K (24% growth), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • Suriname is projected to reach its peak in 2071 at 753K people compared to the peak of 76.2M people in 2072 for the United Kingdom.

Suriname vs United Kingdom: live population counter

Suriname United Kingdom
Current population
644193
69945462
Population rank 165/197 22/197
Percent of world population 0.008% 0.85%
One net population change
1.58 hours
43 seconds
One birth every
48.3 minutes
45.9 seconds
One death every
2.1 hours
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
7.51 hours
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change -1,166 +417,114
Daily growth/decline +15 +2,011
Annual growth/decline +5,545 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate +0.88% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 110/197 99/197

Suriname and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Suriname
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Suriname United Kingdom Suriname United Kingdom
1960 263,918 52,400,000 - -
1961 272,791 52,800,000 3.36% 0.76%
1962 283,912 53,250,000 4.08% 0.85%
1963 297,034 53,650,000 4.62% 0.75%
1964 309,041 54,000,000 4.04% 0.65%
1965 320,000 54,348,050 3.55% 0.64%
1966 331,135 54,648,500 3.48% 0.55%
1967 342,679 54,943,600 3.49% 0.54%
1968 354,616 55,211,700 3.48% 0.49%
1969 366,906 55,441,750 3.47% 0.42%
1970 379,442 55,663,250 3.42% 0.4%
1971 391,932 55,896,223 3.29% 0.42%
1972 397,413 56,086,065 1.4% 0.34%
1973 395,772 56,194,527 -0.41% 0.19%
1974 393,676 56,229,974 -0.53% 0.06%
1975 391,170 56,225,800 -0.64% -0.007%
1976 388,289 56,211,968 -0.74% -0.02%
1977 385,067 56,193,492 -0.83% -0.03%
1978 381,502 56,196,504 -0.93% 0.005%
1979 377,602 56,246,951 -1.02% 0.09%
1980 375,377 56,314,216 -0.59% 0.12%
1981 375,459 56,333,829 0.02% 0.03%
1982 376,555 56,313,641 0.29% -0.04%
1983 378,746 56,332,848 0.58% 0.03%
1984 382,193 56,422,072 0.91% 0.16%
1985 386,972 56,550,268 1.25% 0.23%
1986 392,330 56,681,396 1.38% 0.23%
1987 396,911 56,802,050 1.17% 0.21%
1988 402,227 56,928,327 1.34% 0.22%
1989 408,409 57,076,711 1.54% 0.26%
1990 412,493 57,247,586 1% 0.3%
1991 415,013 57,424,897 0.61% 0.31%
1992 417,589 57,580,402 0.62% 0.27%
1993 419,352 57,718,614 0.42% 0.24%
1994 422,375 57,865,745 0.72% 0.25%
1995 429,606 58,019,030 1.71% 0.26%
1996 438,830 58,166,950 2.15% 0.25%
1997 448,067 58,316,954 2.1% 0.26%
1998 457,406 58,487,141 2.08% 0.29%
1999 466,916 58,682,466 2.08% 0.33%
2000 476,643 58,892,514 2.08% 0.36%
2001 486,560 59,119,673 2.08% 0.39%
2002 496,551 59,370,479 2.05% 0.42%
2003 506,414 59,647,577 1.99% 0.47%
2004 513,923 59,987,905 1.48% 0.57%
2005 519,313 60,401,206 1.05% 0.69%
2006 524,997 60,846,820 1.09% 0.74%
2007 531,016 61,322,463 1.15% 0.78%
2008 537,245 61,806,995 1.17% 0.79%
2009 543,568 62,276,270 1.18% 0.76%
2010 549,923 62,766,365 1.17% 0.79%
2011 556,269 63,258,810 1.15% 0.78%
2012 562,633 63,711,000 1.14% 0.71%
2013 569,020 64,139,000 1.14% 0.67%
2014 575,373 64,620,000 1.12% 0.75%
2015 581,627 65,088,000 1.09% 0.72%
2016 587,757 65,607,000 1.05% 0.8%
2017 593,713 65,966,000 1.01% 0.55%
2018 599,513 66,289,000 0.98% 0.49%
2019 605,768 66,631,000 1.04% 0.52%
2020 612,317 66,744,000 1.08% 0.17%
2021 617,896 66,984,000 0.91% 0.36%
2022 623,164 67,604,000 0.85% 0.93%
2023 628,886 68,492,000 0.92% 1.31%
2024 634,431 69,226,000 0.88% 1.07%
2025 639,852 69,639,673 0.85% 0.6%
2026 645,257 70,020,350 0.84% 0.55%
2027 650,564 70,382,853 0.82% 0.52%
2028 655,783 70,732,699 0.8% 0.5%
2029 660,793 71,061,482 0.76% 0.46%
2030 665,650 71,377,535 0.74% 0.44%
2031 670,421 71,678,351 0.72% 0.42%
2032 675,070 71,959,934 0.69% 0.39%
2033 679,573 72,234,509 0.67% 0.38%
2034 683,911 72,497,650 0.64% 0.36%
2035 688,189 72,749,096 0.63% 0.35%
2036 692,343 72,990,847 0.6% 0.33%
2037 696,213 73,218,850 0.56% 0.31%
2038 699,908 73,441,349 0.53% 0.3%
2039 703,569 73,658,392 0.52% 0.3%
2040 707,156 73,868,334 0.51% 0.29%
2041 710,619 74,074,316 0.49% 0.28%
2042 713,900 74,275,779 0.46% 0.27%
2043 716,999 74,475,035 0.43% 0.27%
2044 719,920 74,667,284 0.41% 0.26%
2045 722,759 74,848,605 0.39% 0.24%
2046 725,322 75,020,949 0.35% 0.23%
2047 727,726 75,184,478 0.33% 0.22%
2048 730,038 75,337,543 0.32% 0.2%
2049 732,021 75,476,141 0.27% 0.18%
2050 733,898 75,600,588 0.26% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Suriname increased by 62,314 people (a 12% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Suriname gained 62,566 (a 10.8% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Suriname was ranked 164th most populous country in 2005 and is 165th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Suriname's population will grow by 13.9% to 733,898 people and will still be ranked 165th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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