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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Suriname was 634,431 in 2024 vs 40,583,164 people in Yemen in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Suriname's population is 644,193 people compared to 42,727,988 in Yemen.

Population statistics:

  • Yemen's population is 66.3 times bigger than Suriname's.
  • Suriname is ranked the 165th most populous country in the world, while Yemen is the 37th.
  • The countries together account for 0.52% of the world: 0.008% for Suriname vs 0.52% for Yemen.
  • For the last 10 years, Suriname has had an average growth rate of +0.99% per year vs +3% in Yemen.
  • Since 2005, the population of Suriname has increased from 519K people to 644K (24% growth), while Yemen has grown from 22.8M to 42.7M (87.5% growth).
  • Suriname is projected to reach its peak in 2071 at 753K people compared to the peak of 110M people in 2100 for Yemen.

Suriname vs Yemen: live population counter

Suriname Yemen
Current population
644193
42727988
Population rank 165/197 37/197
Percent of world population 0.008% 0.52%
One net population change
1.58 hours
26.4 seconds
One birth every
48.3 minutes
22.7 seconds
One death every
2.1 hours
2.78 minutes
One migration net change every
7.51 hours
50.1 minutes
Annual migration change -1,166 -10,482
Daily growth/decline +15 +3,267
Annual growth/decline +5,545 +1,192,365
Annual growth/decline rate +0.88% +3.03%
Population growth rate rank 110/197 14/197

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

Suriname
Population

Growth rate
Yemen
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Suriname Yemen Suriname Yemen
1960 263,918 5,532,301 - -
1961 272,791 5,655,232 3.36% 2.22%
1962 283,912 5,782,221 4.08% 2.25%
1963 297,034 5,911,135 4.62% 2.23%
1964 309,041 6,048,006 4.04% 2.32%
1965 320,000 6,195,593 3.55% 2.44%
1966 331,135 6,351,494 3.48% 2.52%
1967 342,679 6,516,444 3.49% 2.6%
1968 354,616 6,690,524 3.48% 2.67%
1969 366,906 6,875,859 3.47% 2.77%
1970 379,442 7,065,279 3.42% 2.75%
1971 391,932 7,257,462 3.29% 2.72%
1972 397,413 7,460,068 1.4% 2.79%
1973 395,772 7,672,796 -0.41% 2.85%
1974 393,676 7,896,783 -0.53% 2.92%
1975 391,170 8,133,598 -0.64% 3%
1976 388,289 8,384,113 -0.74% 3.08%
1977 385,067 8,648,222 -0.83% 3.15%
1978 381,502 8,926,586 -0.93% 3.22%
1979 377,602 9,224,194 -1.02% 3.33%
1980 375,377 9,543,358 -0.59% 3.46%
1981 375,459 9,882,362 0.02% 3.55%
1982 376,555 10,241,006 0.29% 3.63%
1983 378,746 10,621,499 0.58% 3.72%
1984 382,193 11,025,597 0.91% 3.8%
1985 386,972 11,453,825 1.25% 3.88%
1986 392,330 11,901,040 1.38% 3.9%
1987 396,911 12,369,912 1.17% 3.94%
1988 402,227 12,859,708 1.34% 3.96%
1989 408,409 13,364,174 1.54% 3.92%
1990 412,493 13,887,862 1% 3.92%
1991 415,013 14,430,201 0.61% 3.91%
1992 417,589 14,989,494 0.62% 3.88%
1993 419,352 15,563,914 0.42% 3.83%
1994 422,375 16,149,147 0.72% 3.76%
1995 429,606 16,740,058 1.71% 3.66%
1996 438,830 17,313,177 2.15% 3.42%
1997 448,067 17,873,936 2.1% 3.24%
1998 457,406 18,446,013 2.08% 3.2%
1999 466,916 19,029,420 2.08% 3.16%
2000 476,643 19,624,141 2.08% 3.13%
2001 486,560 20,226,147 2.08% 3.07%
2002 496,551 20,835,086 2.05% 3.01%
2003 506,414 21,456,379 1.99% 2.98%
2004 513,923 22,095,167 1.48% 2.98%
2005 519,313 22,790,085 1.05% 3.15%
2006 524,997 23,543,083 1.09% 3.3%
2007 531,016 24,318,082 1.15% 3.29%
2008 537,245 25,111,941 1.17% 3.26%
2009 543,568 25,927,724 1.18% 3.25%
2010 549,923 26,754,387 1.17% 3.19%
2011 556,269 27,582,897 1.15% 3.1%
2012 562,633 28,433,647 1.14% 3.08%
2013 569,020 29,312,952 1.14% 3.09%
2014 575,373 30,226,309 1.12% 3.12%
2015 581,627 31,159,379 1.09% 3.09%
2016 587,757 32,109,010 1.05% 3.05%
2017 593,713 33,090,921 1.01% 3.06%
2018 599,513 34,085,182 0.98% 3%
2019 605,768 35,111,408 1.04% 3.01%
2020 612,317 36,134,863 1.08% 2.91%
2021 617,896 37,140,230 0.91% 2.78%
2022 623,164 38,222,876 0.85% 2.92%
2023 628,886 39,390,799 0.92% 3.06%
2024 634,431 40,583,164 0.88% 3.03%
2025 639,852 41,773,871 0.85% 2.93%
2026 645,257 42,961,650 0.84% 2.84%
2027 650,564 44,145,620 0.82% 2.76%
2028 655,783 45,323,685 0.8% 2.67%
2029 660,793 46,497,573 0.76% 2.59%
2030 665,650 47,667,649 0.74% 2.52%
2031 670,421 48,827,503 0.72% 2.43%
2032 675,070 49,979,089 0.69% 2.36%
2033 679,573 51,129,867 0.67% 2.3%
2034 683,911 52,279,989 0.64% 2.25%
2035 688,189 53,429,308 0.63% 2.2%
2036 692,343 54,578,046 0.6% 2.15%
2037 696,213 55,724,259 0.56% 2.1%
2038 699,908 56,872,152 0.53% 2.06%
2039 703,569 58,024,713 0.52% 2.03%
2040 707,156 59,181,514 0.51% 1.99%
2041 710,619 60,345,667 0.49% 1.97%
2042 713,900 61,517,965 0.46% 1.94%
2043 716,999 62,696,517 0.43% 1.92%
2044 719,920 63,880,172 0.41% 1.89%
2045 722,759 65,066,344 0.39% 1.86%
2046 725,322 66,253,578 0.35% 1.82%
2047 727,726 67,438,796 0.33% 1.79%
2048 730,038 68,620,844 0.32% 1.75%
2049 732,021 69,799,794 0.27% 1.72%
2050 733,898 70,976,389 0.26% 1.69%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Suriname increased by 62,314 people (a 12% growth), while Yemen gained 8,369,294 people (a 36.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Suriname gained 62,566 (a 10.8% growth), while Yemen's population increased by 11,568,609 (a 37.1% growth).

Suriname was ranked 164th most populous country in 2005 and is 165th 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) Suriname's population will grow by 13.9% to 733,898 people and will still be ranked 165th. The population of Yemen will increase by 66.1% to 70,976,389 people and rank change from 37th to 29th.

Biggest cities by population

Yemen
City Population
Sanaa 2.96M
Al Hudaydah 618K
Taiz 615K
Aden 507K
Ibb 351K
Dhamar 160K
Mukalla 144K
Sa'dah 70.2K
Sayyan 70K
Zabid 50.8K

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