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Population in Switzerland compared to Ukraine: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Switzerland was 9,034,102 in 2024 vs 37,860,221 people in Ukraine in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Switzerland's population is 9,112,950 people compared to 39,426,577 in Ukraine.

Population statistics:

  • Ukraine's population is 4.33 times bigger than Switzerland's.
  • Switzerland is ranked the 100th most populous country in the world, while Ukraine is the 40th.
  • The countries together account for 0.59% of the world: 0.11% for Switzerland vs 0.48% for Ukraine.
  • For the last 10 years, Switzerland has had an average growth rate of +1.01% per year vs -1.74% in Ukraine.
  • Since 2005, the population of Switzerland has increased from 7.44M people to 9.11M (22.5% growth), while Ukraine has declined from 47.6M to 39.4M (17.1% decline).
  • Switzerland is projected to reach its peak in 2052 at 9.46M people, while Ukraine's population already peaked in 1993 at 52.4M people and is projected to decrease to 15.2M people by 2100.

Switzerland vs Ukraine: live population counter

Switzerland Ukraine
Current population
9112950
39426577
Population rank 100/197 40/197
Percent of world population 0.11% 0.48%
One net population change
3.6 minutes
4.13 minutes
One birth every
6.57 minutes
2.48 minutes
One death every
7.3 minutes
1.06 minutes
One migration net change every
13.1 minutes
27.5 seconds
Annual migration change +40,099 +1,146,012
Daily growth/decline +400 +349
Annual growth/decline +146,009 +127,385
Annual growth/decline rate +1.64% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 70/197 146/197

Switzerland and Ukraine: population history and growth rate by year chart

Switzerland
Population

Growth rate
Ukraine
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Switzerland Ukraine Switzerland Ukraine
1960 5,327,827 42,824,093 - -
1961 5,434,294 43,399,766 2% 1.34%
1962 5,573,815 43,943,674 2.57% 1.25%
1963 5,694,247 44,462,372 2.16% 1.18%
1964 5,789,228 44,951,156 1.67% 1.1%
1965 5,856,472 45,386,892 1.16% 0.97%
1966 5,918,002 45,802,519 1.05% 0.92%
1967 5,991,785 46,215,988 1.25% 0.9%
1968 6,067,714 46,614,325 1.27% 0.86%
1969 6,136,387 46,976,256 1.13% 0.78%
1970 6,180,877 47,261,306 0.73% 0.61%
1971 6,213,399 47,573,287 0.53% 0.66%
1972 6,260,956 47,946,893 0.77% 0.79%
1973 6,307,347 48,277,121 0.74% 0.69%
1974 6,341,405 48,576,570 0.54% 0.62%
1975 6,338,632 48,865,229 -0.04% 0.59%
1976 6,302,504 49,120,842 -0.57% 0.52%
1977 6,281,174 49,336,481 -0.34% 0.44%
1978 6,281,738 49,521,243 0.009% 0.37%
1979 6,294,365 49,721,381 0.2% 0.4%
1980 6,319,408 49,955,152 0.4% 0.47%
1981 6,354,074 50,189,281 0.55% 0.47%
1982 6,391,309 50,402,724 0.59% 0.43%
1983 6,418,773 50,637,029 0.43% 0.46%
1984 6,441,865 50,887,599 0.36% 0.49%
1985 6,470,365 51,108,770 0.44% 0.43%
1986 6,504,124 51,318,745 0.52% 0.41%
1987 6,545,106 51,515,732 0.63% 0.38%
1988 6,593,386 51,724,853 0.74% 0.41%
1989 6,646,912 51,917,817 0.81% 0.37%
1990 6,715,519 52,054,092 1.03% 0.26%
1991 6,799,978 52,170,961 1.26% 0.22%
1992 6,875,364 52,323,671 1.11% 0.29%
1993 6,938,265 52,350,126 0.91% 0.05%
1994 6,993,795 52,075,998 0.8% -0.52%
1995 7,040,687 51,665,539 0.67% -0.79%
1996 7,071,850 51,226,109 0.44% -0.85%
1997 7,088,906 50,786,885 0.24% -0.86%
1998 7,110,001 50,379,731 0.3% -0.8%
1999 7,143,991 49,976,446 0.48% -0.8%
2000 7,184,250 49,556,660 0.56% -0.84%
2001 7,229,854 49,106,855 0.63% -0.91%
2002 7,284,753 48,677,281 0.76% -0.87%
2003 7,339,001 48,315,136 0.74% -0.74%
2004 7,389,625 47,979,507 0.69% -0.69%
2005 7,437,115 47,585,556 0.64% -0.82%
2006 7,483,934 47,278,694 0.63% -0.64%
2007 7,551,117 47,062,798 0.9% -0.46%
2008 7,647,675 46,819,175 1.28% -0.52%
2009 7,743,831 46,623,731 1.26% -0.42%
2010 7,824,909 46,456,003 1.05% -0.36%
2011 7,912,398 46,307,853 1.12% -0.32%
2012 7,996,861 46,210,056 1.07% -0.21%
2013 8,089,346 46,126,770 1.16% -0.18%
2014 8,188,649 45,972,380 1.23% -0.33%
2015 8,282,396 45,784,896 1.14% -0.41%
2016 8,373,338 45,616,832 1.1% -0.37%
2017 8,451,840 45,436,041 0.94% -0.4%
2018 8,514,329 45,208,907 0.74% -0.5%
2019 8,575,280 44,957,458 0.72% -0.56%
2020 8,638,167 44,680,014 0.73% -0.62%
2021 8,704,546 44,298,640 0.77% -0.85%
2022 8,777,088 41,048,766 0.83% -7.34%
2023 8,888,093 37,732,836 1.26% -8.08%
2024 9,034,102 37,860,221 1.64% 0.34%
2025 9,080,106 38,980,379 0.51% 2.96%
2026 9,120,994 39,535,850 0.45% 1.43%
2027 9,157,559 39,245,208 0.4% -0.74%
2028 9,190,572 38,952,086 0.36% -0.75%
2029 9,219,373 38,654,416 0.31% -0.76%
2030 9,245,030 38,353,848 0.28% -0.78%
2031 9,269,063 38,050,624 0.26% -0.79%
2032 9,289,991 37,746,688 0.23% -0.8%
2033 9,307,909 37,442,088 0.19% -0.81%
2034 9,324,938 37,135,839 0.18% -0.82%
2035 9,340,145 36,828,149 0.16% -0.83%
2036 9,352,822 36,519,767 0.14% -0.84%
2037 9,364,126 36,209,679 0.12% -0.85%
2038 9,373,988 35,897,705 0.11% -0.86%
2039 9,382,808 35,584,263 0.09% -0.87%
2040 9,392,748 35,270,911 0.11% -0.88%
2041 9,401,829 34,957,580 0.1% -0.89%
2042 9,410,286 34,641,778 0.09% -0.9%
2043 9,418,963 34,324,132 0.09% -0.92%
2044 9,426,166 34,004,074 0.08% -0.93%
2045 9,432,561 33,680,448 0.07% -0.95%
2046 9,438,518 33,351,499 0.06% -0.98%
2047 9,445,091 33,017,828 0.07% -1%
2048 9,452,109 32,680,968 0.07% -1.02%
2049 9,457,335 32,338,515 0.06% -1.05%
2050 9,459,997 31,990,136 0.03% -1.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Switzerland increased by 845,281 people (a 11.4% growth), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Switzerland gained 830,554 (a 10% growth), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).

Switzerland was ranked 97th most populous country in 2005 and is 100th in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Switzerland's population will grow by 3.81% to 9,459,997 people with a rank change from 100th to 102nd. The population of Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.

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