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Population in Syria compared to Taiwan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Syria was 24,672,760 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Syria's population is 26,304,877 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Syria's population is 1.13 times bigger than Taiwan's.
  • Syria is ranked the 57th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.6% of the world: 0.32% for Syria vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Syria has had an average growth rate of +1.25% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Syria has increased from 18.8M people to 26.3M (39.8% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Syria is projected to reach its peak in 2086 at 44.1M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

Syria vs Taiwan: live population counter

Syria Taiwan
Current population
26304877
23308308
Population rank 57/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.32% 0.28%
One net population change
29.3 seconds
7.75 minutes
One birth every
1.01 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
4.42 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
57.7 seconds
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +546,494 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +2,954 +186
Annual growth/decline +1,078,137 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +4.57% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 5/197 150/197

Syria and Taiwan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Syria
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Syria Taiwan Syria Taiwan
1960 4,673,500 - - -
1961 4,815,466 11,030,385 3.04% -
1962 4,959,340 11,392,513 2.99% 3.28%
1963 5,110,467 11,762,101 3.05% 3.24%
1964 5,269,087 12,137,143 3.1% 3.19%
1965 5,435,267 12,511,863 3.15% 3.09%
1966 5,609,047 12,874,153 3.2% 2.9%
1967 5,790,198 13,210,344 3.23% 2.61%
1968 5,978,742 13,548,537 3.26% 2.56%
1969 6,175,166 14,068,984 3.29% 3.84%
1970 6,380,609 14,582,944 3.33% 3.65%
1971 6,598,094 14,913,564 3.41% 2.27%
1972 6,826,024 15,220,495 3.45% 2.06%
1973 7,060,321 15,505,121 3.43% 1.87%
1974 7,302,160 15,784,817 3.43% 1.8%
1975 7,554,364 16,075,128 3.45% 1.84%
1976 7,817,320 16,401,413 3.48% 2.03%
1977 8,090,501 16,730,895 3.49% 2.01%
1978 8,372,759 17,042,272 3.49% 1.86%
1979 8,661,909 17,372,779 3.45% 1.94%
1980 8,957,663 17,704,538 3.41% 1.91%
1981 9,260,189 18,029,982 3.38% 1.84%
1982 9,572,511 18,354,855 3.37% 1.8%
1983 9,904,809 18,653,146 3.47% 1.63%
1984 10,258,398 18,929,866 3.57% 1.48%
1985 10,625,672 19,191,510 3.58% 1.38%
1986 11,002,844 19,411,454 3.55% 1.15%
1987 11,388,923 19,617,046 3.51% 1.06%
1988 11,782,264 19,839,704 3.45% 1.14%
1989 12,179,060 20,055,492 3.37% 1.09%
1990 12,579,208 20,278,946 3.29% 1.11%
1991 12,980,821 20,503,568 3.19% 1.11%
1992 13,385,571 20,704,227 3.12% 0.98%
1993 13,795,686 20,899,019 3.06% 0.94%
1994 14,208,583 21,086,645 2.99% 0.9%
1995 14,616,801 21,267,653 2.87% 0.86%
1996 15,018,104 21,441,432 2.75% 0.82%
1997 15,417,542 21,634,124 2.66% 0.9%
1998 15,820,413 21,835,703 2.61% 0.93%
1999 16,228,061 22,010,489 2.58% 0.8%
2000 16,637,888 22,184,530 2.53% 0.79%
2001 17,051,338 22,341,120 2.48% 0.71%
2002 17,468,332 22,463,172 2.45% 0.55%
2003 17,889,296 22,562,663 2.41% 0.44%
2004 18,336,875 22,646,836 2.5% 0.37%
2005 18,814,091 22,729,753 2.6% 0.37%
2006 19,637,022 22,823,455 4.37% 0.41%
2007 20,884,125 22,917,444 6.35% 0.41%
2008 21,636,564 22,997,696 3.6% 0.35%
2009 21,976,969 23,078,402 1.57% 0.35%
2010 22,482,421 23,140,948 2.3% 0.27%
2011 22,878,098 23,193,518 1.76% 0.23%
2012 22,759,763 23,270,367 -0.52% 0.33%
2013 21,666,917 23,344,670 -4.8% 0.32%
2014 20,273,659 23,403,635 -6.43% 0.25%
2015 19,424,618 23,462,914 -4.19% 0.25%
2016 19,193,834 23,515,945 -1.19% 0.23%
2017 19,224,668 23,555,522 0.16% 0.17%
2018 19,577,845 23,580,080 1.84% 0.1%
2019 20,353,534 23,596,027 3.96% 0.07%
2020 21,049,429 23,582,179 3.42% -0.06%
2021 21,628,839 23,468,275 2.75% -0.48%
2022 22,462,173 23,319,977 3.85% -0.63%
2023 23,594,623 23,342,541 5.04% 0.1%
2024 24,672,760 23,410,331 4.57% 0.29%
2025 25,620,422 23,308,308 3.84% -0.44%
2026 26,472,499 23,205,944 3.33% -0.44%
2027 27,261,544 23,102,120 2.98% -0.45%
2028 28,006,558 22,996,693 2.73% -0.46%
2029 28,719,309 22,890,335 2.54% -0.46%
2030 29,395,545 22,781,040 2.35% -0.48%
2031 30,029,824 22,667,327 2.16% -0.5%
2032 30,633,661 22,549,689 2.01% -0.52%
2033 31,212,478 22,428,721 1.89% -0.54%
2034 31,768,138 22,302,402 1.78% -0.56%
2035 32,294,792 22,170,689 1.66% -0.59%
2036 32,788,153 22,034,775 1.53% -0.61%
2037 33,258,407 21,893,029 1.43% -0.64%
2038 33,710,718 21,746,001 1.36% -0.67%
2039 34,131,238 21,594,236 1.25% -0.7%
2040 34,533,185 21,436,947 1.18% -0.73%
2041 34,916,936 21,274,187 1.11% -0.76%
2042 35,279,863 21,105,682 1.04% -0.79%
2043 35,623,325 20,932,105 0.97% -0.82%
2044 35,944,394 20,754,623 0.9% -0.85%
2045 36,265,295 20,571,741 0.89% -0.88%
2046 36,583,260 20,384,903 0.88% -0.91%
2047 36,878,640 20,194,425 0.81% -0.93%
2048 37,171,029 19,999,753 0.79% -0.96%
2049 37,477,690 19,801,293 0.83% -0.99%
2050 37,793,378 19,598,997 0.84% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Syria increased by 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Syria gained 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Syria was ranked 58th most populous country in 2005 and is 57th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Syria's population will grow by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people with a rank change from 57th to 54th. The population of Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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