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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Syria was 24,672,760 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Syria's population is 26,304,877 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 2.72 times bigger than Syria's.
  • Syria is ranked the 57th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.18% of the world: 0.32% for Syria vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Syria has had an average growth rate of +1.25% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Syria has increased from 18.8M people to 26.3M (39.8% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Syria is projected to reach its peak in 2086 at 44.1M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Syria vs Thailand: live population counter

Syria Thailand
Current population
26304877
71619867
Population rank 57/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.32% 0.87%
One net population change
29.3 seconds
15.3 minutes
One birth every
1.01 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
4.42 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
57.7 seconds
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change +546,494 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +2,954 -94
Annual growth/decline +1,078,137 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +4.57% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 5/197 170/197

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

Syria
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Syria Thailand Syria Thailand
1960 4,673,500 26,851,747 - -
1961 4,815,466 27,650,334 3.04% 2.97%
1962 4,959,340 28,481,040 2.99% 3%
1963 5,110,467 29,342,322 3.05% 3.02%
1964 5,269,087 30,232,141 3.1% 3.03%
1965 5,435,267 31,149,337 3.15% 3.03%
1966 5,609,047 32,086,071 3.2% 3.01%
1967 5,790,198 33,037,801 3.23% 2.97%
1968 5,978,742 34,002,560 3.26% 2.92%
1969 6,175,166 34,973,782 3.29% 2.86%
1970 6,380,609 35,954,408 3.33% 2.8%
1971 6,598,094 36,937,387 3.41% 2.73%
1972 6,826,024 37,933,929 3.45% 2.7%
1973 7,060,321 38,947,787 3.43% 2.67%
1974 7,302,160 39,952,891 3.43% 2.58%
1975 7,554,364 40,940,005 3.45% 2.47%
1976 7,817,320 41,896,504 3.48% 2.34%
1977 8,090,501 42,843,974 3.49% 2.26%
1978 8,372,759 43,788,976 3.49% 2.21%
1979 8,661,909 44,718,434 3.45% 2.12%
1980 8,957,663 45,650,022 3.41% 2.08%
1981 9,260,189 46,575,855 3.38% 2.03%
1982 9,572,511 47,494,577 3.37% 1.97%
1983 9,904,809 48,423,309 3.47% 1.96%
1984 10,258,398 49,351,708 3.57% 1.92%
1985 10,625,672 50,270,753 3.58% 1.86%
1986 11,002,844 51,177,834 3.55% 1.8%
1987 11,388,923 52,074,105 3.51% 1.75%
1988 11,782,264 52,969,595 3.45% 1.72%
1989 12,179,060 53,848,956 3.37% 1.66%
1990 12,579,208 54,738,329 3.29% 1.65%
1991 12,980,821 55,637,434 3.19% 1.64%
1992 13,385,571 56,528,834 3.12% 1.6%
1993 13,795,686 57,408,198 3.06% 1.56%
1994 14,208,583 58,260,854 2.99% 1.49%
1995 14,616,801 59,098,232 2.87% 1.44%
1996 15,018,104 59,920,064 2.75% 1.39%
1997 15,417,542 60,724,584 2.66% 1.34%
1998 15,820,413 61,522,630 2.61% 1.31%
1999 16,228,061 62,299,043 2.58% 1.26%
2000 16,637,888 63,007,815 2.53% 1.14%
2001 17,051,338 63,651,141 2.48% 1.02%
2002 17,468,332 64,266,437 2.45% 0.97%
2003 17,889,296 64,868,166 2.41% 0.94%
2004 18,336,875 65,452,047 2.5% 0.9%
2005 18,814,091 66,017,420 2.6% 0.86%
2006 19,637,022 66,567,687 4.37% 0.83%
2007 20,884,125 67,102,394 6.35% 0.8%
2008 21,636,564 67,619,830 3.6% 0.77%
2009 21,976,969 68,121,080 1.57% 0.74%
2010 22,482,421 68,579,447 2.3% 0.67%
2011 22,878,098 69,007,208 1.76% 0.62%
2012 22,759,763 69,436,098 -0.52% 0.62%
2013 21,666,917 69,845,114 -4.8% 0.59%
2014 20,273,659 70,216,367 -6.43% 0.53%
2015 19,424,618 70,540,795 -4.19% 0.46%
2016 19,193,834 70,859,841 -1.19% 0.45%
2017 19,224,668 71,160,187 0.16% 0.42%
2018 19,577,845 71,376,079 1.84% 0.3%
2019 20,353,534 71,522,271 3.96% 0.2%
2020 21,049,429 71,641,484 3.42% 0.17%
2021 21,628,839 71,727,332 2.75% 0.12%
2022 22,462,173 71,735,329 3.85% 0.01%
2023 23,594,623 71,702,435 5.04% -0.05%
2024 24,672,760 71,668,011 4.57% -0.05%
2025 25,620,422 71,619,867 3.84% -0.07%
2026 26,472,499 71,559,621 3.33% -0.08%
2027 27,261,544 71,488,156 2.98% -0.1%
2028 28,006,558 71,406,996 2.73% -0.11%
2029 28,719,309 71,316,195 2.54% -0.13%
2030 29,395,545 71,215,017 2.35% -0.14%
2031 30,029,824 71,104,025 2.16% -0.16%
2032 30,633,661 70,982,286 2.01% -0.17%
2033 31,212,478 70,847,947 1.89% -0.19%
2034 31,768,138 70,701,651 1.78% -0.21%
2035 32,294,792 70,540,884 1.66% -0.23%
2036 32,788,153 70,366,496 1.53% -0.25%
2037 33,258,407 70,180,031 1.43% -0.26%
2038 33,710,718 69,979,034 1.36% -0.29%
2039 34,131,238 69,763,928 1.25% -0.31%
2040 34,533,185 69,535,003 1.18% -0.33%
2041 34,916,936 69,288,477 1.11% -0.35%
2042 35,279,863 69,025,348 1.04% -0.38%
2043 35,623,325 68,748,075 0.97% -0.4%
2044 35,944,394 68,456,533 0.9% -0.42%
2045 36,265,295 68,150,148 0.89% -0.45%
2046 36,583,260 67,827,309 0.88% -0.47%
2047 36,878,640 67,489,358 0.81% -0.5%
2048 37,171,029 67,136,737 0.79% -0.52%
2049 37,477,690 66,767,316 0.83% -0.55%
2050 37,793,378 66,382,732 0.84% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Syria increased by 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Syria gained 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Syria was ranked 58th most populous country in 2005 and is 57th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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