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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Syria	Ukraine	Syria	Ukraine
1960	4,673,500	42,824,093	-	-
1961	4,815,466	43,399,766	3.04%	1.34%
1962	4,959,340	43,943,674	2.99%	1.25%
1963	5,110,467	44,462,372	3.05%	1.18%
1964	5,269,087	44,951,156	3.1%	1.1%
1965	5,435,267	45,386,892	3.15%	0.97%
1966	5,609,047	45,802,519	3.2%	0.92%
1967	5,790,198	46,215,988	3.23%	0.9%
1968	5,978,742	46,614,325	3.26%	0.86%
1969	6,175,166	46,976,256	3.29%	0.78%
1970	6,380,609	47,261,306	3.33%	0.61%
1971	6,598,094	47,573,287	3.41%	0.66%
1972	6,826,024	47,946,893	3.45%	0.79%
1973	7,060,321	48,277,121	3.43%	0.69%
1974	7,302,160	48,576,570	3.43%	0.62%
1975	7,554,364	48,865,229	3.45%	0.59%
1976	7,817,320	49,120,842	3.48%	0.52%
1977	8,090,501	49,336,481	3.49%	0.44%
1978	8,372,759	49,521,243	3.49%	0.37%
1979	8,661,909	49,721,381	3.45%	0.4%
1980	8,957,663	49,955,152	3.41%	0.47%
1981	9,260,189	50,189,281	3.38%	0.47%
1982	9,572,511	50,402,724	3.37%	0.43%
1983	9,904,809	50,637,029	3.47%	0.46%
1984	10,258,398	50,887,599	3.57%	0.49%
1985	10,625,672	51,108,770	3.58%	0.43%
1986	11,002,844	51,318,745	3.55%	0.41%
1987	11,388,923	51,515,732	3.51%	0.38%
1988	11,782,264	51,724,853	3.45%	0.41%
1989	12,179,060	51,917,817	3.37%	0.37%
1990	12,579,208	52,054,092	3.29%	0.26%
1991	12,980,821	52,170,961	3.19%	0.22%
1992	13,385,571	52,323,671	3.12%	0.29%
1993	13,795,686	52,350,126	3.06%	0.05%
1994	14,208,583	52,075,998	2.99%	-0.52%
1995	14,616,801	51,665,539	2.87%	-0.79%
1996	15,018,104	51,226,109	2.75%	-0.85%
1997	15,417,542	50,786,885	2.66%	-0.86%
1998	15,820,413	50,379,731	2.61%	-0.8%
1999	16,228,061	49,976,446	2.58%	-0.8%
2000	16,637,888	49,556,660	2.53%	-0.84%
2001	17,051,338	49,106,855	2.48%	-0.91%
2002	17,468,332	48,677,281	2.45%	-0.87%
2003	17,889,296	48,315,136	2.41%	-0.74%
2004	18,336,875	47,979,507	2.5%	-0.69%
2005	18,814,091	47,585,556	2.6%	-0.82%
2006	19,637,022	47,278,694	4.37%	-0.64%
2007	20,884,125	47,062,798	6.35%	-0.46%
2008	21,636,564	46,819,175	3.6%	-0.52%
2009	21,976,969	46,623,731	1.57%	-0.42%
2010	22,482,421	46,456,003	2.3%	-0.36%
2011	22,878,098	46,307,853	1.76%	-0.32%
2012	22,759,763	46,210,056	-0.52%	-0.21%
2013	21,666,917	46,126,770	-4.8%	-0.18%
2014	20,273,659	45,972,380	-6.43%	-0.33%
2015	19,424,618	45,784,896	-4.19%	-0.41%
2016	19,193,834	45,616,832	-1.19%	-0.37%
2017	19,224,668	45,436,041	0.16%	-0.4%
2018	19,577,845	45,208,907	1.84%	-0.5%
2019	20,353,534	44,957,458	3.96%	-0.56%
2020	21,049,429	44,680,014	3.42%	-0.62%
2021	21,628,839	44,298,640	2.75%	-0.85%
2022	22,462,173	41,048,766	3.85%	-7.34%
2023	23,594,623	37,732,836	5.04%	-8.08%
2024	24,672,760	37,860,221	4.57%	0.34%
2025	25,620,422	38,980,379	3.84%	2.96%
2026	26,472,499	39,535,850	3.33%	1.43%
2027	27,261,544	39,245,208	2.98%	-0.74%
2028	28,006,558	38,952,086	2.73%	-0.75%
2029	28,719,309	38,654,416	2.54%	-0.76%
2030	29,395,545	38,353,848	2.35%	-0.78%
2031	30,029,824	38,050,624	2.16%	-0.79%
2032	30,633,661	37,746,688	2.01%	-0.8%
2033	31,212,478	37,442,088	1.89%	-0.81%
2034	31,768,138	37,135,839	1.78%	-0.82%
2035	32,294,792	36,828,149	1.66%	-0.83%
2036	32,788,153	36,519,767	1.53%	-0.84%
2037	33,258,407	36,209,679	1.43%	-0.85%
2038	33,710,718	35,897,705	1.36%	-0.86%
2039	34,131,238	35,584,263	1.25%	-0.87%
2040	34,533,185	35,270,911	1.18%	-0.88%
2041	34,916,936	34,957,580	1.11%	-0.89%
2042	35,279,863	34,641,778	1.04%	-0.9%
2043	35,623,325	34,324,132	0.97%	-0.92%
2044	35,944,394	34,004,074	0.9%	-0.93%
2045	36,265,295	33,680,448	0.89%	-0.95%
2046	36,583,260	33,351,499	0.88%	-0.98%
2047	36,878,640	33,017,828	0.81%	-1%
2048	37,171,029	32,680,968	0.79%	-1.02%
2049	37,477,690	32,338,515	0.83%	-1.05%
2050	37,793,378	31,990,136	0.84%	-1.08%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Syria decreased by 443,188 people (a 2.26% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,661,862 people (a 3.52% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Syria gained 7,287,288 (a 38% growth), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,080,982 (a 13.3% decline).

Syria was ranked 58th most populous country in 2006 and is 57th in 2026. Ukraine was ranked 27th in 2006 and ranked 40th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Syria's population will grow by 42.7% to 37,793,378 people with a rank change from 57th to 54th. The population of Ukraine will decrease by 19.1% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.