Population in Syria compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Syria and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Syria	United Kingdom	Syria	United Kingdom
1960	4,673,500	52,400,000	-	-
1961	4,815,466	52,800,000	3.04%	0.76%
1962	4,959,340	53,250,000	2.99%	0.85%
1963	5,110,467	53,650,000	3.05%	0.75%
1964	5,269,087	54,000,000	3.1%	0.65%
1965	5,435,267	54,348,050	3.15%	0.64%
1966	5,609,047	54,648,500	3.2%	0.55%
1967	5,790,198	54,943,600	3.23%	0.54%
1968	5,978,742	55,211,700	3.26%	0.49%
1969	6,175,166	55,441,750	3.29%	0.42%
1970	6,380,609	55,663,250	3.33%	0.4%
1971	6,598,094	55,896,223	3.41%	0.42%
1972	6,826,024	56,086,065	3.45%	0.34%
1973	7,060,321	56,194,527	3.43%	0.19%
1974	7,302,160	56,229,974	3.43%	0.06%
1975	7,554,364	56,225,800	3.45%	-0.007%
1976	7,817,320	56,211,968	3.48%	-0.02%
1977	8,090,501	56,193,492	3.49%	-0.03%
1978	8,372,759	56,196,504	3.49%	0.005%
1979	8,661,909	56,246,951	3.45%	0.09%
1980	8,957,663	56,314,216	3.41%	0.12%
1981	9,260,189	56,333,829	3.38%	0.03%
1982	9,572,511	56,313,641	3.37%	-0.04%
1983	9,904,809	56,332,848	3.47%	0.03%
1984	10,258,398	56,422,072	3.57%	0.16%
1985	10,625,672	56,550,268	3.58%	0.23%
1986	11,002,844	56,681,396	3.55%	0.23%
1987	11,388,923	56,802,050	3.51%	0.21%
1988	11,782,264	56,928,327	3.45%	0.22%
1989	12,179,060	57,076,711	3.37%	0.26%
1990	12,579,208	57,247,586	3.29%	0.3%
1991	12,980,821	57,424,897	3.19%	0.31%
1992	13,385,571	57,580,402	3.12%	0.27%
1993	13,795,686	57,718,614	3.06%	0.24%
1994	14,208,583	57,865,745	2.99%	0.25%
1995	14,616,801	58,019,030	2.87%	0.26%
1996	15,018,104	58,166,950	2.75%	0.25%
1997	15,417,542	58,316,954	2.66%	0.26%
1998	15,820,413	58,487,141	2.61%	0.29%
1999	16,228,061	58,682,466	2.58%	0.33%
2000	16,637,888	58,892,514	2.53%	0.36%
2001	17,051,338	59,119,673	2.48%	0.39%
2002	17,468,332	59,370,479	2.45%	0.42%
2003	17,889,296	59,647,577	2.41%	0.47%
2004	18,336,875	59,987,905	2.5%	0.57%
2005	18,814,091	60,401,206	2.6%	0.69%
2006	19,637,022	60,846,820	4.37%	0.74%
2007	20,884,125	61,322,463	6.35%	0.78%
2008	21,636,564	61,806,995	3.6%	0.79%
2009	21,976,969	62,276,270	1.57%	0.76%
2010	22,482,421	62,766,365	2.3%	0.79%
2011	22,878,098	63,258,810	1.76%	0.78%
2012	22,759,763	63,711,000	-0.52%	0.71%
2013	21,666,917	64,139,000	-4.8%	0.67%
2014	20,273,659	64,620,000	-6.43%	0.75%
2015	19,424,618	65,088,000	-4.19%	0.72%
2016	19,193,834	65,607,000	-1.19%	0.8%
2017	19,224,668	65,966,000	0.16%	0.55%
2018	19,577,845	66,289,000	1.84%	0.49%
2019	20,353,534	66,631,000	3.96%	0.52%
2020	21,049,429	66,744,000	3.42%	0.17%
2021	21,628,839	66,984,000	2.75%	0.36%
2022	22,462,173	67,604,000	3.85%	0.93%
2023	23,594,623	68,492,000	5.04%	1.31%
2024	24,672,760	69,226,000	4.57%	1.07%
2025	25,620,422	69,639,673	3.84%	0.6%
2026	26,472,499	70,020,350	3.33%	0.55%
2027	27,261,544	70,382,853	2.98%	0.52%
2028	28,006,558	70,732,699	2.73%	0.5%
2029	28,719,309	71,061,482	2.54%	0.46%
2030	29,395,545	71,377,535	2.35%	0.44%
2031	30,029,824	71,678,351	2.16%	0.42%
2032	30,633,661	71,959,934	2.01%	0.39%
2033	31,212,478	72,234,509	1.89%	0.38%
2034	31,768,138	72,497,650	1.78%	0.36%
2035	32,294,792	72,749,096	1.66%	0.35%
2036	32,788,153	72,990,847	1.53%	0.33%
2037	33,258,407	73,218,850	1.43%	0.31%
2038	33,710,718	73,441,349	1.36%	0.3%
2039	34,131,238	73,658,392	1.25%	0.3%
2040	34,533,185	73,868,334	1.18%	0.29%
2041	34,916,936	74,074,316	1.11%	0.28%
2042	35,279,863	74,275,779	1.04%	0.27%
2043	35,623,325	74,475,035	0.97%	0.27%
2044	35,944,394	74,667,284	0.9%	0.26%
2045	36,265,295	74,848,605	0.89%	0.24%
2046	36,583,260	75,020,949	0.88%	0.23%
2047	36,878,640	75,184,478	0.81%	0.22%
2048	37,171,029	75,337,543	0.79%	0.2%
2049	37,477,690	75,476,141	0.83%	0.18%
2050	37,793,378	75,600,588	0.84%	0.16%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Syria decreased by 443,188 people (a 2.26% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,760,180 people (a 7.82% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Syria gained 7,287,288 (a 38% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,417,311 (a 6.73% growth).

Syria was ranked 58th most populous country in 2006 and is 57th in 2026. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2006 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 7.96% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.