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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Syria was 24,672,760 in 2024 vs 327,777 people in Vanuatu in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Syria's population is 26,304,877 people compared to 341,110 in Vanuatu.

Population statistics:

  • Syria's population is 77.1 times bigger than Vanuatu's.
  • Syria is ranked the 57th most populous country in the world, while Vanuatu is the 174th.
  • The countries together account for 0.32% of the world: 0.32% for Syria vs 0.004% for Vanuatu.
  • For the last 10 years, Syria has had an average growth rate of +1.25% per year vs +2.33% in Vanuatu.
  • Since 2005, the population of Syria has increased from 18.8M people to 26.3M (39.8% growth), while Vanuatu has grown from 211K to 341K (61.8% growth).
  • Syria is projected to reach its peak in 2086 at 44.1M people compared to the peak of 875K people in 2100 for Vanuatu.

Syria vs Vanuatu: live population counter

Syria Vanuatu
Current population
26304877
341110
Population rank 57/197 174/197
Percent of world population 0.32% 0.004%
One net population change
29.3 seconds
1.19 hours
One birth every
1.01 minutes
58.5 minutes
One death every
4.42 minutes
5.38 hours
One migration net change every
57.7 seconds
1.21 weeks
Annual migration change +546,494 -43
Daily growth/decline +2,954 +20
Annual growth/decline +1,078,137 +7,368
Annual growth/decline rate +4.57% +2.3%
Population growth rate rank 5/197 40/197

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

Syria
Population

Growth rate
Vanuatu
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Syria Vanuatu Syria Vanuatu
1960 4,673,500 64,431 - -
1961 4,815,466 66,264 3.04% 2.84%
1962 4,959,340 68,174 2.99% 2.88%
1963 5,110,467 70,159 3.05% 2.91%
1964 5,269,087 72,219 3.1% 2.94%
1965 5,435,267 74,358 3.15% 2.96%
1966 5,609,047 76,590 3.2% 3%
1967 5,790,198 78,921 3.23% 3.04%
1968 5,978,742 81,314 3.26% 3.03%
1969 6,175,166 83,755 3.29% 3%
1970 6,380,609 86,266 3.33% 3%
1971 6,598,094 88,862 3.41% 3.01%
1972 6,826,024 91,562 3.45% 3.04%
1973 7,060,321 94,362 3.43% 3.06%
1974 7,302,160 97,260 3.43% 3.07%
1975 7,554,364 100,269 3.45% 3.09%
1976 7,817,320 103,388 3.48% 3.11%
1977 8,090,501 106,618 3.49% 3.12%
1978 8,372,759 109,963 3.49% 3.14%
1979 8,661,909 113,040 3.45% 2.8%
1980 8,957,663 115,660 3.41% 2.32%
1981 9,260,189 118,249 3.38% 2.24%
1982 9,572,511 121,035 3.37% 2.36%
1983 9,904,809 123,998 3.47% 2.45%
1984 10,258,398 127,109 3.57% 2.51%
1985 10,625,672 130,356 3.58% 2.55%
1986 11,002,844 133,720 3.55% 2.58%
1987 11,388,923 137,187 3.51% 2.59%
1988 11,782,264 140,756 3.45% 2.6%
1989 12,179,060 144,393 3.37% 2.58%
1990 12,579,208 148,063 3.29% 2.54%
1991 12,980,821 151,793 3.19% 2.52%
1992 13,385,571 155,608 3.12% 2.51%
1993 13,795,686 159,463 3.06% 2.48%
1994 14,208,583 163,314 2.99% 2.41%
1995 14,616,801 167,137 2.87% 2.34%
1996 15,018,104 170,911 2.75% 2.26%
1997 15,417,542 174,626 2.66% 2.17%
1998 15,820,413 178,313 2.61% 2.11%
1999 16,228,061 182,048 2.58% 2.09%
2000 16,637,888 186,281 2.53% 2.33%
2001 17,051,338 191,031 2.48% 2.55%
2002 17,468,332 195,863 2.45% 2.53%
2003 17,889,296 200,746 2.41% 2.49%
2004 18,336,875 205,711 2.5% 2.47%
2005 18,814,091 210,760 2.6% 2.45%
2006 19,637,022 215,923 4.37% 2.45%
2007 20,884,125 221,276 6.35% 2.48%
2008 21,636,564 226,896 3.6% 2.54%
2009 21,976,969 232,731 1.57% 2.57%
2010 22,482,421 238,248 2.3% 2.37%
2011 22,878,098 243,474 1.76% 2.19%
2012 22,759,763 248,883 -0.52% 2.22%
2013 21,666,917 254,482 -4.8% 2.25%
2014 20,273,659 260,240 -6.43% 2.26%
2015 19,424,618 266,101 -4.19% 2.25%
2016 19,193,834 272,087 -1.19% 2.25%
2017 19,224,668 278,507 0.16% 2.36%
2018 19,577,845 285,259 1.84% 2.42%
2019 20,353,534 291,985 3.96% 2.36%
2020 21,049,429 298,858 3.42% 2.35%
2021 21,628,839 305,868 2.75% 2.35%
2022 22,462,173 313,046 3.85% 2.35%
2023 23,594,623 320,409 5.04% 2.35%
2024 24,672,760 327,777 4.57% 2.3%
2025 25,620,422 335,169 3.84% 2.26%
2026 26,472,499 342,565 3.33% 2.21%
2027 27,261,544 349,970 2.98% 2.16%
2028 28,006,558 357,397 2.73% 2.12%
2029 28,719,309 364,883 2.54% 2.09%
2030 29,395,545 372,429 2.35% 2.07%
2031 30,029,824 380,015 2.16% 2.04%
2032 30,633,661 387,657 2.01% 2.01%
2033 31,212,478 395,366 1.89% 1.99%
2034 31,768,138 403,188 1.78% 1.98%
2035 32,294,792 411,061 1.66% 1.95%
2036 32,788,153 419,006 1.53% 1.93%
2037 33,258,407 427,031 1.43% 1.92%
2038 33,710,718 435,150 1.36% 1.9%
2039 34,131,238 443,311 1.25% 1.88%
2040 34,533,185 451,509 1.18% 1.85%
2041 34,916,936 459,733 1.11% 1.82%
2042 35,279,863 468,003 1.04% 1.8%
2043 35,623,325 476,308 0.97% 1.77%
2044 35,944,394 484,636 0.9% 1.75%
2045 36,265,295 492,989 0.89% 1.72%
2046 36,583,260 501,316 0.88% 1.69%
2047 36,878,640 509,621 0.81% 1.66%
2048 37,171,029 517,889 0.79% 1.62%
2049 37,477,690 526,138 0.83% 1.59%
2050 37,793,378 534,374 0.84% 1.57%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Syria increased by 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth), while Vanuatu gained 55,341 people (a 26.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Syria gained 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth), while Vanuatu's population increased by 75,009 (a 28.2% growth).

Syria was ranked 58th most populous country in 2005 and is 57th in 2025. Vanuatu was ranked 175th in 2005 and ranked 174th 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 Vanuatu will increase by 56.7% to 534,374 people and rank change from 174th to 169th.

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