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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Tanzania was 68,560,157 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Tanzania's population is 72,166,806 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Tanzania's population is 1.01 times bigger than Thailand's.
  • Tanzania is ranked the 20th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.74% of the world: 0.87% for Tanzania vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Tanzania has had an average growth rate of +3.13% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Tanzania has increased from 39.2M people to 72.2M (84.2% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Tanzania is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 263M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Tanzania vs Thailand: live population counter

Tanzania Thailand
Current population
72166806
71619867
Population rank 20/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.87% 0.87%
One net population change
16.2 seconds
15.3 minutes
One birth every
13.4 seconds
53.3 seconds
One death every
1.36 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
17.6 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -29,865 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +5,322 -94
Annual growth/decline +1,942,551 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +2.92% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 19/197 170/197

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

Tanzania
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Tanzania Thailand Tanzania Thailand
1960 9,901,419 26,851,747 - -
1961 10,187,886 27,650,334 2.89% 2.97%
1962 10,487,756 28,481,040 2.94% 3%
1963 10,799,528 29,342,322 2.97% 3.02%
1964 11,127,826 30,232,141 3.04% 3.03%
1965 11,470,728 31,149,337 3.08% 3.03%
1966 11,827,459 32,086,071 3.11% 3.01%
1967 12,200,109 33,037,801 3.15% 2.97%
1968 12,602,076 34,002,560 3.29% 2.92%
1969 13,036,700 34,973,782 3.45% 2.86%
1970 13,492,677 35,954,408 3.5% 2.8%
1971 13,971,451 36,937,387 3.55% 2.73%
1972 14,479,308 37,933,929 3.63% 2.7%
1973 15,010,101 38,947,787 3.67% 2.67%
1974 15,561,630 39,952,891 3.67% 2.58%
1975 16,138,361 40,940,005 3.71% 2.47%
1976 16,736,211 41,896,504 3.7% 2.34%
1977 17,352,929 42,843,974 3.68% 2.26%
1978 17,976,566 43,788,976 3.59% 2.21%
1979 18,592,038 44,718,434 3.42% 2.12%
1980 19,189,769 45,650,022 3.21% 2.08%
1981 19,784,703 46,575,855 3.1% 2.03%
1982 20,398,571 47,494,577 3.1% 1.97%
1983 21,079,874 48,423,309 3.34% 1.96%
1984 21,779,066 49,351,708 3.32% 1.92%
1985 22,501,693 50,270,753 3.32% 1.86%
1986 23,258,959 51,177,834 3.37% 1.8%
1987 24,030,378 52,074,105 3.32% 1.75%
1988 24,769,686 52,969,595 3.08% 1.72%
1989 25,438,759 53,848,956 2.7% 1.66%
1990 26,110,207 54,738,329 2.64% 1.65%
1991 26,780,436 55,637,434 2.57% 1.64%
1992 27,457,588 56,528,834 2.53% 1.6%
1993 28,332,692 57,408,198 3.19% 1.56%
1994 29,442,356 58,260,854 3.92% 1.49%
1995 30,383,497 59,098,232 3.2% 1.44%
1996 30,945,762 59,920,064 1.85% 1.39%
1997 31,578,089 60,724,584 2.04% 1.34%
1998 32,420,458 61,522,630 2.67% 1.31%
1999 33,300,330 62,299,043 2.71% 1.26%
2000 34,260,139 63,007,815 2.88% 1.14%
2001 35,198,299 63,651,141 2.74% 1.02%
2002 36,121,304 64,266,437 2.62% 0.97%
2003 37,089,555 64,868,166 2.68% 0.94%
2004 38,109,668 65,452,047 2.75% 0.9%
2005 39,182,076 66,017,420 2.81% 0.86%
2006 40,294,902 66,567,687 2.84% 0.83%
2007 41,435,512 67,102,394 2.83% 0.8%
2008 42,570,728 67,619,830 2.74% 0.77%
2009 43,633,982 68,121,080 2.5% 0.74%
2010 44,758,488 68,579,447 2.58% 0.67%
2011 46,029,367 69,007,208 2.84% 0.62%
2012 47,374,260 69,436,098 2.92% 0.62%
2013 48,824,128 69,845,114 3.06% 0.59%
2014 50,351,512 70,216,367 3.13% 0.53%
2015 52,020,962 70,540,795 3.32% 0.46%
2016 53,824,013 70,859,841 3.47% 0.45%
2017 55,652,890 71,160,187 3.4% 0.42%
2018 57,437,145 71,376,079 3.21% 0.3%
2019 59,174,891 71,522,271 3.03% 0.2%
2020 60,972,798 71,641,484 3.04% 0.17%
2021 62,830,412 71,727,332 3.05% 0.12%
2022 64,711,821 71,735,329 2.99% 0.01%
2023 66,617,606 71,702,435 2.95% -0.05%
2024 68,560,157 71,668,011 2.92% -0.05%
2025 70,545,858 71,619,867 2.9% -0.07%
2026 72,563,773 71,559,621 2.86% -0.08%
2027 74,604,804 71,488,156 2.81% -0.1%
2028 76,670,483 71,406,996 2.77% -0.11%
2029 78,773,192 71,316,195 2.74% -0.13%
2030 80,913,118 71,215,017 2.72% -0.14%
2031 83,087,927 71,104,025 2.69% -0.16%
2032 85,293,126 70,982,286 2.65% -0.17%
2033 87,520,491 70,847,947 2.61% -0.19%
2034 89,788,673 70,701,651 2.59% -0.21%
2035 92,091,418 70,540,884 2.56% -0.23%
2036 94,420,808 70,366,496 2.53% -0.25%
2037 96,775,766 70,180,031 2.49% -0.26%
2038 99,156,465 69,979,034 2.46% -0.29%
2039 101,567,525 69,763,928 2.43% -0.31%
2040 103,999,350 69,535,003 2.39% -0.33%
2041 106,448,475 69,288,477 2.35% -0.35%
2042 108,926,272 69,025,348 2.33% -0.38%
2043 111,433,788 68,748,075 2.3% -0.4%
2044 113,966,263 68,456,533 2.27% -0.42%
2045 116,525,463 68,150,148 2.25% -0.45%
2046 119,109,670 67,827,309 2.22% -0.47%
2047 121,721,018 67,489,358 2.19% -0.5%
2048 124,351,294 67,136,737 2.16% -0.52%
2049 126,981,394 66,767,316 2.12% -0.55%
2050 129,621,083 66,382,732 2.08% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Tanzania increased by 12,838,886 people (a 32.8% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Tanzania gained 20,145,844 (a 38.7% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Tanzania was ranked 31st most populous country in 2005 and is 20th 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) Tanzania's population will grow by 79.6% to 129,621,083 people with a rank change from 20th to 15th. 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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