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Population in Tunisia compared to Turkey: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Tunisia was 12,277,109 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Tunisia's population is 12,402,051 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 6.93 times bigger than Tunisia's.
  • Tunisia is ranked the 80th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.19% of the world: 0.15% for Tunisia vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Tunisia has had an average growth rate of +0.89% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Tunisia has increased from 10.3M people to 12.4M (20.9% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Tunisia is projected to reach its peak in 2051 at 13.1M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Tunisia vs Turkey: live population counter

Tunisia Turkey
Current population
12402051
85914550
Population rank 80/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.15% 1.04%
One net population change
6.85 minutes
2.73 minutes
One birth every
3.13 minutes
33 seconds
One death every
7.1 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
34.5 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -15,221 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +210 +528
Annual growth/decline +76,678 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +0.63% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 125/197 153/197

Tunisia and Turkey: population history and growth rate by year chart

Tunisia
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Tunisia Turkey Tunisia Turkey
1960 4,267,288 28,329,898 - -
1961 4,316,278 29,119,238 1.15% 2.79%
1962 4,369,136 29,916,147 1.22% 2.74%
1963 4,427,131 30,726,841 1.33% 2.71%
1964 4,489,869 31,543,072 1.42% 2.66%
1965 4,561,385 32,345,220 1.59% 2.54%
1966 4,652,287 33,177,672 1.99% 2.57%
1967 4,760,970 34,050,421 2.34% 2.63%
1968 4,879,899 34,921,684 2.5% 2.56%
1969 5,004,697 35,787,774 2.56% 2.48%
1970 5,131,396 36,638,465 2.53% 2.38%
1971 5,261,658 37,518,611 2.54% 2.4%
1972 5,396,557 38,430,221 2.56% 2.43%
1973 5,537,242 39,329,533 2.61% 2.34%
1974 5,684,674 40,210,234 2.66% 2.24%
1975 5,839,262 41,053,126 2.72% 2.1%
1976 5,996,994 41,899,984 2.7% 2.06%
1977 6,155,931 42,773,298 2.65% 2.08%
1978 6,309,390 43,645,306 2.49% 2.04%
1979 6,456,419 44,510,429 2.33% 1.98%
1980 6,606,195 45,408,815 2.32% 2.02%
1981 6,758,284 46,321,190 2.3% 2.01%
1982 6,908,642 47,322,096 2.22% 2.16%
1983 7,053,800 48,447,410 2.1% 2.38%
1984 7,220,044 49,574,069 2.36% 2.33%
1985 7,409,903 50,687,115 2.63% 2.25%
1986 7,600,301 51,777,772 2.57% 2.15%
1987 7,789,987 52,843,670 2.5% 2.06%
1988 7,974,440 53,909,626 2.37% 2.02%
1989 8,151,660 54,976,723 2.22% 1.98%
1990 8,324,509 56,015,628 2.12% 1.89%
1991 8,501,827 57,009,887 2.13% 1.77%
1992 8,682,512 57,990,118 2.13% 1.72%
1993 8,857,910 58,999,167 2.02% 1.74%
1994 9,018,448 60,033,836 1.81% 1.75%
1995 9,161,258 61,024,503 1.58% 1.65%
1996 9,294,432 61,951,134 1.45% 1.52%
1997 9,421,270 62,852,966 1.36% 1.46%
1998 9,541,667 63,734,383 1.28% 1.4%
1999 9,655,963 64,591,923 1.2% 1.35%
2000 9,764,935 65,425,961 1.13% 1.29%
2001 9,869,677 66,245,128 1.07% 1.25%
2002 9,971,515 67,048,795 1.03% 1.21%
2003 10,071,632 67,831,730 1% 1.17%
2004 10,166,163 68,592,617 0.94% 1.12%
2005 10,255,472 69,329,557 0.88% 1.07%
2006 10,346,410 70,045,349 0.89% 1.03%
2007 10,441,702 70,158,112 0.92% 0.16%
2008 10,542,635 71,051,678 0.97% 1.27%
2009 10,650,681 72,039,206 1.02% 1.39%
2010 10,765,980 73,142,150 1.08% 1.53%
2011 10,886,035 74,223,629 1.12% 1.48%
2012 11,009,647 75,175,827 1.14% 1.28%
2013 11,141,361 76,147,624 1.2% 1.29%
2014 11,274,288 77,181,884 1.19% 1.36%
2015 11,402,264 78,218,479 1.14% 1.34%
2016 11,528,674 79,277,962 1.11% 1.35%
2017 11,650,498 80,312,698 1.06% 1.31%
2018 11,765,514 81,407,204 0.99% 1.36%
2019 11,875,081 82,579,440 0.93% 1.44%
2020 11,974,057 83,384,680 0.83% 0.98%
2021 12,048,622 84,147,318 0.62% 0.91%
2022 12,119,334 84,979,913 0.59% 0.99%
2023 12,200,431 85,325,965 0.67% 0.41%
2024 12,277,109 85,518,661 0.63% 0.23%
2025 12,348,580 85,725,557 0.58% 0.24%
2026 12,415,147 85,960,835 0.54% 0.27%
2027 12,476,105 86,227,115 0.49% 0.31%
2028 12,531,994 86,502,744 0.45% 0.32%
2029 12,582,709 86,771,652 0.4% 0.31%
2030 12,628,154 87,037,680 0.36% 0.31%
2031 12,669,925 87,297,191 0.33% 0.3%
2032 12,709,155 87,537,075 0.31% 0.27%
2033 12,746,538 87,762,403 0.29% 0.26%
2034 12,781,017 87,974,138 0.27% 0.24%
2035 12,812,275 88,172,739 0.24% 0.23%
2036 12,842,495 88,364,318 0.24% 0.22%
2037 12,872,063 88,545,669 0.23% 0.21%
2038 12,900,190 88,707,268 0.22% 0.18%
2039 12,927,314 88,849,956 0.21% 0.16%
2040 12,953,871 88,975,510 0.21% 0.14%
2041 12,979,696 89,083,304 0.2% 0.12%
2042 13,005,242 89,177,769 0.2% 0.11%
2043 13,030,307 89,254,147 0.19% 0.09%
2044 13,054,103 89,311,458 0.18% 0.06%
2045 13,076,097 89,349,806 0.17% 0.04%
2046 13,095,748 89,375,429 0.15% 0.03%
2047 13,113,228 89,383,765 0.13% 0.009%
2048 13,127,662 89,361,174 0.11% -0.03%
2049 13,138,151 89,306,566 0.08% -0.06%
2050 13,145,144 89,218,346 0.05% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Tunisia increased by 1,146,792 people (a 11.2% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Tunisia gained 999,787 (a 8.77% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Tunisia was ranked 79th most populous country in 2005 and is 80th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Tunisia's population will grow by 5.99% to 13,145,144 people with a rank change from 80th to 89th. The population of Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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