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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Turkey was 85,518,661 in 2024 vs 327,777 people in Vanuatu in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Turkey's population is 85,914,550 people compared to 341,110 in Vanuatu.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 251.9 times bigger than Vanuatu's.
  • Turkey is ranked the 18th most populous country in the world, while Vanuatu is the 174th.
  • The countries together account for 1.04% of the world: 1.04% for Turkey vs 0.004% for Vanuatu.
  • For the last 10 years, Turkey has had an average growth rate of +1.06% per year vs +2.33% in Vanuatu.
  • Since 2005, the population of Turkey has increased from 69.3M people to 85.9M (23.9% growth), while Vanuatu has grown from 211K to 341K (61.8% growth).
  • Turkey is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 89.4M people compared to the peak of 875K people in 2100 for Vanuatu.

Turkey vs Vanuatu: live population counter

Turkey Vanuatu
Current population
85914550
341110
Population rank 18/197 174/197
Percent of world population 1.04% 0.004%
One net population change
2.73 minutes
1.19 hours
One birth every
33 seconds
58.5 minutes
One death every
59.6 seconds
5.38 hours
One migration net change every
1.9 minutes
1.21 weeks
Annual migration change -275,952 -43
Daily growth/decline +528 +20
Annual growth/decline +192,696 +7,368
Annual growth/decline rate +0.23% +2.3%
Population growth rate rank 153/197 40/197

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

Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Vanuatu
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Turkey Vanuatu Turkey Vanuatu
1960 28,329,898 64,431 - -
1961 29,119,238 66,264 2.79% 2.84%
1962 29,916,147 68,174 2.74% 2.88%
1963 30,726,841 70,159 2.71% 2.91%
1964 31,543,072 72,219 2.66% 2.94%
1965 32,345,220 74,358 2.54% 2.96%
1966 33,177,672 76,590 2.57% 3%
1967 34,050,421 78,921 2.63% 3.04%
1968 34,921,684 81,314 2.56% 3.03%
1969 35,787,774 83,755 2.48% 3%
1970 36,638,465 86,266 2.38% 3%
1971 37,518,611 88,862 2.4% 3.01%
1972 38,430,221 91,562 2.43% 3.04%
1973 39,329,533 94,362 2.34% 3.06%
1974 40,210,234 97,260 2.24% 3.07%
1975 41,053,126 100,269 2.1% 3.09%
1976 41,899,984 103,388 2.06% 3.11%
1977 42,773,298 106,618 2.08% 3.12%
1978 43,645,306 109,963 2.04% 3.14%
1979 44,510,429 113,040 1.98% 2.8%
1980 45,408,815 115,660 2.02% 2.32%
1981 46,321,190 118,249 2.01% 2.24%
1982 47,322,096 121,035 2.16% 2.36%
1983 48,447,410 123,998 2.38% 2.45%
1984 49,574,069 127,109 2.33% 2.51%
1985 50,687,115 130,356 2.25% 2.55%
1986 51,777,772 133,720 2.15% 2.58%
1987 52,843,670 137,187 2.06% 2.59%
1988 53,909,626 140,756 2.02% 2.6%
1989 54,976,723 144,393 1.98% 2.58%
1990 56,015,628 148,063 1.89% 2.54%
1991 57,009,887 151,793 1.77% 2.52%
1992 57,990,118 155,608 1.72% 2.51%
1993 58,999,167 159,463 1.74% 2.48%
1994 60,033,836 163,314 1.75% 2.41%
1995 61,024,503 167,137 1.65% 2.34%
1996 61,951,134 170,911 1.52% 2.26%
1997 62,852,966 174,626 1.46% 2.17%
1998 63,734,383 178,313 1.4% 2.11%
1999 64,591,923 182,048 1.35% 2.09%
2000 65,425,961 186,281 1.29% 2.33%
2001 66,245,128 191,031 1.25% 2.55%
2002 67,048,795 195,863 1.21% 2.53%
2003 67,831,730 200,746 1.17% 2.49%
2004 68,592,617 205,711 1.12% 2.47%
2005 69,329,557 210,760 1.07% 2.45%
2006 70,045,349 215,923 1.03% 2.45%
2007 70,158,112 221,276 0.16% 2.48%
2008 71,051,678 226,896 1.27% 2.54%
2009 72,039,206 232,731 1.39% 2.57%
2010 73,142,150 238,248 1.53% 2.37%
2011 74,223,629 243,474 1.48% 2.19%
2012 75,175,827 248,883 1.28% 2.22%
2013 76,147,624 254,482 1.29% 2.25%
2014 77,181,884 260,240 1.36% 2.26%
2015 78,218,479 266,101 1.34% 2.25%
2016 79,277,962 272,087 1.35% 2.25%
2017 80,312,698 278,507 1.31% 2.36%
2018 81,407,204 285,259 1.36% 2.42%
2019 82,579,440 291,985 1.44% 2.36%
2020 83,384,680 298,858 0.98% 2.35%
2021 84,147,318 305,868 0.91% 2.35%
2022 84,979,913 313,046 0.99% 2.35%
2023 85,325,965 320,409 0.41% 2.35%
2024 85,518,661 327,777 0.23% 2.3%
2025 85,725,557 335,169 0.24% 2.26%
2026 85,960,835 342,565 0.27% 2.21%
2027 86,227,115 349,970 0.31% 2.16%
2028 86,502,744 357,397 0.32% 2.12%
2029 86,771,652 364,883 0.31% 2.09%
2030 87,037,680 372,429 0.31% 2.07%
2031 87,297,191 380,015 0.3% 2.04%
2032 87,537,075 387,657 0.27% 2.01%
2033 87,762,403 395,366 0.26% 1.99%
2034 87,974,138 403,188 0.24% 1.98%
2035 88,172,739 411,061 0.23% 1.95%
2036 88,364,318 419,006 0.22% 1.93%
2037 88,545,669 427,031 0.21% 1.92%
2038 88,707,268 435,150 0.18% 1.9%
2039 88,849,956 443,311 0.16% 1.88%
2040 88,975,510 451,509 0.14% 1.85%
2041 89,083,304 459,733 0.12% 1.82%
2042 89,177,769 468,003 0.11% 1.8%
2043 89,254,147 476,308 0.09% 1.77%
2044 89,311,458 484,636 0.06% 1.75%
2045 89,349,806 492,989 0.04% 1.72%
2046 89,375,429 501,316 0.03% 1.69%
2047 89,383,765 509,621 0.009% 1.66%
2048 89,361,174 517,889 -0.03% 1.62%
2049 89,306,566 526,138 -0.06% 1.59%
2050 89,218,346 534,374 -0.1% 1.57%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Turkey increased by 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth), while Vanuatu gained 55,341 people (a 26.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Turkey gained 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth), while Vanuatu's population increased by 75,009 (a 28.2% growth).

Turkey was ranked 18th most populous country in 2005 and is still 18th 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) Turkey's population will grow by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people with a rank change from 18th to 19th. The population of Vanuatu will increase by 56.7% to 534,374 people and rank change from 174th to 169th.

Biggest cities by population

Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M
Vanuatu
City Population
Port Vila 49K
Luganville 17.7K

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