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Population in Turkmenistan compared to Yemen: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Turkmenistan was 7,494,498 in 2024 vs 40,583,164 people in Yemen in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Turkmenistan's population is 7,713,465 people compared to 42,727,988 in Yemen.

Population statistics:

  • Yemen's population is 5.54 times bigger than Turkmenistan's.
  • Turkmenistan is ranked the 104th most populous country in the world, while Yemen is the 37th.
  • The countries together account for 0.61% of the world: 0.09% for Turkmenistan vs 0.52% for Yemen.
  • For the last 10 years, Turkmenistan has had an average growth rate of +2.14% per year vs +3% in Yemen.
  • Since 2005, the population of Turkmenistan has increased from 5.05M people to 7.71M (52.7% growth), while Yemen has grown from 22.8M to 42.7M (87.5% growth).
  • Turkmenistan is projected to reach its peak in 2079 at 10.3M people compared to the peak of 110M people in 2100 for Yemen.

Turkmenistan vs Yemen: live population counter

Turkmenistan Yemen
Current population
7713465
42727988
Population rank 104/197 37/197
Percent of world population 0.09% 0.52%
One net population change
4.04 minutes
26.4 seconds
One birth every
3.28 minutes
22.7 seconds
One death every
12.3 minutes
2.78 minutes
One migration net change every
35.9 minutes
50.1 minutes
Annual migration change +14,646 -10,482
Daily growth/decline +356 +3,267
Annual growth/decline +130,060 +1,192,365
Annual growth/decline rate +1.77% +3.03%
Population growth rate rank 64/197 14/197

Turkmenistan and Yemen: population history and growth rate by year chart

Turkmenistan
Population

Growth rate
Yemen
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Turkmenistan Yemen Turkmenistan Yemen
1960 1,643,457 5,532,301 - -
1961 1,695,400 5,655,232 3.16% 2.22%
1962 1,749,214 5,782,221 3.17% 2.25%
1963 1,804,272 5,911,135 3.15% 2.23%
1964 1,859,997 6,048,006 3.09% 2.32%
1965 1,915,916 6,195,593 3.01% 2.44%
1966 1,971,737 6,351,494 2.91% 2.52%
1967 2,027,403 6,516,444 2.82% 2.6%
1968 2,083,069 6,690,524 2.75% 2.67%
1969 2,139,024 6,875,859 2.69% 2.77%
1970 2,195,616 7,065,279 2.65% 2.75%
1971 2,253,119 7,257,462 2.62% 2.72%
1972 2,311,430 7,460,068 2.59% 2.79%
1973 2,370,919 7,672,796 2.57% 2.85%
1974 2,432,028 7,896,783 2.58% 2.92%
1975 2,494,570 8,133,598 2.57% 3%
1976 2,558,521 8,384,113 2.56% 3.08%
1977 2,623,948 8,648,222 2.56% 3.15%
1978 2,691,088 8,926,586 2.56% 3.22%
1979 2,760,358 9,224,194 2.57% 3.33%
1980 2,832,203 9,543,358 2.6% 3.46%
1981 2,907,187 9,882,362 2.65% 3.55%
1982 2,985,557 10,241,006 2.7% 3.63%
1983 3,067,534 10,621,499 2.75% 3.72%
1984 3,154,079 11,025,597 2.82% 3.8%
1985 3,247,534 11,453,825 2.96% 3.88%
1986 3,347,809 11,901,040 3.09% 3.9%
1987 3,452,731 12,369,912 3.13% 3.94%
1988 3,559,363 12,859,708 3.09% 3.96%
1989 3,662,459 13,364,174 2.9% 3.92%
1990 3,760,562 13,887,862 2.68% 3.92%
1991 3,855,894 14,430,201 2.54% 3.91%
1992 3,944,689 14,989,494 2.3% 3.88%
1993 4,032,407 15,563,914 2.22% 3.83%
1994 4,116,662 16,149,147 2.09% 3.76%
1995 4,191,203 16,740,058 1.81% 3.66%
1996 4,263,819 17,313,177 1.73% 3.42%
1997 4,336,730 17,873,936 1.71% 3.24%
1998 4,410,507 18,446,013 1.7% 3.2%
1999 4,492,170 19,029,420 1.85% 3.16%
2000 4,582,677 19,624,141 2.01% 3.13%
2001 4,675,409 20,226,147 2.02% 3.07%
2002 4,769,465 20,835,086 2.01% 3.01%
2003 4,863,865 21,456,379 1.98% 2.98%
2004 4,958,093 22,095,167 1.94% 2.98%
2005 5,052,257 22,790,085 1.9% 3.15%
2006 5,147,105 23,543,083 1.88% 3.3%
2007 5,244,046 24,318,082 1.88% 3.29%
2008 5,345,029 25,111,941 1.93% 3.26%
2009 5,451,592 25,927,724 1.99% 3.25%
2010 5,564,356 26,754,387 2.07% 3.19%
2011 5,683,417 27,582,897 2.14% 3.1%
2012 5,808,546 28,433,647 2.2% 3.08%
2013 5,939,341 29,312,952 2.25% 3.09%
2014 6,075,283 30,226,309 2.29% 3.12%
2015 6,215,770 31,159,379 2.31% 3.09%
2016 6,360,041 32,109,010 2.32% 3.05%
2017 6,507,061 33,090,921 2.31% 3.06%
2018 6,655,524 34,085,182 2.28% 3%
2019 6,803,944 35,111,408 2.23% 3.01%
2020 6,949,912 36,134,863 2.15% 2.91%
2021 7,092,043 37,140,230 2.05% 2.78%
2022 7,230,193 38,222,876 1.95% 2.92%
2023 7,364,438 39,390,799 1.86% 3.06%
2024 7,494,498 40,583,164 1.77% 3.03%
2025 7,618,855 41,773,871 1.66% 2.93%
2026 7,736,635 42,961,650 1.55% 2.84%
2027 7,847,563 44,145,620 1.43% 2.76%
2028 7,951,300 45,323,685 1.32% 2.67%
2029 8,047,445 46,497,573 1.21% 2.59%
2030 8,135,732 47,667,649 1.1% 2.52%
2031 8,218,959 48,827,503 1.02% 2.43%
2032 8,300,260 49,979,089 0.99% 2.36%
2033 8,380,356 51,129,867 0.96% 2.3%
2034 8,459,731 52,279,989 0.95% 2.25%
2035 8,538,678 53,429,308 0.93% 2.2%
2036 8,617,567 54,578,046 0.92% 2.15%
2037 8,696,458 55,724,259 0.92% 2.1%
2038 8,775,204 56,872,152 0.91% 2.06%
2039 8,853,842 58,024,713 0.9% 2.03%
2040 8,932,237 59,181,514 0.89% 1.99%
2041 9,010,272 60,345,667 0.87% 1.97%
2042 9,087,668 61,517,965 0.86% 1.94%
2043 9,164,056 62,696,517 0.84% 1.92%
2044 9,239,278 63,880,172 0.82% 1.89%
2045 9,312,825 65,066,344 0.8% 1.86%
2046 9,384,188 66,253,578 0.77% 1.82%
2047 9,452,893 67,438,796 0.73% 1.79%
2048 9,518,558 68,620,844 0.69% 1.75%
2049 9,580,906 69,799,794 0.66% 1.72%
2050 9,639,711 70,976,389 0.61% 1.69%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Turkmenistan increased by 1,163,513 people (a 23% growth), while Yemen gained 8,369,294 people (a 36.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Turkmenistan gained 1,497,695 (a 24.1% growth), while Yemen's population increased by 11,568,609 (a 37.1% growth).

Turkmenistan was ranked 113th most populous country in 2005 and is 104th in 2025. Yemen was ranked 47th in 2005 and ranked 37th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Turkmenistan's population will grow by 25% to 9,639,711 people with a rank change from 104th to 101st. The population of Yemen will increase by 66.1% to 70,976,389 people and rank change from 37th to 29th.

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