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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Uganda was 50,015,092 in 2024 vs 327,777 people in Vanuatu in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Uganda's population is 52,490,669 people compared to 341,110 in Vanuatu.

Population statistics:

  • Uganda's population is 153.9 times bigger than Vanuatu's.
  • Uganda is ranked the 30th most populous country in the world, while Vanuatu is the 174th.
  • The countries together account for 0.64% of the world: 0.63% for Uganda vs 0.004% for Vanuatu.
  • For the last 10 years, Uganda has had an average growth rate of +3.21% per year vs +2.33% in Vanuatu.
  • Since 2005, the population of Uganda has increased from 28M people to 52.5M (87.7% growth), while Vanuatu has grown from 211K to 341K (61.8% growth).
  • Uganda is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 121M people compared to the peak of 875K people in 2100 for Vanuatu.

Uganda vs Vanuatu: live population counter

Uganda Vanuatu
Current population
52490669
341110
Population rank 30/197 174/197
Percent of world population 0.63% 0.004%
One net population change
23.2 seconds
1.19 hours
One birth every
18.4 seconds
58.5 minutes
One death every
2.23 minutes
5.38 hours
One migration net change every
4.46 minutes
1.21 weeks
Annual migration change -117,924 -43
Daily growth/decline +3,722 +20
Annual growth/decline +1,358,491 +7,368
Annual growth/decline rate +2.79% +2.3%
Population growth rate rank 23/197 40/197

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

Uganda
Population

Growth rate
Vanuatu
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Uganda Vanuatu Uganda Vanuatu
1960 7,640,973 64,431 - -
1961 7,862,217 66,264 2.9% 2.84%
1962 8,092,231 68,174 2.93% 2.88%
1963 8,333,663 70,159 2.98% 2.91%
1964 8,586,363 72,219 3.03% 2.94%
1965 8,849,203 74,358 3.06% 2.96%
1966 9,122,864 76,590 3.09% 3%
1967 9,408,924 78,921 3.14% 3.04%
1968 9,708,632 81,314 3.19% 3.03%
1969 10,014,858 83,755 3.15% 3%
1970 10,321,603 86,266 3.06% 3%
1971 10,618,206 88,862 2.87% 3.01%
1972 10,885,796 91,562 2.52% 3.04%
1973 11,144,236 94,362 2.37% 3.06%
1974 11,424,846 97,260 2.52% 3.07%
1975 11,725,240 100,269 2.63% 3.09%
1976 12,037,294 103,388 2.66% 3.11%
1977 12,359,669 106,618 2.68% 3.12%
1978 12,692,113 109,963 2.69% 3.14%
1979 13,002,163 113,040 2.44% 2.8%
1980 13,275,741 115,660 2.1% 2.32%
1981 13,556,452 118,249 2.11% 2.24%
1982 13,873,631 121,035 2.34% 2.36%
1983 14,221,881 123,998 2.51% 2.45%
1984 14,607,677 127,109 2.71% 2.51%
1985 15,023,681 130,356 2.85% 2.55%
1986 15,467,579 133,720 2.95% 2.58%
1987 15,954,170 137,187 3.15% 2.59%
1988 16,470,483 140,756 3.24% 2.6%
1989 17,010,698 144,393 3.28% 2.58%
1990 17,569,897 148,063 3.29% 2.54%
1991 18,155,901 151,793 3.34% 2.52%
1992 18,785,032 155,608 3.47% 2.51%
1993 19,445,161 159,463 3.51% 2.48%
1994 20,108,801 163,314 3.41% 2.41%
1995 20,665,667 167,137 2.77% 2.34%
1996 21,231,550 170,911 2.74% 2.26%
1997 21,856,046 174,626 2.94% 2.17%
1998 22,515,806 178,313 3.02% 2.11%
1999 23,257,281 182,048 3.29% 2.09%
2000 24,000,150 186,281 3.19% 2.33%
2001 24,745,676 191,031 3.11% 2.55%
2002 25,532,870 195,863 3.18% 2.53%
2003 26,352,124 200,746 3.21% 2.49%
2004 27,154,515 205,711 3.04% 2.47%
2005 27,963,289 210,760 2.98% 2.45%
2006 28,794,003 215,923 2.97% 2.45%
2007 29,653,430 221,276 2.98% 2.48%
2008 30,539,553 226,896 2.99% 2.54%
2009 31,451,151 232,731 2.98% 2.57%
2010 32,390,802 238,248 2.99% 2.37%
2011 33,354,543 243,474 2.98% 2.19%
2012 34,337,438 248,883 2.95% 2.22%
2013 35,337,042 254,482 2.91% 2.25%
2014 36,395,539 260,240 3% 2.26%
2015 37,531,446 266,101 3.12% 2.25%
2016 38,799,152 272,087 3.38% 2.25%
2017 40,177,388 278,507 3.55% 2.36%
2018 41,565,831 285,259 3.46% 2.42%
2019 42,999,637 291,985 3.45% 2.36%
2020 44,457,152 298,858 3.39% 2.35%
2021 45,910,930 305,868 3.27% 2.35%
2022 47,312,719 313,046 3.05% 2.35%
2023 48,656,601 320,409 2.84% 2.35%
2024 50,015,092 327,777 2.79% 2.3%
2025 51,384,895 335,169 2.74% 2.26%
2026 52,761,471 342,565 2.68% 2.21%
2027 54,144,274 349,970 2.62% 2.16%
2028 55,532,564 357,397 2.56% 2.12%
2029 56,922,797 364,883 2.5% 2.09%
2030 58,312,944 372,429 2.44% 2.07%
2031 59,703,537 380,015 2.38% 2.04%
2032 61,089,060 387,657 2.32% 2.01%
2033 62,464,116 395,366 2.25% 1.99%
2034 63,833,872 403,188 2.19% 1.98%
2035 65,205,570 411,061 2.15% 1.95%
2036 66,573,737 419,006 2.1% 1.93%
2037 67,942,634 427,031 2.06% 1.92%
2038 69,312,210 435,150 2.02% 1.9%
2039 70,669,875 443,311 1.96% 1.88%
2040 72,020,414 451,509 1.91% 1.85%
2041 73,372,658 459,733 1.88% 1.82%
2042 74,730,004 468,003 1.85% 1.8%
2043 76,090,991 476,308 1.82% 1.77%
2044 77,449,517 484,636 1.79% 1.75%
2045 78,797,995 492,989 1.74% 1.72%
2046 80,139,174 501,316 1.7% 1.69%
2047 81,478,503 509,621 1.67% 1.66%
2048 82,812,102 517,889 1.64% 1.62%
2049 84,130,056 526,138 1.59% 1.59%
2050 85,431,202 534,374 1.55% 1.57%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Uganda increased by 9,568,157 people (a 34.2% growth), while Vanuatu gained 55,341 people (a 26.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Uganda gained 14,959,223 (a 39.9% growth), while Vanuatu's population increased by 75,009 (a 28.2% growth).

Uganda was ranked 40th most populous country in 2005 and is 30th 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) Uganda's population will grow by 62.8% to 85,431,202 people with a rank change from 30th to 20th. The population of Vanuatu will increase by 56.7% to 534,374 people and rank change from 174th to 169th.

Biggest cities by population

Uganda
City Population
Kampala 1.68M
Mbale 586K
Arua 385K
Kira Town 317K
Jinja 279K
Gulu 177K
Kasese 101K
Entebbe 70K
Tororo 41.9K
Vanuatu
City Population
Port Vila 49K
Luganville 17.7K

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