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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Uruguay was 3,386,588 in 2024 vs 327,777 people in Vanuatu in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Uruguay's population is 3,384,690 people compared to 341,110 in Vanuatu.

Population statistics:

  • Uruguay's population is 9.92 times bigger than Vanuatu's.
  • Uruguay is ranked the 133rd most populous country in the world, while Vanuatu is the 174th.
  • The countries together account for 0.05% of the world: 0.04% for Uruguay vs 0.004% for Vanuatu.
  • For the last 10 years, Uruguay has had an average growth rate of +0.11% per year vs +2.33% in Vanuatu.
  • Since 2005, the population of Uruguay has increased from 3.29M people to 3.38M (3.01% growth), while Vanuatu has grown from 211K to 341K (61.8% growth).
  • Vanuatu is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 875K people, while Uruguay's population already peaked in 2020 at 3.4M people and is projected to decrease to 2.25M people by 2100.

Uruguay vs Vanuatu: live population counter

Uruguay Vanuatu
Current population
3384690
341110
Population rank 133/197 174/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 0.004%
One net population change
5.87 hours
1.19 hours
One birth every
15.7 minutes
58.5 minutes
One death every
15.9 minutes
5.38 hours
One migration net change every
6.5 hours
1.21 weeks
Annual migration change -1,348 -43
Daily growth/decline -4 +20
Annual growth/decline -1,493 +7,368
Annual growth/decline rate -0.04% +2.3%
Population growth rate rank 169/197 40/197

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

Uruguay
Population

Growth rate
Vanuatu
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Uruguay Vanuatu Uruguay Vanuatu
1960 2,529,957 64,431 - -
1961 2,562,044 66,264 1.27% 2.84%
1962 2,593,298 68,174 1.22% 2.88%
1963 2,623,766 70,159 1.17% 2.91%
1964 2,653,180 72,219 1.12% 2.94%
1965 2,681,169 74,358 1.05% 2.96%
1966 2,707,646 76,590 0.99% 3%
1967 2,732,277 78,921 0.91% 3.04%
1968 2,754,606 81,314 0.82% 3.03%
1969 2,773,974 83,755 0.7% 3%
1970 2,790,807 86,266 0.61% 3%
1971 2,806,462 88,862 0.56% 3.01%
1972 2,821,644 91,562 0.54% 3.04%
1973 2,837,133 94,362 0.55% 3.06%
1974 2,853,944 97,260 0.59% 3.07%
1975 2,872,320 100,269 0.64% 3.09%
1976 2,891,392 103,388 0.66% 3.11%
1977 2,909,461 106,618 0.62% 3.12%
1978 2,925,715 109,963 0.56% 3.14%
1979 2,939,903 113,040 0.48% 2.8%
1980 2,951,953 115,660 0.41% 2.32%
1981 2,963,246 118,249 0.38% 2.24%
1982 2,975,492 121,035 0.41% 2.36%
1983 2,988,778 123,998 0.45% 2.45%
1984 3,002,488 127,109 0.46% 2.51%
1985 3,017,037 130,356 0.48% 2.55%
1986 3,032,845 133,720 0.52% 2.58%
1987 3,049,896 137,187 0.56% 2.59%
1988 3,067,961 140,756 0.59% 2.6%
1989 3,086,255 144,393 0.6% 2.58%
1990 3,104,403 148,063 0.59% 2.54%
1991 3,122,354 151,793 0.58% 2.52%
1992 3,139,702 155,608 0.56% 2.51%
1993 3,156,345 159,463 0.53% 2.48%
1994 3,172,834 163,314 0.52% 2.41%
1995 3,189,440 167,137 0.52% 2.34%
1996 3,206,324 170,911 0.53% 2.26%
1997 3,223,345 174,626 0.53% 2.17%
1998 3,239,280 178,313 0.49% 2.11%
1999 3,254,015 182,048 0.45% 2.09%
2000 3,266,206 186,281 0.37% 2.33%
2001 3,274,251 191,031 0.25% 2.55%
2002 3,278,867 195,863 0.14% 2.53%
2003 3,281,186 200,746 0.07% 2.49%
2004 3,283,148 205,711 0.06% 2.47%
2005 3,285,771 210,760 0.08% 2.45%
2006 3,289,506 215,923 0.11% 2.45%
2007 3,295,153 221,276 0.17% 2.48%
2008 3,302,177 226,896 0.21% 2.54%
2009 3,310,091 232,731 0.24% 2.57%
2010 3,318,580 238,248 0.26% 2.37%
2011 3,326,825 243,474 0.25% 2.19%
2012 3,335,401 248,883 0.26% 2.22%
2013 3,345,337 254,482 0.3% 2.25%
2014 3,356,334 260,240 0.33% 2.26%
2015 3,368,017 266,101 0.35% 2.25%
2016 3,379,283 272,087 0.33% 2.25%
2017 3,388,438 278,507 0.27% 2.36%
2018 3,394,534 285,259 0.18% 2.42%
2019 3,397,206 291,985 0.08% 2.36%
2020 3,398,968 298,858 0.05% 2.35%
2021 3,396,695 305,868 -0.07% 2.35%
2022 3,390,913 313,046 -0.17% 2.35%
2023 3,388,081 320,409 -0.08% 2.35%
2024 3,386,588 327,777 -0.04% 2.3%
2025 3,384,690 335,169 -0.06% 2.26%
2026 3,382,543 342,565 -0.06% 2.21%
2027 3,380,245 349,970 -0.07% 2.16%
2028 3,377,893 357,397 -0.07% 2.12%
2029 3,375,428 364,883 -0.07% 2.09%
2030 3,372,892 372,429 -0.08% 2.07%
2031 3,370,285 380,015 -0.08% 2.04%
2032 3,367,544 387,657 -0.08% 2.01%
2033 3,364,654 395,366 -0.09% 1.99%
2034 3,361,591 403,188 -0.09% 1.98%
2035 3,358,284 411,061 -0.1% 1.95%
2036 3,354,682 419,006 -0.11% 1.93%
2037 3,350,735 427,031 -0.12% 1.92%
2038 3,346,431 435,150 -0.13% 1.9%
2039 3,341,676 443,311 -0.14% 1.88%
2040 3,336,469 451,509 -0.16% 1.85%
2041 3,330,804 459,733 -0.17% 1.82%
2042 3,324,643 468,003 -0.18% 1.8%
2043 3,317,939 476,308 -0.2% 1.77%
2044 3,310,611 484,636 -0.22% 1.75%
2045 3,302,680 492,989 -0.24% 1.72%
2046 3,294,196 501,316 -0.26% 1.69%
2047 3,285,160 509,621 -0.27% 1.66%
2048 3,275,507 517,889 -0.29% 1.62%
2049 3,265,260 526,138 -0.31% 1.59%
2050 3,254,361 534,374 -0.33% 1.57%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Uruguay increased by 82,246 people (a 2.5% growth), while Vanuatu gained 55,341 people (a 26.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Uruguay gained 16,673 (a 0.5% growth), while Vanuatu's population increased by 75,009 (a 28.2% growth).

Uruguay was ranked 130th most populous country in 2005 and is 133rd 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) Uruguay's population will shrink by 3.85% to 3,254,361 people with a rank change from 133rd to 138th. The population of Vanuatu will increase by 56.7% to 534,374 people and rank change from 174th to 169th.

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