Australia vs Nepal: Population

Australia

26.45 million people

in 2023

Nepal

29.69 million people

in 2023

Australia rank

54th

Nepal rank

51st

Population over time

Nepal currently reports 29.69 million people against 26.45 million people in Australia, a difference of 3.24 million people.

That makes Nepal's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Nepal ahead.

Australia ranks 54th and Nepal ranks 51st of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.