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Greece vs Papua New Guinea: Population

Greece
10.24 million people
in 2023
Papua New Guinea
10.39 million people
in 2023
Greece rank
95th
Papua New Guinea rank
93rd

Population over time

  • Greece
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 10.39 million people against 10.24 million people in Greece, a difference of 146,700 people.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 95th and Papua New Guinea ranks 93rd of 238 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Greece averaged higher in 38 and Papua New Guinea in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Greece Papua New Guinea Difference Ahead
1000s 1.00 million people 890,178 people 109,822 people Greece
1100s 1.08 million people 932,567 people 147,433 people Greece
1200s 1.17 million people 976,975 people 193,025 people Greece
1300s 1.25 million people 1.02 million people 226,500 people Greece
1400s 900,000 people 1.07 million people 172,240 people Papua New Guinea
1500s 1.00 million people 1.12 million people 123,300 people Papua New Guinea
1600s 1.50 million people 1.18 million people 323,220 people Greece
1700s 1.50 million people 1.23 million people 267,180 people Greece
1710s 1.57 million people 1.24 million people 330,720 people Greece
1720s 1.64 million people 1.24 million people 394,250 people Greece
1730s 1.70 million people 1.25 million people 457,770 people Greece
1740s 1.77 million people 1.25 million people 521,270 people Greece
1750s 1.84 million people 1.25 million people 584,750 people Greece
1760s 1.91 million people 1.26 million people 648,230 people Greece
1770s 1.97 million people 1.26 million people 711,690 people Greece
1780s 2.04 million people 1.27 million people 775,130 people Greece
1790s 2.11 million people 1.27 million people 838,570 people Greece
1800s 2.26 million people 754,894 people 1.51 million people Greece
1810s 2.30 million people 754,900 people 1.54 million people Greece
1820s 2.41 million people 756,202 people 1.66 million people Greece
1830s 2.64 million people 759,041 people 1.88 million people Greece
1840s 2.90 million people 761,913 people 2.13 million people Greece
1850s 3.18 million people 770,443 people 2.41 million people Greece
1860s 3.49 million people 785,943 people 2.70 million people Greece
1870s 3.84 million people 801,549 people 3.04 million people Greece
1880s 4.26 million people 817,263 people 3.45 million people Greece
1890s 4.73 million people 833,084 people 3.89 million people Greece
1900s 5.16 million people 848,203 people 4.31 million people Greece
1910s 5.54 million people 700,377 people 4.84 million people Greece
1920s 6.05 million people 557,264 people 5.49 million people Greece
1930s 6.83 million people 733,782 people 6.09 million people Greece
1940s 7.48 million people 1.21 million people 6.27 million people Greece
1950s 7.96 million people 1.73 million people 6.23 million people Greece
1960s 8.55 million people 2.22 million people 6.34 million people Greece
1970s 9.06 million people 2.78 million people 6.27 million people Greece
1980s 9.98 million people 3.45 million people 6.53 million people Greece
1990s 10.49 million people 4.58 million people 5.91 million people Greece
2000s 10.96 million people 6.45 million people 4.51 million people Greece
2010s 10.89 million people 8.63 million people 2.27 million people Greece
2020s 10.48 million people 10.11 million people 378,240 people Greece

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher population, Greece or Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea, at 10.39 million people against 10.24 million people in Greece as of 2023.
What is the difference in population between Greece and Papua New Guinea?
146,700 people, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and Papua New Guinea?
241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Greece and Papua New Guinea rank globally for population?
Greece ranks 95th and Papua New Guinea ranks 93rd of 238 countries.
Where does this data come from?
HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

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

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