Afghanistan vs Argentina: Population

Afghanistan

41.45 million people

in 2023

Argentina

45.54 million people

in 2023

Afghanistan rank

36th

Argentina rank

34th

Population over time

Argentina currently reports 45.54 million people against 41.45 million people in Afghanistan, a difference of 4.08 million people.

That makes Argentina's figure about 1.1 times Afghanistan's.

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

Afghanistan ranks 36th and Argentina ranks 34th 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.