Laos vs Turkmenistan: Population

Laos

7.67 million people

in 2023

Turkmenistan

7.36 million people

in 2023

Laos rank

103rd

Turkmenistan rank

105th

Population over time

Laos currently reports 7.67 million people against 7.36 million people in Turkmenistan, a difference of 300,560 people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Laos ahead.

Laos ranks 103rd and Turkmenistan ranks 105th 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.