Nepal vs Saudi Arabia: Population

Nepal

29.69 million people

in 2023

Saudi Arabia

33.26 million people

in 2023

Nepal rank

51st

Saudi Arabia rank

48th

Population over time

Saudi Arabia currently reports 33.26 million people against 29.69 million people in Nepal, a difference of 3.57 million people.

That makes Saudi Arabia's figure about 1.1 times Nepal's.

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

Nepal ranks 51st and Saudi Arabia ranks 48th 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.