Papua New Guinea vs Sweden: Population

Papua New Guinea

10.39 million people

in 2023

Sweden

10.55 million people

in 2023

Papua New Guinea rank

93rd

Sweden rank

90th

Population over time

Sweden currently reports 10.55 million people against 10.39 million people in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 161,900 people.

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

Papua New Guinea ranks 93rd and Sweden ranks 90th 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.