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Population in Belarus compared to Maldives: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Belarus was 9,133,712 in 2024 vs 527,799 people in Maldives in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Belarus' population is 9,074,112 people compared to 531,152 in Maldives.

Population statistics:

  • Belarus' population is 17.1 times bigger than Maldives'.
  • Belarus is ranked the 101st most populous country in the world, while Maldives is the 168th.
  • The countries together account for 0.12% of the world: 0.11% for Belarus vs 0.006% for Maldives.
  • For the last 10 years, Belarus has had an average growth rate of -0.3% per year vs +2.56% in Maldives.
  • Since 2005, the population of Belarus has decreased from 9.66M people to 9.07M (6.1% decline), while Maldives has grown from 306K to 531K (73.3% growth).
  • Maldives is projected to reach its peak in 2057 at 597K people, while Belarus' population already peaked in 1993 at 10.2M people and is projected to decrease to 4.39M people by 2100.

Belarus vs Maldives: live population counter

Belarus Maldives
Current population
9074112
531152
Population rank 101/197 168/197
Percent of world population 0.11% 0.006%
One net population change
11.8 minutes
4.85 hours
One birth every
8.02 minutes
1.51 hours
One death every
4.29 minutes
7.13 hours
One migration net change every
2.81 hours
3.62 hours
Annual migration change -3,119 -2,421
Daily growth/decline -122 +5
Annual growth/decline -44,586 +1,805
Annual growth/decline rate -0.49% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 185/197 145/197

Belarus and Maldives: population history and growth rate by year chart

Belarus
Population

Growth rate
Maldives
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Belarus Maldives Belarus Maldives
1960 8,198,000 91,189 - -
1961 8,271,216 93,450 0.89% 2.48%
1962 8,351,928 95,802 0.98% 2.52%
1963 8,437,232 98,222 1.02% 2.53%
1964 8,524,224 100,662 1.03% 2.48%
1965 8,610,000 104,102 1.01% 3.42%
1966 8,696,496 108,507 1% 4.23%
1967 8,785,648 112,528 1.03% 3.71%
1968 8,874,552 116,075 1.01% 3.15%
1969 8,960,304 119,564 0.97% 3.01%
1970 9,040,000 123,219 0.89% 3.06%
1971 9,115,576 127,035 0.84% 3.1%
1972 9,188,968 130,968 0.81% 3.1%
1973 9,257,272 134,952 0.74% 3.04%
1974 9,317,584 138,978 0.65% 2.98%
1975 9,367,000 143,158 0.53% 3.01%
1976 9,411,000 147,525 0.47% 3.05%
1977 9,463,000 151,930 0.55% 2.99%
1978 9,525,000 156,159 0.66% 2.78%
1979 9,584,000 160,360 0.62% 2.69%
1980 9,643,000 164,835 0.62% 2.79%
1981 9,710,000 169,532 0.69% 2.85%
1982 9,776,000 174,333 0.68% 2.83%
1983 9,843,000 179,128 0.69% 2.75%
1984 9,910,000 184,198 0.68% 2.83%
1985 9,975,000 190,169 0.66% 3.24%
1986 10,043,000 196,935 0.68% 3.56%
1987 10,111,000 203,944 0.68% 3.56%
1988 10,140,000 210,885 0.29% 3.4%
1989 10,170,000 217,738 0.3% 3.25%
1990 10,189,348 224,762 0.19% 3.23%
1991 10,194,050 231,802 0.05% 3.13%
1992 10,216,470 238,543 0.22% 2.91%
1993 10,239,050 244,884 0.22% 2.66%
1994 10,226,955 250,822 -0.12% 2.42%
1995 10,193,831 256,649 -0.32% 2.32%
1996 10,159,569 262,347 -0.34% 2.22%
1997 10,117,433 267,707 -0.41% 2.04%
1998 10,071,963 272,723 -0.45% 1.87%
1999 10,026,738 277,412 -0.45% 1.72%
2000 9,979,610 282,019 -0.47% 1.66%
2001 9,928,549 286,767 -0.51% 1.68%
2002 9,865,548 291,616 -0.63% 1.69%
2003 9,796,749 296,491 -0.7% 1.67%
2004 9,730,146 301,413 -0.68% 1.66%
2005 9,663,915 306,429 -0.68% 1.66%
2006 9,604,924 313,851 -0.61% 2.42%
2007 9,560,953 324,479 -0.46% 3.39%
2008 9,527,985 336,170 -0.34% 3.6%
2009 9,504,583 348,275 -0.25% 3.6%
2010 9,483,836 360,792 -0.22% 3.59%
2011 9,461,643 373,674 -0.23% 3.57%
2012 9,446,836 386,818 -0.16% 3.52%
2013 9,443,211 400,070 -0.04% 3.43%
2014 9,448,515 413,617 0.06% 3.39%
2015 9,461,076 428,154 0.13% 3.51%
2016 9,469,379 443,308 0.09% 3.54%
2017 9,458,989 458,287 -0.11% 3.38%
2018 9,438,785 473,099 -0.21% 3.23%
2019 9,419,758 487,731 -0.2% 3.09%
2020 9,379,952 502,118 -0.42% 2.95%
2021 9,302,585 516,154 -0.82% 2.8%
2022 9,228,071 524,106 -0.8% 1.54%
2023 9,178,298 525,994 -0.54% 0.36%
2024 9,133,712 527,799 -0.49% 0.34%
2025 9,074,112 529,677 -0.65% 0.36%
2026 9,013,013 531,514 -0.67% 0.35%
2027 8,951,103 533,433 -0.69% 0.36%
2028 8,888,816 535,502 -0.7% 0.39%
2029 8,825,470 537,574 -0.71% 0.39%
2030 8,761,505 539,667 -0.72% 0.39%
2031 8,697,799 541,929 -0.73% 0.42%
2032 8,634,092 544,288 -0.73% 0.44%
2033 8,570,188 546,723 -0.74% 0.45%
2034 8,506,564 549,162 -0.74% 0.45%
2035 8,443,463 551,599 -0.74% 0.44%
2036 8,380,891 554,092 -0.74% 0.45%
2037 8,318,818 556,637 -0.74% 0.46%
2038 8,256,896 559,231 -0.74% 0.47%
2039 8,194,864 561,958 -0.75% 0.49%
2040 8,133,047 564,800 -0.75% 0.51%
2041 8,071,502 567,606 -0.76% 0.5%
2042 8,010,552 570,381 -0.76% 0.49%
2043 7,950,255 573,138 -0.75% 0.48%
2044 7,889,949 575,811 -0.76% 0.47%
2045 7,829,484 578,459 -0.77% 0.46%
2046 7,768,823 581,026 -0.77% 0.44%
2047 7,707,590 583,393 -0.79% 0.41%
2048 7,645,086 585,720 -0.81% 0.4%
2049 7,581,407 587,988 -0.83% 0.39%
2050 7,516,925 589,960 -0.85% 0.34%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Belarus decreased by 202,839 people (a 2.1% decline), while Maldives gained 121,725 people (a 39.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Belarus lost -386,964 (a 4.09% decline), while Maldives' population increased by 102,998 (a 24.1% growth).

Belarus was ranked 82nd most populous country in 2005 and is 101st in 2025. Maldives was ranked 171st in 2005 and ranked 168th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Belarus' population will shrink by 17.2% to 7,516,925 people with a rank change from 101st to 114th. The population of Maldives will increase by 11.1% to 589,960 people and rank change from 168th to 166th.

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