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Population in Burundi compared to Canada: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 41,288,599 people in Canada in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 41,972,421 in Canada.

Population statistics:

  • Canada's population is 2.86 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while Canada is the 38th.
  • The countries together account for 0.69% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.51% for Canada.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +1.5% in Canada.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while Canada has grown from 32.2M to 42M (30.2% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people compared to the peak of 55.7M people in 2100 for Canada.

Burundi vs Canada: live population counter

Burundi Canada
Current population
14662443
41972421
Population rank 78/197 38/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.51%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
26.2 seconds
One birth every
1.14 minutes
1.49 minutes
One death every
5.72 minutes
1.62 minutes
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
1.43 minutes
Annual migration change -27,074 +368,599
Daily growth/decline +982 +3,302
Annual growth/decline +358,336 +1,205,115
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +3.01%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 15/197

Burundi and Canada: population history and growth rate by year chart

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
Canada
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi Canada Burundi Canada
1960 2,764,258 17,909,356 - -
1961 2,835,119 18,271,000 2.56% 2.02%
1962 2,907,943 18,614,000 2.57% 1.88%
1963 2,969,841 18,964,000 2.13% 1.88%
1964 3,055,650 19,325,000 2.89% 1.9%
1965 3,141,367 19,678,000 2.81% 1.83%
1966 3,217,960 20,048,000 2.44% 1.88%
1967 3,300,690 20,412,000 2.57% 1.82%
1968 3,380,387 20,744,000 2.41% 1.63%
1969 3,454,590 21,028,000 2.2% 1.37%
1970 3,530,432 21,324,000 2.2% 1.41%
1971 3,617,289 21,962,032 2.46% 2.99%
1972 3,617,128 22,218,463 -0.004% 1.17%
1973 3,611,991 22,491,777 -0.14% 1.23%
1974 3,703,590 22,807,969 2.54% 1.41%
1975 3,796,612 23,143,275 2.51% 1.47%
1976 3,882,626 23,449,808 2.27% 1.32%
1977 3,983,582 23,725,843 2.6% 1.18%
1978 4,100,338 23,963,203 2.93% 1%
1979 4,203,530 24,201,544 2.52% 0.99%
1980 4,383,706 24,515,667 4.29% 1.3%
1981 4,566,014 24,819,915 4.16% 1.24%
1982 4,681,390 25,116,942 2.53% 1.2%
1983 4,808,528 25,366,451 2.72% 0.99%
1984 4,926,465 25,607,053 2.45% 0.95%
1985 5,034,042 25,842,116 2.18% 0.92%
1986 5,129,414 26,100,278 1.89% 1%
1987 5,247,787 26,446,601 2.31% 1.33%
1988 5,365,327 26,791,747 2.24% 1.31%
1989 5,471,706 27,276,781 1.98% 1.81%
1990 5,587,052 27,691,138 2.11% 1.52%
1991 5,703,857 28,037,420 2.09% 1.25%
1992 5,858,407 28,371,264 2.71% 1.19%
1993 5,676,843 28,684,764 -3.1% 1.1%
1994 5,713,854 29,000,663 0.65% 1.1%
1995 6,066,316 29,302,311 6.17% 1.04%
1996 6,070,506 29,610,218 0.07% 1.05%
1997 6,070,042 29,905,948 -0.008% 1%
1998 6,187,108 30,155,173 1.93% 0.83%
1999 6,337,155 30,401,286 2.43% 0.82%
2000 6,470,194 30,685,730 2.1% 0.94%
2001 6,634,365 31,020,855 2.54% 1.09%
2002 6,824,132 31,359,199 2.86% 1.09%
2003 7,043,154 31,642,461 3.21% 0.9%
2004 7,310,656 31,938,807 3.8% 0.94%
2005 7,587,299 32,242,732 3.78% 0.95%
2006 7,865,547 32,571,193 3.67% 1.02%
2007 8,161,874 32,888,886 3.77% 0.98%
2008 8,505,637 33,247,298 4.21% 1.09%
2009 8,947,646 33,630,069 5.2% 1.15%
2010 9,376,444 34,005,902 4.79% 1.12%
2011 9,717,978 34,339,221 3.64% 0.98%
2012 10,071,028 34,713,395 3.63% 1.09%
2013 10,439,341 35,080,992 3.66% 1.06%
2014 10,799,785 35,434,066 3.45% 1.01%
2015 11,047,580 35,704,498 2.29% 0.76%
2016 11,239,451 36,110,803 1.74% 1.14%
2017 11,506,762 36,545,075 2.38% 1.2%
2018 11,859,446 37,072,620 3.07% 1.44%
2019 12,255,336 37,618,495 3.34% 1.47%
2020 12,617,036 38,028,638 2.95% 1.09%
2021 12,965,481 38,239,864 2.76% 0.56%
2022 13,321,097 38,935,934 2.74% 1.82%
2023 13,689,450 40,083,484 2.77% 2.95%
2024 14,047,786 41,288,599 2.62% 3.01%
2025 14,390,012 41,687,850 2.44% 0.97%
2026 14,729,161 42,042,113 2.36% 0.85%
2027 15,076,977 42,368,857 2.36% 0.78%
2028 15,444,020 42,683,927 2.43% 0.74%
2029 15,815,855 42,986,030 2.41% 0.71%
2030 16,182,014 43,276,190 2.32% 0.68%
2031 16,555,033 43,559,839 2.31% 0.66%
2032 16,935,232 43,833,228 2.3% 0.63%
2033 17,317,635 44,089,067 2.26% 0.58%
2034 17,700,808 44,336,794 2.21% 0.56%
2035 18,085,838 44,574,481 2.18% 0.54%
2036 18,483,051 44,802,196 2.2% 0.51%
2037 18,893,262 45,029,252 2.22% 0.51%
2038 19,305,532 45,250,482 2.18% 0.49%
2039 19,718,523 45,461,809 2.14% 0.47%
2040 20,131,319 45,661,339 2.09% 0.44%
2041 20,537,559 45,855,081 2.02% 0.42%
2042 20,951,561 46,046,286 2.02% 0.42%
2043 21,370,845 46,232,447 2% 0.4%
2044 21,785,696 46,413,908 1.94% 0.39%
2045 22,197,888 46,594,973 1.89% 0.39%
2046 22,586,212 46,768,120 1.75% 0.37%
2047 22,970,055 46,930,946 1.7% 0.35%
2048 23,358,499 47,092,745 1.69% 0.34%
2049 23,748,950 47,246,217 1.67% 0.33%
2050 24,131,717 47,396,788 1.61% 0.32%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while Canada gained 3,461,766 people (a 10.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while Canada's population increased by 6,267,923 (a 17.6% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. Canada was ranked 35th in 2005 and ranked 38th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Burundi's population will grow by 64.6% to 24,131,717 people with a rank change from 78th to 69th. The population of Canada will increase by 12.9% to 47,396,788 people and rank change from 38th to 45th.

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