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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 68,516,699 people in France in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 68,701,054 in France.

Population statistics:

  • France's population is 4.69 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while France is the 23rd.
  • The countries together account for 1.01% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.83% for France.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +0.34% in France.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while France has grown from 63.2M to 68.7M (8.74% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people compared to the peak of 70.6M people in 2095 for France.

Burundi vs France: live population counter

Burundi France
Current population
14662443
68701054
Population rank 78/197 23/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.83%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
2.29 minutes
One birth every
1.14 minutes
46.6 seconds
One death every
5.72 minutes
50.2 seconds
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
5.81 minutes
Annual migration change -27,074 +90,527
Daily growth/decline +982 +628
Annual growth/decline +358,336 +229,212
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 147/197

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

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
France
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi France Burundi France
1960 2,764,258 47,412,964 - -
1961 2,835,119 47,905,982 2.56% 1.04%
1962 2,907,943 48,389,516 2.57% 1.01%
1963 2,969,841 48,877,567 2.13% 1.01%
1964 3,055,650 49,401,492 2.89% 1.07%
1965 3,141,367 49,877,725 2.81% 0.96%
1966 3,217,960 50,311,637 2.44% 0.87%
1967 3,300,690 50,722,791 2.57% 0.82%
1968 3,380,387 51,112,980 2.41% 0.77%
1969 3,454,590 51,536,014 2.2% 0.83%
1970 3,530,432 52,007,169 2.2% 0.91%
1971 3,617,289 52,499,553 2.46% 0.95%
1972 3,617,128 52,962,356 -0.004% 0.88%
1973 3,611,991 53,392,161 -0.14% 0.81%
1974 3,703,590 53,746,571 2.54% 0.66%
1975 3,796,612 54,002,853 2.51% 0.48%
1976 3,882,626 54,232,383 2.27% 0.43%
1977 3,983,582 54,486,467 2.6% 0.47%
1978 4,100,338 54,734,030 2.93% 0.45%
1979 4,203,530 54,979,851 2.52% 0.45%
1980 4,383,706 55,274,184 4.29% 0.54%
1981 4,566,014 55,603,353 4.16% 0.6%
1982 4,681,390 55,806,789 2.53% 0.37%
1983 4,808,528 56,108,330 2.72% 0.54%
1984 4,926,465 56,383,085 2.45% 0.49%
1985 5,034,042 56,665,619 2.18% 0.5%
1986 5,129,414 56,956,002 1.89% 0.51%
1987 5,247,787 57,266,167 2.31% 0.54%
1988 5,365,327 57,598,186 2.24% 0.58%
1989 5,471,706 57,943,062 1.98% 0.6%
1990 5,587,052 58,261,012 2.11% 0.55%
1991 5,703,857 58,554,242 2.09% 0.5%
1992 5,858,407 58,846,584 2.71% 0.5%
1993 5,676,843 59,103,094 -3.1% 0.44%
1994 5,713,854 59,324,863 0.65% 0.38%
1995 6,066,316 59,541,294 6.17% 0.36%
1996 6,070,506 59,754,504 0.07% 0.36%
1997 6,070,042 59,968,066 -0.008% 0.36%
1998 6,187,108 60,190,684 1.93% 0.37%
1999 6,337,155 60,501,986 2.43% 0.52%
2000 6,470,194 60,918,661 2.1% 0.69%
2001 6,634,365 61,364,377 2.54% 0.73%
2002 6,824,132 61,812,142 2.86% 0.73%
2003 7,043,154 62,249,855 3.21% 0.71%
2004 7,310,656 62,707,588 3.8% 0.74%
2005 7,587,299 63,180,854 3.78% 0.75%
2006 7,865,547 63,622,342 3.67% 0.7%
2007 8,161,874 64,016,890 3.77% 0.62%
2008 8,505,637 64,375,116 4.21% 0.56%
2009 8,947,646 64,706,436 5.2% 0.51%
2010 9,376,444 65,026,211 4.79% 0.49%
2011 9,717,978 65,340,830 3.64% 0.48%
2012 10,071,028 65,657,659 3.63% 0.48%
2013 10,439,341 65,997,932 3.66% 0.52%
2014 10,799,785 66,312,067 3.45% 0.48%
2015 11,047,580 66,548,272 2.29% 0.36%
2016 11,239,451 66,724,104 1.74% 0.26%
2017 11,506,762 66,918,020 2.38% 0.29%
2018 11,859,446 67,158,348 3.07% 0.36%
2019 12,255,336 67,382,061 3.34% 0.33%
2020 12,617,036 67,601,110 2.95% 0.33%
2021 12,965,481 67,842,811 2.76% 0.36%
2022 13,321,097 68,065,015 2.74% 0.33%
2023 13,689,450 68,287,487 2.77% 0.33%
2024 14,047,786 68,516,699 2.62% 0.34%
2025 14,390,012 68,621,995 2.44% 0.15%
2026 14,729,161 68,720,416 2.36% 0.14%
2027 15,076,977 68,814,997 2.36% 0.14%
2028 15,444,020 68,908,044 2.43% 0.14%
2029 15,815,855 69,000,393 2.41% 0.13%
2030 16,182,014 69,092,395 2.32% 0.13%
2031 16,555,033 69,182,139 2.31% 0.13%
2032 16,935,232 69,271,844 2.3% 0.13%
2033 17,317,635 69,361,763 2.26% 0.13%
2034 17,700,808 69,453,221 2.21% 0.13%
2035 18,085,838 69,545,666 2.18% 0.13%
2036 18,483,051 69,635,631 2.2% 0.13%
2037 18,893,262 69,723,960 2.22% 0.13%
2038 19,305,532 69,807,163 2.18% 0.12%
2039 19,718,523 69,880,758 2.14% 0.11%
2040 20,131,319 69,948,192 2.09% 0.1%
2041 20,537,559 70,013,748 2.02% 0.09%
2042 20,951,561 70,076,842 2.02% 0.09%
2043 21,370,845 70,130,305 2% 0.08%
2044 21,785,696 70,172,822 1.94% 0.06%
2045 22,197,888 70,207,698 1.89% 0.05%
2046 22,586,212 70,232,113 1.75% 0.03%
2047 22,970,055 70,246,945 1.7% 0.02%
2048 23,358,499 70,253,351 1.69% 0.009%
2049 23,748,950 70,249,312 1.67% -0.006%
2050 24,131,717 70,237,272 1.61% -0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while France gained 3,367,418 people (a 5.33% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while France's population increased by 2,152,782 (a 3.23% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. France was ranked 20th in 2005 and ranked 23rd 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 France will increase by 2.24% to 70,237,272 people and rank change from 23rd to 30th.

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