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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 4.01 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.89% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Burundi vs Italy: live population counter

Burundi Italy
Current population
14662443
58790597
Population rank 78/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.71%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
1.14 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
5.72 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change -27,074 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +982 -20
Annual growth/decline +358,336 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 166/197

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

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi Italy Burundi Italy
1960 2,764,258 50,199,700 - -
1961 2,835,119 50,536,350 2.56% 0.67%
1962 2,907,943 50,879,450 2.57% 0.68%
1963 2,969,841 51,252,000 2.13% 0.73%
1964 3,055,650 51,675,350 2.89% 0.83%
1965 3,141,367 52,112,350 2.81% 0.85%
1966 3,217,960 52,519,000 2.44% 0.78%
1967 3,300,690 52,900,500 2.57% 0.73%
1968 3,380,387 53,235,750 2.41% 0.63%
1969 3,454,590 53,537,950 2.2% 0.57%
1970 3,530,432 53,821,850 2.2% 0.53%
1971 3,617,289 54,073,490 2.46% 0.47%
1972 3,617,128 54,381,345 -0.004% 0.57%
1973 3,611,991 54,751,406 -0.14% 0.68%
1974 3,703,590 55,110,868 2.54% 0.66%
1975 3,796,612 55,441,001 2.51% 0.6%
1976 3,882,626 55,718,260 2.27% 0.5%
1977 3,983,582 55,955,411 2.6% 0.43%
1978 4,100,338 56,155,143 2.93% 0.36%
1979 4,203,530 56,317,749 2.52% 0.29%
1980 4,383,706 56,433,883 4.29% 0.21%
1981 4,566,014 56,501,675 4.16% 0.12%
1982 4,681,390 56,543,548 2.53% 0.07%
1983 4,808,528 56,564,074 2.72% 0.04%
1984 4,926,465 56,576,718 2.45% 0.02%
1985 5,034,042 56,593,071 2.18% 0.03%
1986 5,129,414 56,596,155 1.89% 0.005%
1987 5,247,787 56,601,931 2.31% 0.01%
1988 5,365,327 56,629,288 2.24% 0.05%
1989 5,471,706 56,671,781 1.98% 0.08%
1990 5,587,052 56,719,240 2.11% 0.08%
1991 5,703,857 56,758,521 2.09% 0.07%
1992 5,858,407 56,797,087 2.71% 0.07%
1993 5,676,843 56,831,821 -3.1% 0.06%
1994 5,713,854 56,843,400 0.65% 0.02%
1995 6,066,316 56,844,303 6.17% 0.002%
1996 6,070,506 56,860,281 0.07% 0.03%
1997 6,070,042 56,890,372 -0.008% 0.05%
1998 6,187,108 56,906,744 1.93% 0.03%
1999 6,337,155 56,916,317 2.43% 0.02%
2000 6,470,194 56,942,108 2.1% 0.05%
2001 6,634,365 56,976,981 2.54% 0.06%
2002 6,824,132 57,089,824 2.86% 0.2%
2003 7,043,154 57,399,184 3.21% 0.54%
2004 7,310,656 57,828,179 3.8% 0.75%
2005 7,587,299 58,166,682 3.78% 0.59%
2006 7,865,547 58,399,861 3.67% 0.4%
2007 8,161,874 58,756,247 3.77% 0.61%
2008 8,505,637 59,211,181 4.21% 0.77%
2009 8,947,646 59,555,454 5.2% 0.58%
2010 9,376,444 59,819,407 4.79% 0.44%
2011 9,717,978 60,026,841 3.64% 0.35%
2012 10,071,028 60,191,247 3.63% 0.27%
2013 10,439,341 60,311,613 3.66% 0.2%
2014 10,799,785 60,320,707 3.45% 0.02%
2015 11,047,580 60,229,605 2.29% -0.15%
2016 11,239,451 60,115,223 1.74% -0.19%
2017 11,506,762 60,002,252 2.38% -0.19%
2018 11,859,446 60,148,658 3.07% 0.24%
2019 12,255,336 59,729,081 3.34% -0.7%
2020 12,617,036 59,438,851 2.95% -0.49%
2021 12,965,481 59,133,173 2.76% -0.51%
2022 13,321,097 59,013,667 2.74% -0.2%
2023 13,689,450 58,993,475 2.77% -0.03%
2024 14,047,786 58,986,023 2.62% -0.01%
2025 14,390,012 58,790,597 2.44% -0.33%
2026 14,729,161 58,571,823 2.36% -0.37%
2027 15,076,977 58,335,864 2.36% -0.4%
2028 15,444,020 58,094,373 2.43% -0.41%
2029 15,815,855 57,851,042 2.41% -0.42%
2030 16,182,014 57,597,622 2.32% -0.44%
2031 16,555,033 57,333,277 2.31% -0.46%
2032 16,935,232 57,071,235 2.3% -0.46%
2033 17,317,635 56,812,747 2.26% -0.45%
2034 17,700,808 56,548,816 2.21% -0.46%
2035 18,085,838 56,279,536 2.18% -0.48%
2036 18,483,051 56,009,844 2.2% -0.48%
2037 18,893,262 55,737,477 2.22% -0.49%
2038 19,305,532 55,460,735 2.18% -0.5%
2039 19,718,523 55,177,508 2.14% -0.51%
2040 20,131,319 54,889,107 2.09% -0.52%
2041 20,537,559 54,601,628 2.02% -0.52%
2042 20,951,561 54,307,412 2.02% -0.54%
2043 21,370,845 53,997,106 2% -0.57%
2044 21,785,696 53,679,603 1.94% -0.59%
2045 22,197,888 53,357,669 1.89% -0.6%
2046 22,586,212 53,025,288 1.75% -0.62%
2047 22,970,055 52,680,150 1.7% -0.65%
2048 23,358,499 52,324,241 1.69% -0.68%
2049 23,748,950 51,959,050 1.67% -0.7%
2050 24,131,717 51,579,060 1.61% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th 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 Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

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