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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 574,346 people in Malta in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 583,596 in Malta.

Population statistics:

  • Burundi's population is 25.1 times bigger than Malta's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while Malta is the 167th.
  • The countries together account for 0.18% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.007% for Malta.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +2.78% in Malta.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while Malta has grown from 404K to 584K (44.5% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people compared to the peak of 593K people in 2033 for Malta.

Burundi vs Malta: live population counter

Burundi Malta
Current population
14662443
583596
Population rank 78/197 167/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.007%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
24.3 minutes
One birth every
1.14 minutes
1.96 hours
One death every
5.72 minutes
2.17 hours
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
1.39 hours
Annual migration change -27,074 +6,323
Daily growth/decline +982 +59
Annual growth/decline +358,336 +21,599
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +3.91%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 7/197

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

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
Malta
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi Malta Burundi Malta
1960 2,764,258 326,550 - -
1961 2,835,119 325,250 2.56% -0.4%
1962 2,907,943 323,900 2.57% -0.42%
1963 2,969,841 322,550 2.13% -0.42%
1964 3,055,650 321,250 2.89% -0.4%
1965 3,141,367 318,800 2.81% -0.76%
1966 3,217,960 315,200 2.44% -1.13%
1967 3,300,690 311,550 2.57% -1.16%
1968 3,380,387 307,900 2.41% -1.17%
1969 3,454,590 304,300 2.2% -1.17%
1970 3,530,432 302,650 2.2% -0.54%
1971 3,617,289 302,700 2.46% 0.02%
1972 3,617,128 302,450 -0.004% -0.08%
1973 3,611,991 302,200 -0.14% -0.08%
1974 3,703,590 301,996 2.54% -0.07%
1975 3,796,612 304,222 2.51% 0.74%
1976 3,882,626 305,774 2.27% 0.51%
1977 3,983,582 306,970 2.6% 0.39%
1978 4,100,338 310,182 2.93% 1.05%
1979 4,203,530 313,342 2.52% 1.02%
1980 4,383,706 316,645 4.29% 1.05%
1981 4,566,014 318,982 4.16% 0.74%
1982 4,681,390 325,898 2.53% 2.17%
1983 4,808,528 330,524 2.72% 1.42%
1984 4,926,465 330,593 2.45% 0.02%
1985 5,034,042 336,452 2.18% 1.77%
1986 5,129,414 342,121 1.89% 1.68%
1987 5,247,787 344,485 2.31% 0.69%
1988 5,365,327 347,325 2.24% 0.82%
1989 5,471,706 350,722 1.98% 0.98%
1990 5,587,052 354,170 2.11% 0.98%
1991 5,703,857 363,845 2.09% 2.73%
1992 5,858,407 367,618 2.71% 1.04%
1993 5,676,843 371,308 -3.1% 1%
1994 5,713,854 374,797 0.65% 0.94%
1995 6,066,316 377,419 6.17% 0.7%
1996 6,070,506 379,905 0.07% 0.66%
1997 6,070,042 382,791 -0.008% 0.76%
1998 6,187,108 385,287 1.93% 0.65%
1999 6,337,155 387,578 2.43% 0.59%
2000 6,470,194 390,087 2.1% 0.65%
2001 6,634,365 393,028 2.54% 0.75%
2002 6,824,132 395,969 2.86% 0.75%
2003 7,043,154 398,582 3.21% 0.66%
2004 7,310,656 401,268 3.8% 0.67%
2005 7,587,299 403,834 3.78% 0.64%
2006 7,865,547 405,308 3.67% 0.37%
2007 8,161,874 406,724 3.77% 0.35%
2008 8,505,637 409,379 4.21% 0.65%
2009 8,947,646 412,477 5.2% 0.76%
2010 9,376,444 414,508 4.79% 0.49%
2011 9,717,978 416,268 3.64% 0.42%
2012 10,071,028 420,028 3.63% 0.9%
2013 10,439,341 424,810 3.66% 1.14%
2014 10,799,785 433,481 3.45% 2.04%
2015 11,047,580 444,220 2.29% 2.48%
2016 11,239,451 454,505 1.74% 2.32%
2017 11,506,762 467,106 2.38% 2.77%
2018 11,859,446 483,903 3.07% 3.6%
2019 12,255,336 503,912 3.34% 4.13%
2020 12,617,036 515,490 2.95% 2.3%
2021 12,965,481 518,150 2.76% 0.52%
2022 13,321,097 531,113 2.74% 2.5%
2023 13,689,450 552,747 2.77% 4.07%
2024 14,047,786 574,346 2.62% 3.91%
2025 14,390,012 580,514 2.44% 1.07%
2026 14,729,161 584,351 2.36% 0.66%
2027 15,076,977 586,444 2.36% 0.36%
2028 15,444,020 588,290 2.43% 0.31%
2029 15,815,855 589,776 2.41% 0.25%
2030 16,182,014 590,973 2.32% 0.2%
2031 16,555,033 591,921 2.31% 0.16%
2032 16,935,232 592,622 2.3% 0.12%
2033 17,317,635 592,974 2.26% 0.06%
2034 17,700,808 592,827 2.21% -0.02%
2035 18,085,838 592,332 2.18% -0.08%
2036 18,483,051 591,668 2.2% -0.11%
2037 18,893,262 590,830 2.22% -0.14%
2038 19,305,532 589,771 2.18% -0.18%
2039 19,718,523 588,528 2.14% -0.21%
2040 20,131,319 587,256 2.09% -0.22%
2041 20,537,559 585,895 2.02% -0.23%
2042 20,951,561 584,467 2.02% -0.24%
2043 21,370,845 582,966 2% -0.26%
2044 21,785,696 581,355 1.94% -0.28%
2045 22,197,888 579,693 1.89% -0.29%
2046 22,586,212 577,954 1.75% -0.3%
2047 22,970,055 576,050 1.7% -0.33%
2048 23,358,499 574,050 1.69% -0.35%
2049 23,748,950 572,187 1.67% -0.32%
2050 24,131,717 570,210 1.61% -0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while Malta gained 40,386 people (a 10% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while Malta's population increased by 139,376 (a 31.4% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. Malta was ranked 168th in 2005 and ranked 167th 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 Malta will decrease by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th.

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