Population in Burundi compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Burundi and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Burundi	North Korea	Burundi	North Korea
1960	2,764,258	11,722,953	-	-
1961	2,835,119	11,990,713	2.56%	2.28%
1962	2,907,943	12,262,882	2.57%	2.27%
1963	2,969,841	12,567,057	2.13%	2.48%
1964	3,055,650	12,889,770	2.89%	2.57%
1965	3,141,367	13,219,369	2.81%	2.56%
1966	3,217,960	13,569,094	2.44%	2.65%
1967	3,300,690	13,958,350	2.57%	2.87%
1968	3,380,387	14,365,596	2.41%	2.92%
1969	3,454,590	14,767,615	2.2%	2.8%
1970	3,530,432	15,172,775	2.2%	2.74%
1971	3,617,289	15,572,457	2.46%	2.63%
1972	3,617,128	15,975,069	-0.004%	2.59%
1973	3,611,991	16,350,367	-0.14%	2.35%
1974	3,703,590	16,673,121	2.54%	1.97%
1975	3,796,612	16,971,055	2.51%	1.79%
1976	3,882,626	17,243,450	2.27%	1.61%
1977	3,983,582	17,492,798	2.6%	1.45%
1978	4,100,338	17,735,995	2.93%	1.39%
1979	4,203,530	17,983,470	2.52%	1.4%
1980	4,383,706	18,236,786	4.29%	1.41%
1981	4,566,014	18,501,295	4.16%	1.45%
1982	4,681,390	18,776,357	2.53%	1.49%
1983	4,808,528	19,054,034	2.72%	1.48%
1984	4,926,465	19,335,043	2.45%	1.47%
1985	5,034,042	19,620,388	2.18%	1.48%
1986	5,129,414	19,910,855	1.89%	1.48%
1987	5,247,787	20,205,483	2.31%	1.48%
1988	5,365,327	20,503,161	2.24%	1.47%
1989	5,471,706	20,804,367	1.98%	1.47%
1990	5,587,052	21,112,137	2.11%	1.48%
1991	5,703,857	21,428,638	2.09%	1.5%
1992	5,858,407	21,750,911	2.71%	1.5%
1993	5,676,843	22,073,352	-3.1%	1.48%
1994	5,713,854	22,393,975	0.65%	1.45%
1995	6,066,316	22,669,304	6.17%	1.23%
1996	6,070,506	22,895,746	0.07%	1%
1997	6,070,042	23,110,830	-0.008%	0.94%
1998	6,187,108	23,311,564	1.93%	0.87%
1999	6,337,155	23,497,599	2.43%	0.8%
2000	6,470,194	23,665,910	2.1%	0.72%
2001	6,634,365	23,815,358	2.54%	0.63%
2002	6,824,132	23,943,973	2.86%	0.54%
2003	7,043,154	24,090,380	3.21%	0.61%
2004	7,310,656	24,254,943	3.8%	0.68%
2005	7,587,299	24,396,433	3.78%	0.58%
2006	7,865,547	24,524,507	3.67%	0.52%
2007	8,161,874	24,646,383	3.77%	0.5%
2008	8,505,637	24,764,618	4.21%	0.48%
2009	8,947,646	24,878,332	5.2%	0.46%
2010	9,376,444	24,987,258	4.79%	0.44%
2011	9,717,978	25,097,874	3.64%	0.44%
2012	10,071,028	25,211,728	3.63%	0.45%
2013	10,439,341	25,329,451	3.66%	0.47%
2014	10,799,785	25,451,262	3.45%	0.48%
2015	11,047,580	25,575,350	2.29%	0.49%
2016	11,239,451	25,698,326	1.74%	0.48%
2017	11,506,762	25,817,709	2.38%	0.46%
2018	11,859,446	25,931,147	3.07%	0.44%
2019	12,255,336	26,037,632	3.34%	0.41%
2020	12,617,036	26,136,312	2.95%	0.38%
2021	12,965,481	26,232,534	2.76%	0.37%
2022	13,321,097	26,328,845	2.74%	0.37%
2023	13,689,450	26,418,204	2.77%	0.34%
2024	14,047,786	26,498,823	2.62%	0.31%
2025	14,390,012	26,571,033	2.44%	0.27%
2026	14,729,161	26,633,682	2.36%	0.24%
2027	15,076,977	26,686,492	2.36%	0.2%
2028	15,444,020	26,729,261	2.43%	0.16%
2029	15,815,855	26,762,008	2.41%	0.12%
2030	16,182,014	26,784,894	2.32%	0.09%
2031	16,555,033	26,797,946	2.31%	0.05%
2032	16,935,232	26,801,071	2.3%	0.01%
2033	17,317,635	26,795,061	2.26%	-0.02%
2034	17,700,808	26,780,481	2.21%	-0.05%
2035	18,085,838	26,757,705	2.18%	-0.09%
2036	18,483,051	26,727,309	2.2%	-0.11%
2037	18,893,262	26,689,907	2.22%	-0.14%
2038	19,305,532	26,646,323	2.18%	-0.16%
2039	19,718,523	26,596,967	2.14%	-0.19%
2040	20,131,319	26,542,417	2.09%	-0.21%
2041	20,537,559	26,483,475	2.02%	-0.22%
2042	20,951,561	26,420,812	2.02%	-0.24%
2043	21,370,845	26,354,324	2%	-0.25%
2044	21,785,696	26,284,000	1.94%	-0.27%
2045	22,197,888	26,210,196	1.89%	-0.28%
2046	22,586,212	26,132,922	1.75%	-0.29%
2047	22,970,055	26,052,086	1.7%	-0.31%
2048	23,358,499	25,967,581	1.69%	-0.32%
2049	23,748,950	25,879,244	1.67%	-0.34%
2050	24,131,717	25,787,120	1.61%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th 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 North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.