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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 51,751,065 people in South Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 51,700,480 in South Korea.

Population statistics:

  • South Korea's population is 3.53 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while South Korea is the 31st.
  • The countries together account for 0.8% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.63% for South Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +0.24% in South Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while South Korea has grown from 48.2M to 51.7M (7.3% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people, while South Korea's population already peaked in 2020 at 51.8M people and is projected to decrease to 21.9M people by 2100.

Burundi vs South Korea: live population counter

Burundi South Korea
Current population
14662443
51700480
Population rank 78/197 31/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.63%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
13.7 minutes
One birth every
1.14 minutes
2.26 minutes
One death every
5.72 minutes
1.69 minutes
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
6.92 minutes
Annual migration change -27,074 +75,963
Daily growth/decline +982 +105
Annual growth/decline +358,336 +38,446
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +0.07%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 159/197

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

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
South Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi South Korea Burundi South Korea
1960 2,764,258 25,012,374 - -
1961 2,835,119 25,765,673 2.56% 3.01%
1962 2,907,943 26,513,030 2.57% 2.9%
1963 2,969,841 27,261,747 2.13% 2.82%
1964 3,055,650 27,984,155 2.89% 2.65%
1965 3,141,367 28,704,674 2.81% 2.57%
1966 3,217,960 29,435,571 2.44% 2.55%
1967 3,300,690 30,130,983 2.57% 2.36%
1968 3,380,387 30,838,302 2.41% 2.35%
1969 3,454,590 31,544,266 2.2% 2.29%
1970 3,530,432 32,240,827 2.2% 2.21%
1971 3,617,289 32,882,704 2.46% 1.99%
1972 3,617,128 33,505,406 -0.004% 1.89%
1973 3,611,991 34,103,149 -0.14% 1.78%
1974 3,703,590 34,692,266 2.54% 1.73%
1975 3,796,612 35,280,725 2.51% 1.7%
1976 3,882,626 35,848,523 2.27% 1.61%
1977 3,983,582 36,411,795 2.6% 1.57%
1978 4,100,338 36,969,185 2.93% 1.53%
1979 4,203,530 37,534,236 2.52% 1.53%
1980 4,383,706 38,123,775 4.29% 1.57%
1981 4,566,014 38,723,248 4.16% 1.57%
1982 4,681,390 39,326,352 2.53% 1.56%
1983 4,808,528 39,910,403 2.72% 1.49%
1984 4,926,465 40,405,956 2.45% 1.24%
1985 5,034,042 40,805,744 2.18% 0.99%
1986 5,129,414 41,213,674 1.89% 1%
1987 5,247,787 41,621,690 2.31% 0.99%
1988 5,365,327 42,031,247 2.24% 0.98%
1989 5,471,706 42,449,038 1.98% 0.99%
1990 5,587,052 42,869,283 2.11% 0.99%
1991 5,703,857 43,295,704 2.09% 0.99%
1992 5,858,407 43,747,962 2.71% 1.04%
1993 5,676,843 44,194,628 -3.1% 1.02%
1994 5,713,854 44,641,540 0.65% 1.01%
1995 6,066,316 45,092,991 6.17% 1.01%
1996 6,070,506 45,524,681 0.07% 0.96%
1997 6,070,042 45,953,580 -0.008% 0.94%
1998 6,187,108 46,286,503 1.93% 0.72%
1999 6,337,155 46,616,677 2.43% 0.71%
2000 6,470,194 47,008,111 2.1% 0.84%
2001 6,634,365 47,370,164 2.54% 0.77%
2002 6,824,132 47,644,736 2.86% 0.58%
2003 7,043,154 47,892,330 3.21% 0.52%
2004 7,310,656 48,082,519 3.8% 0.4%
2005 7,587,299 48,184,561 3.78% 0.21%
2006 7,865,547 48,438,292 3.67% 0.53%
2007 8,161,874 48,683,638 3.77% 0.51%
2008 8,505,637 49,054,708 4.21% 0.76%
2009 8,947,646 49,307,835 5.2% 0.52%
2010 9,376,444 49,554,112 4.79% 0.5%
2011 9,717,978 49,936,638 3.64% 0.77%
2012 10,071,028 50,199,853 3.63% 0.53%
2013 10,439,341 50,428,893 3.66% 0.46%
2014 10,799,785 50,746,659 3.45% 0.63%
2015 11,047,580 51,014,947 2.29% 0.53%
2016 11,239,451 51,217,803 1.74% 0.4%
2017 11,506,762 51,361,911 2.38% 0.28%
2018 11,859,446 51,585,058 3.07% 0.43%
2019 12,255,336 51,764,822 3.34% 0.35%
2020 12,617,036 51,836,239 2.95% 0.14%
2021 12,965,481 51,769,539 2.76% -0.13%
2022 13,321,097 51,672,569 2.74% -0.19%
2023 13,689,450 51,712,619 2.77% 0.08%
2024 14,047,786 51,751,065 2.62% 0.07%
2025 14,390,012 51,700,480 2.44% -0.1%
2026 14,729,161 51,633,793 2.36% -0.13%
2027 15,076,977 51,552,198 2.36% -0.16%
2028 15,444,020 51,456,707 2.43% -0.19%
2029 15,815,855 51,347,230 2.41% -0.21%
2030 16,182,014 51,221,713 2.32% -0.24%
2031 16,555,033 51,081,220 2.31% -0.27%
2032 16,935,232 50,924,233 2.3% -0.31%
2033 17,317,635 50,747,132 2.26% -0.35%
2034 17,700,808 50,549,508 2.21% -0.39%
2035 18,085,838 50,333,286 2.18% -0.43%
2036 18,483,051 50,098,951 2.2% -0.47%
2037 18,893,262 49,845,669 2.22% -0.51%
2038 19,305,532 49,573,234 2.18% -0.55%
2039 19,718,523 49,283,770 2.14% -0.58%
2040 20,131,319 48,980,369 2.09% -0.62%
2041 20,537,559 48,661,905 2.02% -0.65%
2042 20,951,561 48,331,004 2.02% -0.68%
2043 21,370,845 47,990,085 2% -0.71%
2044 21,785,696 47,634,183 1.94% -0.74%
2045 22,197,888 47,263,526 1.89% -0.78%
2046 22,586,212 46,881,228 1.75% -0.81%
2047 22,970,055 46,482,133 1.7% -0.85%
2048 23,358,499 46,063,595 1.69% -0.9%
2049 23,748,950 45,626,805 1.67% -0.95%
2050 24,131,717 45,172,356 1.61% -1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.

Biggest cities by population

South Korea
City Population
Seoul 9.67M
Busan 3.45M
Incheon 2.94M
Daegu 2.38M
Gwangju 1.49M
Daejeon 1.48M
Suwon 1.23M
Ulsan 1.13M
Yongin 1.08M
Goyang 1.06M

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