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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 50,448,963 people in Sudan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 52,963,918 in Sudan.

Population statistics:

  • Sudan's population is 3.61 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while Sudan is the 29th.
  • The countries together account for 0.82% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.64% for Sudan.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +2.67% in Sudan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while Sudan has grown from 31.3M to 53M (69.4% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people compared to the peak of 137M people in 2100 for Sudan.

Burundi vs Sudan: live population counter

Burundi Sudan
Current population
14662443
52963918
Population rank 78/197 29/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.64%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
1.29 minutes
One birth every
1.14 minutes
18.7 seconds
One death every
5.72 minutes
1.64 minutes
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
57.9 seconds
Annual migration change -27,074 -544,257
Daily growth/decline +982 +1,113
Annual growth/decline +358,336 +406,172
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +0.81%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 118/197

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

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi Sudan Burundi Sudan
1960 2,764,258 8,364,489 - -
1961 2,835,119 8,634,941 2.56% 3.23%
1962 2,907,943 8,919,028 2.57% 3.29%
1963 2,969,841 9,218,077 2.13% 3.35%
1964 3,055,650 9,531,109 2.89% 3.4%
1965 3,141,367 9,858,030 2.81% 3.43%
1966 3,217,960 10,197,578 2.44% 3.44%
1967 3,300,690 10,550,597 2.57% 3.46%
1968 3,380,387 10,917,999 2.41% 3.48%
1969 3,454,590 11,298,936 2.2% 3.49%
1970 3,530,432 11,695,771 2.2% 3.51%
1971 3,617,289 12,105,539 2.46% 3.5%
1972 3,617,128 12,527,856 -0.004% 3.49%
1973 3,611,991 13,049,315 -0.14% 4.16%
1974 3,703,590 13,580,723 2.54% 4.07%
1975 3,796,612 14,064,798 2.51% 3.56%
1976 3,882,626 14,569,716 2.27% 3.59%
1977 3,983,582 15,086,614 2.6% 3.55%
1978 4,100,338 15,695,003 2.93% 4.03%
1979 4,203,530 16,355,352 2.52% 4.21%
1980 4,383,706 17,058,905 4.29% 4.3%
1981 4,566,014 17,780,572 4.16% 4.23%
1982 4,681,390 18,486,645 2.53% 3.97%
1983 4,808,528 19,109,770 2.72% 3.37%
1984 4,926,465 19,546,528 2.45% 2.29%
1985 5,034,042 19,905,872 2.18% 1.84%
1986 5,129,414 20,288,238 1.89% 1.92%
1987 5,247,787 20,704,904 2.31% 2.05%
1988 5,365,327 21,138,431 2.24% 2.09%
1989 5,471,706 21,578,022 1.98% 2.08%
1990 5,587,052 22,021,481 2.11% 2.06%
1991 5,703,857 22,470,676 2.09% 2.04%
1992 5,858,407 22,927,355 2.71% 2.03%
1993 5,676,843 23,445,592 -3.1% 2.26%
1994 5,713,854 24,043,948 0.65% 2.55%
1995 6,066,316 24,672,143 6.17% 2.61%
1996 6,070,506 25,231,528 0.07% 2.27%
1997 6,070,042 25,799,821 -0.008% 2.25%
1998 6,187,108 26,458,999 1.93% 2.55%
1999 6,337,155 27,130,613 2.43% 2.54%
2000 6,470,194 27,816,745 2.1% 2.53%
2001 6,634,365 28,516,770 2.54% 2.52%
2002 6,824,132 29,228,727 2.86% 2.5%
2003 7,043,154 29,896,035 3.21% 2.28%
2004 7,310,656 30,556,637 3.8% 2.21%
2005 7,587,299 31,262,444 3.78% 2.31%
2006 7,865,547 31,992,435 3.67% 2.34%
2007 8,161,874 32,764,135 3.77% 2.41%
2008 8,505,637 33,623,980 4.21% 2.62%
2009 8,947,646 34,569,113 5.2% 2.81%
2010 9,376,444 35,414,399 4.79% 2.45%
2011 9,717,978 36,140,806 3.64% 2.05%
2012 10,071,028 36,923,178 3.63% 2.16%
2013 10,439,341 37,785,849 3.66% 2.34%
2014 10,799,785 38,823,318 3.45% 2.75%
2015 11,047,580 40,024,431 2.29% 3.09%
2016 11,239,451 41,259,892 1.74% 3.09%
2017 11,506,762 42,714,306 2.38% 3.53%
2018 11,859,446 44,230,596 3.07% 3.55%
2019 12,255,336 45,548,175 3.34% 2.98%
2020 12,617,036 46,789,231 2.95% 2.72%
2021 12,965,481 48,066,924 2.76% 2.73%
2022 13,321,097 49,383,346 2.74% 2.74%
2023 13,689,450 50,042,791 2.77% 1.34%
2024 14,047,786 50,448,963 2.62% 0.81%
2025 14,390,012 51,662,152 2.44% 2.4%
2026 14,729,161 53,282,718 2.36% 3.14%
2027 15,076,977 54,724,215 2.36% 2.71%
2028 15,444,020 55,993,833 2.43% 2.32%
2029 15,815,855 57,275,443 2.41% 2.29%
2030 16,182,014 58,571,624 2.32% 2.26%
2031 16,555,033 59,872,936 2.31% 2.22%
2032 16,935,232 61,179,476 2.3% 2.18%
2033 17,317,635 62,497,205 2.26% 2.15%
2034 17,700,808 63,822,356 2.21% 2.12%
2035 18,085,838 65,148,317 2.18% 2.08%
2036 18,483,051 66,470,018 2.2% 2.03%
2037 18,893,262 67,791,240 2.22% 1.99%
2038 19,305,532 69,107,712 2.18% 1.94%
2039 19,718,523 70,416,631 2.14% 1.89%
2040 20,131,319 71,730,604 2.09% 1.87%
2041 20,537,559 73,056,213 2.02% 1.85%
2042 20,951,561 74,387,562 2.02% 1.82%
2043 21,370,845 75,723,670 2% 1.8%
2044 21,785,696 77,066,454 1.94% 1.77%
2045 22,197,888 78,415,205 1.89% 1.75%
2046 22,586,212 79,767,271 1.75% 1.72%
2047 22,970,055 81,115,241 1.7% 1.69%
2048 23,358,499 82,463,202 1.69% 1.66%
2049 23,748,950 83,828,356 1.67% 1.66%
2050 24,131,717 85,206,384 1.61% 1.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while Sudan gained 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while Sudan's population increased by 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. Sudan was ranked 36th in 2005 and ranked 29th 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 Sudan will increase by 60.9% to 85,206,384 people and rank change from 29th to 21st.

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