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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 4.88 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.04% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Burundi vs Thailand: live population counter

Burundi Thailand
Current population
14662443
71619867
Population rank 78/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.87%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
1.14 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
5.72 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -27,074 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +982 -94
Annual growth/decline +358,336 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 170/197

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

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi Thailand Burundi Thailand
1960 2,764,258 26,851,747 - -
1961 2,835,119 27,650,334 2.56% 2.97%
1962 2,907,943 28,481,040 2.57% 3%
1963 2,969,841 29,342,322 2.13% 3.02%
1964 3,055,650 30,232,141 2.89% 3.03%
1965 3,141,367 31,149,337 2.81% 3.03%
1966 3,217,960 32,086,071 2.44% 3.01%
1967 3,300,690 33,037,801 2.57% 2.97%
1968 3,380,387 34,002,560 2.41% 2.92%
1969 3,454,590 34,973,782 2.2% 2.86%
1970 3,530,432 35,954,408 2.2% 2.8%
1971 3,617,289 36,937,387 2.46% 2.73%
1972 3,617,128 37,933,929 -0.004% 2.7%
1973 3,611,991 38,947,787 -0.14% 2.67%
1974 3,703,590 39,952,891 2.54% 2.58%
1975 3,796,612 40,940,005 2.51% 2.47%
1976 3,882,626 41,896,504 2.27% 2.34%
1977 3,983,582 42,843,974 2.6% 2.26%
1978 4,100,338 43,788,976 2.93% 2.21%
1979 4,203,530 44,718,434 2.52% 2.12%
1980 4,383,706 45,650,022 4.29% 2.08%
1981 4,566,014 46,575,855 4.16% 2.03%
1982 4,681,390 47,494,577 2.53% 1.97%
1983 4,808,528 48,423,309 2.72% 1.96%
1984 4,926,465 49,351,708 2.45% 1.92%
1985 5,034,042 50,270,753 2.18% 1.86%
1986 5,129,414 51,177,834 1.89% 1.8%
1987 5,247,787 52,074,105 2.31% 1.75%
1988 5,365,327 52,969,595 2.24% 1.72%
1989 5,471,706 53,848,956 1.98% 1.66%
1990 5,587,052 54,738,329 2.11% 1.65%
1991 5,703,857 55,637,434 2.09% 1.64%
1992 5,858,407 56,528,834 2.71% 1.6%
1993 5,676,843 57,408,198 -3.1% 1.56%
1994 5,713,854 58,260,854 0.65% 1.49%
1995 6,066,316 59,098,232 6.17% 1.44%
1996 6,070,506 59,920,064 0.07% 1.39%
1997 6,070,042 60,724,584 -0.008% 1.34%
1998 6,187,108 61,522,630 1.93% 1.31%
1999 6,337,155 62,299,043 2.43% 1.26%
2000 6,470,194 63,007,815 2.1% 1.14%
2001 6,634,365 63,651,141 2.54% 1.02%
2002 6,824,132 64,266,437 2.86% 0.97%
2003 7,043,154 64,868,166 3.21% 0.94%
2004 7,310,656 65,452,047 3.8% 0.9%
2005 7,587,299 66,017,420 3.78% 0.86%
2006 7,865,547 66,567,687 3.67% 0.83%
2007 8,161,874 67,102,394 3.77% 0.8%
2008 8,505,637 67,619,830 4.21% 0.77%
2009 8,947,646 68,121,080 5.2% 0.74%
2010 9,376,444 68,579,447 4.79% 0.67%
2011 9,717,978 69,007,208 3.64% 0.62%
2012 10,071,028 69,436,098 3.63% 0.62%
2013 10,439,341 69,845,114 3.66% 0.59%
2014 10,799,785 70,216,367 3.45% 0.53%
2015 11,047,580 70,540,795 2.29% 0.46%
2016 11,239,451 70,859,841 1.74% 0.45%
2017 11,506,762 71,160,187 2.38% 0.42%
2018 11,859,446 71,376,079 3.07% 0.3%
2019 12,255,336 71,522,271 3.34% 0.2%
2020 12,617,036 71,641,484 2.95% 0.17%
2021 12,965,481 71,727,332 2.76% 0.12%
2022 13,321,097 71,735,329 2.74% 0.01%
2023 13,689,450 71,702,435 2.77% -0.05%
2024 14,047,786 71,668,011 2.62% -0.05%
2025 14,390,012 71,619,867 2.44% -0.07%
2026 14,729,161 71,559,621 2.36% -0.08%
2027 15,076,977 71,488,156 2.36% -0.1%
2028 15,444,020 71,406,996 2.43% -0.11%
2029 15,815,855 71,316,195 2.41% -0.13%
2030 16,182,014 71,215,017 2.32% -0.14%
2031 16,555,033 71,104,025 2.31% -0.16%
2032 16,935,232 70,982,286 2.3% -0.17%
2033 17,317,635 70,847,947 2.26% -0.19%
2034 17,700,808 70,701,651 2.21% -0.21%
2035 18,085,838 70,540,884 2.18% -0.23%
2036 18,483,051 70,366,496 2.2% -0.25%
2037 18,893,262 70,180,031 2.22% -0.26%
2038 19,305,532 69,979,034 2.18% -0.29%
2039 19,718,523 69,763,928 2.14% -0.31%
2040 20,131,319 69,535,003 2.09% -0.33%
2041 20,537,559 69,288,477 2.02% -0.35%
2042 20,951,561 69,025,348 2.02% -0.38%
2043 21,370,845 68,748,075 2% -0.4%
2044 21,785,696 68,456,533 1.94% -0.42%
2045 22,197,888 68,150,148 1.89% -0.45%
2046 22,586,212 67,827,309 1.75% -0.47%
2047 22,970,055 67,489,358 1.7% -0.5%
2048 23,358,499 67,136,737 1.69% -0.52%
2049 23,748,950 66,767,316 1.67% -0.55%
2050 24,131,717 66,382,732 1.61% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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