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Population in Burundi compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Burundi was 14,047,786 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Burundi's population is 14,662,443 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • The United Kingdom's population is 4.77 times bigger than Burundi's.
  • Burundi is ranked the 78th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 1.02% of the world: 0.18% for Burundi vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Burundi has had an average growth rate of +2.74% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Burundi has increased from 7.59M people to 14.7M (93.2% growth), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • Burundi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 37.9M people compared to the peak of 76.2M people in 2072 for the United Kingdom.

Burundi vs United Kingdom: live population counter

Burundi United Kingdom
Current population
14662443
69945462
Population rank 78/197 22/197
Percent of world population 0.18% 0.85%
One net population change
1.47 minutes
43 seconds
One birth every
1.14 minutes
45.9 seconds
One death every
5.72 minutes
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
19.4 minutes
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change -27,074 +417,114
Daily growth/decline +982 +2,011
Annual growth/decline +358,336 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate +2.62% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 25/197 99/197

Burundi and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Burundi
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Burundi United Kingdom Burundi United Kingdom
1960 2,764,258 52,400,000 - -
1961 2,835,119 52,800,000 2.56% 0.76%
1962 2,907,943 53,250,000 2.57% 0.85%
1963 2,969,841 53,650,000 2.13% 0.75%
1964 3,055,650 54,000,000 2.89% 0.65%
1965 3,141,367 54,348,050 2.81% 0.64%
1966 3,217,960 54,648,500 2.44% 0.55%
1967 3,300,690 54,943,600 2.57% 0.54%
1968 3,380,387 55,211,700 2.41% 0.49%
1969 3,454,590 55,441,750 2.2% 0.42%
1970 3,530,432 55,663,250 2.2% 0.4%
1971 3,617,289 55,896,223 2.46% 0.42%
1972 3,617,128 56,086,065 -0.004% 0.34%
1973 3,611,991 56,194,527 -0.14% 0.19%
1974 3,703,590 56,229,974 2.54% 0.06%
1975 3,796,612 56,225,800 2.51% -0.007%
1976 3,882,626 56,211,968 2.27% -0.02%
1977 3,983,582 56,193,492 2.6% -0.03%
1978 4,100,338 56,196,504 2.93% 0.005%
1979 4,203,530 56,246,951 2.52% 0.09%
1980 4,383,706 56,314,216 4.29% 0.12%
1981 4,566,014 56,333,829 4.16% 0.03%
1982 4,681,390 56,313,641 2.53% -0.04%
1983 4,808,528 56,332,848 2.72% 0.03%
1984 4,926,465 56,422,072 2.45% 0.16%
1985 5,034,042 56,550,268 2.18% 0.23%
1986 5,129,414 56,681,396 1.89% 0.23%
1987 5,247,787 56,802,050 2.31% 0.21%
1988 5,365,327 56,928,327 2.24% 0.22%
1989 5,471,706 57,076,711 1.98% 0.26%
1990 5,587,052 57,247,586 2.11% 0.3%
1991 5,703,857 57,424,897 2.09% 0.31%
1992 5,858,407 57,580,402 2.71% 0.27%
1993 5,676,843 57,718,614 -3.1% 0.24%
1994 5,713,854 57,865,745 0.65% 0.25%
1995 6,066,316 58,019,030 6.17% 0.26%
1996 6,070,506 58,166,950 0.07% 0.25%
1997 6,070,042 58,316,954 -0.008% 0.26%
1998 6,187,108 58,487,141 1.93% 0.29%
1999 6,337,155 58,682,466 2.43% 0.33%
2000 6,470,194 58,892,514 2.1% 0.36%
2001 6,634,365 59,119,673 2.54% 0.39%
2002 6,824,132 59,370,479 2.86% 0.42%
2003 7,043,154 59,647,577 3.21% 0.47%
2004 7,310,656 59,987,905 3.8% 0.57%
2005 7,587,299 60,401,206 3.78% 0.69%
2006 7,865,547 60,846,820 3.67% 0.74%
2007 8,161,874 61,322,463 3.77% 0.78%
2008 8,505,637 61,806,995 4.21% 0.79%
2009 8,947,646 62,276,270 5.2% 0.76%
2010 9,376,444 62,766,365 4.79% 0.79%
2011 9,717,978 63,258,810 3.64% 0.78%
2012 10,071,028 63,711,000 3.63% 0.71%
2013 10,439,341 64,139,000 3.66% 0.67%
2014 10,799,785 64,620,000 3.45% 0.75%
2015 11,047,580 65,088,000 2.29% 0.72%
2016 11,239,451 65,607,000 1.74% 0.8%
2017 11,506,762 65,966,000 2.38% 0.55%
2018 11,859,446 66,289,000 3.07% 0.49%
2019 12,255,336 66,631,000 3.34% 0.52%
2020 12,617,036 66,744,000 2.95% 0.17%
2021 12,965,481 66,984,000 2.76% 0.36%
2022 13,321,097 67,604,000 2.74% 0.93%
2023 13,689,450 68,492,000 2.77% 1.31%
2024 14,047,786 69,226,000 2.62% 1.07%
2025 14,390,012 69,639,673 2.44% 0.6%
2026 14,729,161 70,020,350 2.36% 0.55%
2027 15,076,977 70,382,853 2.36% 0.52%
2028 15,444,020 70,732,699 2.43% 0.5%
2029 15,815,855 71,061,482 2.41% 0.46%
2030 16,182,014 71,377,535 2.32% 0.44%
2031 16,555,033 71,678,351 2.31% 0.42%
2032 16,935,232 71,959,934 2.3% 0.39%
2033 17,317,635 72,234,509 2.26% 0.38%
2034 17,700,808 72,497,650 2.21% 0.36%
2035 18,085,838 72,749,096 2.18% 0.35%
2036 18,483,051 72,990,847 2.2% 0.33%
2037 18,893,262 73,218,850 2.22% 0.31%
2038 19,305,532 73,441,349 2.18% 0.3%
2039 19,718,523 73,658,392 2.14% 0.3%
2040 20,131,319 73,868,334 2.09% 0.29%
2041 20,537,559 74,074,316 2.02% 0.28%
2042 20,951,561 74,275,779 2.02% 0.27%
2043 21,370,845 74,475,035 2% 0.27%
2044 21,785,696 74,667,284 1.94% 0.26%
2045 22,197,888 74,848,605 1.89% 0.24%
2046 22,586,212 75,020,949 1.75% 0.23%
2047 22,970,055 75,184,478 1.7% 0.22%
2048 23,358,499 75,337,543 1.69% 0.2%
2049 23,748,950 75,476,141 1.67% 0.18%
2050 24,131,717 75,600,588 1.61% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Burundi increased by 3,460,281 people (a 45.6% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Burundi gained 3,614,863 (a 32.7% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Burundi was ranked 94th most populous country in 2005 and is 78th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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