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Population in Chad compared to Maldives: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Chad was 20,299,123 in 2024 vs 527,799 people in Maldives in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Chad's population is 21,450,865 people compared to 531,152 in Maldives.

Population statistics:

  • Chad's population is 40.4 times bigger than Maldives'.
  • Chad is ranked the 64th most populous country in the world, while Maldives is the 168th.
  • The countries together account for 0.27% of the world: 0.26% for Chad vs 0.006% for Maldives.
  • For the last 10 years, Chad has had an average growth rate of +3.65% per year vs +2.56% in Maldives.
  • Since 2005, the population of Chad has increased from 10.3M people to 21.5M (107.7% growth), while Maldives has grown from 306K to 531K (73.3% growth).
  • Chad is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 69.5M people compared to the peak of 597K people in 2057 for Maldives.

Chad vs Maldives: live population counter

Chad Maldives
Current population
21450865
531152
Population rank 64/197 168/197
Percent of world population 0.26% 0.006%
One net population change
32.2 seconds
4.85 hours
One birth every
38.5 seconds
1.51 hours
One death every
2.47 minutes
7.13 hours
One migration net change every
2.58 minutes
3.62 hours
Annual migration change +204,040 -2,421
Daily growth/decline +2,685 +5
Annual growth/decline +980,059 +1,805
Annual growth/decline rate +5.07% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 2/197 145/197

Chad and Maldives: population history and growth rate by year chart

Chad
Population

Growth rate
Maldives
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Chad Maldives Chad Maldives
1960 3,049,838 91,189 - -
1961 3,111,947 93,450 2.04% 2.48%
1962 3,175,598 95,802 2.05% 2.52%
1963 3,240,905 98,222 2.06% 2.53%
1964 3,307,479 100,662 2.05% 2.48%
1965 3,374,220 104,102 2.02% 3.42%
1966 3,440,903 108,507 1.98% 4.23%
1967 3,508,512 112,528 1.96% 3.71%
1968 3,578,231 116,075 1.99% 3.15%
1969 3,651,113 119,564 2.04% 3.01%
1970 3,727,828 123,219 2.1% 3.06%
1971 3,807,316 127,035 2.13% 3.1%
1972 3,893,252 130,968 2.26% 3.1%
1973 3,985,909 134,952 2.38% 3.04%
1974 4,078,356 138,978 2.32% 2.98%
1975 4,167,234 143,158 2.18% 3.01%
1976 4,251,297 147,525 2.02% 3.05%
1977 4,331,667 151,930 1.89% 2.99%
1978 4,411,366 156,159 1.84% 2.78%
1979 4,505,384 160,360 2.13% 2.69%
1980 4,515,453 164,835 0.22% 2.79%
1981 4,520,959 169,532 0.12% 2.85%
1982 4,738,483 174,333 4.81% 2.83%
1983 4,979,130 179,128 5.08% 2.75%
1984 5,045,145 184,198 1.33% 2.83%
1985 5,096,269 190,169 1.01% 3.24%
1986 5,251,069 196,935 3.04% 3.56%
1987 5,438,309 203,944 3.57% 3.56%
1988 5,625,602 210,885 3.44% 3.4%
1989 5,819,586 217,738 3.45% 3.25%
1990 5,982,833 224,762 2.81% 3.23%
1991 6,205,676 231,802 3.72% 3.13%
1992 6,474,656 238,543 4.33% 2.91%
1993 6,629,146 244,884 2.39% 2.66%
1994 6,783,450 250,822 2.33% 2.42%
1995 7,089,064 256,649 4.51% 2.32%
1996 7,410,108 262,347 4.53% 2.22%
1997 7,670,366 267,707 3.51% 2.04%
1998 7,938,840 272,723 3.5% 1.87%
1999 8,222,705 277,412 3.58% 1.72%
2000 8,512,093 282,019 3.52% 1.66%
2001 8,804,124 286,767 3.43% 1.68%
2002 9,116,192 291,616 3.54% 1.69%
2003 9,487,833 296,491 4.08% 1.67%
2004 9,920,036 301,413 4.56% 1.66%
2005 10,328,092 306,429 4.11% 1.66%
2006 10,706,424 313,851 3.66% 2.42%
2007 11,081,660 324,479 3.5% 3.39%
2008 11,476,296 336,170 3.56% 3.6%
2009 11,893,754 348,275 3.64% 3.6%
2010 12,312,575 360,792 3.52% 3.59%
2011 12,754,997 373,674 3.59% 3.57%
2012 13,210,998 386,818 3.58% 3.52%
2013 13,691,079 400,070 3.63% 3.43%
2014 14,188,678 413,617 3.63% 3.39%
2015 14,647,621 428,154 3.23% 3.51%
2016 15,114,655 443,308 3.19% 3.54%
2017 15,622,759 458,287 3.36% 3.38%
2018 16,156,531 473,099 3.42% 3.23%
2019 16,685,223 487,731 3.27% 3.09%
2020 17,224,679 502,118 3.23% 2.95%
2021 17,828,273 516,154 3.5% 2.8%
2022 18,455,316 524,106 3.52% 1.54%
2023 19,319,064 525,994 4.68% 0.36%
2024 20,299,123 527,799 5.07% 0.34%
2025 21,003,694 529,677 3.47% 0.36%
2026 21,560,377 531,514 2.65% 0.35%
2027 22,175,373 533,433 2.85% 0.36%
2028 22,847,740 535,502 3.03% 0.39%
2029 23,526,035 537,574 2.97% 0.39%
2030 24,207,481 539,667 2.9% 0.39%
2031 24,897,231 541,929 2.85% 0.42%
2032 25,596,224 544,288 2.81% 0.44%
2033 26,297,830 546,723 2.74% 0.45%
2034 26,997,395 549,162 2.66% 0.45%
2035 27,697,268 551,599 2.59% 0.44%
2036 28,410,489 554,092 2.58% 0.45%
2037 29,132,961 556,637 2.54% 0.46%
2038 29,856,451 559,231 2.48% 0.47%
2039 30,584,696 561,958 2.44% 0.49%
2040 31,307,329 564,800 2.36% 0.51%
2041 32,035,111 567,606 2.32% 0.5%
2042 32,777,662 570,381 2.32% 0.49%
2043 33,525,238 573,138 2.28% 0.48%
2044 34,272,313 575,811 2.23% 0.47%
2045 35,026,384 578,459 2.2% 0.46%
2046 35,788,056 581,026 2.17% 0.44%
2047 36,546,910 583,393 2.12% 0.41%
2048 37,317,460 585,720 2.11% 0.4%
2049 38,088,916 587,988 2.07% 0.39%
2050 38,857,671 589,960 2.02% 0.34%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Chad increased by 4,319,529 people (a 41.8% growth), while Maldives gained 121,725 people (a 39.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Chad gained 6,803,244 (a 46.4% growth), while Maldives' population increased by 102,998 (a 24.1% growth).

Chad was ranked 78th most populous country in 2005 and is 64th in 2025. Maldives was ranked 171st in 2005 and ranked 168th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Chad's population will grow by 81.1% to 38,857,671 people with a rank change from 64th to 52nd. The population of Maldives will increase by 11.1% to 589,960 people and rank change from 168th to 166th.

Biggest cities by population

Chad
City Population
N'Djamena 1.09M
Sarh 108K
Abeche 76.5K
Bongor 27.8K
Bol 11.7K
Maldives
City Population
Male 133K
Hulhumale 50K

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