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Population in Colombia compared to Malta: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Colombia was 52,886,363 in 2024 vs 574,346 people in Malta in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Colombia's population is 53,835,787 people compared to 583,596 in Malta.

Population statistics:

  • Colombia's population is 92.2 times bigger than Malta's.
  • Colombia is ranked the 28th most populous country in the world, while Malta is the 167th.
  • The countries together account for 0.66% of the world: 0.65% for Colombia vs 0.007% for Malta.
  • For the last 10 years, Colombia has had an average growth rate of +1.25% per year vs +2.78% in Malta.
  • Since 2005, the population of Colombia has increased from 42.1M people to 53.8M (27.8% growth), while Malta has grown from 404K to 584K (44.5% growth).
  • Colombia is projected to reach its peak in 2050 at 59.4M people compared to the peak of 593K people in 2033 for Malta.

Colombia vs Malta: live population counter

Colombia Malta
Current population
53835787
583596
Population rank 28/197 167/197
Percent of world population 0.65% 0.007%
One net population change
55.8 seconds
24.3 minutes
One birth every
44.7 seconds
1.96 hours
One death every
1.86 minutes
2.17 hours
One migration net change every
3.71 minutes
1.39 hours
Annual migration change +141,643 +6,323
Daily growth/decline +1,549 +59
Annual growth/decline +565,211 +21,599
Annual growth/decline rate +1.08% +3.91%
Population growth rate rank 98/197 7/197

Colombia and Malta: population history and growth rate by year chart

Colombia
Population

Growth rate
Malta
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Colombia Malta Colombia Malta
1960 15,606,209 326,550 - -
1961 16,095,203 325,250 3.13% -0.4%
1962 16,599,029 323,900 3.13% -0.42%
1963 17,113,823 322,550 3.1% -0.42%
1964 17,637,411 321,250 3.06% -0.4%
1965 18,169,050 318,800 3.01% -0.76%
1966 18,702,688 315,200 2.94% -1.13%
1967 19,235,618 311,550 2.85% -1.16%
1968 19,766,796 307,900 2.76% -1.17%
1969 20,291,942 304,300 2.66% -1.17%
1970 20,811,782 302,650 2.56% -0.54%
1971 21,319,096 302,700 2.44% 0.02%
1972 21,819,563 302,450 2.35% -0.08%
1973 22,325,374 302,200 2.32% -0.08%
1974 22,833,469 301,996 2.28% -0.07%
1975 23,344,644 304,222 2.24% 0.74%
1976 23,858,810 305,774 2.2% 0.51%
1977 24,393,494 306,970 2.24% 0.39%
1978 24,950,337 310,182 2.28% 1.05%
1979 25,515,626 313,342 2.27% 1.02%
1980 26,104,498 316,645 2.31% 1.05%
1981 26,713,267 318,982 2.33% 0.74%
1982 27,338,331 325,898 2.34% 2.17%
1983 27,988,173 330,524 2.38% 1.42%
1984 28,642,690 330,593 2.34% 0.02%
1985 29,268,470 336,452 2.18% 1.77%
1986 29,879,112 342,121 2.09% 1.68%
1987 30,499,467 344,485 2.08% 0.69%
1988 31,130,524 347,325 2.07% 0.82%
1989 31,776,279 350,722 2.07% 0.98%
1990 32,440,069 354,170 2.09% 0.98%
1991 33,098,372 363,845 2.03% 2.73%
1992 33,760,571 367,618 2% 1.04%
1993 34,441,473 371,308 2.02% 1%
1994 35,127,410 374,797 1.99% 0.94%
1995 35,804,662 377,419 1.93% 0.7%
1996 36,462,745 379,905 1.84% 0.66%
1997 37,121,149 382,791 1.81% 0.76%
1998 37,792,165 385,287 1.81% 0.65%
1999 38,454,863 387,578 1.75% 0.59%
2000 39,089,934 390,087 1.65% 0.65%
2001 39,709,262 393,028 1.58% 0.75%
2002 40,324,680 395,969 1.55% 0.75%
2003 40,937,429 398,582 1.52% 0.66%
2004 41,543,171 401,268 1.48% 0.67%
2005 42,128,977 403,834 1.41% 0.64%
2006 42,691,084 405,308 1.33% 0.37%
2007 43,235,374 406,724 1.27% 0.35%
2008 43,758,808 409,379 1.21% 0.65%
2009 44,271,541 412,477 1.17% 0.76%
2010 44,777,319 414,508 1.14% 0.49%
2011 45,259,614 416,268 1.08% 0.42%
2012 45,715,810 420,028 1.01% 0.9%
2013 46,151,584 424,810 0.95% 1.14%
2014 46,565,429 433,481 0.9% 2.04%
2015 46,969,940 444,220 0.87% 2.48%
2016 47,437,512 454,505 1% 2.32%
2017 48,131,078 467,106 1.46% 2.77%
2018 49,024,465 483,903 1.86% 3.6%
2019 49,907,985 503,912 1.8% 4.13%
2020 50,629,997 515,490 1.45% 2.3%
2021 51,188,173 518,150 1.1% 0.52%
2022 51,737,944 531,113 1.07% 2.5%
2023 52,321,152 552,747 1.13% 4.07%
2024 52,886,363 574,346 1.08% 3.91%
2025 53,425,632 580,514 1.02% 1.07%
2026 53,936,234 584,351 0.96% 0.66%
2027 54,422,275 586,444 0.9% 0.36%
2028 54,885,123 588,290 0.85% 0.31%
2029 55,322,627 589,776 0.8% 0.25%
2030 55,736,477 590,973 0.75% 0.2%
2031 56,125,966 591,921 0.7% 0.16%
2032 56,490,496 592,622 0.65% 0.12%
2033 56,832,264 592,974 0.61% 0.06%
2034 57,151,619 592,827 0.56% -0.02%
2035 57,445,755 592,332 0.51% -0.08%
2036 57,716,869 591,668 0.47% -0.11%
2037 57,965,300 590,830 0.43% -0.14%
2038 58,190,082 589,771 0.39% -0.18%
2039 58,394,310 588,528 0.35% -0.21%
2040 58,576,452 587,256 0.31% -0.22%
2041 58,736,886 585,895 0.27% -0.23%
2042 58,878,126 584,467 0.24% -0.24%
2043 59,000,362 582,966 0.21% -0.26%
2044 59,104,592 581,355 0.18% -0.28%
2045 59,190,826 579,693 0.15% -0.29%
2046 59,259,758 577,954 0.12% -0.3%
2047 59,313,132 576,050 0.09% -0.33%
2048 59,351,262 574,050 0.06% -0.35%
2049 59,375,012 572,187 0.04% -0.32%
2050 59,385,355 570,210 0.02% -0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Colombia increased by 4,840,963 people (a 11.5% growth), while Malta gained 40,386 people (a 10% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Colombia gained 6,865,847 (a 14.6% growth), while Malta's population increased by 139,376 (a 31.4% growth).

Colombia was ranked 29th most populous country in 2005 and is 28th in 2025. Malta was ranked 168th in 2005 and ranked 167th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Colombia's population will grow by 10.3% to 59,385,355 people with a rank change from 28th to 34th. The population of Malta will decrease by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th.

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