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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Egypt was 116,538,258 in 2024 vs 574,346 people in Malta in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Egypt's population is 119,759,833 people compared to 583,596 in Malta.

Population statistics:

  • Egypt's population is 205.2 times bigger than Malta's.
  • Egypt is ranked the 13th most populous country in the world, while Malta is the 167th.
  • The countries together account for 1.46% of the world: 1.45% for Egypt vs 0.007% for Malta.
  • For the last 10 years, Egypt has had an average growth rate of +1.84% per year vs +2.78% in Malta.
  • Since 2005, the population of Egypt has increased from 81.1M people to 120M (47.7% growth), while Malta has grown from 404K to 584K (44.5% growth).
  • Egypt is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 202M people compared to the peak of 593K people in 2033 for Malta.

Egypt vs Malta: live population counter

Egypt Malta
Current population
119759833
583596
Population rank 13/197 167/197
Percent of world population 1.45% 0.007%
One net population change
15.7 seconds
24.3 minutes
One birth every
13.1 seconds
1.96 hours
One death every
50.4 seconds
2.17 hours
One migration net change every
4.24 minutes
1.39 hours
Annual migration change +123,884 +6,323
Daily growth/decline +5,486 +59
Annual growth/decline +2,002,486 +21,599
Annual growth/decline rate +1.75% +3.91%
Population growth rate rank 66/197 7/197

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

Egypt
Population

Growth rate
Malta
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Egypt Malta Egypt Malta
1960 26,896,479 326,550 - -
1961 27,600,898 325,250 2.62% -0.4%
1962 28,337,013 323,900 2.67% -0.42%
1963 29,091,869 322,550 2.66% -0.42%
1964 29,858,922 321,250 2.64% -0.4%
1965 30,629,174 318,800 2.58% -0.76%
1966 31,406,541 315,200 2.54% -1.13%
1967 32,196,360 311,550 2.51% -1.16%
1968 32,998,319 307,900 2.49% -1.17%
1969 33,811,615 304,300 2.46% -1.17%
1970 34,623,990 302,650 2.4% -0.54%
1971 35,433,368 302,700 2.34% 0.02%
1972 36,258,328 302,450 2.33% -0.08%
1973 37,102,043 302,200 2.33% -0.08%
1974 37,969,667 301,996 2.34% -0.07%
1975 38,875,327 304,222 2.39% 0.74%
1976 39,795,557 305,774 2.37% 0.51%
1977 40,748,870 306,970 2.4% 0.39%
1978 41,761,431 310,182 2.48% 1.05%
1979 42,818,628 313,342 2.53% 1.02%
1980 43,950,413 316,645 2.64% 1.05%
1981 45,147,224 318,982 2.72% 0.74%
1982 46,407,611 325,898 2.79% 2.17%
1983 47,786,402 330,524 2.97% 1.42%
1984 49,247,334 330,593 3.06% 0.02%
1985 50,734,968 336,452 3.02% 1.77%
1986 52,206,295 342,121 2.9% 1.68%
1987 53,674,435 344,485 2.81% 0.69%
1988 55,187,681 347,325 2.82% 0.82%
1989 56,710,642 350,722 2.76% 0.98%
1990 58,396,618 354,170 2.97% 0.98%
1991 60,028,997 363,845 2.8% 2.73%
1992 61,480,660 367,618 2.42% 1.04%
1993 62,915,681 371,308 2.33% 1%
1994 64,285,589 374,797 2.18% 0.94%
1995 65,652,622 377,419 2.13% 0.7%
1996 67,028,048 379,905 2.1% 0.66%
1997 68,431,740 382,791 2.09% 0.76%
1998 69,943,294 385,287 2.21% 0.65%
1999 71,520,954 387,578 2.26% 0.59%
2000 73,083,284 390,087 2.18% 0.65%
2001 74,652,029 393,028 2.15% 0.75%
2002 76,239,137 395,969 2.13% 0.75%
2003 77,853,548 398,582 2.12% 0.66%
2004 79,477,443 401,268 2.09% 0.67%
2005 81,101,004 403,834 2.04% 0.64%
2006 82,700,403 405,308 1.97% 0.37%
2007 84,276,225 406,724 1.91% 0.35%
2008 85,864,789 409,379 1.88% 0.65%
2009 87,501,636 412,477 1.91% 0.76%
2010 89,196,072 414,508 1.94% 0.49%
2011 91,093,059 416,268 2.13% 0.42%
2012 93,161,001 420,028 2.27% 0.9%
2013 95,333,553 424,810 2.33% 1.14%
2014 97,528,654 433,481 2.3% 2.04%
2015 99,597,342 444,220 2.12% 2.48%
2016 101,644,589 454,505 2.06% 2.32%
2017 103,696,057 467,106 2.02% 2.77%
2018 105,682,094 483,903 1.92% 3.6%
2019 107,553,158 503,912 1.77% 4.13%
2020 109,315,124 515,490 1.64% 2.3%
2021 110,957,008 518,150 1.5% 0.52%
2022 112,618,250 531,113 1.5% 2.5%
2023 114,535,772 552,747 1.7% 4.07%
2024 116,538,258 574,346 1.75% 3.91%
2025 118,365,997 580,514 1.57% 1.07%
2026 120,101,181 584,351 1.47% 0.66%
2027 121,847,622 586,444 1.45% 0.36%
2028 123,608,457 588,290 1.45% 0.31%
2029 125,373,058 589,776 1.43% 0.25%
2030 127,139,323 590,973 1.41% 0.2%
2031 128,912,256 591,921 1.39% 0.16%
2032 130,695,084 592,622 1.38% 0.12%
2033 132,485,612 592,974 1.37% 0.06%
2034 134,287,838 592,827 1.36% -0.02%
2035 136,097,214 592,332 1.35% -0.08%
2036 137,913,263 591,668 1.33% -0.11%
2037 139,738,699 590,830 1.32% -0.14%
2038 141,565,835 589,771 1.31% -0.18%
2039 143,393,267 588,528 1.29% -0.21%
2040 145,213,662 587,256 1.27% -0.22%
2041 147,018,554 585,895 1.24% -0.23%
2042 148,800,785 584,467 1.21% -0.24%
2043 150,547,655 582,966 1.17% -0.26%
2044 152,255,332 581,355 1.13% -0.28%
2045 153,919,190 579,693 1.09% -0.29%
2046 155,535,951 577,954 1.05% -0.3%
2047 157,114,404 576,050 1.01% -0.33%
2048 158,657,392 574,050 0.98% -0.35%
2049 160,161,615 572,187 0.95% -0.32%
2050 161,630,197 570,210 0.92% -0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Egypt increased by 18,496,338 people (a 22.8% growth), while Malta gained 40,386 people (a 10% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Egypt gained 20,162,491 (a 20.2% growth), while Malta's population increased by 139,376 (a 31.4% growth).

Egypt was ranked 14th most populous country in 2005 and is 13th 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) Egypt's population will grow by 35% to 161,630,197 people with a rank change from 13th to 11th. The population of Malta will decrease by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th.

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