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Population in Equatorial Guinea compared to Malawi: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Equatorial Guinea was 1,892,516 in 2024 vs 21,655,286 people in Malawi in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Equatorial Guinea's population is 1,975,406 people compared to 22,673,513 in Malawi.

Population statistics:

  • Malawi's population is 11.5 times bigger than Equatorial Guinea's.
  • Equatorial Guinea is ranked the 148th most populous country in the world, while Malawi is the 61st.
  • The countries together account for 0.3% of the world: 0.02% for Equatorial Guinea vs 0.27% for Malawi.
  • For the last 10 years, Equatorial Guinea has had an average growth rate of +3.15% per year vs +2.7% in Malawi.
  • Since 2005, the population of Equatorial Guinea has increased from 947K people to 1.98M (108.5% growth), while Malawi has grown from 12.8M to 22.7M (76.6% growth).
  • Equatorial Guinea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 5M people compared to the peak of 59.1M people in 2100 for Malawi.

Equatorial Guinea vs Malawi: live population counter

Equatorial Guinea Malawi
Current population
1975406
22673513
Population rank 148/197 61/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.27%
One net population change
11.7 minutes
57.3 seconds
One birth every
9.61 minutes
47.6 seconds
One death every
36.1 minutes
4.64 minutes
One migration net change every
2.25 hours
5.81 hours
Annual migration change +3,891 -1,507
Daily growth/decline +123 +1,509
Annual growth/decline +44,967 +550,804
Annual growth/decline rate +2.43% +2.61%
Population growth rate rank 32/197 27/197

Equatorial Guinea and Malawi: population history and growth rate by year chart

Equatorial Guinea
Population

Growth rate
Malawi
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Equatorial Guinea Malawi Equatorial Guinea Malawi
1960 269,807 3,628,134 - -
1961 274,896 3,715,534 1.89% 2.41%
1962 280,286 3,806,307 1.96% 2.44%
1963 285,965 3,900,506 2.03% 2.47%
1964 291,942 3,997,305 2.09% 2.48%
1965 298,238 4,096,157 2.16% 2.47%
1966 304,859 4,197,926 2.22% 2.48%
1967 311,805 4,303,012 2.28% 2.5%
1968 318,849 4,411,054 2.26% 2.51%
1969 322,517 4,521,184 1.15% 2.5%
1970 320,803 4,633,944 -0.53% 2.49%
1971 315,940 4,751,434 -1.52% 2.54%
1972 309,468 4,874,475 -2.05% 2.59%
1973 302,281 5,003,938 -2.32% 2.66%
1974 294,953 5,141,337 -2.42% 2.75%
1975 287,901 5,287,367 -2.39% 2.84%
1976 281,031 5,443,384 -2.39% 2.95%
1977 276,779 5,614,983 -1.51% 3.15%
1978 276,531 5,810,132 -0.09% 3.48%
1979 279,846 6,028,749 1.2% 3.76%
1980 288,644 6,265,529 3.14% 3.93%
1981 303,252 6,516,454 5.06% 4%
1982 322,216 6,778,879 6.25% 4.03%
1983 343,421 7,051,709 6.58% 4.02%
1984 364,899 7,332,810 6.25% 3.99%
1985 385,547 7,620,508 5.66% 3.92%
1986 404,728 7,906,480 4.98% 3.75%
1987 422,522 8,293,174 4.4% 4.89%
1988 439,651 8,753,262 4.05% 5.55%
1989 456,808 9,176,220 3.9% 4.83%
1990 474,274 9,545,852 3.82% 4.03%
1991 492,217 9,844,227 3.78% 3.13%
1992 510,770 10,135,079 3.77% 2.95%
1993 530,023 10,284,024 3.77% 1.47%
1994 550,138 10,164,894 3.8% -1.16%
1995 571,264 10,150,117 3.84% -0.15%
1996 593,492 10,352,228 3.89% 1.99%
1997 616,893 10,562,035 3.94% 2.03%
1998 641,474 10,792,876 3.98% 2.19%
1999 667,214 11,047,804 4.01% 2.36%
2000 703,279 11,315,942 5.41% 2.43%
2001 749,836 11,593,058 6.62% 2.45%
2002 797,957 11,880,440 6.42% 2.48%
2003 847,862 12,181,574 6.25% 2.53%
2004 899,917 12,500,737 6.14% 2.62%
2005 947,367 12,840,031 5.27% 2.71%
2006 990,343 13,198,701 4.54% 2.79%
2007 1,036,044 13,576,343 4.61% 2.86%
2008 1,084,530 13,976,417 4.68% 2.95%
2009 1,135,673 14,395,788 4.72% 3%
2010 1,189,085 14,826,463 4.7% 2.99%
2011 1,241,835 15,265,022 4.44% 2.96%
2012 1,293,483 15,709,577 4.16% 2.91%
2013 1,346,218 16,161,816 4.08% 2.88%
2014 1,399,828 16,621,538 3.98% 2.84%
2015 1,453,923 17,085,587 3.86% 2.79%
2016 1,508,186 17,557,739 3.73% 2.76%
2017 1,562,396 18,039,715 3.59% 2.75%
2018 1,616,422 18,528,081 3.46% 2.71%
2019 1,670,177 19,025,752 3.33% 2.69%
2020 1,716,468 19,533,888 2.77% 2.67%
2021 1,758,786 20,047,258 2.47% 2.63%
2022 1,803,545 20,568,728 2.54% 2.6%
2023 1,847,549 21,104,482 2.44% 2.6%
2024 1,892,516 21,655,286 2.43% 2.61%
2025 1,938,427 22,216,113 2.43% 2.59%
2026 1,984,463 22,785,530 2.37% 2.56%
2027 2,030,749 23,366,187 2.33% 2.55%
2028 2,077,253 23,954,450 2.29% 2.52%
2029 2,123,699 24,553,499 2.24% 2.5%
2030 2,170,434 25,160,293 2.2% 2.47%
2031 2,218,077 25,763,534 2.2% 2.4%
2032 2,267,025 26,366,760 2.21% 2.34%
2033 2,315,991 26,978,417 2.16% 2.32%
2034 2,364,847 27,595,295 2.11% 2.29%
2035 2,414,263 28,213,784 2.09% 2.24%
2036 2,463,880 28,835,595 2.06% 2.2%
2037 2,513,955 29,462,509 2.03% 2.17%
2038 2,564,843 30,081,741 2.02% 2.1%
2039 2,615,417 30,691,578 1.97% 2.03%
2040 2,665,575 31,302,092 1.92% 1.99%
2041 2,715,477 31,911,242 1.87% 1.95%
2042 2,764,764 32,517,509 1.82% 1.9%
2043 2,813,769 33,122,481 1.77% 1.86%
2044 2,862,511 33,736,523 1.73% 1.85%
2045 2,911,227 34,350,947 1.7% 1.82%
2046 2,959,088 34,959,606 1.64% 1.77%
2047 3,005,551 35,567,989 1.57% 1.74%
2048 3,051,480 36,165,757 1.53% 1.68%
2049 3,097,625 36,760,998 1.51% 1.65%
2050 3,143,719 37,361,672 1.49% 1.63%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Equatorial Guinea increased by 506,556 people (a 53.5% growth), while Malawi gained 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Equatorial Guinea gained 521,483 (a 35.9% growth), while Malawi's population increased by 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth).

Equatorial Guinea was ranked 155th most populous country in 2005 and is 148th in 2025. Malawi was ranked 69th in 2005 and ranked 61st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Equatorial Guinea's population will grow by 59.1% to 3,143,719 people with a rank change from 148th to 140th. The population of Malawi will increase by 64.8% to 37,361,672 people and rank change from 61st to 55th.

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