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Population in Guinea compared to Mali: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Guinea was 14,754,785 in 2024 vs 24,478,595 people in Mali in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Guinea's population is 15,374,667 people compared to 25,787,988 in Mali.

Population statistics:

  • Mali's population is 1.68 times bigger than Guinea's.
  • Guinea is ranked the 75th most populous country in the world, while Mali is the 58th.
  • The countries together account for 0.5% of the world: 0.19% for Guinea vs 0.31% for Mali.
  • For the last 10 years, Guinea has had an average growth rate of +2.54% per year vs +3.12% in Mali.
  • Since 2005, the population of Guinea has increased from 9.25M people to 15.4M (66.3% growth), while Mali has grown from 13.5M to 25.8M (90.5% growth).
  • Guinea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 32M people compared to the peak of 79.4M people in 2100 for Mali.

Guinea vs Mali: live population counter

Guinea Mali
Current population
15374667
25787988
Population rank 75/197 58/197
Percent of world population 0.19% 0.31%
One net population change
1.5 minutes
44.5 seconds
One birth every
1.08 minutes
33.1 seconds
One death every
4 minutes
2.56 minutes
One migration net change every
43.7 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change -12,024 -46,880
Daily growth/decline +957 +1,944
Annual growth/decline +349,317 +709,468
Annual growth/decline rate +2.42% +2.98%
Population growth rate rank 34/197 16/197

Guinea and Mali: population history and growth rate by year chart

Guinea
Population

Growth rate
Mali
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Guinea Mali Guinea Mali
1960 3,556,749 5,402,550 - -
1961 3,619,551 5,482,283 1.77% 1.48%
1962 3,684,273 5,563,917 1.79% 1.49%
1963 3,750,954 5,646,605 1.81% 1.49%
1964 3,819,722 5,730,125 1.83% 1.48%
1965 3,890,716 5,815,487 1.86% 1.49%
1966 3,964,155 5,902,204 1.89% 1.49%
1967 4,040,153 5,990,906 1.92% 1.5%
1968 4,118,550 6,082,979 1.94% 1.54%
1969 4,198,300 6,177,704 1.94% 1.56%
1970 4,277,535 6,276,472 1.89% 1.6%
1971 4,355,200 6,377,944 1.82% 1.62%
1972 4,431,292 6,483,726 1.75% 1.66%
1973 4,506,324 6,597,106 1.69% 1.75%
1974 4,580,510 6,715,436 1.65% 1.79%
1975 4,653,876 6,837,261 1.6% 1.81%
1976 4,727,022 6,960,979 1.57% 1.81%
1977 4,801,128 7,090,979 1.57% 1.87%
1978 4,877,854 7,229,651 1.6% 1.96%
1979 4,959,283 7,375,266 1.67% 2.01%
1980 5,047,419 7,530,515 1.78% 2.1%
1981 5,143,288 7,692,766 1.9% 2.15%
1982 5,247,672 7,860,194 2.03% 2.18%
1983 5,359,814 8,034,400 2.14% 2.22%
1984 5,480,096 8,208,599 2.24% 2.17%
1985 5,610,373 8,374,663 2.38% 2.02%
1986 5,750,668 8,531,277 2.5% 1.87%
1987 5,900,198 8,681,164 2.6% 1.76%
1988 6,056,574 8,833,996 2.65% 1.76%
1989 6,215,811 8,999,938 2.63% 1.88%
1990 6,434,374 9,178,830 3.52% 1.99%
1991 6,697,166 9,362,888 4.08% 2.01%
1992 6,914,366 9,553,540 3.24% 2.04%
1993 7,128,177 9,754,786 3.09% 2.11%
1994 7,345,107 9,967,031 3.04% 2.18%
1995 7,553,249 10,185,365 2.83% 2.19%
1996 7,770,035 10,407,278 2.87% 2.18%
1997 7,931,370 10,646,495 2.08% 2.3%
1998 8,081,990 10,919,573 1.9% 2.56%
1999 8,265,123 11,227,415 2.27% 2.82%
2000 8,428,832 11,559,290 1.98% 2.96%
2001 8,539,960 11,912,158 1.32% 3.05%
2002 8,674,066 12,288,050 1.57% 3.16%
2003 8,870,781 12,684,955 2.27% 3.23%
2004 9,062,726 13,102,409 2.16% 3.29%
2005 9,245,844 13,538,647 2.02% 3.33%
2006 9,441,171 13,990,139 2.11% 3.33%
2007 9,662,281 14,457,775 2.34% 3.34%
2008 9,898,870 14,940,782 2.45% 3.34%
2009 10,143,534 15,435,539 2.47% 3.31%
2010 10,396,086 15,945,198 2.49% 3.3%
2011 10,656,810 16,469,049 2.51% 3.29%
2012 10,921,581 16,957,033 2.48% 2.96%
2013 11,191,873 17,459,615 2.47% 2.96%
2014 11,472,924 18,020,267 2.51% 3.21%
2015 11,767,070 18,593,022 2.56% 3.18%
2016 12,073,030 19,191,289 2.6% 3.22%
2017 12,385,659 19,813,011 2.59% 3.24%
2018 12,704,774 20,442,030 2.58% 3.17%
2019 13,034,346 21,068,405 2.59% 3.06%
2020 13,371,183 21,713,836 2.58% 3.06%
2021 13,710,513 22,388,630 2.54% 3.11%
2022 14,055,137 23,072,640 2.51% 3.06%
2023 14,405,468 23,769,127 2.49% 3.02%
2024 14,754,785 24,478,595 2.42% 2.98%
2025 15,099,737 25,198,817 2.34% 2.94%
2026 15,441,997 25,932,275 2.27% 2.91%
2027 15,784,102 26,679,171 2.22% 2.88%
2028 16,126,582 27,440,613 2.17% 2.85%
2029 16,466,764 28,215,513 2.11% 2.82%
2030 16,807,153 29,002,864 2.07% 2.79%
2031 17,147,643 29,804,545 2.03% 2.76%
2032 17,485,900 30,618,893 1.97% 2.73%
2033 17,822,213 31,442,801 1.92% 2.69%
2034 18,154,418 32,276,672 1.86% 2.65%
2035 18,486,025 33,118,344 1.83% 2.61%
2036 18,820,871 33,967,889 1.81% 2.57%
2037 19,155,764 34,823,450 1.78% 2.52%
2038 19,489,372 35,685,576 1.74% 2.48%
2039 19,823,866 36,549,487 1.72% 2.42%
2040 20,160,751 37,413,641 1.7% 2.36%
2041 20,497,039 38,280,868 1.67% 2.32%
2042 20,830,660 39,151,280 1.63% 2.27%
2043 21,163,506 40,026,317 1.6% 2.24%
2044 21,492,058 40,902,500 1.55% 2.19%
2045 21,817,254 41,778,984 1.51% 2.14%
2046 22,141,694 42,655,642 1.49% 2.1%
2047 22,463,122 43,530,852 1.45% 2.05%
2048 22,780,061 44,405,715 1.41% 2.01%
2049 23,092,618 45,279,772 1.37% 1.97%
2050 23,404,600 46,154,079 1.35% 1.93%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Guinea increased by 2,521,226 people (a 27.3% growth), while Mali gained 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Guinea gained 3,607,597 (a 30.7% growth), while Mali's population increased by 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth).

Guinea was ranked 84th most populous country in 2005 and is 75th in 2025. Mali was ranked 66th in 2005 and ranked 58th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Guinea's population will grow by 52.2% to 23,404,600 people with a rank change from 75th to 71st. The population of Mali will increase by 79% to 46,154,079 people and rank change from 58th to 46th.

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