Population in Latvia compared to Malawi: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Latvia and Malawi: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Latvia	Malawi	Latvia	Malawi
1960	2,120,979	3,628,134	-	-
1961	2,152,681	3,715,534	1.49%	2.41%
1962	2,181,586	3,806,307	1.34%	2.44%
1963	2,210,919	3,900,506	1.34%	2.47%
1964	2,240,623	3,997,305	1.34%	2.48%
1965	2,265,919	4,096,157	1.13%	2.47%
1966	2,283,217	4,197,926	0.76%	2.48%
1967	2,301,220	4,303,012	0.79%	2.5%
1968	2,323,619	4,411,054	0.97%	2.51%
1969	2,343,173	4,521,184	0.84%	2.5%
1970	2,359,164	4,633,944	0.68%	2.49%
1971	2,376,389	4,751,434	0.73%	2.54%
1972	2,395,674	4,874,475	0.81%	2.59%
1973	2,415,819	5,003,938	0.84%	2.66%
1974	2,437,186	5,141,337	0.88%	2.75%
1975	2,456,130	5,287,367	0.78%	2.84%
1976	2,470,989	5,443,384	0.6%	2.95%
1977	2,485,073	5,614,983	0.57%	3.15%
1978	2,497,921	5,810,132	0.52%	3.48%
1979	2,505,953	6,028,749	0.32%	3.76%
1980	2,511,701	6,265,529	0.23%	3.93%
1981	2,519,421	6,516,454	0.31%	4%
1982	2,531,080	6,778,879	0.46%	4.03%
1983	2,546,011	7,051,709	0.59%	4.02%
1984	2,562,047	7,332,810	0.63%	3.99%
1985	2,578,873	7,620,508	0.66%	3.92%
1986	2,599,892	7,906,480	0.82%	3.75%
1987	2,626,583	8,293,174	1.03%	4.89%
1988	2,653,434	8,753,262	1.02%	5.55%
1989	2,666,955	9,176,220	0.51%	4.83%
1990	2,663,151	9,545,852	-0.14%	4.03%
1991	2,650,581	9,844,227	-0.47%	3.13%
1992	2,614,338	10,135,079	-1.37%	2.95%
1993	2,563,290	10,284,024	-1.95%	1.47%
1994	2,520,742	10,164,894	-1.66%	-1.16%
1995	2,485,056	10,150,117	-1.42%	-0.15%
1996	2,457,222	10,352,228	-1.12%	1.99%
1997	2,432,851	10,562,035	-0.99%	2.03%
1998	2,410,019	10,792,876	-0.94%	2.19%
1999	2,390,482	11,047,804	-0.81%	2.36%
2000	2,367,550	11,315,942	-0.96%	2.43%
2001	2,337,170	11,593,058	-1.28%	2.45%
2002	2,310,173	11,880,440	-1.16%	2.48%
2003	2,287,955	12,181,574	-0.96%	2.53%
2004	2,263,122	12,500,737	-1.09%	2.62%
2005	2,238,799	12,840,031	-1.07%	2.71%
2006	2,218,357	13,198,701	-0.91%	2.79%
2007	2,200,325	13,576,343	-0.81%	2.86%
2008	2,177,322	13,976,417	-1.05%	2.95%
2009	2,141,669	14,395,788	-1.64%	3%
2010	2,097,555	14,826,463	-2.06%	2.99%
2011	2,059,709	15,265,022	-1.8%	2.96%
2012	2,034,319	15,709,577	-1.23%	2.91%
2013	2,012,647	16,161,816	-1.07%	2.88%
2014	1,993,782	16,621,538	-0.94%	2.84%
2015	1,977,527	17,085,587	-0.82%	2.79%
2016	1,959,537	17,557,739	-0.91%	2.76%
2017	1,942,248	18,039,715	-0.88%	2.75%
2018	1,927,174	18,528,081	-0.78%	2.71%
2019	1,913,822	19,025,752	-0.69%	2.69%
2020	1,900,449	19,533,888	-0.7%	2.67%
2021	1,884,490	20,047,258	-0.84%	2.63%
2022	1,879,383	20,568,728	-0.27%	2.6%
2023	1,877,445	21,104,482	-0.1%	2.6%
2024	1,862,441	21,655,286	-0.8%	2.61%
2025	1,844,219	22,216,113	-0.98%	2.59%
2026	1,826,681	22,785,530	-0.95%	2.56%
2027	1,812,384	23,366,187	-0.78%	2.55%
2028	1,797,965	23,954,450	-0.8%	2.52%
2029	1,783,455	24,553,499	-0.81%	2.5%
2030	1,768,667	25,160,293	-0.83%	2.47%
2031	1,753,985	25,763,534	-0.83%	2.4%
2032	1,739,582	26,366,760	-0.82%	2.34%
2033	1,725,261	26,978,417	-0.82%	2.32%
2034	1,711,332	27,595,295	-0.81%	2.29%
2035	1,697,827	28,213,784	-0.79%	2.24%
2036	1,684,492	28,835,595	-0.79%	2.2%
2037	1,671,323	29,462,509	-0.78%	2.17%
2038	1,658,336	30,081,741	-0.78%	2.1%
2039	1,645,282	30,691,578	-0.79%	2.03%
2040	1,632,376	31,302,092	-0.78%	1.99%
2041	1,619,616	31,911,242	-0.78%	1.95%
2042	1,607,019	32,517,509	-0.78%	1.9%
2043	1,594,558	33,122,481	-0.78%	1.86%
2044	1,582,077	33,736,523	-0.78%	1.85%
2045	1,569,454	34,350,947	-0.8%	1.82%
2046	1,556,840	34,959,606	-0.8%	1.77%
2047	1,544,315	35,567,989	-0.8%	1.74%
2048	1,531,684	36,165,757	-0.82%	1.68%
2049	1,518,941	36,760,998	-0.83%	1.65%
2050	1,506,179	37,361,672	-0.84%	1.63%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Latvia decreased by 261,272 people (a 11.7% decline), while Malawi gained 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Latvia lost -133,308 (a 6.74% decline), while Malawi's population increased by 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth).

Latvia was ranked 139th most populous country in 2005 and is 149th 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) Latvia's population will shrink by 18.3% to 1,506,179 people with a rank change from 149th to 153rd. The population of Malawi will increase by 64.8% to 37,361,672 people and rank change from 61st to 55th.