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Population in Liberia compared to Mexico: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Liberia was 5,612,817 in 2024 vs 130,861,007 people in Mexico in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Liberia's population is 5,829,811 people compared to 132,790,957 in Mexico.

Population statistics:

  • Mexico's population is 22.8 times bigger than Liberia's.
  • Liberia is ranked the 116th most populous country in the world, while Mexico is the 11th.
  • The countries together account for 1.68% of the world: 0.07% for Liberia vs 1.61% for Mexico.
  • For the last 10 years, Liberia has had an average growth rate of +2.09% per year vs +0.92% in Mexico.
  • Since 2005, the population of Liberia has increased from 3.3M people to 5.83M (76.6% growth), while Mexico has grown from 106M to 133M (25.5% growth).
  • Liberia is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 12.7M people compared to the peak of 150M people in 2058 for Mexico.

Liberia vs Mexico: live population counter

Liberia Mexico
Current population
5829811
132790957
Population rank 116/197 11/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 1.61%
One net population change
4.39 minutes
28.1 seconds
One birth every
3.09 minutes
15.5 seconds
One death every
11.9 minutes
39.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.13 hours
5.03 minutes
Annual migration change -7,779 -104,581
Daily growth/decline +328 +3,072
Annual growth/decline +119,786 +1,121,248
Annual growth/decline rate +2.18% +0.86%
Population growth rate rank 45/197 113/197

Liberia and Mexico: population history and growth rate by year chart

Liberia
Population

Growth rate
Mexico
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Liberia Mexico Liberia Mexico
1960 1,139,522 36,724,615 - -
1961 1,167,717 37,890,118 2.47% 3.17%
1962 1,197,039 39,129,200 2.51% 3.27%
1963 1,227,414 40,424,065 2.54% 3.31%
1964 1,258,745 41,772,049 2.55% 3.33%
1965 1,291,156 43,174,477 2.57% 3.36%
1966 1,324,383 44,629,106 2.57% 3.37%
1967 1,358,435 46,129,608 2.57% 3.36%
1968 1,393,530 47,668,303 2.58% 3.34%
1969 1,429,605 49,233,194 2.59% 3.28%
1970 1,466,676 50,814,953 2.59% 3.21%
1971 1,504,077 52,412,558 2.55% 3.14%
1972 1,542,670 54,030,168 2.57% 3.09%
1973 1,583,588 55,667,284 2.65% 3.03%
1974 1,626,362 57,320,149 2.7% 2.97%
1975 1,670,913 58,982,400 2.74% 2.9%
1976 1,717,060 60,645,512 2.76% 2.82%
1977 1,766,019 62,308,493 2.85% 2.74%
1978 1,818,247 63,979,046 2.96% 2.68%
1979 1,872,713 65,648,865 3% 2.61%
1980 1,929,253 67,300,334 3.02% 2.52%
1981 1,986,867 68,892,108 2.99% 2.37%
1982 2,045,073 70,433,260 2.93% 2.24%
1983 2,107,113 71,971,240 3.03% 2.18%
1984 2,173,312 73,506,846 3.14% 2.13%
1985 2,240,539 75,043,414 3.09% 2.09%
1986 2,308,511 76,585,637 3.03% 2.06%
1987 2,377,229 78,136,651 2.98% 2.03%
1988 2,446,941 79,695,531 2.93% 2%
1989 2,517,858 81,247,182 2.9% 1.95%
1990 2,223,667 82,820,170 -11.7% 1.94%
1991 1,956,518 84,430,572 -12% 1.94%
1992 2,072,461 86,044,809 5.93% 1.91%
1993 2,155,126 87,653,807 3.99% 1.87%
1994 2,149,928 89,259,205 -0.24% 1.83%
1995 2,169,162 90,862,455 0.89% 1.8%
1996 2,232,289 92,452,702 2.91% 1.75%
1997 2,412,989 94,021,207 8.09% 1.7%
1998 2,670,124 95,575,245 10.7% 1.65%
1999 2,821,684 97,115,707 5.68% 1.61%
2000 2,928,117 98,625,552 3.77% 1.55%
2001 3,015,338 100,099,099 2.98% 1.49%
2002 3,094,782 101,548,624 2.63% 1.45%
2003 3,119,532 102,978,515 0.8% 1.41%
2004 3,156,892 104,394,131 1.2% 1.37%
2005 3,301,015 105,811,504 4.57% 1.36%
2006 3,490,787 107,253,666 5.75% 1.36%
2007 3,669,050 108,774,360 5.11% 1.42%
2008 3,821,003 110,374,288 4.14% 1.47%
2009 3,943,028 111,999,721 3.19% 1.47%
2010 4,058,890 113,623,895 2.94% 1.45%
2011 4,221,178 115,243,504 4% 1.43%
2012 4,373,043 116,818,208 3.6% 1.37%
2013 4,470,239 118,343,573 2.22% 1.31%
2014 4,564,293 119,784,261 2.1% 1.22%
2015 4,659,431 121,072,306 2.08% 1.08%
2016 4,755,608 122,251,351 2.06% 0.97%
2017 4,848,925 123,400,057 1.96% 0.94%
2018 4,944,726 124,573,711 1.98% 0.95%
2019 5,043,721 125,762,982 2% 0.95%
2020 5,149,463 126,799,054 2.1% 0.82%
2021 5,259,323 127,648,148 2.13% 0.67%
2022 5,373,294 128,613,117 2.17% 0.76%
2023 5,493,031 129,739,759 2.23% 0.88%
2024 5,612,817 130,861,007 2.18% 0.86%
2025 5,731,211 131,946,905 2.11% 0.83%
2026 5,853,958 132,997,664 2.14% 0.8%
2027 5,986,805 134,017,711 2.27% 0.77%
2028 6,118,769 135,008,697 2.2% 0.74%
2029 6,245,093 135,970,893 2.06% 0.71%
2030 6,366,293 136,904,747 1.94% 0.69%
2031 6,486,749 137,811,068 1.89% 0.66%
2032 6,614,257 138,690,189 1.97% 0.64%
2033 6,744,927 139,542,087 1.98% 0.61%
2034 6,873,688 140,362,026 1.91% 0.59%
2035 7,003,567 141,150,818 1.89% 0.56%
2036 7,142,326 141,909,168 1.98% 0.54%
2037 7,278,759 142,637,546 1.91% 0.51%
2038 7,408,720 143,336,222 1.79% 0.49%
2039 7,545,510 143,998,296 1.85% 0.46%
2040 7,681,693 144,624,328 1.8% 0.43%
2041 7,817,089 145,217,780 1.76% 0.41%
2042 7,954,182 145,777,459 1.75% 0.39%
2043 8,077,173 146,300,011 1.55% 0.36%
2044 8,194,136 146,787,722 1.45% 0.33%
2045 8,310,657 147,240,096 1.42% 0.31%
2046 8,428,924 147,654,160 1.42% 0.28%
2047 8,552,033 148,030,153 1.46% 0.25%
2048 8,673,963 148,372,233 1.43% 0.23%
2049 8,795,838 148,677,894 1.41% 0.21%
2050 8,910,539 148,946,272 1.3% 0.18%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Liberia increased by 1,358,416 people (a 41.2% growth), while Mexico gained 15,260,802 people (a 14.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Liberia gained 1,170,380 (a 25.1% growth), while Mexico's population increased by 11,718,651 (a 9.68% growth).

Liberia was ranked 129th most populous country in 2005 and is 116th in 2025. Mexico was ranked 11th in 2005 and still ranked 11th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Liberia's population will grow by 52.8% to 8,910,539 people with a rank change from 116th to 107th. The population of Mexico will increase by 12.2% to 148,946,272 people and rank change from 11th to 12th.

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