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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Lithuania was 2,888,055 in 2024 vs 574,346 people in Malta in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Lithuania's population is 2,858,798 people compared to 583,596 in Malta.

Population statistics:

  • Lithuania's population is 4.9 times bigger than Malta's.
  • Lithuania is ranked the 139th most populous country in the world, while Malta is the 167th.
  • The countries together account for 0.04% of the world: 0.03% for Lithuania vs 0.007% for Malta.
  • For the last 10 years, Lithuania has had an average growth rate of -0.22% per year vs +2.78% in Malta.
  • Since 2005, the population of Lithuania has decreased from 3.32M people to 2.86M (14% decline), while Malta has grown from 404K to 584K (44.5% growth).
  • Malta is projected to reach its peak in 2033 at 593K people, while Lithuania's population already peaked in 1991 at 3.7M people and is projected to decrease to 1.22M people by 2100.

Lithuania vs Malta: live population counter

Lithuania Malta
Current population
2858798
583596
Population rank 139/197 167/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.007%
One net population change
31.9 minutes
24.3 minutes
One birth every
25.4 minutes
1.96 hours
One death every
14.2 minutes
2.17 hours
One migration net change every
3.35 hours
1.39 hours
Annual migration change +2,617 +6,323
Daily growth/decline +45 +59
Annual growth/decline +16,470 +21,599
Annual growth/decline rate +0.57% +3.91%
Population growth rate rank 128/197 7/197

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

Lithuania
Population

Growth rate
Malta
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Lithuania Malta Lithuania Malta
1960 2,778,550 326,550 - -
1961 2,823,550 325,250 1.62% -0.4%
1962 2,863,350 323,900 1.41% -0.42%
1963 2,898,950 322,550 1.24% -0.42%
1964 2,935,200 321,250 1.25% -0.4%
1965 2,971,450 318,800 1.24% -0.76%
1966 3,008,050 315,200 1.23% -1.13%
1967 3,044,400 311,550 1.21% -1.16%
1968 3,078,850 307,900 1.13% -1.17%
1969 3,107,321 304,300 0.92% -1.17%
1970 3,139,689 302,650 1.04% -0.54%
1971 3,179,041 302,700 1.25% 0.02%
1972 3,213,622 302,450 1.09% -0.08%
1973 3,244,438 302,200 0.96% -0.08%
1974 3,273,894 301,996 0.91% -0.07%
1975 3,301,652 304,222 0.85% 0.74%
1976 3,328,664 305,774 0.82% 0.51%
1977 3,355,036 306,970 0.79% 0.39%
1978 3,379,514 310,182 0.73% 1.05%
1979 3,397,842 313,342 0.54% 1.02%
1980 3,413,202 316,645 0.45% 1.05%
1981 3,432,947 318,982 0.58% 0.74%
1982 3,457,179 325,898 0.71% 2.17%
1983 3,485,192 330,524 0.81% 1.42%
1984 3,514,205 330,593 0.83% 0.02%
1985 3,544,543 336,452 0.86% 1.77%
1986 3,578,914 342,121 0.97% 1.68%
1987 3,616,367 344,485 1.05% 0.69%
1988 3,655,049 347,325 1.07% 0.82%
1989 3,684,255 350,722 0.8% 0.98%
1990 3,697,838 354,170 0.37% 0.98%
1991 3,704,134 363,845 0.17% 2.73%
1992 3,700,114 367,618 -0.11% 1.04%
1993 3,682,613 371,308 -0.47% 1%
1994 3,657,144 374,797 -0.69% 0.94%
1995 3,629,102 377,419 -0.77% 0.7%
1996 3,601,613 379,905 -0.76% 0.66%
1997 3,575,137 382,791 -0.74% 0.76%
1998 3,549,331 385,287 -0.72% 0.65%
1999 3,524,238 387,578 -0.71% 0.59%
2000 3,499,536 390,087 -0.7% 0.65%
2001 3,470,818 393,028 -0.82% 0.75%
2002 3,443,067 395,969 -0.8% 0.75%
2003 3,415,213 398,582 -0.81% 0.66%
2004 3,377,075 401,268 -1.12% 0.67%
2005 3,322,528 403,834 -1.62% 0.64%
2006 3,269,909 405,308 -1.58% 0.37%
2007 3,231,294 406,724 -1.18% 0.35%
2008 3,198,231 409,379 -1.02% 0.65%
2009 3,162,916 412,477 -1.1% 0.76%
2010 3,097,282 414,508 -2.08% 0.49%
2011 3,028,115 416,268 -2.23% 0.42%
2012 2,989,139 420,028 -1.29% 0.9%
2013 2,961,250 424,810 -0.93% 1.14%
2014 2,937,253 433,481 -0.81% 2.04%
2015 2,911,109 444,220 -0.89% 2.48%
2016 2,877,325 454,505 -1.16% 2.32%
2017 2,842,639 467,106 -1.21% 2.77%
2018 2,819,200 483,903 -0.82% 3.6%
2019 2,811,089 503,912 -0.29% 4.13%
2020 2,810,369 515,490 -0.03% 2.3%
2021 2,808,380 518,150 -0.07% 0.52%
2022 2,831,639 531,113 0.83% 2.5%
2023 2,871,585 552,747 1.41% 4.07%
2024 2,888,055 574,346 0.57% 3.91%
2025 2,858,798 580,514 -1.01% 1.07%
2026 2,825,654 584,351 -1.16% 0.66%
2027 2,802,305 586,444 -0.83% 0.36%
2028 2,779,027 588,290 -0.83% 0.31%
2029 2,756,161 589,776 -0.82% 0.25%
2030 2,733,754 590,973 -0.81% 0.2%
2031 2,711,641 591,921 -0.81% 0.16%
2032 2,689,763 592,622 -0.81% 0.12%
2033 2,667,885 592,974 -0.81% 0.06%
2034 2,645,788 592,827 -0.83% -0.02%
2035 2,623,682 592,332 -0.84% -0.08%
2036 2,601,571 591,668 -0.84% -0.11%
2037 2,578,933 590,830 -0.87% -0.14%
2038 2,556,081 589,771 -0.89% -0.18%
2039 2,532,957 588,528 -0.9% -0.21%
2040 2,509,992 587,256 -0.91% -0.22%
2041 2,487,384 585,895 -0.9% -0.23%
2042 2,464,530 584,467 -0.92% -0.24%
2043 2,441,408 582,966 -0.94% -0.26%
2044 2,418,568 581,355 -0.94% -0.28%
2045 2,396,153 579,693 -0.93% -0.29%
2046 2,373,696 577,954 -0.94% -0.3%
2047 2,350,800 576,050 -0.96% -0.33%
2048 2,327,686 574,050 -0.98% -0.35%
2049 2,304,838 572,187 -0.98% -0.32%
2050 2,281,631 570,210 -1.01% -0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Lithuania decreased by 411,419 people (a 12.4% decline), while Malta gained 40,386 people (a 10% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Lithuania lost -52,311 (a 1.8% decline), while Malta's population increased by 139,376 (a 31.4% growth).

Lithuania was ranked 126th most populous country in 2005 and is 139th 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) Lithuania's population will shrink by 20.2% to 2,281,631 people with a rank change from 139th to 145th. The population of Malta will decrease by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th.

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