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Population in Madagascar compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Madagascar was 31,964,956 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Madagascar's population is 33,368,335 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • Madagascar's population is 1.76 times bigger than Romania's.
  • Madagascar is ranked the 49th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 0.63% of the world: 0.4% for Madagascar vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, Madagascar has had an average growth rate of +2.6% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Madagascar has increased from 19.2M people to 33.4M (74.2% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • Madagascar is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 85.3M people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

Madagascar vs Romania: live population counter

Madagascar Romania
Current population
33368335
18962595
Population rank 49/197 69/197
Percent of world population 0.4% 0.23%
One net population change
41 seconds
53.3 minutes
One birth every
31.5 seconds
3.45 minutes
One death every
2.24 minutes
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
4.88 hours
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change -1,795 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +2,107 +27
Annual growth/decline +769,024 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +2.47% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 31/197 162/197

Madagascar and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Madagascar
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Madagascar Romania Madagascar Romania
1960 5,111,029 18,406,905 - -
1961 5,246,158 18,555,250 2.64% 0.81%
1962 5,384,150 18,676,550 2.63% 0.65%
1963 5,525,185 18,797,850 2.62% 0.65%
1964 5,669,863 18,919,126 2.62% 0.65%
1965 5,819,116 19,031,576 2.63% 0.59%
1966 5,974,279 19,215,450 2.67% 0.97%
1967 6,136,486 19,534,242 2.72% 1.66%
1968 6,306,493 19,799,831 2.77% 1.36%
1969 6,484,716 20,009,141 2.83% 1.06%
1970 6,672,003 20,250,398 2.89% 1.21%
1971 6,868,868 20,461,567 2.95% 1.04%
1972 7,074,398 20,657,957 2.99% 0.96%
1973 7,288,048 20,835,681 3.02% 0.86%
1974 7,509,726 21,029,429 3.04% 0.93%
1975 7,739,336 21,293,583 3.06% 1.26%
1976 7,976,831 21,551,634 3.07% 1.21%
1977 8,222,240 21,756,096 3.08% 0.95%
1978 8,475,864 21,951,464 3.08% 0.9%
1979 8,737,581 22,090,488 3.09% 0.63%
1980 9,006,032 22,207,282 3.07% 0.53%
1981 9,279,011 22,353,070 3.03% 0.66%
1982 9,557,671 22,475,741 3% 0.55%
1983 9,843,044 22,560,478 2.99% 0.38%
1984 10,134,550 22,640,547 2.96% 0.35%
1985 10,433,142 22,732,999 2.95% 0.41%
1986 10,736,857 22,836,841 2.91% 0.46%
1987 11,047,291 22,949,430 2.89% 0.49%
1988 11,369,462 23,057,662 2.92% 0.47%
1989 11,704,998 23,161,458 2.95% 0.45%
1990 12,055,639 23,201,835 3% 0.17%
1991 12,421,412 23,001,155 3.03% -0.86%
1992 12,800,870 22,794,284 3.05% -0.9%
1993 13,197,345 22,763,280 3.1% -0.14%
1994 13,613,850 22,730,211 3.16% -0.15%
1995 14,051,275 22,684,270 3.21% -0.2%
1996 14,510,711 22,619,004 3.27% -0.29%
1997 14,990,814 22,553,978 3.31% -0.29%
1998 15,489,364 22,507,344 3.33% -0.21%
1999 16,000,506 22,472,040 3.3% -0.16%
2000 16,516,338 22,442,971 3.22% -0.13%
2001 17,032,939 22,131,970 3.13% -1.39%
2002 17,549,913 21,730,496 3.04% -1.81%
2003 18,071,854 21,574,326 2.97% -0.72%
2004 18,606,608 21,451,748 2.96% -0.57%
2005 19,159,707 21,319,685 2.97% -0.62%
2006 19,730,909 21,193,760 2.98% -0.59%
2007 20,318,583 20,882,982 2.98% -1.47%
2008 20,923,840 20,537,875 2.98% -1.65%
2009 21,547,280 20,367,487 2.98% -0.83%
2010 22,183,340 20,246,871 2.95% -0.59%
2011 22,822,300 20,147,528 2.88% -0.49%
2012 23,462,438 20,058,035 2.8% -0.44%
2013 24,109,290 19,983,693 2.76% -0.37%
2014 24,764,348 19,908,979 2.72% -0.37%
2015 25,426,702 19,815,616 2.67% -0.47%
2016 26,099,952 19,702,267 2.65% -0.57%
2017 26,788,375 19,588,715 2.64% -0.58%
2018 27,494,926 19,473,970 2.64% -0.59%
2019 28,219,554 19,371,648 2.64% -0.53%
2020 28,953,556 19,265,250 2.6% -0.55%
2021 29,691,083 19,122,059 2.55% -0.74%
2022 30,437,261 19,048,502 2.51% -0.38%
2023 31,195,932 19,059,479 2.49% 0.06%
2024 31,964,956 19,069,340 2.47% 0.05%
2025 32,740,675 18,962,595 2.43% -0.56%
2026 33,522,048 18,854,232 2.39% -0.57%
2027 34,308,785 18,744,883 2.35% -0.58%
2028 35,099,853 18,634,894 2.31% -0.59%
2029 35,894,674 18,523,736 2.26% -0.6%
2030 36,693,182 18,411,878 2.22% -0.6%
2031 37,495,701 18,299,820 2.19% -0.61%
2032 38,301,308 18,187,406 2.15% -0.61%
2033 39,109,380 18,074,282 2.11% -0.62%
2034 39,919,948 17,960,330 2.07% -0.63%
2035 40,733,841 17,845,182 2.04% -0.64%
2036 41,551,309 17,728,480 2.01% -0.65%
2037 42,371,330 17,611,384 1.97% -0.66%
2038 43,194,142 17,493,684 1.94% -0.67%
2039 44,019,285 17,375,991 1.91% -0.67%
2040 44,846,889 17,258,810 1.88% -0.67%
2041 45,676,973 17,140,535 1.85% -0.69%
2042 46,508,810 17,022,168 1.82% -0.69%
2043 47,342,285 16,904,427 1.79% -0.69%
2044 48,176,594 16,786,029 1.76% -0.7%
2045 49,011,270 16,667,734 1.73% -0.7%
2046 49,846,522 16,550,066 1.7% -0.71%
2047 50,682,055 16,431,566 1.68% -0.72%
2048 51,517,342 16,312,099 1.65% -0.73%
2049 52,351,981 16,192,424 1.62% -0.73%
2050 53,185,464 16,072,989 1.59% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Madagascar increased by 6,266,995 people (a 32.7% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Madagascar gained 7,941,633 (a 31.2% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Madagascar was ranked 57th most populous country in 2005 and is 49th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Madagascar's population will grow by 59.4% to 53,185,464 people with a rank change from 49th to 37th. The population of Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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