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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Madagascar was 31,964,956 in 2024 vs 40,583,164 people in Yemen in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Madagascar's population is 33,368,335 people compared to 42,727,988 in Yemen.

Population statistics:

  • Yemen's population is 1.28 times bigger than Madagascar's.
  • Madagascar is ranked the 49th most populous country in the world, while Yemen is the 37th.
  • The countries together account for 0.92% of the world: 0.4% for Madagascar vs 0.52% for Yemen.
  • For the last 10 years, Madagascar has had an average growth rate of +2.6% per year vs +3% in Yemen.
  • Since 2005, the population of Madagascar has increased from 19.2M people to 33.4M (74.2% growth), while Yemen has grown from 22.8M to 42.7M (87.5% growth).
  • Madagascar is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 85.3M people compared to the peak of 110M people in 2100 for Yemen.

Madagascar vs Yemen: live population counter

Madagascar Yemen
Current population
33368335
42727988
Population rank 49/197 37/197
Percent of world population 0.4% 0.52%
One net population change
41 seconds
26.4 seconds
One birth every
31.5 seconds
22.7 seconds
One death every
2.24 minutes
2.78 minutes
One migration net change every
4.88 hours
50.1 minutes
Annual migration change -1,795 -10,482
Daily growth/decline +2,107 +3,267
Annual growth/decline +769,024 +1,192,365
Annual growth/decline rate +2.47% +3.03%
Population growth rate rank 31/197 14/197

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

Madagascar
Population

Growth rate
Yemen
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Madagascar Yemen Madagascar Yemen
1960 5,111,029 5,532,301 - -
1961 5,246,158 5,655,232 2.64% 2.22%
1962 5,384,150 5,782,221 2.63% 2.25%
1963 5,525,185 5,911,135 2.62% 2.23%
1964 5,669,863 6,048,006 2.62% 2.32%
1965 5,819,116 6,195,593 2.63% 2.44%
1966 5,974,279 6,351,494 2.67% 2.52%
1967 6,136,486 6,516,444 2.72% 2.6%
1968 6,306,493 6,690,524 2.77% 2.67%
1969 6,484,716 6,875,859 2.83% 2.77%
1970 6,672,003 7,065,279 2.89% 2.75%
1971 6,868,868 7,257,462 2.95% 2.72%
1972 7,074,398 7,460,068 2.99% 2.79%
1973 7,288,048 7,672,796 3.02% 2.85%
1974 7,509,726 7,896,783 3.04% 2.92%
1975 7,739,336 8,133,598 3.06% 3%
1976 7,976,831 8,384,113 3.07% 3.08%
1977 8,222,240 8,648,222 3.08% 3.15%
1978 8,475,864 8,926,586 3.08% 3.22%
1979 8,737,581 9,224,194 3.09% 3.33%
1980 9,006,032 9,543,358 3.07% 3.46%
1981 9,279,011 9,882,362 3.03% 3.55%
1982 9,557,671 10,241,006 3% 3.63%
1983 9,843,044 10,621,499 2.99% 3.72%
1984 10,134,550 11,025,597 2.96% 3.8%
1985 10,433,142 11,453,825 2.95% 3.88%
1986 10,736,857 11,901,040 2.91% 3.9%
1987 11,047,291 12,369,912 2.89% 3.94%
1988 11,369,462 12,859,708 2.92% 3.96%
1989 11,704,998 13,364,174 2.95% 3.92%
1990 12,055,639 13,887,862 3% 3.92%
1991 12,421,412 14,430,201 3.03% 3.91%
1992 12,800,870 14,989,494 3.05% 3.88%
1993 13,197,345 15,563,914 3.1% 3.83%
1994 13,613,850 16,149,147 3.16% 3.76%
1995 14,051,275 16,740,058 3.21% 3.66%
1996 14,510,711 17,313,177 3.27% 3.42%
1997 14,990,814 17,873,936 3.31% 3.24%
1998 15,489,364 18,446,013 3.33% 3.2%
1999 16,000,506 19,029,420 3.3% 3.16%
2000 16,516,338 19,624,141 3.22% 3.13%
2001 17,032,939 20,226,147 3.13% 3.07%
2002 17,549,913 20,835,086 3.04% 3.01%
2003 18,071,854 21,456,379 2.97% 2.98%
2004 18,606,608 22,095,167 2.96% 2.98%
2005 19,159,707 22,790,085 2.97% 3.15%
2006 19,730,909 23,543,083 2.98% 3.3%
2007 20,318,583 24,318,082 2.98% 3.29%
2008 20,923,840 25,111,941 2.98% 3.26%
2009 21,547,280 25,927,724 2.98% 3.25%
2010 22,183,340 26,754,387 2.95% 3.19%
2011 22,822,300 27,582,897 2.88% 3.1%
2012 23,462,438 28,433,647 2.8% 3.08%
2013 24,109,290 29,312,952 2.76% 3.09%
2014 24,764,348 30,226,309 2.72% 3.12%
2015 25,426,702 31,159,379 2.67% 3.09%
2016 26,099,952 32,109,010 2.65% 3.05%
2017 26,788,375 33,090,921 2.64% 3.06%
2018 27,494,926 34,085,182 2.64% 3%
2019 28,219,554 35,111,408 2.64% 3.01%
2020 28,953,556 36,134,863 2.6% 2.91%
2021 29,691,083 37,140,230 2.55% 2.78%
2022 30,437,261 38,222,876 2.51% 2.92%
2023 31,195,932 39,390,799 2.49% 3.06%
2024 31,964,956 40,583,164 2.47% 3.03%
2025 32,740,675 41,773,871 2.43% 2.93%
2026 33,522,048 42,961,650 2.39% 2.84%
2027 34,308,785 44,145,620 2.35% 2.76%
2028 35,099,853 45,323,685 2.31% 2.67%
2029 35,894,674 46,497,573 2.26% 2.59%
2030 36,693,182 47,667,649 2.22% 2.52%
2031 37,495,701 48,827,503 2.19% 2.43%
2032 38,301,308 49,979,089 2.15% 2.36%
2033 39,109,380 51,129,867 2.11% 2.3%
2034 39,919,948 52,279,989 2.07% 2.25%
2035 40,733,841 53,429,308 2.04% 2.2%
2036 41,551,309 54,578,046 2.01% 2.15%
2037 42,371,330 55,724,259 1.97% 2.1%
2038 43,194,142 56,872,152 1.94% 2.06%
2039 44,019,285 58,024,713 1.91% 2.03%
2040 44,846,889 59,181,514 1.88% 1.99%
2041 45,676,973 60,345,667 1.85% 1.97%
2042 46,508,810 61,517,965 1.82% 1.94%
2043 47,342,285 62,696,517 1.79% 1.92%
2044 48,176,594 63,880,172 1.76% 1.89%
2045 49,011,270 65,066,344 1.73% 1.86%
2046 49,846,522 66,253,578 1.7% 1.82%
2047 50,682,055 67,438,796 1.68% 1.79%
2048 51,517,342 68,620,844 1.65% 1.75%
2049 52,351,981 69,799,794 1.62% 1.72%
2050 53,185,464 70,976,389 1.59% 1.69%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Madagascar increased by 6,266,995 people (a 32.7% growth), while Yemen gained 8,369,294 people (a 36.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Madagascar gained 7,941,633 (a 31.2% growth), while Yemen's population increased by 11,568,609 (a 37.1% growth).

Madagascar was ranked 57th most populous country in 2005 and is 49th in 2025. Yemen was ranked 47th in 2005 and ranked 37th 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 Yemen will increase by 66.1% to 70,976,389 people and rank change from 37th to 29th.

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