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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Malawi was 21,655,286 in 2024 vs 130,861,007 people in Mexico in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Malawi's population is 22,673,513 people compared to 132,790,957 in Mexico.

Population statistics:

  • Mexico's population is 5.86 times bigger than Malawi's.
  • Malawi is ranked the 61st most populous country in the world, while Mexico is the 11th.
  • The countries together account for 1.88% of the world: 0.27% for Malawi vs 1.61% for Mexico.
  • For the last 10 years, Malawi has had an average growth rate of +2.7% per year vs +0.92% in Mexico.
  • Since 2005, the population of Malawi has increased from 12.8M people to 22.7M (76.6% growth), while Mexico has grown from 106M to 133M (25.5% growth).
  • Malawi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 59.1M people compared to the peak of 150M people in 2058 for Mexico.

Malawi vs Mexico: live population counter

Malawi Mexico
Current population
22673513
132790957
Population rank 61/197 11/197
Percent of world population 0.27% 1.61%
One net population change
57.3 seconds
28.1 seconds
One birth every
47.6 seconds
15.5 seconds
One death every
4.64 minutes
39.5 seconds
One migration net change every
5.81 hours
5.03 minutes
Annual migration change -1,507 -104,581
Daily growth/decline +1,509 +3,072
Annual growth/decline +550,804 +1,121,248
Annual growth/decline rate +2.61% +0.86%
Population growth rate rank 27/197 113/197

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

Malawi
Population

Growth rate
Mexico
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Malawi Mexico Malawi Mexico
1960 3,628,134 36,724,615 - -
1961 3,715,534 37,890,118 2.41% 3.17%
1962 3,806,307 39,129,200 2.44% 3.27%
1963 3,900,506 40,424,065 2.47% 3.31%
1964 3,997,305 41,772,049 2.48% 3.33%
1965 4,096,157 43,174,477 2.47% 3.36%
1966 4,197,926 44,629,106 2.48% 3.37%
1967 4,303,012 46,129,608 2.5% 3.36%
1968 4,411,054 47,668,303 2.51% 3.34%
1969 4,521,184 49,233,194 2.5% 3.28%
1970 4,633,944 50,814,953 2.49% 3.21%
1971 4,751,434 52,412,558 2.54% 3.14%
1972 4,874,475 54,030,168 2.59% 3.09%
1973 5,003,938 55,667,284 2.66% 3.03%
1974 5,141,337 57,320,149 2.75% 2.97%
1975 5,287,367 58,982,400 2.84% 2.9%
1976 5,443,384 60,645,512 2.95% 2.82%
1977 5,614,983 62,308,493 3.15% 2.74%
1978 5,810,132 63,979,046 3.48% 2.68%
1979 6,028,749 65,648,865 3.76% 2.61%
1980 6,265,529 67,300,334 3.93% 2.52%
1981 6,516,454 68,892,108 4% 2.37%
1982 6,778,879 70,433,260 4.03% 2.24%
1983 7,051,709 71,971,240 4.02% 2.18%
1984 7,332,810 73,506,846 3.99% 2.13%
1985 7,620,508 75,043,414 3.92% 2.09%
1986 7,906,480 76,585,637 3.75% 2.06%
1987 8,293,174 78,136,651 4.89% 2.03%
1988 8,753,262 79,695,531 5.55% 2%
1989 9,176,220 81,247,182 4.83% 1.95%
1990 9,545,852 82,820,170 4.03% 1.94%
1991 9,844,227 84,430,572 3.13% 1.94%
1992 10,135,079 86,044,809 2.95% 1.91%
1993 10,284,024 87,653,807 1.47% 1.87%
1994 10,164,894 89,259,205 -1.16% 1.83%
1995 10,150,117 90,862,455 -0.15% 1.8%
1996 10,352,228 92,452,702 1.99% 1.75%
1997 10,562,035 94,021,207 2.03% 1.7%
1998 10,792,876 95,575,245 2.19% 1.65%
1999 11,047,804 97,115,707 2.36% 1.61%
2000 11,315,942 98,625,552 2.43% 1.55%
2001 11,593,058 100,099,099 2.45% 1.49%
2002 11,880,440 101,548,624 2.48% 1.45%
2003 12,181,574 102,978,515 2.53% 1.41%
2004 12,500,737 104,394,131 2.62% 1.37%
2005 12,840,031 105,811,504 2.71% 1.36%
2006 13,198,701 107,253,666 2.79% 1.36%
2007 13,576,343 108,774,360 2.86% 1.42%
2008 13,976,417 110,374,288 2.95% 1.47%
2009 14,395,788 111,999,721 3% 1.47%
2010 14,826,463 113,623,895 2.99% 1.45%
2011 15,265,022 115,243,504 2.96% 1.43%
2012 15,709,577 116,818,208 2.91% 1.37%
2013 16,161,816 118,343,573 2.88% 1.31%
2014 16,621,538 119,784,261 2.84% 1.22%
2015 17,085,587 121,072,306 2.79% 1.08%
2016 17,557,739 122,251,351 2.76% 0.97%
2017 18,039,715 123,400,057 2.75% 0.94%
2018 18,528,081 124,573,711 2.71% 0.95%
2019 19,025,752 125,762,982 2.69% 0.95%
2020 19,533,888 126,799,054 2.67% 0.82%
2021 20,047,258 127,648,148 2.63% 0.67%
2022 20,568,728 128,613,117 2.6% 0.76%
2023 21,104,482 129,739,759 2.6% 0.88%
2024 21,655,286 130,861,007 2.61% 0.86%
2025 22,216,113 131,946,905 2.59% 0.83%
2026 22,785,530 132,997,664 2.56% 0.8%
2027 23,366,187 134,017,711 2.55% 0.77%
2028 23,954,450 135,008,697 2.52% 0.74%
2029 24,553,499 135,970,893 2.5% 0.71%
2030 25,160,293 136,904,747 2.47% 0.69%
2031 25,763,534 137,811,068 2.4% 0.66%
2032 26,366,760 138,690,189 2.34% 0.64%
2033 26,978,417 139,542,087 2.32% 0.61%
2034 27,595,295 140,362,026 2.29% 0.59%
2035 28,213,784 141,150,818 2.24% 0.56%
2036 28,835,595 141,909,168 2.2% 0.54%
2037 29,462,509 142,637,546 2.17% 0.51%
2038 30,081,741 143,336,222 2.1% 0.49%
2039 30,691,578 143,998,296 2.03% 0.46%
2040 31,302,092 144,624,328 1.99% 0.43%
2041 31,911,242 145,217,780 1.95% 0.41%
2042 32,517,509 145,777,459 1.9% 0.39%
2043 33,122,481 146,300,011 1.86% 0.36%
2044 33,736,523 146,787,722 1.85% 0.33%
2045 34,350,947 147,240,096 1.82% 0.31%
2046 34,959,606 147,654,160 1.77% 0.28%
2047 35,567,989 148,030,153 1.74% 0.25%
2048 36,165,757 148,372,233 1.68% 0.23%
2049 36,760,998 148,677,894 1.65% 0.21%
2050 37,361,672 148,946,272 1.63% 0.18%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malawi increased by 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth), while Mexico gained 15,260,802 people (a 14.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malawi gained 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth), while Mexico's population increased by 11,718,651 (a 9.68% growth).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2005 and is 61st 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) Malawi's population will grow by 64.8% to 37,361,672 people with a rank change from 61st to 55th. 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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