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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Malawi	Moldova	Malawi	Moldova
1960	3,628,134	2,058,020	-	-
1961	3,715,534	2,103,327	2.41%	2.2%
1962	3,806,307	2,147,227	2.44%	2.09%
1963	3,900,506	2,188,895	2.47%	1.94%
1964	3,997,305	2,228,000	2.48%	1.79%
1965	4,096,157	2,265,287	2.47%	1.67%
1966	4,197,926	2,301,871	2.48%	1.61%
1967	4,303,012	2,337,695	2.5%	1.56%
1968	4,411,054	2,373,073	2.51%	1.51%
1969	4,521,184	2,408,469	2.5%	1.49%
1970	4,633,944	2,437,590	2.49%	1.21%
1971	4,751,434	2,460,611	2.54%	0.94%
1972	4,874,475	2,484,742	2.59%	0.98%
1973	5,003,938	2,510,584	2.66%	1.04%
1974	5,141,337	2,538,164	2.75%	1.1%
1975	5,287,367	2,566,998	2.84%	1.14%
1976	5,443,384	2,596,491	2.95%	1.15%
1977	5,614,983	2,626,298	3.15%	1.15%
1978	5,810,132	2,656,211	3.48%	1.14%
1979	6,028,749	2,683,035	3.76%	1.01%
1980	6,265,529	2,708,675	3.93%	0.96%
1981	6,516,454	2,735,987	4%	1.01%
1982	6,778,879	2,763,101	4.03%	0.99%
1983	7,051,709	2,791,207	4.02%	1.02%
1984	7,332,810	2,820,518	3.99%	1.05%
1985	7,620,508	2,850,787	3.92%	1.07%
1986	7,906,480	2,883,057	3.75%	1.13%
1987	8,293,174	2,916,306	4.89%	1.15%
1988	8,753,262	2,948,891	5.55%	1.12%
1989	9,176,220	2,970,039	4.83%	0.72%
1990	9,545,852	2,977,912	4.03%	0.27%
1991	9,844,227	2,981,566	3.13%	0.12%
1992	10,135,079	2,980,965	2.95%	-0.02%
1993	10,284,024	2,975,966	1.47%	-0.17%
1994	10,164,894	2,966,745	-1.16%	-0.31%
1995	10,150,117	2,953,200	-0.15%	-0.46%
1996	10,352,228	2,947,293	1.99%	-0.2%
1997	10,562,035	2,936,413	2.03%	-0.37%
1998	10,792,876	2,935,227	2.19%	-0.04%
1999	11,047,804	2,930,622	2.36%	-0.16%
2000	11,315,942	2,924,668	2.43%	-0.2%
2001	11,593,058	2,918,135	2.45%	-0.22%
2002	11,880,440	2,911,385	2.48%	-0.23%
2003	12,181,574	2,903,198	2.53%	-0.28%
2004	12,500,737	2,896,023	2.62%	-0.25%
2005	12,840,031	2,888,985	2.71%	-0.24%
2006	13,198,701	2,880,967	2.79%	-0.28%
2007	13,576,343	2,874,299	2.86%	-0.23%
2008	13,976,417	2,868,833	2.95%	-0.19%
2009	14,395,788	2,865,213	3%	-0.13%
2010	14,826,463	2,862,354	2.99%	-0.1%
2011	15,265,022	2,860,699	2.96%	-0.06%
2012	15,709,577	2,860,324	2.91%	-0.01%
2013	16,161,816	2,859,558	2.88%	-0.03%
2014	16,621,538	2,857,815	2.84%	-0.06%
2015	17,085,587	2,835,978	2.79%	-0.76%
2016	17,557,739	2,803,186	2.76%	-1.16%
2017	18,039,715	2,755,189	2.75%	-1.71%
2018	18,528,081	2,707,203	2.71%	-1.74%
2019	19,025,752	2,664,224	2.69%	-1.59%
2020	19,533,888	2,635,130	2.67%	-1.09%
2021	20,047,258	2,595,809	2.63%	-1.49%
2022	20,568,728	2,528,654	2.6%	-2.59%
2023	21,104,482	2,457,783	2.6%	-2.8%
2024	21,655,286	2,402,306	2.61%	-2.26%
2025	22,216,113	2,371,543	2.59%	-1.28%
2026	22,785,530	2,343,963	2.56%	-1.16%
2027	23,366,187	2,321,110	2.55%	-0.97%
2028	23,954,450	2,298,239	2.52%	-0.99%
2029	24,553,499	2,275,251	2.5%	-1%
2030	25,160,293	2,252,131	2.47%	-1.02%
2031	25,763,534	2,229,191	2.4%	-1.02%
2032	26,366,760	2,206,559	2.34%	-1.02%
2033	26,978,417	2,183,929	2.32%	-1.03%
2034	27,595,295	2,161,282	2.29%	-1.04%
2035	28,213,784	2,138,754	2.24%	-1.04%
2036	28,835,595	2,116,659	2.2%	-1.03%
2037	29,462,509	2,095,127	2.17%	-1.02%
2038	30,081,741	2,074,054	2.1%	-1.01%
2039	30,691,578	2,053,352	2.03%	-1%
2040	31,302,092	2,033,323	1.99%	-0.98%
2041	31,911,242	2,014,222	1.95%	-0.94%
2042	32,517,509	1,995,750	1.9%	-0.92%
2043	33,122,481	1,977,688	1.86%	-0.9%
2044	33,736,523	1,960,241	1.85%	-0.88%
2045	34,350,947	1,943,187	1.82%	-0.87%
2046	34,959,606	1,926,432	1.77%	-0.86%
2047	35,567,989	1,910,142	1.74%	-0.85%
2048	36,165,757	1,894,069	1.68%	-0.84%
2049	36,760,998	1,877,822	1.65%	-0.86%
2050	37,361,672	1,861,554	1.63%	-0.87%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Malawi increased by 4,359,038 people (a 33% growth), while Moldova lost 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Malawi gained 5,234,136 (a 29.8% growth), while Moldova's population decreased by -459,223 (a 16.4% decline).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2006 and is 61st in 2026. Moldova was ranked 134th in 2006 and ranked 144th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Malawi's population will grow by 63.9% to 37,361,672 people with a rank change from 61st to 55th. The population of Moldova will decrease by 20.6% to 1,861,554 people and rank change from 144th to 150th.