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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Malawi was 21,655,286 in 2024 vs 623,831 people in Montenegro in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Malawi's population is 22,673,513 people compared to 618,209 in Montenegro.

Population statistics:

  • Malawi's population is 36.7 times bigger than Montenegro's.
  • Malawi is ranked the 61st most populous country in the world, while Montenegro is the 166th.
  • The countries together account for 0.28% of the world: 0.27% for Malawi vs 0.007% for Montenegro.
  • For the last 10 years, Malawi has had an average growth rate of +2.7% per year vs +0.02% in Montenegro.
  • Since 2005, the population of Malawi has increased from 12.8M people to 22.7M (76.6% growth), while Montenegro has grown from 614K to 618K (0.64% growth).
  • Malawi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 59.1M people, while Montenegro's population already peaked in 2019 at 627K people and is projected to decrease to 319K people by 2100.

Malawi vs Montenegro: live population counter

Malawi Montenegro
Current population
22673513
618209
Population rank 61/197 166/197
Percent of world population 0.27% 0.007%
One net population change
57.3 seconds
1.21 days
One birth every
47.6 seconds
1.25 hours
One death every
4.64 minutes
1.39 hours
One migration net change every
5.81 hours
5.2 hours
Annual migration change -1,507 -1,686
Daily growth/decline +1,509 +1
Annual growth/decline +550,804 +302
Annual growth/decline rate +2.61% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 27/197 163/197

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

Malawi
Population

Growth rate
Montenegro
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Malawi Montenegro Malawi Montenegro
1960 3,628,134 480,579 - -
1961 3,715,534 491,140 2.41% 2.2%
1962 3,806,307 502,558 2.44% 2.32%
1963 3,900,506 513,409 2.47% 2.16%
1964 3,997,305 521,753 2.48% 1.63%
1965 4,096,157 526,327 2.47% 0.88%
1966 4,197,926 526,419 2.48% 0.02%
1967 4,303,012 522,796 2.5% -0.69%
1968 4,411,054 517,481 2.51% -1.02%
1969 4,521,184 513,340 2.5% -0.8%
1970 4,633,944 512,407 2.49% -0.18%
1971 4,751,434 515,449 2.54% 0.59%
1972 4,874,475 521,785 2.59% 1.23%
1973 5,003,938 530,220 2.66% 1.62%
1974 5,141,337 538,902 2.75% 1.64%
1975 5,287,367 546,487 2.84% 1.41%
1976 5,443,384 552,562 2.95% 1.11%
1977 5,614,983 557,576 3.15% 0.91%
1978 5,810,132 562,065 3.48% 0.81%
1979 6,028,749 566,888 3.76% 0.86%
1980 6,265,529 572,608 3.93% 1.01%
1981 6,516,454 579,445 4% 1.19%
1982 6,778,879 587,001 4.03% 1.3%
1983 7,051,709 594,506 4.02% 1.28%
1984 7,332,810 600,884 3.99% 1.07%
1985 7,620,508 605,398 3.92% 0.75%
1986 7,906,480 607,711 3.75% 0.38%
1987 8,293,174 608,144 4.89% 0.07%
1988 8,753,262 607,413 5.55% -0.12%
1989 9,176,220 606,571 4.83% -0.14%
1990 9,545,852 606,372 4.03% -0.03%
1991 9,844,227 607,105 3.13% 0.12%
1992 10,135,079 608,516 2.95% 0.23%
1993 10,284,024 610,170 1.47% 0.27%
1994 10,164,894 611,389 -1.16% 0.2%
1995 10,150,117 611,712 -0.15% 0.05%
1996 10,352,228 611,003 1.99% -0.12%
1997 10,562,035 609,520 2.03% -0.24%
1998 10,792,876 607,662 2.19% -0.3%
1999 11,047,804 606,001 2.36% -0.27%
2000 11,315,942 604,950 2.43% -0.17%
2001 11,593,058 607,389 2.45% 0.4%
2002 11,880,440 609,828 2.48% 0.4%
2003 12,181,574 612,267 2.53% 0.4%
2004 12,500,737 613,353 2.62% 0.18%
2005 12,840,031 614,261 2.71% 0.15%
2006 13,198,701 615,025 2.79% 0.12%
2007 13,576,343 615,875 2.86% 0.14%
2008 13,976,417 616,969 2.95% 0.18%
2009 14,395,788 618,294 3% 0.21%
2010 14,826,463 619,428 2.99% 0.18%
2011 15,265,022 620,345 2.96% 0.15%
2012 15,709,577 621,418 2.91% 0.17%
2013 16,161,816 622,587 2.88% 0.19%
2014 16,621,538 623,744 2.84% 0.19%
2015 17,085,587 624,651 2.79% 0.15%
2016 17,557,739 625,353 2.76% 0.11%
2017 18,039,715 625,982 2.75% 0.1%
2018 18,528,081 626,438 2.71% 0.07%
2019 19,025,752 626,753 2.69% 0.05%
2020 19,533,888 626,590 2.67% -0.03%
2021 20,047,258 625,053 2.63% -0.25%
2022 20,568,728 623,591 2.6% -0.23%
2023 21,104,482 623,529 2.6% -0.01%
2024 21,655,286 623,831 2.61% 0.05%
2025 22,216,113 618,209 2.59% -0.9%
2026 22,785,530 611,868 2.56% -1.03%
2027 23,366,187 608,570 2.55% -0.54%
2028 23,954,450 605,281 2.52% -0.54%
2029 24,553,499 601,917 2.5% -0.56%
2030 25,160,293 598,501 2.47% -0.57%
2031 25,763,534 595,047 2.4% -0.58%
2032 26,366,760 591,507 2.34% -0.59%
2033 26,978,417 587,900 2.32% -0.61%
2034 27,595,295 584,230 2.29% -0.62%
2035 28,213,784 580,502 2.24% -0.64%
2036 28,835,595 576,713 2.2% -0.65%
2037 29,462,509 572,889 2.17% -0.66%
2038 30,081,741 569,027 2.1% -0.67%
2039 30,691,578 565,147 2.03% -0.68%
2040 31,302,092 561,254 1.99% -0.69%
2041 31,911,242 557,345 1.95% -0.7%
2042 32,517,509 553,430 1.9% -0.7%
2043 33,122,481 549,485 1.86% -0.71%
2044 33,736,523 545,508 1.85% -0.72%
2045 34,350,947 541,510 1.82% -0.73%
2046 34,959,606 537,487 1.77% -0.74%
2047 35,567,989 533,411 1.74% -0.76%
2048 36,165,757 529,311 1.68% -0.77%
2049 36,760,998 525,208 1.65% -0.78%
2050 37,361,672 521,056 1.63% -0.79%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malawi increased by 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth), while Montenegro gained 10,390 people (a 1.69% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malawi gained 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth), while Montenegro's population decreased by -6,442 (a 1.03% decline).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2005 and is 61st in 2025. Montenegro was ranked 162nd in 2005 and ranked 166th 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 Montenegro will decrease by 15.7% to 521,056 people and rank change from 166th to 170th.

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