Population in Malawi compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Malawi and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Malawi	North Korea	Malawi	North Korea
1960	3,628,134	11,722,953	-	-
1961	3,715,534	11,990,713	2.41%	2.28%
1962	3,806,307	12,262,882	2.44%	2.27%
1963	3,900,506	12,567,057	2.47%	2.48%
1964	3,997,305	12,889,770	2.48%	2.57%
1965	4,096,157	13,219,369	2.47%	2.56%
1966	4,197,926	13,569,094	2.48%	2.65%
1967	4,303,012	13,958,350	2.5%	2.87%
1968	4,411,054	14,365,596	2.51%	2.92%
1969	4,521,184	14,767,615	2.5%	2.8%
1970	4,633,944	15,172,775	2.49%	2.74%
1971	4,751,434	15,572,457	2.54%	2.63%
1972	4,874,475	15,975,069	2.59%	2.59%
1973	5,003,938	16,350,367	2.66%	2.35%
1974	5,141,337	16,673,121	2.75%	1.97%
1975	5,287,367	16,971,055	2.84%	1.79%
1976	5,443,384	17,243,450	2.95%	1.61%
1977	5,614,983	17,492,798	3.15%	1.45%
1978	5,810,132	17,735,995	3.48%	1.39%
1979	6,028,749	17,983,470	3.76%	1.4%
1980	6,265,529	18,236,786	3.93%	1.41%
1981	6,516,454	18,501,295	4%	1.45%
1982	6,778,879	18,776,357	4.03%	1.49%
1983	7,051,709	19,054,034	4.02%	1.48%
1984	7,332,810	19,335,043	3.99%	1.47%
1985	7,620,508	19,620,388	3.92%	1.48%
1986	7,906,480	19,910,855	3.75%	1.48%
1987	8,293,174	20,205,483	4.89%	1.48%
1988	8,753,262	20,503,161	5.55%	1.47%
1989	9,176,220	20,804,367	4.83%	1.47%
1990	9,545,852	21,112,137	4.03%	1.48%
1991	9,844,227	21,428,638	3.13%	1.5%
1992	10,135,079	21,750,911	2.95%	1.5%
1993	10,284,024	22,073,352	1.47%	1.48%
1994	10,164,894	22,393,975	-1.16%	1.45%
1995	10,150,117	22,669,304	-0.15%	1.23%
1996	10,352,228	22,895,746	1.99%	1%
1997	10,562,035	23,110,830	2.03%	0.94%
1998	10,792,876	23,311,564	2.19%	0.87%
1999	11,047,804	23,497,599	2.36%	0.8%
2000	11,315,942	23,665,910	2.43%	0.72%
2001	11,593,058	23,815,358	2.45%	0.63%
2002	11,880,440	23,943,973	2.48%	0.54%
2003	12,181,574	24,090,380	2.53%	0.61%
2004	12,500,737	24,254,943	2.62%	0.68%
2005	12,840,031	24,396,433	2.71%	0.58%
2006	13,198,701	24,524,507	2.79%	0.52%
2007	13,576,343	24,646,383	2.86%	0.5%
2008	13,976,417	24,764,618	2.95%	0.48%
2009	14,395,788	24,878,332	3%	0.46%
2010	14,826,463	24,987,258	2.99%	0.44%
2011	15,265,022	25,097,874	2.96%	0.44%
2012	15,709,577	25,211,728	2.91%	0.45%
2013	16,161,816	25,329,451	2.88%	0.47%
2014	16,621,538	25,451,262	2.84%	0.48%
2015	17,085,587	25,575,350	2.79%	0.49%
2016	17,557,739	25,698,326	2.76%	0.48%
2017	18,039,715	25,817,709	2.75%	0.46%
2018	18,528,081	25,931,147	2.71%	0.44%
2019	19,025,752	26,037,632	2.69%	0.41%
2020	19,533,888	26,136,312	2.67%	0.38%
2021	20,047,258	26,232,534	2.63%	0.37%
2022	20,568,728	26,328,845	2.6%	0.37%
2023	21,104,482	26,418,204	2.6%	0.34%
2024	21,655,286	26,498,823	2.61%	0.31%
2025	22,216,113	26,571,033	2.59%	0.27%
2026	22,785,530	26,633,682	2.56%	0.24%
2027	23,366,187	26,686,492	2.55%	0.2%
2028	23,954,450	26,729,261	2.52%	0.16%
2029	24,553,499	26,762,008	2.5%	0.12%
2030	25,160,293	26,784,894	2.47%	0.09%
2031	25,763,534	26,797,946	2.4%	0.05%
2032	26,366,760	26,801,071	2.34%	0.01%
2033	26,978,417	26,795,061	2.32%	-0.02%
2034	27,595,295	26,780,481	2.29%	-0.05%
2035	28,213,784	26,757,705	2.24%	-0.09%
2036	28,835,595	26,727,309	2.2%	-0.11%
2037	29,462,509	26,689,907	2.17%	-0.14%
2038	30,081,741	26,646,323	2.1%	-0.16%
2039	30,691,578	26,596,967	2.03%	-0.19%
2040	31,302,092	26,542,417	1.99%	-0.21%
2041	31,911,242	26,483,475	1.95%	-0.22%
2042	32,517,509	26,420,812	1.9%	-0.24%
2043	33,122,481	26,354,324	1.86%	-0.25%
2044	33,736,523	26,284,000	1.85%	-0.27%
2045	34,350,947	26,210,196	1.82%	-0.28%
2046	34,959,606	26,132,922	1.77%	-0.29%
2047	35,567,989	26,052,086	1.74%	-0.31%
2048	36,165,757	25,967,581	1.68%	-0.32%
2049	36,760,998	25,879,244	1.65%	-0.34%
2050	37,361,672	25,787,120	1.63%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malawi increased by 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malawi gained 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2005 and is 61st in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th 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 North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.