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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Malawi was 21,655,286 in 2024 vs 251,269,164 people in Pakistan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Malawi's population is 22,673,513 people compared to 258,497,127 in Pakistan.

Population statistics:

  • Pakistan's population is 11.4 times bigger than Malawi's.
  • Malawi is ranked the 61st most populous country in the world, while Pakistan is the 5th.
  • The countries together account for 3.4% of the world: 0.27% for Malawi vs 3.13% for Pakistan.
  • For the last 10 years, Malawi has had an average growth rate of +2.7% per year vs +1.6% in Pakistan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Malawi has increased from 12.8M people to 22.7M (76.6% growth), while Pakistan has grown from 175M to 258M (47.3% growth).
  • Malawi is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 59.1M people compared to the peak of 511M people in 2100 for Pakistan.

Malawi vs Pakistan: live population counter

Malawi Pakistan
Current population
22673513
258497127
Population rank 61/197 5/197
Percent of world population 0.27% 3.13%
One net population change
57.3 seconds
8.38 seconds
One birth every
47.6 seconds
4.58 seconds
One death every
4.64 minutes
19.7 seconds
One migration net change every
5.81 hours
22.5 seconds
Annual migration change -1,507 -1,401,173
Daily growth/decline +1,509 +10,314
Annual growth/decline +550,804 +3,764,669
Annual growth/decline rate +2.61% +1.52%
Population growth rate rank 27/197 73/197

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

Malawi
Population

Growth rate
Pakistan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Malawi Pakistan Malawi Pakistan
1960 3,628,134 45,709,310 - -
1961 3,715,534 46,921,277 2.41% 2.65%
1962 3,806,307 48,156,128 2.44% 2.63%
1963 3,900,506 49,447,776 2.47% 2.68%
1964 3,997,305 50,799,999 2.48% 2.73%
1965 4,096,157 52,209,010 2.47% 2.77%
1966 4,197,926 53,678,667 2.48% 2.81%
1967 4,303,012 55,214,768 2.5% 2.86%
1968 4,411,054 56,810,507 2.51% 2.89%
1969 4,521,184 58,460,939 2.5% 2.91%
1970 4,633,944 60,166,719 2.49% 2.92%
1971 4,751,434 61,847,899 2.54% 2.79%
1972 4,874,475 63,583,194 2.59% 2.81%
1973 5,003,938 65,461,912 2.66% 2.95%
1974 5,141,337 67,415,487 2.75% 2.98%
1975 5,287,367 69,461,175 2.84% 3.03%
1976 5,443,384 71,620,254 2.95% 3.11%
1977 5,614,983 73,901,827 3.15% 3.19%
1978 5,810,132 76,307,379 3.48% 3.26%
1979 6,028,749 78,997,039 3.76% 3.52%
1980 6,265,529 82,291,010 3.93% 4.17%
1981 6,516,454 85,802,049 4% 4.27%
1982 6,778,879 89,089,246 4.03% 3.83%
1983 7,051,709 92,227,711 4.02% 3.52%
1984 7,332,810 95,164,936 3.99% 3.18%
1985 7,620,508 98,229,285 3.92% 3.22%
1986 7,906,480 101,606,764 3.75% 3.44%
1987 8,293,174 105,130,717 4.89% 3.47%
1988 8,753,262 108,724,739 5.55% 3.42%
1989 9,176,220 112,336,629 4.83% 3.32%
1990 9,545,852 116,155,576 4.03% 3.4%
1991 9,844,227 120,060,406 3.13% 3.36%
1992 10,135,079 123,546,848 2.95% 2.9%
1993 10,284,024 127,020,117 1.47% 2.81%
1994 10,164,894 130,748,083 -1.16% 2.93%
1995 10,150,117 134,582,253 -0.15% 2.93%
1996 10,352,228 138,557,092 1.99% 2.95%
1997 10,562,035 142,531,804 2.03% 2.87%
1998 10,792,876 146,522,356 2.19% 2.8%
1999 11,047,804 150,565,377 2.36% 2.76%
2000 11,315,942 154,879,127 2.43% 2.87%
2001 11,593,058 159,270,907 2.45% 2.84%
2002 11,880,440 163,222,549 2.48% 2.48%
2003 12,181,574 167,110,248 2.53% 2.38%
2004 12,500,737 171,286,000 2.62% 2.5%
2005 12,840,031 175,453,212 2.71% 2.43%
2006 13,198,701 179,682,690 2.79% 2.41%
2007 13,576,343 184,493,231 2.86% 2.68%
2008 13,976,417 189,499,113 2.95% 2.71%
2009 14,395,788 194,376,534 3% 2.57%
2010 14,826,463 199,239,047 2.99% 2.5%
2011 15,265,022 203,746,065 2.96% 2.26%
2012 15,709,577 207,667,125 2.91% 1.92%
2013 16,161,816 211,073,978 2.88% 1.64%
2014 16,621,538 214,264,647 2.84% 1.51%
2015 17,085,587 217,290,883 2.79% 1.41%
2016 17,557,739 220,138,869 2.76% 1.31%
2017 18,039,715 223,273,967 2.75% 1.42%
2018 18,528,081 226,928,892 2.71% 1.64%
2019 19,025,752 230,800,899 2.69% 1.71%
2020 19,533,888 235,001,746 2.67% 1.82%
2021 20,047,258 239,477,801 2.63% 1.9%
2022 20,568,728 243,700,667 2.6% 1.76%
2023 21,104,482 247,504,495 2.6% 1.56%
2024 21,655,286 251,269,164 2.61% 1.52%
2025 22,216,113 255,219,564 2.59% 1.57%
2026 22,785,530 259,299,796 2.56% 1.6%
2027 23,366,187 263,515,827 2.55% 1.63%
2028 23,954,450 267,881,923 2.52% 1.66%
2029 24,553,499 272,337,520 2.5% 1.66%
2030 25,160,293 276,883,261 2.47% 1.67%
2031 25,763,534 281,528,070 2.4% 1.68%
2032 26,366,760 286,241,141 2.34% 1.67%
2033 26,978,417 291,012,268 2.32% 1.67%
2034 27,595,295 295,820,153 2.29% 1.65%
2035 28,213,784 300,643,518 2.24% 1.63%
2036 28,835,595 305,491,504 2.2% 1.61%
2037 29,462,509 310,353,293 2.17% 1.59%
2038 30,081,741 315,227,709 2.1% 1.57%
2039 30,691,578 320,105,882 2.03% 1.55%
2040 31,302,092 324,937,703 1.99% 1.51%
2041 31,911,242 329,746,478 1.95% 1.48%
2042 32,517,509 334,551,874 1.9% 1.46%
2043 33,122,481 339,334,851 1.86% 1.43%
2044 33,736,523 344,095,467 1.85% 1.4%
2045 34,350,947 348,837,732 1.82% 1.38%
2046 34,959,606 353,552,859 1.77% 1.35%
2047 35,567,989 358,207,159 1.74% 1.32%
2048 36,165,757 362,796,532 1.68% 1.28%
2049 36,760,998 367,344,429 1.65% 1.25%
2050 37,361,672 371,863,804 1.63% 1.23%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malawi increased by 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth), while Pakistan gained 41,837,671 people (a 23.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malawi gained 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth), while Pakistan's population increased by 41,206,244 (a 19% growth).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2005 and is 61st in 2025. Pakistan was ranked 6th in 2005 and ranked 5th 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 Pakistan will increase by 43.9% to 371,863,804 people and rank change from 5th to 4th.

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