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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Malawi	Somalia	Malawi	Somalia
1960	3,628,134	2,876,331	-	-
1961	3,715,534	2,952,054	2.41%	2.63%
1962	3,806,307	3,030,091	2.44%	2.64%
1963	3,900,506	3,110,361	2.47%	2.65%
1964	3,997,305	3,192,796	2.48%	2.65%
1965	4,096,157	3,277,874	2.47%	2.66%
1966	4,197,926	3,365,106	2.48%	2.66%
1967	4,303,012	3,454,537	2.5%	2.66%
1968	4,411,054	3,546,590	2.51%	2.66%
1969	4,521,184	3,641,015	2.5%	2.66%
1970	4,633,944	3,738,448	2.49%	2.68%
1971	4,751,434	3,837,691	2.54%	2.65%
1972	4,874,475	3,939,436	2.59%	2.65%
1973	5,003,938	4,045,592	2.66%	2.69%
1974	5,141,337	4,151,842	2.75%	2.63%
1975	5,287,367	4,257,535	2.84%	2.55%
1976	5,443,384	4,365,812	2.95%	2.54%
1977	5,614,983	4,484,050	3.15%	2.71%
1978	5,810,132	4,814,892	3.48%	7.38%
1979	6,028,749	5,449,117	3.76%	13.2%
1980	6,265,529	5,936,154	3.93%	8.94%
1981	6,516,454	5,982,849	4%	0.79%
1982	6,778,879	6,003,840	4.03%	0.35%
1983	7,051,709	6,198,430	4.02%	3.24%
1984	7,332,810	6,428,389	3.99%	3.71%
1985	7,620,508	6,693,289	3.92%	4.12%
1986	7,906,480	6,974,788	3.75%	4.21%
1987	8,293,174	7,228,302	4.89%	3.63%
1988	8,753,262	7,235,360	5.55%	0.1%
1989	9,176,220	7,114,817	4.83%	-1.67%
1990	9,545,852	7,082,811	4.03%	-0.45%
1991	9,844,227	6,813,760	3.13%	-3.8%
1992	10,135,079	6,495,107	2.95%	-4.68%
1993	10,284,024	6,681,399	1.47%	2.87%
1994	10,164,894	7,026,797	-1.16%	5.17%
1995	10,150,117	7,285,007	-0.15%	3.67%
1996	10,352,228	7,554,474	1.99%	3.7%
1997	10,562,035	7,824,525	2.03%	3.57%
1998	10,792,876	8,155,417	2.19%	4.23%
1999	11,047,804	8,492,059	2.36%	4.13%
2000	11,315,942	8,838,713	2.43%	4.08%
2001	11,593,058	9,198,493	2.45%	4.07%
2002	11,880,440	9,550,063	2.48%	3.82%
2003	12,181,574	9,909,157	2.53%	3.76%
2004	12,500,737	10,280,998	2.62%	3.75%
2005	12,840,031	10,644,228	2.71%	3.53%
2006	13,198,701	10,975,502	2.79%	3.11%
2007	13,576,343	11,322,582	2.86%	3.16%
2008	13,976,417	11,663,084	2.95%	3.01%
2009	14,395,788	11,961,201	3%	2.56%
2010	14,826,463	12,261,756	2.99%	2.51%
2011	15,265,022	12,348,830	2.96%	0.71%
2012	15,709,577	12,461,160	2.91%	0.91%
2013	16,161,816	12,869,594	2.88%	3.28%
2014	16,621,538	13,339,491	2.84%	3.65%
2015	17,085,587	13,806,963	2.79%	3.5%
2016	17,557,739	14,348,740	2.76%	3.92%
2017	18,039,715	14,916,629	2.75%	3.96%
2018	18,528,081	15,452,487	2.71%	3.59%
2019	19,025,752	16,030,971	2.69%	3.74%
2020	19,533,888	16,651,191	2.67%	3.87%
2021	20,047,258	17,271,431	2.63%	3.72%
2022	20,568,728	17,801,897	2.6%	3.07%
2023	21,104,482	18,358,615	2.6%	3.13%
2024	21,655,286	19,009,151	2.61%	3.54%
2025	22,216,113	19,654,737	2.59%	3.4%
2026	22,785,530	20,305,905	2.56%	3.31%
2027	23,366,187	20,959,056	2.55%	3.22%
2028	23,954,450	21,601,810	2.52%	3.07%
2029	24,553,499	22,247,714	2.5%	2.99%
2030	25,160,293	22,915,042	2.47%	3%
2031	25,763,534	23,589,793	2.4%	2.94%
2032	26,366,760	24,258,789	2.34%	2.84%
2033	26,978,417	24,921,830	2.32%	2.73%
2034	27,595,295	25,593,666	2.29%	2.7%
2035	28,213,784	26,294,943	2.24%	2.74%
2036	28,835,595	27,009,199	2.2%	2.72%
2037	29,462,509	27,731,170	2.17%	2.67%
2038	30,081,741	28,455,755	2.1%	2.61%
2039	30,691,578	29,167,897	2.03%	2.5%
2040	31,302,092	29,896,286	1.99%	2.5%
2041	31,911,242	30,635,956	1.95%	2.47%
2042	32,517,509	31,350,028	1.9%	2.33%
2043	33,122,481	32,057,980	1.86%	2.26%
2044	33,736,523	32,780,417	1.85%	2.25%
2045	34,350,947	33,510,163	1.82%	2.23%
2046	34,959,606	34,248,030	1.77%	2.2%
2047	35,567,989	34,996,366	1.74%	2.19%
2048	36,165,757	35,743,960	1.68%	2.14%
2049	36,760,998	36,474,683	1.65%	2.04%
2050	37,361,672	37,206,497	1.63%	2.01%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malawi increased by 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth), while Somalia gained 3,162,735 people (a 29.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malawi gained 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth), while Somalia's population increased by 6,370,843 (a 46.1% growth).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2005 and is 61st in 2025. Somalia was ranked 75th in 2005 and ranked 66th 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 Somalia will increase by 84.4% to 37,206,497 people and rank change from 66th to 57th.