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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Malawi	South Korea	Malawi	South Korea
1960	3,628,134	25,012,374	-	-
1961	3,715,534	25,765,673	2.41%	3.01%
1962	3,806,307	26,513,030	2.44%	2.9%
1963	3,900,506	27,261,747	2.47%	2.82%
1964	3,997,305	27,984,155	2.48%	2.65%
1965	4,096,157	28,704,674	2.47%	2.57%
1966	4,197,926	29,435,571	2.48%	2.55%
1967	4,303,012	30,130,983	2.5%	2.36%
1968	4,411,054	30,838,302	2.51%	2.35%
1969	4,521,184	31,544,266	2.5%	2.29%
1970	4,633,944	32,240,827	2.49%	2.21%
1971	4,751,434	32,882,704	2.54%	1.99%
1972	4,874,475	33,505,406	2.59%	1.89%
1973	5,003,938	34,103,149	2.66%	1.78%
1974	5,141,337	34,692,266	2.75%	1.73%
1975	5,287,367	35,280,725	2.84%	1.7%
1976	5,443,384	35,848,523	2.95%	1.61%
1977	5,614,983	36,411,795	3.15%	1.57%
1978	5,810,132	36,969,185	3.48%	1.53%
1979	6,028,749	37,534,236	3.76%	1.53%
1980	6,265,529	38,123,775	3.93%	1.57%
1981	6,516,454	38,723,248	4%	1.57%
1982	6,778,879	39,326,352	4.03%	1.56%
1983	7,051,709	39,910,403	4.02%	1.49%
1984	7,332,810	40,405,956	3.99%	1.24%
1985	7,620,508	40,805,744	3.92%	0.99%
1986	7,906,480	41,213,674	3.75%	1%
1987	8,293,174	41,621,690	4.89%	0.99%
1988	8,753,262	42,031,247	5.55%	0.98%
1989	9,176,220	42,449,038	4.83%	0.99%
1990	9,545,852	42,869,283	4.03%	0.99%
1991	9,844,227	43,295,704	3.13%	0.99%
1992	10,135,079	43,747,962	2.95%	1.04%
1993	10,284,024	44,194,628	1.47%	1.02%
1994	10,164,894	44,641,540	-1.16%	1.01%
1995	10,150,117	45,092,991	-0.15%	1.01%
1996	10,352,228	45,524,681	1.99%	0.96%
1997	10,562,035	45,953,580	2.03%	0.94%
1998	10,792,876	46,286,503	2.19%	0.72%
1999	11,047,804	46,616,677	2.36%	0.71%
2000	11,315,942	47,008,111	2.43%	0.84%
2001	11,593,058	47,370,164	2.45%	0.77%
2002	11,880,440	47,644,736	2.48%	0.58%
2003	12,181,574	47,892,330	2.53%	0.52%
2004	12,500,737	48,082,519	2.62%	0.4%
2005	12,840,031	48,184,561	2.71%	0.21%
2006	13,198,701	48,438,292	2.79%	0.53%
2007	13,576,343	48,683,638	2.86%	0.51%
2008	13,976,417	49,054,708	2.95%	0.76%
2009	14,395,788	49,307,835	3%	0.52%
2010	14,826,463	49,554,112	2.99%	0.5%
2011	15,265,022	49,936,638	2.96%	0.77%
2012	15,709,577	50,199,853	2.91%	0.53%
2013	16,161,816	50,428,893	2.88%	0.46%
2014	16,621,538	50,746,659	2.84%	0.63%
2015	17,085,587	51,014,947	2.79%	0.53%
2016	17,557,739	51,217,803	2.76%	0.4%
2017	18,039,715	51,361,911	2.75%	0.28%
2018	18,528,081	51,585,058	2.71%	0.43%
2019	19,025,752	51,764,822	2.69%	0.35%
2020	19,533,888	51,836,239	2.67%	0.14%
2021	20,047,258	51,769,539	2.63%	-0.13%
2022	20,568,728	51,672,569	2.6%	-0.19%
2023	21,104,482	51,712,619	2.6%	0.08%
2024	21,655,286	51,751,065	2.61%	0.07%
2025	22,216,113	51,700,480	2.59%	-0.1%
2026	22,785,530	51,633,793	2.56%	-0.13%
2027	23,366,187	51,552,198	2.55%	-0.16%
2028	23,954,450	51,456,707	2.52%	-0.19%
2029	24,553,499	51,347,230	2.5%	-0.21%
2030	25,160,293	51,221,713	2.47%	-0.24%
2031	25,763,534	51,081,220	2.4%	-0.27%
2032	26,366,760	50,924,233	2.34%	-0.31%
2033	26,978,417	50,747,132	2.32%	-0.35%
2034	27,595,295	50,549,508	2.29%	-0.39%
2035	28,213,784	50,333,286	2.24%	-0.43%
2036	28,835,595	50,098,951	2.2%	-0.47%
2037	29,462,509	49,845,669	2.17%	-0.51%
2038	30,081,741	49,573,234	2.1%	-0.55%
2039	30,691,578	49,283,770	2.03%	-0.58%
2040	31,302,092	48,980,369	1.99%	-0.62%
2041	31,911,242	48,661,905	1.95%	-0.65%
2042	32,517,509	48,331,004	1.9%	-0.68%
2043	33,122,481	47,990,085	1.86%	-0.71%
2044	33,736,523	47,634,183	1.85%	-0.74%
2045	34,350,947	47,263,526	1.82%	-0.78%
2046	34,959,606	46,881,228	1.77%	-0.81%
2047	35,567,989	46,482,133	1.74%	-0.85%
2048	36,165,757	46,063,595	1.68%	-0.9%
2049	36,760,998	45,626,805	1.65%	-0.95%
2050	37,361,672	45,172,356	1.63%	-1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malawi increased by 4,245,556 people (a 33.1% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malawi gained 5,587,926 (a 32.7% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2005 and is 61st in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.