Population in Malawi compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Malawi and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Malawi	United Kingdom	Malawi	United Kingdom
1960	3,628,134	52,400,000	-	-
1961	3,715,534	52,800,000	2.41%	0.76%
1962	3,806,307	53,250,000	2.44%	0.85%
1963	3,900,506	53,650,000	2.47%	0.75%
1964	3,997,305	54,000,000	2.48%	0.65%
1965	4,096,157	54,348,050	2.47%	0.64%
1966	4,197,926	54,648,500	2.48%	0.55%
1967	4,303,012	54,943,600	2.5%	0.54%
1968	4,411,054	55,211,700	2.51%	0.49%
1969	4,521,184	55,441,750	2.5%	0.42%
1970	4,633,944	55,663,250	2.49%	0.4%
1971	4,751,434	55,896,223	2.54%	0.42%
1972	4,874,475	56,086,065	2.59%	0.34%
1973	5,003,938	56,194,527	2.66%	0.19%
1974	5,141,337	56,229,974	2.75%	0.06%
1975	5,287,367	56,225,800	2.84%	-0.007%
1976	5,443,384	56,211,968	2.95%	-0.02%
1977	5,614,983	56,193,492	3.15%	-0.03%
1978	5,810,132	56,196,504	3.48%	0.005%
1979	6,028,749	56,246,951	3.76%	0.09%
1980	6,265,529	56,314,216	3.93%	0.12%
1981	6,516,454	56,333,829	4%	0.03%
1982	6,778,879	56,313,641	4.03%	-0.04%
1983	7,051,709	56,332,848	4.02%	0.03%
1984	7,332,810	56,422,072	3.99%	0.16%
1985	7,620,508	56,550,268	3.92%	0.23%
1986	7,906,480	56,681,396	3.75%	0.23%
1987	8,293,174	56,802,050	4.89%	0.21%
1988	8,753,262	56,928,327	5.55%	0.22%
1989	9,176,220	57,076,711	4.83%	0.26%
1990	9,545,852	57,247,586	4.03%	0.3%
1991	9,844,227	57,424,897	3.13%	0.31%
1992	10,135,079	57,580,402	2.95%	0.27%
1993	10,284,024	57,718,614	1.47%	0.24%
1994	10,164,894	57,865,745	-1.16%	0.25%
1995	10,150,117	58,019,030	-0.15%	0.26%
1996	10,352,228	58,166,950	1.99%	0.25%
1997	10,562,035	58,316,954	2.03%	0.26%
1998	10,792,876	58,487,141	2.19%	0.29%
1999	11,047,804	58,682,466	2.36%	0.33%
2000	11,315,942	58,892,514	2.43%	0.36%
2001	11,593,058	59,119,673	2.45%	0.39%
2002	11,880,440	59,370,479	2.48%	0.42%
2003	12,181,574	59,647,577	2.53%	0.47%
2004	12,500,737	59,987,905	2.62%	0.57%
2005	12,840,031	60,401,206	2.71%	0.69%
2006	13,198,701	60,846,820	2.79%	0.74%
2007	13,576,343	61,322,463	2.86%	0.78%
2008	13,976,417	61,806,995	2.95%	0.79%
2009	14,395,788	62,276,270	3%	0.76%
2010	14,826,463	62,766,365	2.99%	0.79%
2011	15,265,022	63,258,810	2.96%	0.78%
2012	15,709,577	63,711,000	2.91%	0.71%
2013	16,161,816	64,139,000	2.88%	0.67%
2014	16,621,538	64,620,000	2.84%	0.75%
2015	17,085,587	65,088,000	2.79%	0.72%
2016	17,557,739	65,607,000	2.76%	0.8%
2017	18,039,715	65,966,000	2.75%	0.55%
2018	18,528,081	66,289,000	2.71%	0.49%
2019	19,025,752	66,631,000	2.69%	0.52%
2020	19,533,888	66,744,000	2.67%	0.17%
2021	20,047,258	66,984,000	2.63%	0.36%
2022	20,568,728	67,604,000	2.6%	0.93%
2023	21,104,482	68,492,000	2.6%	1.31%
2024	21,655,286	69,226,000	2.61%	1.07%
2025	22,216,113	69,639,673	2.59%	0.6%
2026	22,785,530	70,020,350	2.56%	0.55%
2027	23,366,187	70,382,853	2.55%	0.52%
2028	23,954,450	70,732,699	2.52%	0.5%
2029	24,553,499	71,061,482	2.5%	0.46%
2030	25,160,293	71,377,535	2.47%	0.44%
2031	25,763,534	71,678,351	2.4%	0.42%
2032	26,366,760	71,959,934	2.34%	0.39%
2033	26,978,417	72,234,509	2.32%	0.38%
2034	27,595,295	72,497,650	2.29%	0.36%
2035	28,213,784	72,749,096	2.24%	0.35%
2036	28,835,595	72,990,847	2.2%	0.33%
2037	29,462,509	73,218,850	2.17%	0.31%
2038	30,081,741	73,441,349	2.1%	0.3%
2039	30,691,578	73,658,392	2.03%	0.3%
2040	31,302,092	73,868,334	1.99%	0.29%
2041	31,911,242	74,074,316	1.95%	0.28%
2042	32,517,509	74,275,779	1.9%	0.27%
2043	33,122,481	74,475,035	1.86%	0.27%
2044	33,736,523	74,667,284	1.85%	0.26%
2045	34,350,947	74,848,605	1.82%	0.24%
2046	34,959,606	75,020,949	1.77%	0.23%
2047	35,567,989	75,184,478	1.74%	0.22%
2048	36,165,757	75,337,543	1.68%	0.2%
2049	36,760,998	75,476,141	1.65%	0.18%
2050	37,361,672	75,600,588	1.63%	0.16%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Malawi increased by 4,359,038 people (a 33% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,760,180 people (a 7.82% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Malawi gained 5,234,136 (a 29.8% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,417,311 (a 6.73% growth).

Malawi was ranked 69th most populous country in 2006 and is 61st in 2026. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2006 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Malawi's population will grow by 63.9% to 37,361,672 people with a rank change from 61st to 55th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 7.96% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.