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Population in Maldives compared to Moldova: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Maldives was 527,799 in 2024 vs 2,389,275 people in Moldova in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Maldives' population is 531,152 people compared to 2,358,679 in Moldova.

Population statistics:

  • Moldova's population is 4.44 times bigger than Maldives'.
  • Maldives is ranked the 168th most populous country in the world, while Moldova is the 145th.
  • The countries together account for 0.03% of the world: 0.006% for Maldives vs 0.03% for Moldova.
  • For the last 10 years, Maldives has had an average growth rate of +2.56% per year vs -1.62% in Moldova.
  • Since 2005, the population of Maldives has increased from 306K people to 531K (73.3% growth), while Moldova has declined from 2.89M to 2.36M (18.4% decline).
  • Maldives is projected to reach its peak in 2057 at 597K people, while Moldova's population already peaked in 1991 at 2.98M people and is projected to decrease to 1.17M people by 2100.

Maldives vs Moldova: live population counter

Maldives Moldova
Current population
531152
2358679
Population rank 168/197 145/197
Percent of world population 0.006% 0.03%
One net population change
4.85 hours
7.67 minutes
One birth every
1.51 hours
19.9 minutes
One death every
7.13 hours
15.7 minutes
One migration net change every
3.62 hours
19.4 minutes
Annual migration change -2,421 -27,088
Daily growth/decline +5 -188
Annual growth/decline +1,805 -68,508
Annual growth/decline rate +0.34% -2.79%
Population growth rate rank 145/197 196/197

Maldives and Moldova: population history and growth rate by year chart

Maldives
Population

Growth rate
Moldova
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Maldives Moldova Maldives Moldova
1960 91,189 2,058,020 - -
1961 93,450 2,103,327 2.48% 2.2%
1962 95,802 2,147,227 2.52% 2.09%
1963 98,222 2,188,895 2.53% 1.94%
1964 100,662 2,228,000 2.48% 1.79%
1965 104,102 2,265,287 3.42% 1.67%
1966 108,507 2,301,871 4.23% 1.61%
1967 112,528 2,337,695 3.71% 1.56%
1968 116,075 2,373,073 3.15% 1.51%
1969 119,564 2,408,469 3.01% 1.49%
1970 123,219 2,437,590 3.06% 1.21%
1971 127,035 2,460,611 3.1% 0.94%
1972 130,968 2,484,742 3.1% 0.98%
1973 134,952 2,510,584 3.04% 1.04%
1974 138,978 2,538,164 2.98% 1.1%
1975 143,158 2,566,998 3.01% 1.14%
1976 147,525 2,596,491 3.05% 1.15%
1977 151,930 2,626,298 2.99% 1.15%
1978 156,159 2,656,211 2.78% 1.14%
1979 160,360 2,683,035 2.69% 1.01%
1980 164,835 2,708,675 2.79% 0.96%
1981 169,532 2,735,987 2.85% 1.01%
1982 174,333 2,763,101 2.83% 0.99%
1983 179,128 2,791,207 2.75% 1.02%
1984 184,198 2,820,518 2.83% 1.05%
1985 190,169 2,850,787 3.24% 1.07%
1986 196,935 2,883,057 3.56% 1.13%
1987 203,944 2,916,306 3.56% 1.15%
1988 210,885 2,948,891 3.4% 1.12%
1989 217,738 2,970,039 3.25% 0.72%
1990 224,762 2,977,912 3.23% 0.27%
1991 231,802 2,981,566 3.13% 0.12%
1992 238,543 2,980,965 2.91% -0.02%
1993 244,884 2,975,966 2.66% -0.17%
1994 250,822 2,966,745 2.42% -0.31%
1995 256,649 2,953,200 2.32% -0.46%
1996 262,347 2,947,293 2.22% -0.2%
1997 267,707 2,936,413 2.04% -0.37%
1998 272,723 2,935,227 1.87% -0.04%
1999 277,412 2,930,622 1.72% -0.16%
2000 282,019 2,924,668 1.66% -0.2%
2001 286,767 2,918,135 1.68% -0.22%
2002 291,616 2,911,385 1.69% -0.23%
2003 296,491 2,903,198 1.67% -0.28%
2004 301,413 2,896,023 1.66% -0.25%
2005 306,429 2,888,985 1.66% -0.24%
2006 313,851 2,880,967 2.42% -0.28%
2007 324,479 2,874,299 3.39% -0.23%
2008 336,170 2,868,833 3.6% -0.19%
2009 348,275 2,865,213 3.6% -0.13%
2010 360,792 2,862,354 3.59% -0.1%
2011 373,674 2,860,699 3.57% -0.06%
2012 386,818 2,860,324 3.52% -0.01%
2013 400,070 2,859,558 3.43% -0.03%
2014 413,617 2,857,815 3.39% -0.06%
2015 428,154 2,835,978 3.51% -0.76%
2016 443,308 2,803,186 3.54% -1.16%
2017 458,287 2,755,189 3.38% -1.71%
2018 473,099 2,707,203 3.23% -1.74%
2019 487,731 2,664,224 3.09% -1.59%
2020 502,118 2,635,130 2.95% -1.09%
2021 516,154 2,595,809 2.8% -1.49%
2022 524,106 2,528,654 1.54% -2.59%
2023 525,994 2,457,783 0.36% -2.8%
2024 527,799 2,389,275 0.34% -2.79%
2025 529,677 2,358,679 0.36% -1.28%
2026 531,514 2,331,249 0.35% -1.16%
2027 533,433 2,308,519 0.36% -0.97%
2028 535,502 2,285,773 0.39% -0.99%
2029 537,574 2,262,909 0.39% -1%
2030 539,667 2,239,915 0.39% -1.02%
2031 541,929 2,217,099 0.42% -1.02%
2032 544,288 2,194,590 0.44% -1.02%
2033 546,723 2,172,083 0.45% -1.03%
2034 549,162 2,149,558 0.45% -1.04%
2035 551,599 2,127,153 0.44% -1.04%
2036 554,092 2,105,178 0.45% -1.03%
2037 556,637 2,083,762 0.46% -1.02%
2038 559,231 2,062,803 0.47% -1.01%
2039 561,958 2,042,214 0.49% -1%
2040 564,800 2,022,294 0.51% -0.98%
2041 567,606 2,003,296 0.5% -0.94%
2042 570,381 1,984,924 0.49% -0.92%
2043 573,138 1,966,961 0.48% -0.9%
2044 575,811 1,949,608 0.47% -0.88%
2045 578,459 1,932,647 0.46% -0.87%
2046 581,026 1,915,982 0.44% -0.86%
2047 583,393 1,899,781 0.41% -0.85%
2048 585,720 1,883,795 0.4% -0.84%
2049 587,988 1,867,636 0.39% -0.86%
2050 589,960 1,851,456 0.34% -0.87%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Maldives increased by 121,725 people (a 39.7% growth), while Moldova lost 53,007 people (a 1.83% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Maldives gained 102,998 (a 24.1% growth), while Moldova's population decreased by -477,299 (a 16.8% decline).

Maldives was ranked 171st most populous country in 2005 and is 168th in 2025. Moldova was ranked 134th in 2005 and ranked 145th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Maldives' population will grow by 11.1% to 589,960 people with a rank change from 168th to 166th. The population of Moldova will decrease by 21.5% to 1,851,456 people and rank change from 145th to 150th.

Biggest cities by population

Maldives
City Population
Male 133K
Hulhumale 50K
Moldova
City Population
Chisinau 639K
Tiraspol 134K
Balti 97.9K
Bender 76.2K
Ungheni 30.8K
Cahul 30K
Dubasari 28.5K
Soroca 22.2K
Orhei 21.1K
Comrat 19.9K

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