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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Maldives was 527,799 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Maldives' population is 531,152 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • Romania's population is 35.7 times bigger than Maldives'.
  • Maldives is ranked the 168th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 0.24% of the world: 0.006% for Maldives vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, Maldives has had an average growth rate of +2.56% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Maldives has increased from 306K people to 531K (73.3% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • Maldives is projected to reach its peak in 2057 at 597K people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

Maldives vs Romania: live population counter

Maldives Romania
Current population
531152
18962595
Population rank 168/197 69/197
Percent of world population 0.006% 0.23%
One net population change
4.85 hours
53.3 minutes
One birth every
1.51 hours
3.45 minutes
One death every
7.13 hours
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
3.62 hours
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change -2,421 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +5 +27
Annual growth/decline +1,805 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +0.34% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 145/197 162/197

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

Maldives
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Maldives Romania Maldives Romania
1960 91,189 18,406,905 - -
1961 93,450 18,555,250 2.48% 0.81%
1962 95,802 18,676,550 2.52% 0.65%
1963 98,222 18,797,850 2.53% 0.65%
1964 100,662 18,919,126 2.48% 0.65%
1965 104,102 19,031,576 3.42% 0.59%
1966 108,507 19,215,450 4.23% 0.97%
1967 112,528 19,534,242 3.71% 1.66%
1968 116,075 19,799,831 3.15% 1.36%
1969 119,564 20,009,141 3.01% 1.06%
1970 123,219 20,250,398 3.06% 1.21%
1971 127,035 20,461,567 3.1% 1.04%
1972 130,968 20,657,957 3.1% 0.96%
1973 134,952 20,835,681 3.04% 0.86%
1974 138,978 21,029,429 2.98% 0.93%
1975 143,158 21,293,583 3.01% 1.26%
1976 147,525 21,551,634 3.05% 1.21%
1977 151,930 21,756,096 2.99% 0.95%
1978 156,159 21,951,464 2.78% 0.9%
1979 160,360 22,090,488 2.69% 0.63%
1980 164,835 22,207,282 2.79% 0.53%
1981 169,532 22,353,070 2.85% 0.66%
1982 174,333 22,475,741 2.83% 0.55%
1983 179,128 22,560,478 2.75% 0.38%
1984 184,198 22,640,547 2.83% 0.35%
1985 190,169 22,732,999 3.24% 0.41%
1986 196,935 22,836,841 3.56% 0.46%
1987 203,944 22,949,430 3.56% 0.49%
1988 210,885 23,057,662 3.4% 0.47%
1989 217,738 23,161,458 3.25% 0.45%
1990 224,762 23,201,835 3.23% 0.17%
1991 231,802 23,001,155 3.13% -0.86%
1992 238,543 22,794,284 2.91% -0.9%
1993 244,884 22,763,280 2.66% -0.14%
1994 250,822 22,730,211 2.42% -0.15%
1995 256,649 22,684,270 2.32% -0.2%
1996 262,347 22,619,004 2.22% -0.29%
1997 267,707 22,553,978 2.04% -0.29%
1998 272,723 22,507,344 1.87% -0.21%
1999 277,412 22,472,040 1.72% -0.16%
2000 282,019 22,442,971 1.66% -0.13%
2001 286,767 22,131,970 1.68% -1.39%
2002 291,616 21,730,496 1.69% -1.81%
2003 296,491 21,574,326 1.67% -0.72%
2004 301,413 21,451,748 1.66% -0.57%
2005 306,429 21,319,685 1.66% -0.62%
2006 313,851 21,193,760 2.42% -0.59%
2007 324,479 20,882,982 3.39% -1.47%
2008 336,170 20,537,875 3.6% -1.65%
2009 348,275 20,367,487 3.6% -0.83%
2010 360,792 20,246,871 3.59% -0.59%
2011 373,674 20,147,528 3.57% -0.49%
2012 386,818 20,058,035 3.52% -0.44%
2013 400,070 19,983,693 3.43% -0.37%
2014 413,617 19,908,979 3.39% -0.37%
2015 428,154 19,815,616 3.51% -0.47%
2016 443,308 19,702,267 3.54% -0.57%
2017 458,287 19,588,715 3.38% -0.58%
2018 473,099 19,473,970 3.23% -0.59%
2019 487,731 19,371,648 3.09% -0.53%
2020 502,118 19,265,250 2.95% -0.55%
2021 516,154 19,122,059 2.8% -0.74%
2022 524,106 19,048,502 1.54% -0.38%
2023 525,994 19,059,479 0.36% 0.06%
2024 527,799 19,069,340 0.34% 0.05%
2025 529,677 18,962,595 0.36% -0.56%
2026 531,514 18,854,232 0.35% -0.57%
2027 533,433 18,744,883 0.36% -0.58%
2028 535,502 18,634,894 0.39% -0.59%
2029 537,574 18,523,736 0.39% -0.6%
2030 539,667 18,411,878 0.39% -0.6%
2031 541,929 18,299,820 0.42% -0.61%
2032 544,288 18,187,406 0.44% -0.61%
2033 546,723 18,074,282 0.45% -0.62%
2034 549,162 17,960,330 0.45% -0.63%
2035 551,599 17,845,182 0.44% -0.64%
2036 554,092 17,728,480 0.45% -0.65%
2037 556,637 17,611,384 0.46% -0.66%
2038 559,231 17,493,684 0.47% -0.67%
2039 561,958 17,375,991 0.49% -0.67%
2040 564,800 17,258,810 0.51% -0.67%
2041 567,606 17,140,535 0.5% -0.69%
2042 570,381 17,022,168 0.49% -0.69%
2043 573,138 16,904,427 0.48% -0.69%
2044 575,811 16,786,029 0.47% -0.7%
2045 578,459 16,667,734 0.46% -0.7%
2046 581,026 16,550,066 0.44% -0.71%
2047 583,393 16,431,566 0.41% -0.72%
2048 585,720 16,312,099 0.4% -0.73%
2049 587,988 16,192,424 0.39% -0.73%
2050 589,960 16,072,989 0.34% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Maldives increased by 121,725 people (a 39.7% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Maldives gained 102,998 (a 24.1% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Maldives was ranked 171st most populous country in 2005 and is 168th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th 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 Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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