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Population in Mali compared to Malta: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 574,346 people in Malta in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 583,596 in Malta.

Population statistics:

  • Mali's population is 44.2 times bigger than Malta's.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while Malta is the 167th.
  • The countries together account for 0.32% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 0.007% for Malta.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs +2.78% in Malta.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while Malta has grown from 404K to 584K (44.5% growth).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people compared to the peak of 593K people in 2033 for Malta.

Mali vs Malta: live population counter

Mali Malta
Current population
25787988
583596
Population rank 58/197 167/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 0.007%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
24.3 minutes
One birth every
33.1 seconds
1.96 hours
One death every
2.56 minutes
2.17 hours
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
1.39 hours
Annual migration change -46,880 +6,323
Daily growth/decline +1,944 +59
Annual growth/decline +709,468 +21,599
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% +3.91%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 7/197

Mali and Malta: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mali
Population

Growth rate
Malta
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali Malta Mali Malta
1960 5,402,550 326,550 - -
1961 5,482,283 325,250 1.48% -0.4%
1962 5,563,917 323,900 1.49% -0.42%
1963 5,646,605 322,550 1.49% -0.42%
1964 5,730,125 321,250 1.48% -0.4%
1965 5,815,487 318,800 1.49% -0.76%
1966 5,902,204 315,200 1.49% -1.13%
1967 5,990,906 311,550 1.5% -1.16%
1968 6,082,979 307,900 1.54% -1.17%
1969 6,177,704 304,300 1.56% -1.17%
1970 6,276,472 302,650 1.6% -0.54%
1971 6,377,944 302,700 1.62% 0.02%
1972 6,483,726 302,450 1.66% -0.08%
1973 6,597,106 302,200 1.75% -0.08%
1974 6,715,436 301,996 1.79% -0.07%
1975 6,837,261 304,222 1.81% 0.74%
1976 6,960,979 305,774 1.81% 0.51%
1977 7,090,979 306,970 1.87% 0.39%
1978 7,229,651 310,182 1.96% 1.05%
1979 7,375,266 313,342 2.01% 1.02%
1980 7,530,515 316,645 2.1% 1.05%
1981 7,692,766 318,982 2.15% 0.74%
1982 7,860,194 325,898 2.18% 2.17%
1983 8,034,400 330,524 2.22% 1.42%
1984 8,208,599 330,593 2.17% 0.02%
1985 8,374,663 336,452 2.02% 1.77%
1986 8,531,277 342,121 1.87% 1.68%
1987 8,681,164 344,485 1.76% 0.69%
1988 8,833,996 347,325 1.76% 0.82%
1989 8,999,938 350,722 1.88% 0.98%
1990 9,178,830 354,170 1.99% 0.98%
1991 9,362,888 363,845 2.01% 2.73%
1992 9,553,540 367,618 2.04% 1.04%
1993 9,754,786 371,308 2.11% 1%
1994 9,967,031 374,797 2.18% 0.94%
1995 10,185,365 377,419 2.19% 0.7%
1996 10,407,278 379,905 2.18% 0.66%
1997 10,646,495 382,791 2.3% 0.76%
1998 10,919,573 385,287 2.56% 0.65%
1999 11,227,415 387,578 2.82% 0.59%
2000 11,559,290 390,087 2.96% 0.65%
2001 11,912,158 393,028 3.05% 0.75%
2002 12,288,050 395,969 3.16% 0.75%
2003 12,684,955 398,582 3.23% 0.66%
2004 13,102,409 401,268 3.29% 0.67%
2005 13,538,647 403,834 3.33% 0.64%
2006 13,990,139 405,308 3.33% 0.37%
2007 14,457,775 406,724 3.34% 0.35%
2008 14,940,782 409,379 3.34% 0.65%
2009 15,435,539 412,477 3.31% 0.76%
2010 15,945,198 414,508 3.3% 0.49%
2011 16,469,049 416,268 3.29% 0.42%
2012 16,957,033 420,028 2.96% 0.9%
2013 17,459,615 424,810 2.96% 1.14%
2014 18,020,267 433,481 3.21% 2.04%
2015 18,593,022 444,220 3.18% 2.48%
2016 19,191,289 454,505 3.22% 2.32%
2017 19,813,011 467,106 3.24% 2.77%
2018 20,442,030 483,903 3.17% 3.6%
2019 21,068,405 503,912 3.06% 4.13%
2020 21,713,836 515,490 3.06% 2.3%
2021 22,388,630 518,150 3.11% 0.52%
2022 23,072,640 531,113 3.06% 2.5%
2023 23,769,127 552,747 3.02% 4.07%
2024 24,478,595 574,346 2.98% 3.91%
2025 25,198,817 580,514 2.94% 1.07%
2026 25,932,275 584,351 2.91% 0.66%
2027 26,679,171 586,444 2.88% 0.36%
2028 27,440,613 588,290 2.85% 0.31%
2029 28,215,513 589,776 2.82% 0.25%
2030 29,002,864 590,973 2.79% 0.2%
2031 29,804,545 591,921 2.76% 0.16%
2032 30,618,893 592,622 2.73% 0.12%
2033 31,442,801 592,974 2.69% 0.06%
2034 32,276,672 592,827 2.65% -0.02%
2035 33,118,344 592,332 2.61% -0.08%
2036 33,967,889 591,668 2.57% -0.11%
2037 34,823,450 590,830 2.52% -0.14%
2038 35,685,576 589,771 2.48% -0.18%
2039 36,549,487 588,528 2.42% -0.21%
2040 37,413,641 587,256 2.36% -0.22%
2041 38,280,868 585,895 2.32% -0.23%
2042 39,151,280 584,467 2.27% -0.24%
2043 40,026,317 582,966 2.24% -0.26%
2044 40,902,500 581,355 2.19% -0.28%
2045 41,778,984 579,693 2.14% -0.29%
2046 42,655,642 577,954 2.1% -0.3%
2047 43,530,852 576,050 2.05% -0.33%
2048 44,405,715 574,050 2.01% -0.35%
2049 45,279,772 572,187 1.97% -0.32%
2050 46,154,079 570,210 1.93% -0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while Malta gained 40,386 people (a 10% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while Malta's population increased by 139,376 (a 31.4% growth).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. Malta was ranked 168th in 2005 and ranked 167th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Mali's population will grow by 79% to 46,154,079 people with a rank change from 58th to 46th. The population of Malta will decrease by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th.

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