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Population in Mali compared to the Marshall Islands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 37,548 people in the Marshall Islands in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 36,281 in the Marshall Islands.

Population statistics:

  • Mali's population is 711 times bigger than the Marshall Islands'.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while the Marshall Islands is the 192nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.31% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 0.0004% for the Marshall Islands.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs -2.69% in the Marshall Islands.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while the Marshall Islands has declined from 51.9K to 36.3K (30.1% decline).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people, while the Marshall Islands' population already peaked in 2010 at 52K people and is projected to decrease to 23.8K people by 2100.

Mali vs Marshall Islands: live population counter

Mali Marshall Islands
Current population
25787988
36281
Population rank 58/197 192/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 0.0004%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
6.85 hours
One birth every
33.1 seconds
10.7 hours
One death every
2.56 minutes
1.35 days
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
4.96 hours
Annual migration change -46,880 -1,765
Daily growth/decline +1,944 -4
Annual growth/decline +709,468 -1,279
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% -3.29%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 197/197

Mali and the Marshall Islands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mali
Population

Growth rate
Marshall Islands
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali Marshall Islands Mali Marshall Islands
1960 5,402,550 14,703 - -
1961 5,482,283 15,219 1.48% 3.51%
1962 5,563,917 15,755 1.49% 3.52%
1963 5,646,605 16,302 1.49% 3.47%
1964 5,730,125 16,852 1.48% 3.37%
1965 5,815,487 17,402 1.49% 3.26%
1966 5,902,204 17,927 1.49% 3.02%
1967 5,990,906 18,655 1.5% 4.06%
1968 6,082,979 19,862 1.54% 6.47%
1969 6,177,704 21,305 1.56% 7.27%
1970 6,276,472 22,530 1.6% 5.75%
1971 6,377,944 23,366 1.62% 3.71%
1972 6,483,726 23,992 1.66% 2.68%
1973 6,597,106 24,581 1.75% 2.45%
1974 6,715,436 25,296 1.79% 2.91%
1975 6,837,261 26,154 1.81% 3.39%
1976 6,960,979 27,021 1.81% 3.31%
1977 7,090,979 27,906 1.87% 3.28%
1978 7,229,651 28,809 1.96% 3.24%
1979 7,375,266 29,738 2.01% 3.22%
1980 7,530,515 30,774 2.1% 3.48%
1981 7,692,766 32,017 2.15% 4.04%
1982 7,860,194 33,397 2.18% 4.31%
1983 8,034,400 34,811 2.22% 4.23%
1984 8,208,599 36,264 2.17% 4.17%
1985 8,374,663 37,761 2.02% 4.13%
1986 8,531,277 39,286 1.87% 4.04%
1987 8,681,164 40,828 1.76% 3.93%
1988 8,833,996 42,321 1.76% 3.66%
1989 8,999,938 43,586 1.88% 2.99%
1990 9,178,830 44,629 1.99% 2.39%
1991 9,362,888 45,568 2.01% 2.1%
1992 9,553,540 46,388 2.04% 1.8%
1993 9,754,786 47,093 2.11% 1.52%
1994 9,967,031 47,712 2.18% 1.31%
1995 10,185,365 48,266 2.19% 1.16%
1996 10,407,278 48,775 2.18% 1.05%
1997 10,646,495 49,259 2.3% 0.99%
1998 10,919,573 49,717 2.56% 0.93%
1999 11,227,415 50,202 2.82% 0.98%
2000 11,559,290 50,706 2.96% 1%
2001 11,912,158 51,123 3.05% 0.82%
2002 12,288,050 51,425 3.16% 0.59%
2003 12,684,955 51,639 3.23% 0.42%
2004 13,102,409 51,791 3.29% 0.29%
2005 13,538,647 51,906 3.33% 0.22%
2006 13,990,139 51,992 3.33% 0.17%
2007 14,457,775 52,035 3.34% 0.08%
2008 14,940,782 52,030 3.34% -0.01%
2009 15,435,539 52,019 3.31% -0.02%
2010 15,945,198 52,044 3.3% 0.05%
2011 16,469,049 51,907 3.29% -0.26%
2012 16,957,033 51,419 2.96% -0.94%
2013 17,459,615 50,681 2.96% -1.44%
2014 18,020,267 49,796 3.21% -1.75%
2015 18,593,022 48,800 3.18% -2%
2016 19,191,289 47,709 3.22% -2.24%
2017 19,813,011 46,529 3.24% -2.47%
2018 20,442,030 45,285 3.17% -2.67%
2019 21,068,405 44,007 3.06% -2.82%
2020 21,713,836 42,706 3.06% -2.96%
2021 22,388,630 41,367 3.11% -3.14%
2022 23,072,640 40,077 3.06% -3.12%
2023 23,769,127 38,827 3.02% -3.12%
2024 24,478,595 37,548 2.98% -3.29%
2025 25,198,817 36,281 2.94% -3.37%
2026 25,932,275 35,078 2.91% -3.32%
2027 26,679,171 33,976 2.88% -3.14%
2028 27,440,613 32,977 2.85% -2.94%
2029 28,215,513 32,054 2.82% -2.8%
2030 29,002,864 31,191 2.79% -2.69%
2031 29,804,545 30,420 2.76% -2.47%
2032 30,618,893 29,740 2.73% -2.23%
2033 31,442,801 29,142 2.69% -2.01%
2034 32,276,672 28,608 2.65% -1.83%
2035 33,118,344 28,147 2.61% -1.61%
2036 33,967,889 27,751 2.57% -1.41%
2037 34,823,450 27,405 2.52% -1.25%
2038 35,685,576 27,092 2.48% -1.14%
2039 36,549,487 26,836 2.42% -0.94%
2040 37,413,641 26,598 2.36% -0.89%
2041 38,280,868 26,396 2.32% -0.76%
2042 39,151,280 26,217 2.27% -0.68%
2043 40,026,317 26,054 2.24% -0.62%
2044 40,902,500 25,913 2.19% -0.54%
2045 41,778,984 25,777 2.14% -0.52%
2046 42,655,642 25,653 2.1% -0.48%
2047 43,530,852 25,543 2.05% -0.43%
2048 44,405,715 25,429 2.01% -0.45%
2049 45,279,772 25,311 1.97% -0.46%
2050 46,154,079 25,195 1.93% -0.46%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while the Marshall Islands lost 3,106 people (a 5.98% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while the Marshall Islands' population decreased by -12,519 (a 25.7% decline).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. The Marshall Islands was ranked 188th in 2005 and ranked 192nd 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 the Marshall Islands will decrease by 30.6% to 25,195 people and rank change from 192nd to 193rd.

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