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Population in Mali compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 26,498,823 people in North Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 26,621,357 in North Korea.

Population statistics:

  • North Korea's population is 1.03 times bigger than Mali's.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while North Korea is the 56th.
  • The countries together account for 0.63% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 0.32% for North Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs +0.41% in North Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while North Korea has grown from 24.4M to 26.6M (9.12% growth).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people compared to the peak of 26.8M people in 2032 for North Korea.

Mali vs North Korea: live population counter

Mali North Korea
Current population
25787988
26621357
Population rank 58/197 56/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 0.32%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
6.52 minutes
One birth every
33.1 seconds
1.54 minutes
One death every
2.56 minutes
2.05 minutes
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
3.54 hours
Annual migration change -46,880 -2,473
Daily growth/decline +1,944 +221
Annual growth/decline +709,468 +80,619
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% +0.31%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 149/197

Mali and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mali
Population

Growth rate
North Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali North Korea Mali North Korea
1960 5,402,550 11,722,953 - -
1961 5,482,283 11,990,713 1.48% 2.28%
1962 5,563,917 12,262,882 1.49% 2.27%
1963 5,646,605 12,567,057 1.49% 2.48%
1964 5,730,125 12,889,770 1.48% 2.57%
1965 5,815,487 13,219,369 1.49% 2.56%
1966 5,902,204 13,569,094 1.49% 2.65%
1967 5,990,906 13,958,350 1.5% 2.87%
1968 6,082,979 14,365,596 1.54% 2.92%
1969 6,177,704 14,767,615 1.56% 2.8%
1970 6,276,472 15,172,775 1.6% 2.74%
1971 6,377,944 15,572,457 1.62% 2.63%
1972 6,483,726 15,975,069 1.66% 2.59%
1973 6,597,106 16,350,367 1.75% 2.35%
1974 6,715,436 16,673,121 1.79% 1.97%
1975 6,837,261 16,971,055 1.81% 1.79%
1976 6,960,979 17,243,450 1.81% 1.61%
1977 7,090,979 17,492,798 1.87% 1.45%
1978 7,229,651 17,735,995 1.96% 1.39%
1979 7,375,266 17,983,470 2.01% 1.4%
1980 7,530,515 18,236,786 2.1% 1.41%
1981 7,692,766 18,501,295 2.15% 1.45%
1982 7,860,194 18,776,357 2.18% 1.49%
1983 8,034,400 19,054,034 2.22% 1.48%
1984 8,208,599 19,335,043 2.17% 1.47%
1985 8,374,663 19,620,388 2.02% 1.48%
1986 8,531,277 19,910,855 1.87% 1.48%
1987 8,681,164 20,205,483 1.76% 1.48%
1988 8,833,996 20,503,161 1.76% 1.47%
1989 8,999,938 20,804,367 1.88% 1.47%
1990 9,178,830 21,112,137 1.99% 1.48%
1991 9,362,888 21,428,638 2.01% 1.5%
1992 9,553,540 21,750,911 2.04% 1.5%
1993 9,754,786 22,073,352 2.11% 1.48%
1994 9,967,031 22,393,975 2.18% 1.45%
1995 10,185,365 22,669,304 2.19% 1.23%
1996 10,407,278 22,895,746 2.18% 1%
1997 10,646,495 23,110,830 2.3% 0.94%
1998 10,919,573 23,311,564 2.56% 0.87%
1999 11,227,415 23,497,599 2.82% 0.8%
2000 11,559,290 23,665,910 2.96% 0.72%
2001 11,912,158 23,815,358 3.05% 0.63%
2002 12,288,050 23,943,973 3.16% 0.54%
2003 12,684,955 24,090,380 3.23% 0.61%
2004 13,102,409 24,254,943 3.29% 0.68%
2005 13,538,647 24,396,433 3.33% 0.58%
2006 13,990,139 24,524,507 3.33% 0.52%
2007 14,457,775 24,646,383 3.34% 0.5%
2008 14,940,782 24,764,618 3.34% 0.48%
2009 15,435,539 24,878,332 3.31% 0.46%
2010 15,945,198 24,987,258 3.3% 0.44%
2011 16,469,049 25,097,874 3.29% 0.44%
2012 16,957,033 25,211,728 2.96% 0.45%
2013 17,459,615 25,329,451 2.96% 0.47%
2014 18,020,267 25,451,262 3.21% 0.48%
2015 18,593,022 25,575,350 3.18% 0.49%
2016 19,191,289 25,698,326 3.22% 0.48%
2017 19,813,011 25,817,709 3.24% 0.46%
2018 20,442,030 25,931,147 3.17% 0.44%
2019 21,068,405 26,037,632 3.06% 0.41%
2020 21,713,836 26,136,312 3.06% 0.38%
2021 22,388,630 26,232,534 3.11% 0.37%
2022 23,072,640 26,328,845 3.06% 0.37%
2023 23,769,127 26,418,204 3.02% 0.34%
2024 24,478,595 26,498,823 2.98% 0.31%
2025 25,198,817 26,571,033 2.94% 0.27%
2026 25,932,275 26,633,682 2.91% 0.24%
2027 26,679,171 26,686,492 2.88% 0.2%
2028 27,440,613 26,729,261 2.85% 0.16%
2029 28,215,513 26,762,008 2.82% 0.12%
2030 29,002,864 26,784,894 2.79% 0.09%
2031 29,804,545 26,797,946 2.76% 0.05%
2032 30,618,893 26,801,071 2.73% 0.01%
2033 31,442,801 26,795,061 2.69% -0.02%
2034 32,276,672 26,780,481 2.65% -0.05%
2035 33,118,344 26,757,705 2.61% -0.09%
2036 33,967,889 26,727,309 2.57% -0.11%
2037 34,823,450 26,689,907 2.52% -0.14%
2038 35,685,576 26,646,323 2.48% -0.16%
2039 36,549,487 26,596,967 2.42% -0.19%
2040 37,413,641 26,542,417 2.36% -0.21%
2041 38,280,868 26,483,475 2.32% -0.22%
2042 39,151,280 26,420,812 2.27% -0.24%
2043 40,026,317 26,354,324 2.24% -0.25%
2044 40,902,500 26,284,000 2.19% -0.27%
2045 41,778,984 26,210,196 2.14% -0.28%
2046 42,655,642 26,132,922 2.1% -0.29%
2047 43,530,852 26,052,086 2.05% -0.31%
2048 44,405,715 25,967,581 2.01% -0.32%
2049 45,279,772 25,879,244 1.97% -0.34%
2050 46,154,079 25,787,120 1.93% -0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th 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 North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.

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