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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 36,554,707 people in Poland in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 36,176,920 in Poland.

Population statistics:

  • Poland's population is 1.4 times bigger than Mali's.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while Poland is the 46th.
  • The countries together account for 0.75% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 0.44% for Poland.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs -0.36% in Poland.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while Poland has declined from 38.2M to 36.2M (5.21% decline).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people, while Poland's population already peaked in 1998 at 38.7M people and is projected to decrease to 18.3M people by 2100.

Mali vs Poland: live population counter

Mali Poland
Current population
25787988
36176920
Population rank 58/197 46/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 0.44%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
3.96 minutes
One birth every
33.1 seconds
1.94 minutes
One death every
2.56 minutes
1.29 minutes
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
2.21 minutes
Annual migration change -46,880 -238,062
Daily growth/decline +1,944 -363
Annual growth/decline +709,468 -132,646
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% -0.36%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 179/197

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

Mali
Population

Growth rate
Poland
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali Poland Mali Poland
1960 5,402,550 29,637,450 - -
1961 5,482,283 29,964,000 1.48% 1.1%
1962 5,563,917 30,308,500 1.49% 1.15%
1963 5,646,605 30,712,000 1.49% 1.33%
1964 5,730,125 31,139,450 1.48% 1.39%
1965 5,815,487 31,444,950 1.49% 0.98%
1966 5,902,204 31,681,000 1.49% 0.75%
1967 5,990,906 31,987,155 1.5% 0.97%
1968 6,082,979 32,294,655 1.54% 0.96%
1969 6,177,704 32,548,300 1.56% 0.79%
1970 6,276,472 32,664,300 1.6% 0.36%
1971 6,377,944 32,783,500 1.62% 0.36%
1972 6,483,726 33,055,650 1.66% 0.83%
1973 6,597,106 33,357,200 1.75% 0.91%
1974 6,715,436 33,678,899 1.79% 0.96%
1975 6,837,261 34,015,199 1.81% 1%
1976 6,960,979 34,356,300 1.81% 1%
1977 7,090,979 34,689,050 1.87% 0.97%
1978 7,229,651 34,965,600 1.96% 0.8%
1979 7,375,266 35,247,217 2.01% 0.81%
1980 7,530,515 35,574,150 2.1% 0.93%
1981 7,692,766 35,898,587 2.15% 0.91%
1982 7,860,194 36,230,481 2.18% 0.92%
1983 8,034,400 36,571,808 2.22% 0.94%
1984 8,208,599 36,904,134 2.17% 0.91%
1985 8,374,663 37,201,885 2.02% 0.81%
1986 8,531,277 37,456,119 1.87% 0.68%
1987 8,681,164 37,668,045 1.76% 0.57%
1988 8,833,996 37,824,487 1.76% 0.42%
1989 8,999,938 37,961,529 1.88% 0.36%
1990 9,178,830 38,110,782 1.99% 0.39%
1991 9,362,888 38,246,193 2.01% 0.36%
1992 9,553,540 38,363,667 2.04% 0.31%
1993 9,754,786 38,461,408 2.11% 0.25%
1994 9,967,031 38,542,652 2.18% 0.21%
1995 10,185,365 38,594,998 2.19% 0.14%
1996 10,407,278 38,624,370 2.18% 0.08%
1997 10,646,495 38,649,660 2.3% 0.07%
1998 10,919,573 38,663,481 2.56% 0.04%
1999 11,227,415 38,660,271 2.82% -0.008%
2000 11,559,290 38,258,629 2.96% -1.04%
2001 11,912,158 38,248,076 3.05% -0.03%
2002 12,288,050 38,230,364 3.16% -0.05%
2003 12,684,955 38,204,570 3.23% -0.07%
2004 13,102,409 38,182,222 3.29% -0.06%
2005 13,538,647 38,165,445 3.33% -0.04%
2006 13,990,139 38,141,267 3.33% -0.06%
2007 14,457,775 38,120,560 3.34% -0.05%
2008 14,940,782 38,125,759 3.34% 0.01%
2009 15,435,539 38,151,603 3.31% 0.07%
2010 15,945,198 38,042,794 3.3% -0.29%
2011 16,469,049 38,063,255 3.29% 0.05%
2012 16,957,033 38,063,164 2.96% -0%
2013 17,459,615 38,040,196 2.96% -0.06%
2014 18,020,267 38,011,735 3.21% -0.07%
2015 18,593,022 37,986,412 3.18% -0.07%
2016 19,191,289 37,970,087 3.22% -0.04%
2017 19,813,011 37,974,826 3.24% 0.01%
2018 20,442,030 37,974,750 3.17% -0%
2019 21,068,405 37,965,475 3.06% -0.02%
2020 21,713,836 37,515,748 3.06% -1.18%
2021 22,388,630 36,981,559 3.11% -1.42%
2022 23,072,640 36,821,749 3.06% -0.43%
2023 23,769,127 36,687,353 3.02% -0.36%
2024 24,478,595 36,554,707 2.98% -0.36%
2025 25,198,817 36,176,920 2.94% -1.03%
2026 25,932,275 35,894,534 2.91% -0.78%
2027 26,679,171 35,753,988 2.88% -0.39%
2028 27,440,613 35,605,295 2.85% -0.42%
2029 28,215,513 35,447,860 2.82% -0.44%
2030 29,002,864 35,283,068 2.79% -0.46%
2031 29,804,545 35,111,838 2.76% -0.49%
2032 30,618,893 34,934,626 2.73% -0.5%
2033 31,442,801 34,753,118 2.69% -0.52%
2034 32,276,672 34,567,292 2.65% -0.53%
2035 33,118,344 34,377,478 2.61% -0.55%
2036 33,967,889 34,183,187 2.57% -0.57%
2037 34,823,450 33,984,777 2.52% -0.58%
2038 35,685,576 33,782,992 2.48% -0.59%
2039 36,549,487 33,577,269 2.42% -0.61%
2040 37,413,641 33,368,049 2.36% -0.62%
2041 38,280,868 33,156,329 2.32% -0.63%
2042 39,151,280 32,941,367 2.27% -0.65%
2043 40,026,317 32,722,775 2.24% -0.66%
2044 40,902,500 32,501,991 2.19% -0.67%
2045 41,778,984 32,278,695 2.14% -0.69%
2046 42,655,642 32,052,771 2.1% -0.7%
2047 43,530,852 31,824,481 2.05% -0.71%
2048 44,405,715 31,593,911 2.01% -0.72%
2049 45,279,772 31,360,713 1.97% -0.74%
2050 46,154,079 31,124,396 1.93% -0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.

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