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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 51,751,065 people in South Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 51,700,480 in South Korea.

Population statistics:

  • South Korea's population is 2 times bigger than Mali's.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while South Korea is the 31st.
  • The countries together account for 0.94% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 0.63% for South Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs +0.24% in South Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while South Korea has grown from 48.2M to 51.7M (7.3% growth).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people, while South Korea's population already peaked in 2020 at 51.8M people and is projected to decrease to 21.9M people by 2100.

Mali vs South Korea: live population counter

Mali South Korea
Current population
25787988
51700480
Population rank 58/197 31/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 0.63%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
13.7 minutes
One birth every
33.1 seconds
2.26 minutes
One death every
2.56 minutes
1.69 minutes
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
6.92 minutes
Annual migration change -46,880 +75,963
Daily growth/decline +1,944 +105
Annual growth/decline +709,468 +38,446
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% +0.07%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 159/197

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

Mali
Population

Growth rate
South Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali South Korea Mali South Korea
1960 5,402,550 25,012,374 - -
1961 5,482,283 25,765,673 1.48% 3.01%
1962 5,563,917 26,513,030 1.49% 2.9%
1963 5,646,605 27,261,747 1.49% 2.82%
1964 5,730,125 27,984,155 1.48% 2.65%
1965 5,815,487 28,704,674 1.49% 2.57%
1966 5,902,204 29,435,571 1.49% 2.55%
1967 5,990,906 30,130,983 1.5% 2.36%
1968 6,082,979 30,838,302 1.54% 2.35%
1969 6,177,704 31,544,266 1.56% 2.29%
1970 6,276,472 32,240,827 1.6% 2.21%
1971 6,377,944 32,882,704 1.62% 1.99%
1972 6,483,726 33,505,406 1.66% 1.89%
1973 6,597,106 34,103,149 1.75% 1.78%
1974 6,715,436 34,692,266 1.79% 1.73%
1975 6,837,261 35,280,725 1.81% 1.7%
1976 6,960,979 35,848,523 1.81% 1.61%
1977 7,090,979 36,411,795 1.87% 1.57%
1978 7,229,651 36,969,185 1.96% 1.53%
1979 7,375,266 37,534,236 2.01% 1.53%
1980 7,530,515 38,123,775 2.1% 1.57%
1981 7,692,766 38,723,248 2.15% 1.57%
1982 7,860,194 39,326,352 2.18% 1.56%
1983 8,034,400 39,910,403 2.22% 1.49%
1984 8,208,599 40,405,956 2.17% 1.24%
1985 8,374,663 40,805,744 2.02% 0.99%
1986 8,531,277 41,213,674 1.87% 1%
1987 8,681,164 41,621,690 1.76% 0.99%
1988 8,833,996 42,031,247 1.76% 0.98%
1989 8,999,938 42,449,038 1.88% 0.99%
1990 9,178,830 42,869,283 1.99% 0.99%
1991 9,362,888 43,295,704 2.01% 0.99%
1992 9,553,540 43,747,962 2.04% 1.04%
1993 9,754,786 44,194,628 2.11% 1.02%
1994 9,967,031 44,641,540 2.18% 1.01%
1995 10,185,365 45,092,991 2.19% 1.01%
1996 10,407,278 45,524,681 2.18% 0.96%
1997 10,646,495 45,953,580 2.3% 0.94%
1998 10,919,573 46,286,503 2.56% 0.72%
1999 11,227,415 46,616,677 2.82% 0.71%
2000 11,559,290 47,008,111 2.96% 0.84%
2001 11,912,158 47,370,164 3.05% 0.77%
2002 12,288,050 47,644,736 3.16% 0.58%
2003 12,684,955 47,892,330 3.23% 0.52%
2004 13,102,409 48,082,519 3.29% 0.4%
2005 13,538,647 48,184,561 3.33% 0.21%
2006 13,990,139 48,438,292 3.33% 0.53%
2007 14,457,775 48,683,638 3.34% 0.51%
2008 14,940,782 49,054,708 3.34% 0.76%
2009 15,435,539 49,307,835 3.31% 0.52%
2010 15,945,198 49,554,112 3.3% 0.5%
2011 16,469,049 49,936,638 3.29% 0.77%
2012 16,957,033 50,199,853 2.96% 0.53%
2013 17,459,615 50,428,893 2.96% 0.46%
2014 18,020,267 50,746,659 3.21% 0.63%
2015 18,593,022 51,014,947 3.18% 0.53%
2016 19,191,289 51,217,803 3.22% 0.4%
2017 19,813,011 51,361,911 3.24% 0.28%
2018 20,442,030 51,585,058 3.17% 0.43%
2019 21,068,405 51,764,822 3.06% 0.35%
2020 21,713,836 51,836,239 3.06% 0.14%
2021 22,388,630 51,769,539 3.11% -0.13%
2022 23,072,640 51,672,569 3.06% -0.19%
2023 23,769,127 51,712,619 3.02% 0.08%
2024 24,478,595 51,751,065 2.98% 0.07%
2025 25,198,817 51,700,480 2.94% -0.1%
2026 25,932,275 51,633,793 2.91% -0.13%
2027 26,679,171 51,552,198 2.88% -0.16%
2028 27,440,613 51,456,707 2.85% -0.19%
2029 28,215,513 51,347,230 2.82% -0.21%
2030 29,002,864 51,221,713 2.79% -0.24%
2031 29,804,545 51,081,220 2.76% -0.27%
2032 30,618,893 50,924,233 2.73% -0.31%
2033 31,442,801 50,747,132 2.69% -0.35%
2034 32,276,672 50,549,508 2.65% -0.39%
2035 33,118,344 50,333,286 2.61% -0.43%
2036 33,967,889 50,098,951 2.57% -0.47%
2037 34,823,450 49,845,669 2.52% -0.51%
2038 35,685,576 49,573,234 2.48% -0.55%
2039 36,549,487 49,283,770 2.42% -0.58%
2040 37,413,641 48,980,369 2.36% -0.62%
2041 38,280,868 48,661,905 2.32% -0.65%
2042 39,151,280 48,331,004 2.27% -0.68%
2043 40,026,317 47,990,085 2.24% -0.71%
2044 40,902,500 47,634,183 2.19% -0.74%
2045 41,778,984 47,263,526 2.14% -0.78%
2046 42,655,642 46,881,228 2.1% -0.81%
2047 43,530,852 46,482,133 2.05% -0.85%
2048 44,405,715 46,063,595 2.01% -0.9%
2049 45,279,772 45,626,805 1.97% -0.95%
2050 46,154,079 45,172,356 1.93% -1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.

Biggest cities by population

Mali
City Population
Bamako 4.23M
Sikasso 226K
Segou 131K
Bougouni 59.7K
Markala 46K
Koulikoro 43.2K
Banamba 30.6K
South Korea
City Population
Seoul 9.67M
Busan 3.45M
Incheon 2.94M
Daegu 2.38M
Gwangju 1.49M
Daejeon 1.48M
Suwon 1.23M
Ulsan 1.13M
Yongin 1.08M
Goyang 1.06M

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