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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 1.89 times bigger than Mali's.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Mali vs Spain: live population counter

Mali Spain
Current population
25787988
48786181
Population rank 58/197 32/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 0.59%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
1.14 minutes
One birth every
33.1 seconds
1.62 minutes
One death every
2.56 minutes
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change -46,880 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +1,944 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +709,468 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 108/197

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

Mali
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali Spain Mali Spain
1960 5,402,550 30,455,000 - -
1961 5,482,283 30,739,250 1.48% 0.93%
1962 5,563,917 31,023,366 1.49% 0.92%
1963 5,646,605 31,296,651 1.49% 0.88%
1964 5,730,125 31,609,195 1.48% 1%
1965 5,815,487 31,954,292 1.49% 1.09%
1966 5,902,204 32,283,194 1.49% 1.03%
1967 5,990,906 32,682,947 1.5% 1.24%
1968 6,082,979 33,113,134 1.54% 1.32%
1969 6,177,704 33,441,054 1.56% 0.99%
1970 6,276,472 33,814,531 1.6% 1.12%
1971 6,377,944 34,224,490 1.62% 1.21%
1972 6,483,726 34,604,469 1.66% 1.11%
1973 6,597,106 34,988,947 1.75% 1.11%
1974 6,715,436 35,373,335 1.79% 1.1%
1975 6,837,261 35,757,900 1.81% 1.09%
1976 6,960,979 36,137,812 1.81% 1.06%
1977 7,090,979 36,511,638 1.87% 1.03%
1978 7,229,651 36,864,898 1.96% 0.97%
1979 7,375,266 37,191,330 2.01% 0.89%
1980 7,530,515 37,491,165 2.1% 0.81%
1981 7,692,766 37,758,631 2.15% 0.71%
1982 7,860,194 37,986,012 2.18% 0.6%
1983 8,034,400 38,171,525 2.22% 0.49%
1984 8,208,599 38,330,364 2.17% 0.42%
1985 8,374,663 38,469,512 2.02% 0.36%
1986 8,531,277 38,584,624 1.87% 0.3%
1987 8,681,164 38,684,815 1.76% 0.26%
1988 8,833,996 38,766,939 1.76% 0.21%
1989 8,999,938 38,827,764 1.88% 0.16%
1990 9,178,830 38,867,322 1.99% 0.1%
1991 9,362,888 38,966,376 2.01% 0.25%
1992 9,553,540 39,157,685 2.04% 0.49%
1993 9,754,786 39,361,262 2.11% 0.52%
1994 9,967,031 39,549,108 2.18% 0.48%
1995 10,185,365 39,724,050 2.19% 0.44%
1996 10,407,278 39,889,852 2.18% 0.42%
1997 10,646,495 40,057,389 2.3% 0.42%
1998 10,919,573 40,223,509 2.56% 0.41%
1999 11,227,415 40,386,875 2.82% 0.41%
2000 11,559,290 40,567,864 2.96% 0.45%
2001 11,912,158 40,850,412 3.05% 0.7%
2002 12,288,050 41,431,558 3.16% 1.42%
2003 12,684,955 42,187,645 3.23% 1.82%
2004 13,102,409 42,921,895 3.29% 1.74%
2005 13,538,647 43,653,155 3.33% 1.7%
2006 13,990,139 44,397,319 3.33% 1.7%
2007 14,457,775 45,226,803 3.34% 1.87%
2008 14,940,782 45,954,106 3.34% 1.61%
2009 15,435,539 46,362,946 3.31% 0.89%
2010 15,945,198 46,576,897 3.3% 0.46%
2011 16,469,049 46,742,697 3.29% 0.36%
2012 16,957,033 46,773,055 2.96% 0.06%
2013 17,459,615 46,604,197 2.96% -0.36%
2014 18,020,267 46,460,733 3.21% -0.31%
2015 18,593,022 46,422,303 3.18% -0.08%
2016 19,191,289 46,458,139 3.22% 0.08%
2017 19,813,011 46,571,232 3.24% 0.24%
2018 20,442,030 46,782,011 3.17% 0.45%
2019 21,068,405 47,118,501 3.06% 0.72%
2020 21,713,836 47,359,424 3.06% 0.51%
2021 22,388,630 47,443,821 3.11% 0.18%
2022 23,072,640 47,786,102 3.06% 0.72%
2023 23,769,127 48,347,910 3.02% 1.18%
2024 24,478,595 48,807,137 2.98% 0.95%
2025 25,198,817 48,786,181 2.94% -0.04%
2026 25,932,275 48,746,279 2.91% -0.08%
2027 26,679,171 48,696,847 2.88% -0.1%
2028 27,440,613 48,642,132 2.85% -0.11%
2029 28,215,513 48,578,166 2.82% -0.13%
2030 29,002,864 48,501,513 2.79% -0.16%
2031 29,804,545 48,412,854 2.76% -0.18%
2032 30,618,893 48,321,195 2.73% -0.19%
2033 31,442,801 48,230,054 2.69% -0.19%
2034 32,276,672 48,136,421 2.65% -0.19%
2035 33,118,344 48,036,650 2.61% -0.21%
2036 33,967,889 47,929,957 2.57% -0.22%
2037 34,823,450 47,819,257 2.52% -0.23%
2038 35,685,576 47,706,580 2.48% -0.24%
2039 36,549,487 47,588,878 2.42% -0.25%
2040 37,413,641 47,463,597 2.36% -0.26%
2041 38,280,868 47,332,618 2.32% -0.28%
2042 39,151,280 47,194,588 2.27% -0.29%
2043 40,026,317 47,052,293 2.24% -0.3%
2044 40,902,500 46,902,636 2.19% -0.32%
2045 41,778,984 46,738,565 2.14% -0.35%
2046 42,655,642 46,564,383 2.1% -0.37%
2047 43,530,852 46,381,681 2.05% -0.39%
2048 44,405,715 46,190,642 2.01% -0.41%
2049 45,279,772 45,985,428 1.97% -0.44%
2050 46,154,079 45,769,362 1.93% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd 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 Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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