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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mali was 24,478,595 in 2024 vs 85,518,661 people in Turkey in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mali's population is 25,787,988 people compared to 85,914,550 in Turkey.

Population statistics:

  • Turkey's population is 3.33 times bigger than Mali's.
  • Mali is ranked the 58th most populous country in the world, while Turkey is the 18th.
  • The countries together account for 1.35% of the world: 0.31% for Mali vs 1.04% for Turkey.
  • For the last 10 years, Mali has had an average growth rate of +3.12% per year vs +1.06% in Turkey.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mali has increased from 13.5M people to 25.8M (90.5% growth), while Turkey has grown from 69.3M to 85.9M (23.9% growth).
  • Mali is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 79.4M people compared to the peak of 89.4M people in 2047 for Turkey.

Mali vs Turkey: live population counter

Mali Turkey
Current population
25787988
85914550
Population rank 58/197 18/197
Percent of world population 0.31% 1.04%
One net population change
44.5 seconds
2.73 minutes
One birth every
33.1 seconds
33 seconds
One death every
2.56 minutes
59.6 seconds
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
1.9 minutes
Annual migration change -46,880 -275,952
Daily growth/decline +1,944 +528
Annual growth/decline +709,468 +192,696
Annual growth/decline rate +2.98% +0.23%
Population growth rate rank 16/197 153/197

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

Mali
Population

Growth rate
Turkey
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mali Turkey Mali Turkey
1960 5,402,550 28,329,898 - -
1961 5,482,283 29,119,238 1.48% 2.79%
1962 5,563,917 29,916,147 1.49% 2.74%
1963 5,646,605 30,726,841 1.49% 2.71%
1964 5,730,125 31,543,072 1.48% 2.66%
1965 5,815,487 32,345,220 1.49% 2.54%
1966 5,902,204 33,177,672 1.49% 2.57%
1967 5,990,906 34,050,421 1.5% 2.63%
1968 6,082,979 34,921,684 1.54% 2.56%
1969 6,177,704 35,787,774 1.56% 2.48%
1970 6,276,472 36,638,465 1.6% 2.38%
1971 6,377,944 37,518,611 1.62% 2.4%
1972 6,483,726 38,430,221 1.66% 2.43%
1973 6,597,106 39,329,533 1.75% 2.34%
1974 6,715,436 40,210,234 1.79% 2.24%
1975 6,837,261 41,053,126 1.81% 2.1%
1976 6,960,979 41,899,984 1.81% 2.06%
1977 7,090,979 42,773,298 1.87% 2.08%
1978 7,229,651 43,645,306 1.96% 2.04%
1979 7,375,266 44,510,429 2.01% 1.98%
1980 7,530,515 45,408,815 2.1% 2.02%
1981 7,692,766 46,321,190 2.15% 2.01%
1982 7,860,194 47,322,096 2.18% 2.16%
1983 8,034,400 48,447,410 2.22% 2.38%
1984 8,208,599 49,574,069 2.17% 2.33%
1985 8,374,663 50,687,115 2.02% 2.25%
1986 8,531,277 51,777,772 1.87% 2.15%
1987 8,681,164 52,843,670 1.76% 2.06%
1988 8,833,996 53,909,626 1.76% 2.02%
1989 8,999,938 54,976,723 1.88% 1.98%
1990 9,178,830 56,015,628 1.99% 1.89%
1991 9,362,888 57,009,887 2.01% 1.77%
1992 9,553,540 57,990,118 2.04% 1.72%
1993 9,754,786 58,999,167 2.11% 1.74%
1994 9,967,031 60,033,836 2.18% 1.75%
1995 10,185,365 61,024,503 2.19% 1.65%
1996 10,407,278 61,951,134 2.18% 1.52%
1997 10,646,495 62,852,966 2.3% 1.46%
1998 10,919,573 63,734,383 2.56% 1.4%
1999 11,227,415 64,591,923 2.82% 1.35%
2000 11,559,290 65,425,961 2.96% 1.29%
2001 11,912,158 66,245,128 3.05% 1.25%
2002 12,288,050 67,048,795 3.16% 1.21%
2003 12,684,955 67,831,730 3.23% 1.17%
2004 13,102,409 68,592,617 3.29% 1.12%
2005 13,538,647 69,329,557 3.33% 1.07%
2006 13,990,139 70,045,349 3.33% 1.03%
2007 14,457,775 70,158,112 3.34% 0.16%
2008 14,940,782 71,051,678 3.34% 1.27%
2009 15,435,539 72,039,206 3.31% 1.39%
2010 15,945,198 73,142,150 3.3% 1.53%
2011 16,469,049 74,223,629 3.29% 1.48%
2012 16,957,033 75,175,827 2.96% 1.28%
2013 17,459,615 76,147,624 2.96% 1.29%
2014 18,020,267 77,181,884 3.21% 1.36%
2015 18,593,022 78,218,479 3.18% 1.34%
2016 19,191,289 79,277,962 3.22% 1.35%
2017 19,813,011 80,312,698 3.24% 1.31%
2018 20,442,030 81,407,204 3.17% 1.36%
2019 21,068,405 82,579,440 3.06% 1.44%
2020 21,713,836 83,384,680 3.06% 0.98%
2021 22,388,630 84,147,318 3.11% 0.91%
2022 23,072,640 84,979,913 3.06% 0.99%
2023 23,769,127 85,325,965 3.02% 0.41%
2024 24,478,595 85,518,661 2.98% 0.23%
2025 25,198,817 85,725,557 2.94% 0.24%
2026 25,932,275 85,960,835 2.91% 0.27%
2027 26,679,171 86,227,115 2.88% 0.31%
2028 27,440,613 86,502,744 2.85% 0.32%
2029 28,215,513 86,771,652 2.82% 0.31%
2030 29,002,864 87,037,680 2.79% 0.31%
2031 29,804,545 87,297,191 2.76% 0.3%
2032 30,618,893 87,537,075 2.73% 0.27%
2033 31,442,801 87,762,403 2.69% 0.26%
2034 32,276,672 87,974,138 2.65% 0.24%
2035 33,118,344 88,172,739 2.61% 0.23%
2036 33,967,889 88,364,318 2.57% 0.22%
2037 34,823,450 88,545,669 2.52% 0.21%
2038 35,685,576 88,707,268 2.48% 0.18%
2039 36,549,487 88,849,956 2.42% 0.16%
2040 37,413,641 88,975,510 2.36% 0.14%
2041 38,280,868 89,083,304 2.32% 0.12%
2042 39,151,280 89,177,769 2.27% 0.11%
2043 40,026,317 89,254,147 2.24% 0.09%
2044 40,902,500 89,311,458 2.19% 0.06%
2045 41,778,984 89,349,806 2.14% 0.04%
2046 42,655,642 89,375,429 2.1% 0.03%
2047 43,530,852 89,383,765 2.05% 0.009%
2048 44,405,715 89,361,174 2.01% -0.03%
2049 45,279,772 89,306,566 1.97% -0.06%
2050 46,154,079 89,218,346 1.93% -0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mali increased by 5,054,375 people (a 37.3% growth), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mali gained 7,194,966 (a 38.7% growth), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Mali was ranked 66th most populous country in 2005 and is 58th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.

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
Turkey
City Population
Istanbul 15.7M
Ankara 5.8M
Izmir 4.49M
Bursa 2.9M
Antalya 2.43M
Konya 2.23M
Urfa 1.99M
Kocaeli 1.85M
Adana 1.77M
Diyarbakir 1.73M

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