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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Malta	North Korea	Malta	North Korea
1960	326,550	11,722,953	-	-
1961	325,250	11,990,713	-0.4%	2.28%
1962	323,900	12,262,882	-0.42%	2.27%
1963	322,550	12,567,057	-0.42%	2.48%
1964	321,250	12,889,770	-0.4%	2.57%
1965	318,800	13,219,369	-0.76%	2.56%
1966	315,200	13,569,094	-1.13%	2.65%
1967	311,550	13,958,350	-1.16%	2.87%
1968	307,900	14,365,596	-1.17%	2.92%
1969	304,300	14,767,615	-1.17%	2.8%
1970	302,650	15,172,775	-0.54%	2.74%
1971	302,700	15,572,457	0.02%	2.63%
1972	302,450	15,975,069	-0.08%	2.59%
1973	302,200	16,350,367	-0.08%	2.35%
1974	301,996	16,673,121	-0.07%	1.97%
1975	304,222	16,971,055	0.74%	1.79%
1976	305,774	17,243,450	0.51%	1.61%
1977	306,970	17,492,798	0.39%	1.45%
1978	310,182	17,735,995	1.05%	1.39%
1979	313,342	17,983,470	1.02%	1.4%
1980	316,645	18,236,786	1.05%	1.41%
1981	318,982	18,501,295	0.74%	1.45%
1982	325,898	18,776,357	2.17%	1.49%
1983	330,524	19,054,034	1.42%	1.48%
1984	330,593	19,335,043	0.02%	1.47%
1985	336,452	19,620,388	1.77%	1.48%
1986	342,121	19,910,855	1.68%	1.48%
1987	344,485	20,205,483	0.69%	1.48%
1988	347,325	20,503,161	0.82%	1.47%
1989	350,722	20,804,367	0.98%	1.47%
1990	354,170	21,112,137	0.98%	1.48%
1991	363,845	21,428,638	2.73%	1.5%
1992	367,618	21,750,911	1.04%	1.5%
1993	371,308	22,073,352	1%	1.48%
1994	374,797	22,393,975	0.94%	1.45%
1995	377,419	22,669,304	0.7%	1.23%
1996	379,905	22,895,746	0.66%	1%
1997	382,791	23,110,830	0.76%	0.94%
1998	385,287	23,311,564	0.65%	0.87%
1999	387,578	23,497,599	0.59%	0.8%
2000	390,087	23,665,910	0.65%	0.72%
2001	393,028	23,815,358	0.75%	0.63%
2002	395,969	23,943,973	0.75%	0.54%
2003	398,582	24,090,380	0.66%	0.61%
2004	401,268	24,254,943	0.67%	0.68%
2005	403,834	24,396,433	0.64%	0.58%
2006	405,308	24,524,507	0.37%	0.52%
2007	406,724	24,646,383	0.35%	0.5%
2008	409,379	24,764,618	0.65%	0.48%
2009	412,477	24,878,332	0.76%	0.46%
2010	414,508	24,987,258	0.49%	0.44%
2011	416,268	25,097,874	0.42%	0.44%
2012	420,028	25,211,728	0.9%	0.45%
2013	424,810	25,329,451	1.14%	0.47%
2014	433,481	25,451,262	2.04%	0.48%
2015	444,220	25,575,350	2.48%	0.49%
2016	454,505	25,698,326	2.32%	0.48%
2017	467,106	25,817,709	2.77%	0.46%
2018	483,903	25,931,147	3.6%	0.44%
2019	503,912	26,037,632	4.13%	0.41%
2020	515,490	26,136,312	2.3%	0.38%
2021	518,150	26,232,534	0.52%	0.37%
2022	531,113	26,328,845	2.5%	0.37%
2023	552,747	26,418,204	4.07%	0.34%
2024	574,346	26,498,823	3.91%	0.31%
2025	580,514	26,571,033	1.07%	0.27%
2026	584,351	26,633,682	0.66%	0.24%
2027	586,444	26,686,492	0.36%	0.2%
2028	588,290	26,729,261	0.31%	0.16%
2029	589,776	26,762,008	0.25%	0.12%
2030	590,973	26,784,894	0.2%	0.09%
2031	591,921	26,797,946	0.16%	0.05%
2032	592,622	26,801,071	0.12%	0.01%
2033	592,974	26,795,061	0.06%	-0.02%
2034	592,827	26,780,481	-0.02%	-0.05%
2035	592,332	26,757,705	-0.08%	-0.09%
2036	591,668	26,727,309	-0.11%	-0.11%
2037	590,830	26,689,907	-0.14%	-0.14%
2038	589,771	26,646,323	-0.18%	-0.16%
2039	588,528	26,596,967	-0.21%	-0.19%
2040	587,256	26,542,417	-0.22%	-0.21%
2041	585,895	26,483,475	-0.23%	-0.22%
2042	584,467	26,420,812	-0.24%	-0.24%
2043	582,966	26,354,324	-0.26%	-0.25%
2044	581,355	26,284,000	-0.28%	-0.27%
2045	579,693	26,210,196	-0.29%	-0.28%
2046	577,954	26,132,922	-0.3%	-0.29%
2047	576,050	26,052,086	-0.33%	-0.31%
2048	574,050	25,967,581	-0.35%	-0.32%
2049	572,187	25,879,244	-0.32%	-0.34%
2050	570,210	25,787,120	-0.35%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Malta increased by 40,386 people (a 10% growth), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Malta gained 139,376 (a 31.4% growth), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Malta was ranked 168th most populous country in 2005 and is 167th 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) Malta's population will shrink by 2.29% to 570,210 people and will still be ranked 167th. The population of North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.