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Population in Mauritius compared to Uganda: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mauritius was 1,259,509 in 2024 vs 50,015,092 people in Uganda in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mauritius' population is 1,256,649 people compared to 52,490,669 in Uganda.

Population statistics:

  • Uganda's population is 41.8 times bigger than Mauritius'.
  • Mauritius is ranked the 157th most populous country in the world, while Uganda is the 30th.
  • The countries together account for 0.65% of the world: 0.02% for Mauritius vs 0.63% for Uganda.
  • For the last 10 years, Mauritius has had an average growth rate of +0.004% per year vs +3.21% in Uganda.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mauritius has increased from 1.23M people to 1.26M (2.31% growth), while Uganda has grown from 28M to 52.5M (87.7% growth).
  • Uganda is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 121M people, while Mauritius' population already peaked in 2021 at 1.27M people and is projected to decrease to 576K people by 2100.

Mauritius vs Uganda: live population counter

Mauritius Uganda
Current population
1256649
52490669
Population rank 157/197 30/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.63%
One net population change
5.72 hours
23.2 seconds
One birth every
40.9 minutes
18.4 seconds
One death every
44.3 minutes
2.23 minutes
One migration net change every
3.14 hours
4.46 minutes
Annual migration change -2,787 -117,924
Daily growth/decline -4 +3,722
Annual growth/decline -1,532 +1,358,491
Annual growth/decline rate -0.12% +2.79%
Population growth rate rank 172/197 23/197

Mauritius and Uganda: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mauritius
Population

Growth rate
Uganda
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mauritius Uganda Mauritius Uganda
1960 680,331 7,640,973 - -
1961 680,757 7,862,217 0.06% 2.9%
1962 700,349 8,092,231 2.88% 2.93%
1963 718,861 8,333,663 2.64% 2.98%
1964 736,381 8,586,363 2.44% 3.03%
1965 753,000 8,849,203 2.26% 3.06%
1966 768,813 9,122,864 2.1% 3.09%
1967 783,917 9,408,924 1.96% 3.14%
1968 798,413 9,708,632 1.85% 3.19%
1969 812,405 10,014,858 1.75% 3.15%
1970 826,000 10,321,603 1.67% 3.06%
1971 839,230 10,618,206 1.6% 2.87%
1972 852,053 10,885,796 1.53% 2.52%
1973 864,819 11,144,236 1.5% 2.37%
1974 878,042 11,424,846 1.53% 2.52%
1975 892,000 11,725,240 1.59% 2.63%
1976 906,507 12,037,294 1.63% 2.66%
1977 921,379 12,359,669 1.64% 2.68%
1978 933,499 12,692,113 1.32% 2.69%
1979 949,888 13,002,163 1.76% 2.44%
1980 966,039 13,275,741 1.7% 2.1%
1981 980,462 13,556,452 1.49% 2.11%
1982 992,521 13,873,631 1.23% 2.34%
1983 1,001,691 14,221,881 0.92% 2.51%
1984 1,012,221 14,607,677 1.05% 2.71%
1985 1,020,528 15,023,681 0.82% 2.85%
1986 1,028,360 15,467,579 0.77% 2.95%
1987 1,036,082 15,954,170 0.75% 3.15%
1988 1,043,239 16,470,483 0.69% 3.24%
1989 1,051,260 17,010,698 0.77% 3.28%
1990 1,058,775 17,569,897 0.71% 3.29%
1991 1,070,266 18,155,901 1.09% 3.34%
1992 1,084,441 18,785,032 1.32% 3.47%
1993 1,097,374 19,445,161 1.19% 3.51%
1994 1,112,846 20,108,801 1.41% 3.41%
1995 1,122,457 20,665,667 0.86% 2.77%
1996 1,133,996 21,231,550 1.03% 2.74%
1997 1,148,284 21,856,046 1.26% 2.94%
1998 1,160,421 22,515,806 1.06% 3.02%
1999 1,175,267 23,257,281 1.28% 3.29%
2000 1,186,873 24,000,150 0.99% 3.19%
2001 1,196,287 24,745,676 0.79% 3.11%
2002 1,204,621 25,532,870 0.7% 3.18%
2003 1,213,370 26,352,124 0.73% 3.21%
2004 1,221,003 27,154,515 0.63% 3.04%
2005 1,228,254 27,963,289 0.59% 2.98%
2006 1,233,996 28,794,003 0.47% 2.97%
2007 1,239,630 29,653,430 0.46% 2.98%
2008 1,244,121 30,539,553 0.36% 2.99%
2009 1,247,429 31,451,151 0.27% 2.98%
2010 1,250,400 32,390,802 0.24% 2.99%
2011 1,252,404 33,354,543 0.16% 2.98%
2012 1,255,882 34,337,438 0.28% 2.95%
2013 1,258,927 35,337,042 0.24% 2.91%
2014 1,261,208 36,395,539 0.18% 3%
2015 1,262,879 37,531,446 0.13% 3.12%
2016 1,263,747 38,799,152 0.07% 3.38%
2017 1,264,887 40,177,388 0.09% 3.55%
2018 1,265,577 41,565,831 0.05% 3.46%
2019 1,265,985 42,999,637 0.03% 3.45%
2020 1,266,014 44,457,152 0.002% 3.39%
2021 1,266,334 45,910,930 0.03% 3.27%
2022 1,262,523 47,312,719 -0.3% 3.05%
2023 1,261,041 48,656,601 -0.12% 2.84%
2024 1,259,509 50,015,092 -0.12% 2.79%
2025 1,256,649 51,384,895 -0.23% 2.74%
2026 1,253,457 52,761,471 -0.25% 2.68%
2027 1,250,062 54,144,274 -0.27% 2.62%
2028 1,246,502 55,532,564 -0.28% 2.56%
2029 1,242,774 56,922,797 -0.3% 2.5%
2030 1,238,963 58,312,944 -0.31% 2.44%
2031 1,234,965 59,703,537 -0.32% 2.38%
2032 1,230,623 61,089,060 -0.35% 2.32%
2033 1,225,970 62,464,116 -0.38% 2.25%
2034 1,220,995 63,833,872 -0.41% 2.19%
2035 1,215,701 65,205,570 -0.43% 2.15%
2036 1,210,085 66,573,737 -0.46% 2.1%
2037 1,204,158 67,942,634 -0.49% 2.06%
2038 1,197,926 69,312,210 -0.52% 2.02%
2039 1,191,299 70,669,875 -0.55% 1.96%
2040 1,184,262 72,020,414 -0.59% 1.91%
2041 1,176,870 73,372,658 -0.62% 1.88%
2042 1,169,165 74,730,004 -0.65% 1.85%
2043 1,161,119 76,090,991 -0.69% 1.82%
2044 1,152,733 77,449,517 -0.72% 1.79%
2045 1,144,071 78,797,995 -0.75% 1.74%
2046 1,135,101 80,139,174 -0.78% 1.7%
2047 1,125,881 81,478,503 -0.81% 1.67%
2048 1,116,431 82,812,102 -0.84% 1.64%
2049 1,106,794 84,130,056 -0.86% 1.59%
2050 1,097,042 85,431,202 -0.88% 1.55%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mauritius increased by 34,625 people (a 2.82% growth), while Uganda gained 9,568,157 people (a 34.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mauritius lost -6,230 (a 0.49% decline), while Uganda's population increased by 14,959,223 (a 39.9% growth).

Mauritius was ranked 151st most populous country in 2005 and is 157th in 2025. Uganda was ranked 40th in 2005 and ranked 30th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Mauritius' population will shrink by 12.7% to 1,097,042 people with a rank change from 157th to 160th. The population of Uganda will increase by 62.8% to 85,431,202 people and rank change from 30th to 20th.

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