Population in Mauritius compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Mauritius and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Mauritius	United Kingdom	Mauritius	United Kingdom
1960	680,331	52,400,000	-	-
1961	680,757	52,800,000	0.06%	0.76%
1962	700,349	53,250,000	2.88%	0.85%
1963	718,861	53,650,000	2.64%	0.75%
1964	736,381	54,000,000	2.44%	0.65%
1965	753,000	54,348,050	2.26%	0.64%
1966	768,813	54,648,500	2.1%	0.55%
1967	783,917	54,943,600	1.96%	0.54%
1968	798,413	55,211,700	1.85%	0.49%
1969	812,405	55,441,750	1.75%	0.42%
1970	826,000	55,663,250	1.67%	0.4%
1971	839,230	55,896,223	1.6%	0.42%
1972	852,053	56,086,065	1.53%	0.34%
1973	864,819	56,194,527	1.5%	0.19%
1974	878,042	56,229,974	1.53%	0.06%
1975	892,000	56,225,800	1.59%	-0.007%
1976	906,507	56,211,968	1.63%	-0.02%
1977	921,379	56,193,492	1.64%	-0.03%
1978	933,499	56,196,504	1.32%	0.005%
1979	949,888	56,246,951	1.76%	0.09%
1980	966,039	56,314,216	1.7%	0.12%
1981	980,462	56,333,829	1.49%	0.03%
1982	992,521	56,313,641	1.23%	-0.04%
1983	1,001,691	56,332,848	0.92%	0.03%
1984	1,012,221	56,422,072	1.05%	0.16%
1985	1,020,528	56,550,268	0.82%	0.23%
1986	1,028,360	56,681,396	0.77%	0.23%
1987	1,036,082	56,802,050	0.75%	0.21%
1988	1,043,239	56,928,327	0.69%	0.22%
1989	1,051,260	57,076,711	0.77%	0.26%
1990	1,058,775	57,247,586	0.71%	0.3%
1991	1,070,266	57,424,897	1.09%	0.31%
1992	1,084,441	57,580,402	1.32%	0.27%
1993	1,097,374	57,718,614	1.19%	0.24%
1994	1,112,846	57,865,745	1.41%	0.25%
1995	1,122,457	58,019,030	0.86%	0.26%
1996	1,133,996	58,166,950	1.03%	0.25%
1997	1,148,284	58,316,954	1.26%	0.26%
1998	1,160,421	58,487,141	1.06%	0.29%
1999	1,175,267	58,682,466	1.28%	0.33%
2000	1,186,873	58,892,514	0.99%	0.36%
2001	1,196,287	59,119,673	0.79%	0.39%
2002	1,204,621	59,370,479	0.7%	0.42%
2003	1,213,370	59,647,577	0.73%	0.47%
2004	1,221,003	59,987,905	0.63%	0.57%
2005	1,228,254	60,401,206	0.59%	0.69%
2006	1,233,996	60,846,820	0.47%	0.74%
2007	1,239,630	61,322,463	0.46%	0.78%
2008	1,244,121	61,806,995	0.36%	0.79%
2009	1,247,429	62,276,270	0.27%	0.76%
2010	1,250,400	62,766,365	0.24%	0.79%
2011	1,252,404	63,258,810	0.16%	0.78%
2012	1,255,882	63,711,000	0.28%	0.71%
2013	1,258,927	64,139,000	0.24%	0.67%
2014	1,261,208	64,620,000	0.18%	0.75%
2015	1,262,879	65,088,000	0.13%	0.72%
2016	1,263,747	65,607,000	0.07%	0.8%
2017	1,264,887	65,966,000	0.09%	0.55%
2018	1,265,577	66,289,000	0.05%	0.49%
2019	1,265,985	66,631,000	0.03%	0.52%
2020	1,266,014	66,744,000	0.002%	0.17%
2021	1,266,334	66,984,000	0.03%	0.36%
2022	1,262,523	67,604,000	-0.3%	0.93%
2023	1,261,041	68,492,000	-0.12%	1.31%
2024	1,259,509	69,226,000	-0.12%	1.07%
2025	1,256,649	69,639,673	-0.23%	0.6%
2026	1,253,457	70,020,350	-0.25%	0.55%
2027	1,250,062	70,382,853	-0.27%	0.52%
2028	1,246,502	70,732,699	-0.28%	0.5%
2029	1,242,774	71,061,482	-0.3%	0.46%
2030	1,238,963	71,377,535	-0.31%	0.44%
2031	1,234,965	71,678,351	-0.32%	0.42%
2032	1,230,623	71,959,934	-0.35%	0.39%
2033	1,225,970	72,234,509	-0.38%	0.38%
2034	1,220,995	72,497,650	-0.41%	0.36%
2035	1,215,701	72,749,096	-0.43%	0.35%
2036	1,210,085	72,990,847	-0.46%	0.33%
2037	1,204,158	73,218,850	-0.49%	0.31%
2038	1,197,926	73,441,349	-0.52%	0.3%
2039	1,191,299	73,658,392	-0.55%	0.3%
2040	1,184,262	73,868,334	-0.59%	0.29%
2041	1,176,870	74,074,316	-0.62%	0.28%
2042	1,169,165	74,275,779	-0.65%	0.27%
2043	1,161,119	74,475,035	-0.69%	0.27%
2044	1,152,733	74,667,284	-0.72%	0.26%
2045	1,144,071	74,848,605	-0.75%	0.24%
2046	1,135,101	75,020,949	-0.78%	0.23%
2047	1,125,881	75,184,478	-0.81%	0.22%
2048	1,116,431	75,337,543	-0.84%	0.2%
2049	1,106,794	75,476,141	-0.86%	0.18%
2050	1,097,042	75,600,588	-0.88%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mauritius increased by 34,625 people (a 2.82% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mauritius lost -6,230 (a 0.49% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Mauritius was ranked 151st most populous country in 2005 and is 157th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.