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Malawi

Population22,216,1202025

Annual growth2.56 %2025

Life expectancy at birth67.6 years2024

Children per woman3.59 2024

Births per 1,000 residents31.1 ‰2024

Deaths per 1,000 residents5.3 ‰2024

Urban population17.6 %2025

Residents per km² of land229.7 2024

Population over time

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Malawi

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Number of residents
Year	Malawi
1960	3,628,134
1961	3,715,534
1962	3,806,307
1963	3,900,506
1964	3,997,305
1965	4,096,157
1966	4,197,926
1967	4,303,012
1968	4,411,054
1969	4,521,184
1970	4,633,944
1971	4,751,434
1972	4,874,475
1973	5,003,938
1974	5,141,337
1975	5,287,367
1976	5,443,384
1977	5,614,983
1978	5,810,132
1979	6,028,749
1980	6,265,529
1981	6,516,454
1982	6,778,879
1983	7,051,709
1984	7,332,810
1985	7,620,508
1986	7,906,480
1987	8,293,174
1988	8,753,262
1989	9,176,220
1990	9,545,852
1991	9,844,227
1992	10,135,079
1993	10,284,024
1994	10,164,894
1995	10,150,117
1996	10,352,228
1997	10,562,035
1998	10,792,876
1999	11,047,804
2000	11,315,942
2001	11,593,058
2002	11,880,440
2003	12,181,574
2004	12,500,737
2005	12,840,031
2006	13,198,701
2007	13,576,343
2008	13,976,417
2009	14,395,788
2010	14,826,463
2011	15,265,022
2012	15,709,577
2013	16,161,816
2014	16,621,538
2015	17,085,587
2016	17,557,739
2017	18,039,715
2018	18,528,081
2019	19,025,752
2020	19,533,888
2021	20,047,258
2022	20,568,728
2023	21,104,482
2024	21,655,286
2025	22,216,120

Population pyramid

Malawi · 2025

17 age groups, from 0–4 to 80 and over. Bars show each group’s share of the total population. Counts are calculated from percentages and sex totals for the same year.

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Population pyramid · 2025
Age group	Men	Women
0–4	1,594,784	1,585,712
5–9	1,459,664	1,456,181
10–14	1,405,288	1,412,917
15–19	1,307,932	1,328,409
20–24	1,088,128	1,111,683
25–29	899,765	928,430
30–34	736,419	800,858
35–39	601,718	705,759
40–44	519,175	593,647
45–49	408,104	408,476
50–54	272,420	279,034
55–59	181,147	236,082
60–64	133,766	185,544
65–69	96,606	123,445
70–74	62,886	83,410
75–79	41,845	65,652
80+	34,306	66,934

Broad age distribution

2025

Ages 0–1440.1%
Ages 15–6457.3%
Ages 65 and over2.6%

Age dependency ratio

74.6

People aged 0–14 and 65+ per 100 people aged 15–64. This age-based ratio does not measure employment or actual economic dependency.

Distribution by sex

2025

Men48.8%
Women51.2%

Population by country and territory · 2025

Ranking for the stated year. Regional and economic aggregates are excluded; the world total is the published source value, not a sum of ranked entries.

Ten largest populations

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217 countries and territories shown

Population by country and territory · 2025
#	Country or territory	Population	Share of world total
1	India	1,463,865,525	17.82%
2	China	1,406,585,000	17.12%
3	United States	341,784,857	4.16%
4	Indonesia	285,721,236	3.48%
5	Pakistan	255,219,554	3.11%
6	Nigeria	237,527,782	2.89%
7	Brazil	212,812,405	2.59%
8	Bangladesh	175,686,899	2.14%
9	Russia	143,513,328	1.75%
10	Ethiopia	135,472,051	1.65%
11	Mexico	131,946,900	1.61%
12	Japan	123,366,734	1.50%
13	Egypt	118,365,995	1.44%
14	Philippines	116,786,962	1.42%
15	Congo - Kinshasa	112,832,473	1.37%
16	Vietnam	101,598,527	1.24%
17	Iran	92,417,681	1.12%
18	Türkiye	85,878,556	1.05%
19	Germany	83,491,249	1.02%
20	Thailand	71,619,863	0.87%
21	Tanzania	70,545,865	0.86%
22	United Kingdom	69,487,000	0.85%
23	France	68,720,337	0.84%
24	South Africa	64,747,319	0.79%
25	Italy	58,915,656	0.72%
26	Kenya	57,532,493	0.70%
27	Myanmar (Burma)	54,850,648	0.67%
28	Colombia	53,425,635	0.65%
29	South Korea	51,684,564	0.63%
30	Sudan	51,662,147	0.63%
31	Uganda	51,384,894	0.63%
32	Spain	49,355,143	0.60%
33	Algeria	47,435,312	0.58%
34	Iraq	47,020,774	0.57%
35	Argentina	45,851,378	0.56%
36	Afghanistan	43,844,111	0.53%
37	Yemen	41,773,878	0.51%
38	Canada	41,651,653	0.51%
39	Angola	39,040,039	0.48%
40	Ukraine	38,980,376	0.47%
41	Morocco	38,430,770	0.47%
42	Uzbekistan	37,053,428	0.45%
43	Saudi Arabia	36,973,555	0.45%
44	Poland	36,435,861	0.44%
45	Malaysia	35,977,838	0.44%
46	Mozambique	35,631,653	0.43%
47	Ghana	35,064,272	0.43%
48	Peru	34,576,665	0.42%
49	Madagascar	32,740,678	0.40%
50	Côte d’Ivoire	32,711,547	0.40%
51	Cameroon	29,879,337	0.36%
52	Nepal	29,618,118	0.36%
53	Venezuela	28,516,896	0.35%
54	Niger	27,917,831	0.34%
55	Australia	27,614,411	0.34%
56	North Korea	26,571,036	0.32%
57	Syria	25,620,427	0.31%
58	Mali	25,198,821	0.31%
59	Burkina Faso	24,074,580	0.29%
60	Malawi	22,216,120	0.27%
61	Zambia	21,913,874	0.27%
62	Sri Lanka	21,756,000	0.26%
63	Chad	21,003,705	0.26%
64	Kazakhstan	20,843,754	0.25%
65	Chile	19,859,921	0.24%
66	Somalia	19,654,739	0.24%
67	Romania	19,020,271	0.23%
68	Senegal	18,931,966	0.23%
69	Guatemala	18,687,881	0.23%
70	Ecuador	18,289,896	0.22%
71	Netherlands	18,087,633	0.22%
72	Cambodia	17,847,982	0.22%
73	Zimbabwe	16,950,795	0.21%
74	Guinea	15,099,727	0.18%
75	Benin	14,814,460	0.18%
76	Rwanda	14,569,341	0.18%
77	Burundi	14,390,003	0.18%
78	Bolivia	12,581,843	0.15%
79	Tunisia	12,348,573	0.15%
80	South Sudan	12,188,788	0.15%
81	Belgium	11,941,781	0.15%
82	Haiti	11,906,095	0.14%
83	Jordan	11,520,684	0.14%
84	Dominican Republic	11,520,487	0.14%
85	United Arab Emirates	11,513,149	0.14%
86	Honduras	11,005,850	0.13%
87	Cuba	10,937,203	0.13%
88	Czechia	10,886,878	0.13%
89	Portugal	10,804,871	0.13%
90	Tajikistan	10,786,734	0.13%
91	Papua New Guinea	10,762,817	0.13%
92	Sweden	10,596,620	0.13%
93	Greece	10,413,962	0.13%
94	Azerbaijan	10,246,996	0.12%
95	Israel	10,122,800	0.12%
96	Hungary	9,514,251	0.12%
97	Austria	9,208,163	0.11%
98	Switzerland	9,092,436	0.11%
99	Belarus	9,085,991	0.11%
100	Sierra Leone	8,819,794	0.11%
101	Togo	8,591,626	0.10%
102	Laos	7,873,046	0.10%
103	Turkmenistan	7,618,847	0.09%
104	Hong Kong SAR China	7,498,900	0.09%
105	Libya	7,458,555	0.09%
106	Kyrgyzstan	7,343,064	0.09%
107	Paraguay	7,013,078	0.09%
108	Nicaragua	7,007,502	0.09%
109	Serbia	6,549,143	0.08%
110	Congo - Brazzaville	6,484,437	0.08%
111	Bulgaria	6,433,302	0.08%
112	El Salvador	6,365,503	0.08%
113	Singapore	6,111,175	0.07%
114	Denmark	6,009,169	0.07%
115	Lebanon	5,849,421	0.07%
116	Liberia	5,731,206	0.07%
117	Finland	5,646,436	0.07%
118	Norway	5,610,870	0.07%
119	Central African Republic	5,513,282	0.07%
120	Oman	5,494,691	0.07%
121	Ireland	5,484,367	0.07%
122	Slovakia	5,413,813	0.07%
123	Palestinian Territories	5,413,596	0.07%
124	New Zealand	5,324,700	0.06%
125	Mauritania	5,315,065	0.06%
126	Costa Rica	5,152,950	0.06%
127	Kuwait	4,865,298	0.06%
128	Panama	4,571,189	0.06%
129	Georgia	3,935,766	0.05%
130	Croatia	3,876,200	0.05%
131	Eritrea	3,607,003	0.04%
132	Mongolia	3,568,978	0.04%
133	Uruguay	3,384,688	0.04%
134	Puerto Rico	3,184,835	0.04%
135	Bosnia & Herzegovina	3,140,095	0.04%
136	Namibia	3,092,816	0.04%
137	Armenia	3,086,700	0.04%
138	Qatar	2,972,215	0.04%
139	Lithuania	2,888,774	0.04%
140	Jamaica	2,837,077	0.03%
141	Gambia	2,822,093	0.03%
142	Gabon	2,593,130	0.03%
143	Botswana	2,562,122	0.03%
144	Lesotho	2,363,325	0.03%
145	Moldova	2,360,527	0.03%
146	Albania	2,349,580	0.03%
147	Guinea-Bissau	2,249,515	0.03%
148	Slovenia	2,130,986	0.03%
149	Equatorial Guinea	1,938,431	0.02%
150	Latvia	1,847,785	0.02%
151	North Macedonia	1,820,909	0.02%
152	Bahrain	1,600,366	0.02%
153	Kosovo	1,576,876	0.02%
154	Timor-Leste	1,418,517	0.02%
155	Cyprus	1,370,754	0.02%
156	Trinidad & Tobago	1,367,764	0.02%
157	Estonia	1,366,475	0.02%
158	Eswatini	1,256,174	0.02%
159	Mauritius	1,243,741	0.02%
160	Djibouti	1,184,076	0.01%
161	Fiji	933,154	0.01%
162	Comoros	882,847	0.01%
163	Solomon Islands	838,645	0.01%
164	Guyana	835,986	0.01%
165	Bhutan	796,682	< 0.01%
166	Luxembourg	686,970	< 0.01%
167	Macao SAR China	685,900	< 0.01%
168	Suriname	639,850	< 0.01%
169	Montenegro	623,129	< 0.01%
170	Malta	579,704	< 0.01%
171	Maldives	529,676	< 0.01%
172	Cape Verde	527,326	< 0.01%
173	Brunei	466,330	< 0.01%
174	Belize	422,924	< 0.01%
175	Bahamas	403,033	< 0.01%
176	Iceland	392,404	< 0.01%
177	Vanuatu	335,169	< 0.01%
178	New Caledonia	295,333	< 0.01%
179	Barbados	282,623	< 0.01%
180	French Polynesia	282,465	< 0.01%
181	São Tomé & Príncipe	240,254	< 0.01%
182	Samoa	219,306	< 0.01%
183	St. Lucia	180,149	< 0.01%
184	Guam	168,999	< 0.01%
185	Channel Islands	168,466	< 0.01%
186	Curaçao	156,263	< 0.01%
187	Kiribati	136,488	< 0.01%
188	Seychelles	122,730	< 0.01%
189	Grenada	117,303	< 0.01%
190	Micronesia	113,683	< 0.01%
191	Aruba	108,785	< 0.01%
192	U.S. Virgin Islands	103,792	< 0.01%
193	Tonga	103,742	< 0.01%
194	St. Vincent & Grenadines	99,924	< 0.01%
195	Antigua & Barbuda	94,209	< 0.01%
196	Isle of Man	84,118	< 0.01%
197	Andorra	82,904	< 0.01%
198	Cayman Islands	75,844	< 0.01%
199	Dominica	65,871	< 0.01%
200	Bermuda	64,555	< 0.01%
201	Greenland	56,831	< 0.01%
202	Faroe Islands	54,900	< 0.01%
203	St. Kitts & Nevis	46,922	< 0.01%
204	Turks & Caicos Islands	46,855	< 0.01%
205	American Samoa	46,029	< 0.01%
206	Sint Maarten	43,923	< 0.01%
207	Northern Mariana Islands	43,541	< 0.01%
208	Liechtenstein	41,024	< 0.01%
209	Gibraltar	40,126	< 0.01%
210	British Virgin Islands	39,732	< 0.01%
211	Monaco	38,341	< 0.01%
212	Marshall Islands	36,282	< 0.01%
213	San Marino	34,109	< 0.01%
214	St. Martin	24,941	< 0.01%
215	Palau	17,663	< 0.01%
216	Nauru	12,025	< 0.01%
217	Tuvalu	9,492	< 0.01%

Sources, dates and method

World Bank World Development Indicators, drawing on UN World Population Prospects and national statistical sources. Demographic values are annual estimates. Each indicator retains its own year; missing values are not replaced with zero.

These data put generations in demographic context. They do not replace named censuses or records for proving identity or relationships. Historical series follow the source’s geographical scope, not necessarily each period’s borders.

Feed retrieved: 2026-10-11
Update reported by provider: 2026-10-08
World Bank — World Development Indicators · UN World Population Prospects
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