Demographics of Malawi

Source	UN (World Population Prospects 2022)
Date	14 May 2024

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There are 10.45 million males and 11.02 million females in Malawi. The percentage of the male population is 48.67%, compared to 51.33% of the female population. Malawi has 571k more females than males. The sex ratio in Malawi in 2024 will be 94.820 males per 100 females. Malawi is in the 48th position in terms of the female-to-male ratio.

Malawi population
Year	Population	Growth (%)
1950	2,949,739	1.67
1955	3,240,318	2.05
1960	3,621,081	2.36
1965	4,089,097	2.44
1970	4,625,141	2.47
1975	5,280,965	2.87
1980	6,267,369	3.93
1985	7,625,078	3.79
1990	9,539,665	3.31
1995	10,112,816	1.95
2000	11,229,387	2.33
2005	12,755,648	2.78
2010	14,718,422	2.88
2015	16,938,942	2.74
2020	19,377,061	2.64
2021	19,889,742	2.58
2022	20,405,317	2.54
2023	20,931,751	2.56
2024	21,475,962	2.58

Population
Growth

Malawi death and birth rate
Year	Total		Crude(per 1000)
Year	Death	Birth	Crude death	Crude birth
1950	95,671	145,030	32.456	49.201
1955	98,767	165,054	30.473	50.924
1960	107,715	193,012	29.739	53.288
1965	121,107	221,064	29.611	54.050
1970	132,621	249,173	28.662	53.851
1975	132,873	279,124	25.166	52.867
1980	133,648	328,701	21.403	52.641
1985	164,379	382,221	21.653	50.348
1990	209,951	454,157	22.087	47.778
1995	206,334	470,085	20.333	46.324
2000	219,949	510,145	19.559	45.366
2005	186,932	573,485	14.633	44.893
2010	168,031	601,115	11.412	40.825
2015	135,632	605,977	8.005	35.767
2020	129,975	644,116	6.706	33.233
2021	138,931	653,703	6.983	32.859
2022	141,532	665,678	6.934	32.611
2023	138,236	678,962	6.602	32.425
2024	128,257	687,950	5.970	32.024

Total
Crude

Urban and rural population of Malawi
Year	Population		Urban (%)
Year	Urban	Rural	Urban (%)
1950	103,560	2,850,311	3.506
1955	127,621	3,124,711	3.924
1960	158,848	3,459,747	4.390
1965	199,188	3,859,485	4.908
1970	278,646	4,325,077	6.053
1975	404,986	4,887,822	7.652
1980	557,771	5,605,309	9.050
1985	732,861	6,478,244	10.163
1990	1,090,992	8,346,561	11.560
1995	1,314,278	8,594,810	13.263
2000	1,662,050	9,714,122	14.610
2005	1,962,982	11,076,729	15.054
2010	2,357,581	12,809,514	15.544
2015	2,866,700	14,706,907	16.313
2020	3,534,836	16,748,855	17.427
2021	3,691,081	17,168,110	17.695
2022	3,855,794	17,589,674	17.980
2023	4,029,578	18,013,680	18.280
2024	4,213,135	18,440,490	18.598

Population
Urbanization

Malawi population by Age Group (2024)
Age group	Male	Female	Total		M per 100 F
Age group	Male	Female	Persons	Share (%)	M per 100 F
00-04	1,604,944	1,591,155	3,196,098	14.88	100.867
05-09	1,465,069	1,456,251	2,921,319	13.60	100.606
10-14	1,395,550	1,401,677	2,797,226	13.02	99.563
15-19	1,280,906	1,303,252	2,584,158	12.03	98.285
20-24	1,046,044	1,082,817	2,128,861	9.91	96.604
25-29	831,141	880,581	1,711,722	7.97	94.386
30-34	665,532	744,156	1,409,688	6.56	89.434
35-39	548,769	666,499	1,215,268	5.66	82.336
40-44	493,283	571,685	1,064,967	4.96	86.286
45-49	382,261	384,612	766,873	3.57	99.389
50-54	248,667	254,565	503,233	2.34	97.683
55-59	161,938	204,663	366,601	1.71	79.124
60-64	116,585	155,835	272,420	1.27	74.813
65-69	81,843	103,704	185,547	0.86	78.920
70-74	55,327	75,656	130,982	0.61	73.130
75-79	40,664	66,735	107,400	0.50	60.934
80-84	22,163	44,051	66,215	0.31	50.312
85-89	8,699	23,075	31,774	0.15	37.699
90-94	2,515	9,227	11,742	0.05	27.257
95-99	524	2,693	3,217	0.01	19.458
100+	78	572	649	0.00	13.636
Total	10,452,502	11,023,461	21,475,960		94.821

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