World population/Burundi
Africa
Population of Burundi
14,729,163
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#78
world rank
0.18%
of world population
+2.36%
yearly change
+347,816
people this year
471,624
births a year
96,877
deaths a year
How the figure for Burundi is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Burundi at 14,729,163 on 1 July 2026, and projects 15,076,979 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Burundi at number 78 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.18 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 471,624 births and 96,877 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.