World population/Malawi
Africa
Population of Malawi
22,785,535
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#62
world rank
0.27%
of world population
+2.55%
yearly change
+580,657
people this year
692,256
births a year
118,126
deaths a year
How the figure for Malawi is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Malawi at 22,785,535 on 1 July 2026, and projects 23,366,192 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Malawi at number 62 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.27 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 692,256 births and 118,126 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.