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Burundi

14,390,003

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+342.22K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+122.4%from 6.47M
Life expectancy63.8 years2024
Fertility rate4.79births per woman · 2024
Urban population25.7%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Burundi is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1444.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6453.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate33.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+26.5births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-34.73Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Burundi look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 24.13M in 2050—71.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202414.05M
  2. 205024.13M
  3. 210037.87M
Median age in 205022.5years
Births in 2050578.38Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050156.34Kduring the year
Life expectancy67.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.76M
  2. 19703.53M
  3. 19804.38M
  4. 19905.59M
  5. 20006.47M
  6. 20109.38M
  7. 202012.62M
  8. 202514.39M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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