Rwanda vs Zimbabwe: Population

Rwanda

13.95 million people

in 2023

Zimbabwe

16.34 million people

in 2023

Rwanda rank

77th

Zimbabwe rank

74th

Population over time

Zimbabwe currently reports 16.34 million people against 13.95 million people in Rwanda, a difference of 2.39 million people.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.2 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Rwanda ahead.

Rwanda ranks 77th and Zimbabwe ranks 74th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.