Guinea-Bissau vs Lesotho: Population

Guinea-Bissau

2.15 million people

in 2023

Lesotho

2.31 million people

in 2023

Guinea-Bissau rank

148th

Lesotho rank

147th

Population over time

Lesotho currently reports 2.31 million people against 2.15 million people in Guinea-Bissau, a difference of 158,140 people.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Guinea-Bissau's.

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

Guinea-Bissau ranks 148th and Lesotho ranks 147th 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.