Madagascar vs Saudi Arabia: Population

Madagascar

31.20 million people

in 2023

Saudi Arabia

33.26 million people

in 2023

Madagascar rank

49th

Saudi Arabia rank

48th

Population over time

Saudi Arabia currently reports 33.26 million people against 31.20 million people in Madagascar, a difference of 2.07 million people.

That makes Saudi Arabia's figure about 1.1 times Madagascar's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.

Madagascar ranks 49th and Saudi Arabia ranks 48th 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.