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Maldives vs Western Sahara: Population

Maldives
526,009 people
in 2023
Western Sahara
579,734 people
in 2023
Maldives rank
173rd
Western Sahara rank
171st

Population over time

  • Maldives
  • Western Sahara
0200.0k400.0k600.0k100015112023

How they compare

Western Sahara currently reports 579,734 people against 526,009 people in Maldives, a difference of 53,725 people.

That makes Western Sahara's figure about 1.1 times Maldives's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 89 shared years of data; in 1800 it was Maldives ahead.

Maldives ranks 173rd and Western Sahara ranks 171st of 238 countries.

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About this data

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