Demographics of Mali

Demographic features of the population of Mali include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Demographics of Mali

20,741,769 (2022 est.)

2.95% (2022 est.)

41.07 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)

8.53 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)

62.41 years

60.19 years

64.7 years

5.54 children born/woman (2022 est.)

60.64 deaths/1,000 live births

-3.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)

47.69%

3.02%

Malian

French

33.3%

Bambara

13.3%

Fula

9.8%

Soninke

9.6% / Bwa / Malinke

Senufo

8.7%

Dogon

6.1%

Bobo

5.9%

Songhai

1.7%

Tuareg

11.6% Others

Immigration and emigration[edit]

Mali had an estimated net migration rate of –6.6 migrants per 1,000 people in 2006.^[15] About 3 million Malians are believed to reside in Côte d'Ivoire and France. Conversely, according to a 2003 estimate, Mali hosts about 11,000 Mauritanians; most are Fulani herders who routinely engage in cross-border migration. In addition, there are several thousand refugees from Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in Bamako and other urban areas of Mali.^[5]

One birth every 37 seconds

One death every 3 minutes

One net migrant every 13 minutes

Net gain of one person every 51 seconds

Samaké, Salif; Traoré, Seydou Moussa; Ba, Souleymane; Dembélé, Étienne; Diop, Mamadou; Mariko, Soumaïla; Libité, Paul Roger (2007), (PDF), Calverton, MD, USA: Demographic and Health Surveys.

Demographics of Mali