Mali: more babies born than in Japan
births in 2023
Japan has 5.2 times as many people (124M against 23.8M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 951k against 747k. It overtook Japan in births in 2019.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Mali: Births thousand births per year
244 (1950) → 951 (2023)
- Japan: Births thousand births per year
2,462 (1950) → 747 (2023)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → MHLW: births in Japan incl. foreigners
- Mali: Population thousand persons, 1 July
23,769 (2023)
- Japan: Population thousand persons, 1 July
124,371 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
A question for this picture
How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?