Guinea-Bissau vs Lesotho
Lesotho has 5% more people than Guinea-Bissau: 2,363,325 vs 2,249,515, a gap of 113,810. Guinea-Bissau is growing faster (+2.16% vs +1.10% a year), adding about 48,686 people a year against +26,045. Using continuous exponential growth from the stated base year, if these rates held, Guinea-Bissau would overtake Lesotho in about 5 years (from the 2025 population bases, around 2030) — a projection, not a forecast. People in Guinea-Bissau live 6.5 years longer on average (64.3 vs 57.8).
Country/territory population bases: World Bank 2025 (Guinea-Bissau) and 2025 (Lesotho); growth years 2025 / 2025. Annual source values, not live counts; years may differ. Growth is national, not local.
Guinea-Bissau vs Lesotho — side by side
 Guinea-Bissau |  Lesotho | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,249,5152025 | 2,363,3252025 |
| Growth rate / yr | +2.16%2025 | +1.10%2025 |
| Births per 1,000 | 29.62024 | 23.82024 |
| Deaths per 1,000 | 7.02024 | 10.52024 |
| Children per woman | 3.762024 | 2.662024 |
| Life expectancy | 64.3 yrs2024 | 57.8 yrs2024 |
| Aged 0–14 | 38.3%2025 | 34.1%2025 |
| Aged 65+ | 3.2%2025 | 3.9%2025 |
| Density | 76.6 /km²2023 | 76.1 /km²2023 |
| Area | 36,130 km²2023 | 30,360 km²2023 |
| Urban population | 46.7%2025 | 44.7%2025 |
| Net migration / yr | -1,3732025 | -5,1922025 |
| GDP per capita | $1,1242025 | $1,0892025 |
| Country population rank (available records) | #147 | #144 |
| Base / world population (World Bank 2025) | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Highlighted cell = the higher value (not "better"). Small print under each value is its own data year. Source: World Bank; country/territory population bases may have different years. These are not live counts.
Population since 1960
World Bank population history (not the separate UN WPP timeline). Guinea-Bissau: 3.9× from 1960 to 2025; Lesotho: 3.2× from 1960 to 2025. Left: absolute population. Right: each series indexed to its own first available year = 100; baseline years may differ.
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Lesotho: Lesotho vs Gambia, Lesotho vs Gabon, Lesotho vs Botswana, Lesotho vs Moldova, Lesotho vs Albania, Lesotho vs Guinea-Bissau.
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