🇲🇱 Mali
Republic of Mali
Every statistic we track for Mali — 139 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$3,665
62.0 yrs
4.59
0.15
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 5.5 | #6/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #9/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 414,524 | #24/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 15.9 | #231/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 16.8 | #63/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 26 | #54/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 21.3 | #199/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 519,738 | #11/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 31.6% | #188/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 49.5% | #200/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 29.4% | #27/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 36.8% | #157/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 112.1 | #105/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 19.4% | #66/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 4.2% | #43/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 3.6 | #145/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.3 | #173/203 | 2024 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 34.5 | #159/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 19.5% | #124/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 45.6 | #118/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 49.1% | #24/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 3.1 | #9/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 10.5 | #47/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 20.2 | #39/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 59.9% | #9/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 67% | #134/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 48.9% | #63/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.1 | #184/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 20.1% | #95/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 4.6% | #82/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 7.1 | #13/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 48.5 | #95/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 2.3 | #152/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 83.4% | #19/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.6 | #114/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #76/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1 | #132/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #101/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #123/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #81/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.8 | #129/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.4 | #188/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 84.5% | #22/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 47.1% | #32/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 12.3% | #67/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 86.7% | #45/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 65.5% | #113/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 80.1% | #6/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 67.6% | #1/39 | 2023 |
| Signed a Petition | 22.6% | #38/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 37.8% | #7/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 86.4% | #2/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in government | 6.2 | #13/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.8 | #17/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.2 | #38/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 63.5% | #113/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 57.9% | #102/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.1 | #70/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 54% | #32/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.