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Equatorial Guinea — Population growth
Population Growth (Annual %) for Equatorial Guinea, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.40%
Population Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +28.3% since 1961
Population growth for Equatorial Guinea was 2.40% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 6.41% in 2001. The lowest was -2.45% in 1974 (about -1.0× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.39% per year.
Equatorial Guinea ranks 29 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 13%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 2.30%, so Equatorial Guinea sits above it. It peaked in 2001 and has fallen 63% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 37%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.40%
First (1961)
1.87%
Change
+28.3%
Highest
6.41%
in 2001
Lowest
-2.45%
in 1974
Average
3.03%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.39%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 2.4% |
| 2023 | 2.41% |
| 2022 | 2.51% |
| 2021 | 2.44% |
| 2020 | 2.73% |
| 2019 | 3.27% |
| 2018 | 3.4% |
| 2017 | 3.53% |
| 2016 | 3.66% |
| 2015 | 3.79% |
| 2014 | 3.91% |
Reading this correctly. Annual population growth rate. A negative value means the population shrank, usually through emigration or low birth rates. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.POP.GROW — Population Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.