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Population growth by Country

Name: Population Growth (Annual %) by country
Creator: World Bank
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Population Growth (Annual %) (annual %) for 217 countries, with the latest available year and the earliest year on record.

What this is. Annual population growth rate. A negative value means the population shrank, usually through emigration or low birth rates.

Ranking — latest available year

Countries are sorted by their most recent reported value. The first-year column shows the earliest year for which the World Bank publishes a figure for that country, which is not the same year for every country.

#	Country	annual %	First year	Change
1	United Arab Emirates	4.68%	4.94%	-5.3%
2	Saudi Arabia	4.63%	3.67%	+26.3%
3	Oman	3.96%	1.75%	+126.0%
4	Qatar	3.92%	9.71%	-59.6%
5	Syrian Arab Republic	3.77%	2.99%	+26.0%
6	Chad	3.41%	2.02%	+69.3%
7	Central African Republic	3.37%	1.88%	+79.5%
8	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	3.34%	2.6%	+28.5%
9	Niger	3.22%	2.9%	+11.2%
10	Congo, Dem. Rep.	3.2%	2.57%	+24.6%
11	Georgia	3.18%	1.58%	+101.6%
12	Angola	3%	1.33%	+126.0%
13	Ukraine	2.92%	1.34%	+118.4%
14	Mali	2.9%	1.47%	+97.9%
15	Yemen, Rep.	2.89%	2.2%	+31.6%
16	Tanzania	2.86%	2.85%	+0.1%
17	Mozambique	2.85%	1.79%	+59.0%
18	Mauritania	2.78%	2.62%	+6.1%
19	Zambia	2.77%	3.13%	-11.5%
20	Afghanistan	2.77%	1.96%	+41.0%
21	Uganda	2.7%	2.85%	-5.3%
22	Cameroon	2.56%	1.54%	+66.0%
23	Malawi	2.56%	2.38%	+7.4%
24	Ethiopia	2.55%	2.45%	+4.3%
25	Burundi	2.41%	2.53%	-4.9%
26	Cote d'Ivoire	2.4%	3.65%	-34.1%
27	Benin	2.4%	1.65%	+45.4%
28	Madagascar	2.4%	2.61%	-8.1%
29	Equatorial Guinea	2.4%	1.87%	+28.3%
30	Sudan	2.38%	3.18%	-25.3%
31	Congo, Rep.	2.36%	2.58%	-8.5%
32	Solomon Islands	2.35%	2.28%	+2.8%
33	West Bank and Gaza	2.33%	4.48%	-48.1%
34	Guinea	2.31%	1.75%	+32.0%
35	Senegal	2.3%	2.82%	-18.5%
36	Vanuatu	2.23%	2.81%	-20.5%
37	Gambia, The	2.23%	2.69%	-17.4%
38	Burkina Faso	2.21%	1.45%	+52.7%
39	Togo	2.18%	1.75%	+24.1%
40	Rwanda	2.17%	2.76%	-21.3%
41	Guinea-Bissau	2.16%	0.84%	+156.3%
42	Gabon	2.11%	1.15%	+82.9%
43	Iraq	2.1%	2.43%	-13.3%
44	Liberia	2.09%	2.44%	-14.6%
45	Nigeria	2.06%	2.06%	+0.3%
46	Namibia	2.05%	1.94%	+5.4%
47	Sierra Leone	2.04%	1.57%	+29.8%
48	South Sudan	2.03%	1.53%	+33.0%
49	Gibraltar	2.01%	0.15%	+1228.7%
50	Eritrea	2%	2.34%	-14.6%
51	Sao Tome and Principe	1.98%	1.02%	+95.1%
52	Kenya	1.93%	3.73%	-48.3%
53	Malta	1.89%	-0.4%	+574.0%
54	Zimbabwe	1.88%	3.13%	-39.7%
55	Uzbekistan	1.88%	3.69%	-48.9%
56	Comoros	1.85%	1.76%	+5.6%
57	Cayman Islands	1.85%	2.03%	-9.2%
58	Ghana	1.83%	2.85%	-35.7%
59	Tajikistan	1.83%	3.25%	-43.6%
60	Papua New Guinea	1.75%	2.52%	-30.8%
61	Armenia	1.74%	3.36%	-48.3%
62	Kyrgyz Republic	1.66%	3.78%	-55.9%
63	Honduras	1.65%	2.83%	-41.7%
64	Turkmenistan	1.65%	3.11%	-47.1%
65	Ireland	1.63%	-0.15%	+1195.8%
66	Botswana	1.61%	2.26%	-28.5%
67	Pakistan	1.56%	2.62%	-40.4%
68	Egypt, Arab Rep.	1.56%	2.59%	-39.8%
69	Australia	1.53%	1.99%	-23.0%
70	Guatemala	1.52%	2.97%	-48.9%
71	Iceland	1.51%	1.95%	-22.3%
72	Luxembourg	1.46%	0.91%	+60.2%
73	Kiribati	1.45%	2.44%	-40.5%
74	Liechtenstein	1.41%	2.56%	-44.9%
75	Belize	1.39%	2.5%	-44.3%
76	Bolivia	1.35%	2.04%	-34.0%
77	Lao PDR	1.32%	2.25%	-41.3%
78	Algeria	1.32%	1.77%	-25.5%
79	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.31%	8.98%	-85.4%
80	Nicaragua	1.31%	2.99%	-56.1%
81	Djibouti	1.31%	3.84%	-66.0%
82	Timor-Leste	1.27%	1.52%	-16.6%
83	Mongolia	1.25%	3.19%	-60.9%
84	Panama	1.22%	2.96%	-58.7%
85	Singapore	1.22%	3.34%	-63.4%
86	Bangladesh	1.22%	2.82%	-56.8%
87	Kazakhstan	1.21%	3.26%	-62.8%
88	Paraguay	1.2%	2.3%	-47.7%
89	Israel	1.2%	3.3%	-63.7%
90	Cambodia	1.18%	2.2%	-46.4%
91	Malaysia	1.17%	2.58%	-54.5%
92	Andorra	1.17%	7.81%	-85.0%
93	South Africa	1.15%	2.81%	-59.0%
94	Haiti	1.13%	1.81%	-37.8%
95	Seychelles	1.13%	2.81%	-59.9%
96	Lesotho	1.1%	2.99%	-63.1%
97	Eswatini	1.07%	2.27%	-52.9%
98	Libya	1.04%	4.12%	-74.6%
99	Peru	1.04%	2.92%	-64.2%
100	Spain	1.03%	0.93%	+11.0%
101	Portugal	1.03%	0.81%	+27.3%
102	Colombia	1.01%	3.09%	-67.1%
103	Switzerland	0.96%	1.98%	-51.5%
104	Canada	0.94%	2%	-53.0%
105	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.92%	3.01%	-69.3%
106	New Caledonia	0.92%	3.33%	-72.5%
107	Cyprus	0.91%	1.53%	-40.1%
108	Morocco	0.91%	2.6%	-64.8%
109	India	0.89%	2.4%	-63.0%
110	Suriname	0.85%	3.31%	-74.3%
111	Ecuador	0.85%	2.82%	-70.0%
112	Mexico	0.83%	3.12%	-73.5%
113	Philippines	0.81%	3.18%	-74.5%
114	Dominican Republic	0.81%	3.16%	-74.4%
115	Indonesia	0.78%	2.79%	-71.8%
116	Brunei Darussalam	0.78%	4.61%	-83.2%
117	Lebanon	0.75%	3.06%	-75.6%
118	Bahrain	0.73%	4.07%	-82.0%
119	Aruba	0.73%	1.19%	-38.6%
120	Guam	0.73%	2.54%	-71.4%
121	Belgium	0.7%	0.33%	+110.4%
122	Norway	0.69%	0.79%	-13.1%
123	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.69%	0.41%	+67.2%
124	British Virgin Islands	0.66%	1.05%	-37.3%
125	New Zealand	0.65%	2%	-67.3%
126	Naoero	0.65%	3.56%	-81.7%
127	Bhutan	0.65%	2.87%	-77.3%
128	Myanmar	0.64%	2.19%	-70.7%
129	Viet Nam	0.6%	2.66%	-77.3%
130	Samoa	0.59%	2.64%	-77.7%
131	Guyana	0.59%	2.33%	-74.8%
132	Tunisia	0.58%	1.14%	-49.2%
133	Denmark	0.54%	0.7%	-23.1%
134	United States	0.52%	1.66%	-68.5%
135	Netherlands	0.52%	1.32%	-60.3%
136	Chile	0.48%	2.08%	-76.9%
137	Faroe Islands	0.47%	1.25%	-62.1%
138	Finland	0.47%	0.71%	-33.3%
139	Fiji	0.47%	3.05%	-84.6%
140	Cabo Verde	0.47%	2.38%	-80.5%
141	Antigua and Barbuda	0.46%	1.67%	-72.2%
142	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	0.46%	3.53%	-87.0%
143	Costa Rica	0.45%	3.73%	-88.0%
144	Bahamas, The	0.44%	4.93%	-91.2%
145	Azerbaijan	0.43%	3.81%	-88.7%
146	El Salvador	0.43%	2.78%	-84.5%
147	Turkiye	0.42%	2.75%	-84.7%
148	Venezuela, RB	0.39%	3.56%	-89.0%
149	San Marino	0.39%	2.38%	-83.7%
150	Brazil	0.38%	3.02%	-87.3%
151	Maldives	0.35%	2.45%	-85.5%
152	Argentina	0.34%	1.66%	-79.5%
153	Austria	0.33%	0.55%	-40.1%
154	United Kingdom	0.3%	0.76%	-61.0%
155	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	0.27%	2.26%	-87.9%
156	Croatia	0.26%	0.65%	-60.4%
157	Sweden	0.25%	0.47%	-46.0%
158	France	0.25%	1.03%	-76.2%
159	French Polynesia	0.23%	2.09%	-88.8%
160	St. Lucia	0.23%	0.97%	-76.9%
161	Channel Islands	0.2%	0.88%	-76.9%
162	Curacao	0.19%	1.04%	-81.7%
163	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.17%	-0.86%	+119.7%
164	Slovenia	0.17%	0.59%	-71.6%
165	Greece	0.08%	0.79%	-89.3%
166	Grenada	0.08%	1.35%	-93.9%
167	Barbados	0.06%	0.97%	-94.3%
168	Lithuania	0.02%	1.61%	-98.9%
169	Greenland	-0.01%	3.63%	-100.2%
170	Germany	-0.03%	0.77%	-103.9%
171	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.04%	2.13%	-102.0%
172	Isle of Man	-0.05%	-0.86%	+94.2%
173	Uruguay	-0.06%	1.26%	-104.5%
174	Italy	-0.06%	0.67%	-109.4%
175	Montenegro	-0.06%	2.17%	-102.9%
176	Thailand	-0.07%	2.93%	-102.3%
177	Jamaica	-0.07%	1.4%	-105.3%
178	Russian Federation	-0.11%	1.11%	-109.8%
179	Nepal	-0.11%	1.91%	-105.8%
180	Bermuda	-0.13%	2.14%	-105.8%
181	Bulgaria	-0.13%	0.96%	-113.2%
182	Korea, Rep.	-0.13%	2.97%	-104.3%
183	Slovak Republic	-0.15%	2.99%	-105.1%
184	Macao SAR, China	-0.16%	0%	-3571.7%
185	Mauritius	-0.16%	0.06%	-361.6%
186	Romania	-0.17%	0.8%	-120.6%
187	Czechia	-0.17%	-0.16%	-4.1%
188	China	-0.17%	-1.02%	+83.3%
189	Palau	-0.18%	2.4%	-107.5%
190	North Macedonia	-0.19%	1.39%	-113.6%
191	Jordan	-0.28%	5.04%	-105.5%
192	Hong Kong SAR, China	-0.34%	2.34%	-114.3%
193	Poland	-0.34%	1.1%	-130.8%
194	Cuba	-0.39%	2.04%	-119.1%
195	Tonga	-0.42%	2.78%	-115.0%
196	Estonia	-0.43%	1.11%	-138.5%
197	Japan	-0.49%	0.9%	-154.9%
198	Hungary	-0.5%	0.44%	-212.9%
199	Dominica	-0.51%	1.4%	-136.1%
200	Belarus	-0.51%	0.89%	-157.6%
201	Puerto Rico (US)	-0.55%	1.75%	-131.6%
202	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	-0.56%	5.39%	-110.4%
203	Serbia	-0.57%	0.75%	-175.6%
204	Kuwait	-0.65%	10.63%	-106.2%
205	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-0.69%	1.74%	-139.6%
206	Sri Lanka	-0.73%	2.43%	-130.1%
207	Monaco	-0.75%	0.43%	-277.1%
208	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.77%	2.01%	-138.1%
209	Latvia	-0.99%	1.48%	-166.6%
210	Kosovo	-1.1%	2.66%	-141.4%
211	Albania	-1.17%	3.12%	-137.4%
212	American Samoa	-1.59%	2.61%	-160.7%
213	Tuvalu	-1.61%	0.89%	-281.0%
214	Northern Mariana Islands	-1.68%	2.92%	-157.5%
215	Moldova	-1.75%	2.18%	-180.6%
216	Marshall Islands	-3.43%	3.45%	-199.4%
217	St. Martin (French part)	-4.65%	3.15%	-247.7%

Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator SP.POP.GROW — Population Growth (Annual %). Licensed CC BY 4.0. Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Original dataset.