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Population growth (annual %)

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Population growth by country

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A map of the world, with colours to highlight the population growth of each country. Numbers on the legend are percent.

List of all countries

Flag Position Country Number
1 Oman 6.53
2 Kuwait 5.59
3 Syria 4.92
4 Singapore 4.86
5 Chad 4.57
6 South Sudan 4.11
7 United Arab Emirates 3.98
8 Malta 3.92
9 Bahrain 3.38
10 Saudi Arabia 3.33
11 Niger 3.29
12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3.26
13 Angola 3.08
14 Somalia 3.08
15 Yemen 3.01
16 Mali 2.97
17 Mauritania 2.97
18 Mozambique 2.95
19 Canada 2.93
20 Iceland 2.93
21 Tanzania 2.9
22 Zambia 2.79
23 Burundi 2.73
24 Ireland 2.71
25 Cameroon 2.64
26 Ethiopia 2.6
27 Malawi 2.57
28 Benin 2.52
29 Namibia 2.51
30 Ivory Coast 2.5
31 Guinea 2.46
32 Madagascar 2.46
33 Australia 2.45
34 Congo 2.42
35 Equatorial Guinea 2.41
36 Solomon Islands 2.4
37 Senegal 2.39
38 Togo 2.33
39 Vanuatu 2.32
40 Gambia 2.3
41 Burkina Faso 2.27
42 Guinea-Bissau 2.25
43 Iraq 2.25
44 Gabon 2.2
45 Liberia 2.2
46 Rwanda 2.2
47 Sierra Leone 2.2
48 Afghanistan 2.14
49 Nigeria 2.1
50 Belize 2.06
51 Israel 2.06
52 New Zealand 2.05
53 Luxembourg 2.02
54 Tajikistan 2.02
55 Uzbekistan 2.02
56 Sao Tome and Principe 2
57 Comoros 1.92
58 Ghana 1.91
59 Turkmenistan 1.84
60 Papua New Guinea 1.81
61 Czechia 1.78
62 Eritrea 1.77
63 Kyrgyzstan 1.77
64 Honduras 1.71
65 Egypt 1.69
66 Zimbabwe 1.68
67 Botswana 1.64
68 Jordan 1.61
69 Estonia 1.58
70 Kiribati 1.57
71 Pakistan 1.55
72 Guatemala 1.54
73 Algeria 1.5
74 Kazakhstan 1.46
75 Andorra 1.43
76 Lithuania 1.4
77 Laos 1.39
78 Djibouti 1.38
79 Bolivia 1.37
80 Mongolia 1.37
81 Nicaragua 1.37
82 Portugal 1.37
83 South Africa 1.33
84 Sudan 1.33
85 Panama 1.31
86 Cambodia 1.28
87 Switzerland 1.26
88 Malaysia 1.23
89 Paraguay 1.23
90 Spain 1.23
91 Bangladesh 1.22
92 Iran 1.2
93 Haiti 1.16
94 Norway 1.14
95 Libya 1.13
96 Colombia 1.12
97 Lesotho 1.1
98 Peru 1.1
99 Timor-Leste 1.09
100 Central African Republic 1.06
101 Cyprus 1.02
102 Morocco 1.02
103 Austria 0.99
104 Netherlands 0.99
105 Eswatini 0.95
106 Belgium 0.91
107 Suriname 0.91
108 Liechtenstein 0.9
109 Dominican Republic 0.89
110 India 0.88
111 Ecuador 0.87
112 Mexico 0.87
113 Indonesia 0.84
114 United Kingdom 0.82
115 Philippines 0.81
116 Brunei Darussalam 0.78
117 Denmark 0.74
118 Armenia 0.73
119 Bhutan 0.7
120 Myanmar 0.7
121 Tunisia 0.67
122 Vietnam 0.67
123 Samoa 0.65
124 Nauru 0.63
125 Guyana 0.57
126 Chile 0.54
127 Antigua and Barbuda 0.51
128 Fiji 0.51
129 Cabo Verde 0.5
130 Finland 0.5
131 Lebanon 0.5
132 United States of America (USA) 0.49
133 Bahamas 0.48
134 Costa Rica 0.47
135 El Salvador 0.47
136 Sweden 0.47
137 Micronesia 0.46
138 Turkey 0.41
139 Brazil 0.4
140 Slovenia 0.4
141 Maldives 0.36
142 North Korea 0.34
143 France 0.33
144 San Marino 0.31
145 Venezuela 0.31
146 Argentina 0.29
147 Saint Lucia 0.28
148 Grenada 0.14
149 Azerbaijan 0.12
150 Trinidad and Tobago 0.12
151 Croatia 0.1
152 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.1
153 Georgia 0.08
154 South Korea 0.08
155 Monaco 0.06
156 Romania 0.06
157 Jamaica 0.02
158 Barbados 0.01
159 Italy -0.03
160 Qatar -0.05
161 Thailand -0.05
162 Nepal -0.07
163 Uruguay -0.08
164 Seychelles -0.09
165 Slovakia -0.09
166 China -0.1
167 Latvia -0.1
168 Mauritius -0.12
169 Montenegro -0.17
170 Palau -0.18
171 North Macedonia -0.21
172 Russia -0.29
173 Greece -0.3
174 Cuba -0.36
175 Poland -0.37
176 Tonga -0.42
177 Dominica -0.47
178 Japan -0.49
179 Belarus -0.54
180 Hungary -0.54
181 Bosnia and Herzegovina -0.62
182 Germany -0.62
183 Serbia -0.62
184 Sri Lanka -0.65
185 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -0.71
186 Albania -1.15
187 Tuvalu -1.78
188 Moldova -2.84
189 Bulgaria -3.01
190 Marshall Islands -3.17
191 Ukraine -8.42

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World growth by year

World growth by year.

Table

Year Number
1961 1.36
1962 1.78
1963 2.14
1964 2.11
1965 2.08
1966 2.11
1967 2.06
1968 2.07
1969 2.1
1970 2.1
1971 2.12
1972 2.02
1973 2
1974 1.95
1975 1.88
1976 1.81
1977 1.77
1978 1.77
1979 1.79
1980 1.78
1981 1.79
1982 1.83
1983 1.81
1984 1.77
1985 1.78
1986 1.79
1987 1.81
1988 1.79
1989 1.77
1990 1.76
1991 1.68
1992 1.64
1993 1.6
1994 1.55
1995 1.52
1996 1.5
1997 1.47
1998 1.45
1999 1.41
2000 1.37
2001 1.35
2002 1.32
2003 1.3
2004 1.29
2005 1.28
2006 1.28
2007 1.27
2008 1.27
2009 1.26
2010 1.22
2011 1.22
2012 1.26
2013 1.25
2014 1.22
2015 1.19
2016 1.17
2017 1.14
2018 1.08
2019 1.04
2020 1.02
2021 0.83
2022 0.87
2023 0.9

Countries with the highest population growth

Top 10 countries by population growth

The growth of humans population

The number of people around the world started to significantly increase in the last several decades. The real boom started after the second world war. The last one hundred years increased the entire population of human species from approximately 2.5 billion to 7.8 billion.

Obviously, such a drastic growth is not visible everywhere. There are several places with a much larger increase in population than others. In order to depict you all, we collected the most recent data from World Bank Data.

Where is the largest population growth?

According to the information from 2019, the biggest annual growth was recorded in Bahrain and it was 4.5%. The second place in the ranking belongs to Niger with 3.8% of the annual increase. Malta closes the podium with a similar value, namely 3.7%.

It is important to notice that most of the nations at the top of these rankings are African countries. Obviously, these are only percentages, because in terms of the raw numbers, China is still the most populated country with the largest amount of births.

What about the smallest population growth?

If there are more deaths than births in a given country or in a selected region, then we are dealing with a negative population growth. Such a phenomenon can be noticed in several nations. The biggest problem seems to be in Moldova, because in 2019 the data suggested there was a -1.8% of annual population growth. Another place with negative population growth is Curacao with -1.4%. The third place is Venezuela that had -1.2% of annual population growth.

What about the situation in the largest countries in the world?

At this point, there are only two countries with a total population that exceed 1 billion, and these are China (1.40) and India (1.37). In these two cases, there is a very minor annual growth in population, because in 2019, it was 1% in India and 0.4% in China. It shows that the largest nations are slowly steadying their population.

The Americans are the third most populous country with 0.3 billion or 330 million people there. their annual population growth is also incredibly low, because it is only 0.5%. Indonesia, which is number four in terms of population, has 1% of its annual growth. Interestingly, 5th Pakistan recorded quite a large annual growth that estimated at 2%.