List of countries by population growth rate

The population growth rate estimates (by United Nations)

The population growth rate estimates (according to United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020.^[1]

This article includes a table of countries and subnational areas by annual population growth rate.

Methodology

The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods.

The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history. The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period.

Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin. This means that population growth in this table includes net changes from immigration and emigration. For a table of natural increase, see List of countries by natural increase.

Table

Asterisk (*) indicates "Demographics of Country or Territory" links.

Country (or territory)	CIA^[2]^[3]		WB^[4] 2009	UN^[5] 2005–10	UN^[5] 2010–15	UN^[5] 2015–20
	(%)	Year

World	1.17		1.15	1.23	1.19	1.09
Asia/Other non-specified areas				0.43	0.16
Afghanistan	2.26	2023	2.44	2.78	3.16	2.41
Albania *	0.19	2023	0.26	-0.92	-0.12	0.13
Algeria *	1.27	2023	1.89	1.63	1.98	1.67
Andorra *	-0.11	2023	0.63	1.37	-1.59	-0.21
Angola *	3.34	2023	3.12	3.57	3.52	3.28
Antigua and Barbuda *	1.13	2023	1.03	1.18	1.08	1.01
Argentina *	0.80	2023	0.88	1.04	1.04	0.94
Armenia *	-0.40	2023	0.17	-0.71	0.27	0.15
Australia *	1.19	2023	1.60	1.78	1.46	1.30
Austria *	0.31	2023	0.46	0.38	0.53	0.24
Azerbaijan *	0.63	2023	1.35	1.13	1.26	0.98
Bahamas *	0.80	2023	1.52	1.83	1.39	1.01
Bahrain *	0.85	2023	1.92	6.67	2.01	4.26
Bangladesh *	0.91	2023	1.19	1.18	1.16	1.04
Barbados *	0.24	2023	0.50	0.40	0.33	0.24
Belarus *	-0.32	2023	-0.10	-0.31	0.03	-0.15
Belgium *	0.55	2023	0.85	0.73	0.63	0.58
Belize *	1.61	2023	2.43	2.54	2.22	2.05
Benin *	3.31	2023	2.73	2.84	2.79	2.73
Bhutan *	0.96	2023	1.68	2.05	1.58	1.18
Bolivia *	1.06	2023	1.65	1.67	1.56	1.47
Bosnia and Herzegovina *	-0.23	2023	-0.14	-0.32	-1.03	-0.22
Botswana *	1.37	2023	0.86	1.64	1.84	1.79
Brazil *	0.64	2023	0.87	1.03	0.91	0.63
Brunei *	1.43	2023	1.40	1.25	1.43	1.25
Bulgaria *	-0.66	2023	-0.60	-0.74	-0.62	-0.67
Burkina Faso *	2.46	2023	2.86	3.01	2.98	2.87
Myanmar *	0.75	2023	0.85	0.68	0.88	0.90
Burundi *	3.56	2023	3.19	3.33	3.03	3.15
Cape Verde *	1.19	2023	0.78			1.25
Cambodia *	1.04	2023	1.76	1.51	1.62	1.49
Cameroon *	2.73	2023	2.54	2.73	2.68	2.56
Canada *	0.73	2023	1.14	1.13	1.02	0.90
Central African Republic *	1.77	2023	1.99	1.50	0.43	1.58
Chad *	3.05	2023	3.00	3.32	3.29	3.01
Chile *	0.63	2023	0.90	1.02	0.89	0.78
China *^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0.18	2023	0.49	0.57	0.54	0.39
Colombia *	0.54	2023	1.32	1.18	0.98	0.81
Comoros *^{[lower-alpha 2]}	1.34	2023	2.44	2.40	2.40	2.24
DR Congo *	3.13	2023	2.74	3.28	3.33	3.22
Congo *	2.33	2023	2.61	2.98	2.60	2.59
Costa Rica *	0.98	2023	1.42	1.35	1.12	0.96
Ivory Coast *	2.16	2023	2.29	2.13	2.49	2.49
Croatia *	-0.47	2023	-0.32	-0.23	-0.43	-0.58
Cuba *	-0.19	2023	-0.05	0.09	0.23	0.06
Cyprus *	1.00	2023	1.11	1.59	0.85	0.78
Czech Republic *	0.00	2023	0.18	0.54	0.13	0.06
Denmark *	0.44	2023	0.36	0.49	0.48	0.38
Djibouti *	1.93	2023	1.52	1.66	1.72	1.51
Dominica *	0.02	2023	0.40	0.23	0.48	0.51
Dominican Republic *	0.88	2023	1.26	1.38	1.24	1.07
Ecuador *	1.10	2023	1.60	1.67	1.56	1.42
Egypt *	1.59	2023	1.66	1.82	2.18	1.87
El Salvador *	0.46	2023	0.66	0.45	0.47	0.52
Equatorial Guinea *	3.36	2023	2.80	4.56	4.24	3.59
Eritrea *	1.08	2023	3.28	2.02	1.98	2.28
Estonia *	-0.74	2023	-0.04	-0.35	-0.25	-0.23
Eswatini (Swaziland) *	0.72	2023	1.54	1.68	1.84	1.75
Ethiopia *	2.42	2023	2.58	2.67	2.60	2.43
Fiji *	0.42	2023	0.78	0.91	0.74	0.72
Finland *	0.22	2023	0.48	0.40	0.43	0.36
France *^{[lower-alpha 3]}	0.31	2023	0.50	0.58	0.45	0.39
Gabon *	2.39	2023	2.39	3.12	3.26	2.17
Gambia *	2.23	2023	3.19	3.17	3.12	2.93
Georgia *	0.01	2023	0.63	-1.17	-1.37	-0.27
Germany *	-0.12	2023	0.11	-0.19	0.20	0.20
Ghana *	2.19	2023	2.17	2.58	2.36	2.16
Greece *	-0.35	2023	-0.18	0.26	-0.40	-0.21
Grenada *	0.29	2023	0.39	0.33	0.41	0.46
Guatemala *	1.54	2023	2.53	2.22	2.10	1.94
Guinea *	2.75	2023	2.56	2.18	2.27	2.57
Guinea-Bissau *	2.54	2023	2.39	2.39	2.59	2.44
Guyana *	0.28	2023	0.57	-0.12	0.58	0.57
Haiti *	1.18	2023	1.39	1.53	1.38	1.20
Honduras *	1.16	2023	2.03	2.11	1.79	1.63
Hungary *	-0.31	2023	-0.28	-0.32	-0.29	-0.34
Iceland *	0.89	2023	0.35	1.65	0.61	0.77
India *	0.70	2023	1.30	1.46	1.23	1.10
Indonesia *	0.76	2023	1.25	1.35	1.25	1.05
Iran *	0.93	2023	1.32	1.14	1.25	1.04
Iraq *	1.94	2023	2.54	2.60	3.21	2.78
Ireland *	0.91	2023	0.26	1.87	0.31	0.78
Israel *	1.43	2023	1.81	2.35	1.65	1.55
Italy *	-0.11	2023	0.32	0.31	-0.08	-0.13
Jamaica *	0.09	2023	0.21	0.52	0.39	0.29
Japan *	-0.41	2023	-0.20	0.03	-0.09	-0.23
Jordan *	0.79	2023	2.19	4.57	4.86	2.17
Kazakhstan *	0.73	2023	1.43	1.07	1.58	1.13
Kenya *	2.09	2023	2.70	2.74	2.66	2.49
Kiribati *	1.02	2023	1.54	2.12	1.82	1.71
North Korea *	0.44	2023	0.53	0.34	0.42	0.47
South Korea *	0.23	2023	0.45	0.57	0.52	0.36
Kuwait *	1.13	2023	3.95	5.51	5.44	1.78
Kyrgyzstan *	0.82	2023	1.22	1.32	1.57	1.44
Laos *	1.30	2023	1.89	1.64	1.30	1.45
Latvia *	-1.13	2023	-1.60	-1.22	-1.30	-1.03
Lebanon *	0.64	2023	0.96	1.68	5.99	0.57
Lesotho *	0.76	2023	1.08	0.91	1.27	1.31
Liberia *	2.71	2023	2.68	3.82	2.62	2.52
Libya *	1.54	2023	0.84	1.26	0.21	1.33
Liechtenstein *	0.70	2023	0.73	0.65	0.76	0.65
Lithuania *	-1.04	2023	-1.48	-1.36	-1.27	-0.55
Luxembourg *	1.58	2023	2.49	2.08	2.19	1.27
Madagascar *	2.22	2023	2.80	2.86	2.72	2.67
Malawi *	2.28	2023	2.86	3.02	2.95	2.87
Malaysia *	1.01	2023	1.66	1.83	1.78	1.35
Maldives *	-0.17	2023	1.93	2.68	2.76	1.85
Mali *	2.93	2023	2.99	3.27	2.95	2.99
Malta *	0.59	2023	0.40	0.45	0.55	0.31
Marshall Islands *	1.30	2023	0.11	-0.04	0.14	0.10
Mauritania *	1.96	2023	2.49	2.85	2.95	2.69
Mauritius *	0.09	2023	0.42	0.42	0.18	0.23
Mexico *	0.61	2023	1.24	1.57	1.41	1.23
Micronesia *	-0.70	2023	-0.03	-0.49	0.16	0.63
Moldova *	-1.14	2023	-0.04	-0.36	-0.09	-0.24
Monaco *	0.66	2023	0.85	1.86	0.65	0.51
Mongolia *	0.83	2023	1.52	1.42	1.86	1.50
Montenegro *	-0.43	2023	0.07	0.26	0.12	0.04
Morocco *	0.88	2023	1.43	1.20	1.43	1.26
Mozambique *	2.55	2023	2.50	2.93	2.91	2.86
Namibia *	1.80	2023	1.87	1.34	2.20	2.12
Nauru *	0.42	2023		-0.18	2.32	-0.06
Nepal *	0.74	2023	1.16	1.05	1.17	1.09
Netherlands *	0.36	2023	0.45	0.36	0.30	0.29
New Zealand *^{[lower-alpha 4]}	1.06	2023	0.63	1.10	1.09	0.93
Nicaragua *	0.91	2023	1.46	1.29	1.17	1.07
Niger *	3.66	2023	3.84	3.75	3.84	3.81
Nigeria *	2.53	2023	2.79	2.64	2.67	2.58
North Macedonia *	0.11	2023	0.08	0.10	0.08	0.08
Norway *	0.79	2023	1.32	1.07	1.25	0.94
Oman *	1.80	2023	9.13	3.83	6.45	4.08
Pakistan *	1.91	2023	2.69	2.05	2.09	1.91
Palau *	0.39	2023	0.72	0.56	0.79	1.06
Panama *	1.51	2023	1.64	1.80	1.71	1.55
Papua New Guinea *	2.31	2023	2.17	2.37	2.16	2.01
Paraguay *	1.12	2023	1.72	1.38	1.34	1.25
Peru *	0.50	2023	1.25	1.24	1.32	1.20
Philippines *	1.58	2023	1.72	1.66	1.64	1.51
Poland *	-0.28	2023	0.02	-0.02	-0.03	-0.17
Portugal *	-0.17	2023	-0.29	0.16	-0.44	-0.39
Qatar *	0.86	2023	7.05	14.93	6.65	2.36
Romania *	-1.01	2023	-0.27	-0.95	-0.56	-0.50
Russia *	-0.24	2023	0.40	-0.07	0.04	0.01
Rwanda *	1.68	2023	2.77	2.61	2.53	2.36
Saint Kitts and Nevis *	0.59	2023	1.15	1.13	1.08	0.91
Saint Lucia *	0.27	2023	0.89	1.06	0.53	0.45
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines *	-0.16	2023	0.01	0.10	0.03	0.24
Samoa *	0.65	2023	0.78	0.69	0.80	0.65
San Marino *	0.59	2023	0.64	1.24	1.16	0.51
São Tomé and Príncipe *	1.45	2023	2.65	2.32	2.25	2.18
Saudi Arabia *	1.65	2023	1.88	2.75	2.81	1.90
Senegal *	2.52	2023	2.92	2.76	2.96	2.77
Serbia *	-0.63	2023	-0.48	-0.41	-0.40	-0.34
Seychelles *	0.60	2023	0.39	0.59	0.50	0.50
Sierra Leone *	2.41	2023	1.91	2.65	2.28	2.12
Singapore *	0.90	2023	2.45	2.44	1.74	1.40
Slovakia *	-0.12	2023	0.22	0.02	0.13	0.04
Slovenia *	-0.08	2023	0.26	0.48	0.29	0.07
Solomon Islands *	1.69	2023	2.13	2.32	2.14	1.94
Somalia *	2.49	2023	2.86	2.93	2.86	2.93
South Africa *	0.91	2023	1.18	1.10	1.39	1.20
South Sudan *	4.78	2023	4.30	4.33	3.32	2.72
Spain *	0.12	2023	0.09	1.21	-0.17	0.03
Sri Lanka *	0.59	2023	1.04	0.68	0.50	0.35
Sudan *	2.55	2023	2.08	2.13	2.34	2.38
Suriname *	1.11	2023	0.90	1.06	1.01	0.87
Sweden *	0.51	2023	0.71	0.76	0.78	0.72
Switzerland *	0.64	2023	1.07	1.11	1.21	0.83
Syria *	6.39	2023	1.97	2.78	-2.30	0.20
Taiwan *	0.03	2023		0.44	0.33	0.28
Tajikistan *	1.36	2023	2.45	2.18	2.24	2.06
Tanzania *	2.75	2023	3.04	3.14	3.12	3.06
Thailand *	0.20	2023	0.31	0.54	0.43	0.22
East Timor *	2.10	2023	2.88	1.56	2.24	2.14
Togo *	2.45	2023	2.60	2.70	2.63	2.45
Tonga *	-0.30	2023	0.37	0.60	0.42	0.86
Trinidad and Tobago *	0.12	2023	0.33	0.48	0.48	0.26
Tunisia *	0.63	2023	0.97	1.04	1.16	1.09
Turkey *	0.64	2023	1.28	1.26	1.58	1.37
Turkmenistan *	0.95	2023	1.29	1.35	1.80	1.61
Tuvalu *	0.81	2023	0.16	0.99	0.87	0.88
Uganda *	3.22	2023	3.35	3.45	3.37	3.23
Ukraine *	-0.52	2023	-0.25	-0.48	-0.50	-0.49
United Arab Emirates *	0.58	2023	3.10	11.82	2.03	1.39
United Kingdom *	0.49	2023	0.75	0.98	0.65	0.58
United States *	0.68	2023	0.74	0.90	0.72	0.71
Uruguay *	0.27	2023	0.35	0.29	0.34	0.36
Uzbekistan *	0.81	2023	1.47	1.52	1.59	1.41
Vanuatu *	1.59	2023	2.24	2.42	2.26	2.10
Vatican City *	0.00	2014		0.03	0.03	0.08
Venezuela *	2.40	2023	1.53	1.61	1.41	1.26
Vietnam *	0.93	2023	1.06	0.96	1.12	1.00
Western Sahara * (Sahrawi)				1.87	1.83	2.54
Yemen *	1.83	2023	2.33	2.74	2.62	2.33
Zambia *	2.86	2023	3.19	2.78	3.01	2.97
Zimbabwe *	1.95	2023	2.70	1.70	2.27	2.28
Anguilla * (UK)	1.77	2023		1.71	1.19
Aruba * (Netherlands)	1.11	2023	0.44	0.31	0.45
Bermuda * (UK)	0.32	2023	0.37	-0.36	-0.62
Caribbean Netherlands				7.49	3.43
Cayman Islands * (UK)	1.79	2023	1.70	2.65	1.55
Channel Islands (UK)^{[lower-alpha 5]}			0.51	0.67	0.51
Christmas Island * (Australia)	1.11	2014
Cook Islands * (NZ)	-2.31	2023		0.89	0.53
Curaçao * (Netherlands)			0.73	2.63	1.26
Faroe Islands * (Denmark)	0.63	2023		-0.59	0.33
Falkland Islands *	0.01	2014	-0.09	0.10	-0.15
Gibraltar * (UK)	0.19	2023		1.11	0.94
Greenland * (Denmark)	-0.04	2023	-0.11	-0.14	-0.13
Guadeloupe * (France)				0.27	0.50
Guam * (US)	0.13	2023	1.21	0.13	1.27
French Guiana *				2.78	2.78
Hong Kong *	0.15	2023	1.17	0.44	0.83
Isle of Man * (UK)	0.48	2023	0.74	0.97	0.80
Kosovo *	0.62	2023	0.86
Macau *	0.71	2023	1.90	2.66	1.89
Martinique * (France)				-0.12	0.09
Mayotte * (France)				3.17	2.79
Montserrat * (UK)	0.46	2023		0.72	0.68
New Caledonia * (France)	1.17	2023	1.60	1.49	1.32
Niue * (New Zealand)	-0.03	2023		-0.79	-0.14
Norfolk Island * (Australia)	0.01	2014		0.01
Northern Mariana Islands * (US)	-0.35	2023	0.14	-3.57	0.44
Pitcairn Islands * (UK)	0.00	2014
French Polynesia *	0.70	2023	1.08	1.01	1.07
Puerto Rico * (US)	-1.29	2023	-0.73	-0.28	-0.14
Réunion * (France)				0.96	0.73
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha * (UK)	0.11	2023		-0.48	-1.04
Saint Pierre and Miquelon * (France)	-1.19	2023		0.05	0.05
American Samoa *	-1.74	2023	-0.26	-1.21	-0.04
Sint Maarten * (Netherlands)	1.19	2023		0.36	3.13
Svalbard * (Norway)	-0.03	2019
Tokelau * (NZ)	-0.01	2019		-1.28	1.93
Turks and Caicos Islands * (UK)	1.81	2023	2.19	3.17	2.05
British Virgin Islands *	1.87	2023		3.23	2.02
U.S. Virgin Islands *	-0.49	2023	-0.48	-0.26	-0.02
Wallis and Futuna * (France)	0.23	2023		-0.98	-0.62
West Bank *	1.66	2023
Gaza Strip *	1.99	2023

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↑ Metropolitan France only
↑ Recent official estimates show a growth rate of 1.00 per annum^[6]
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[6] Mainland only. Excludes SARs and Taiwan

[7] Includes Mayotte

[8] Metropolitan France only

[10] Recent official estimates show a growth rate of 1.00 per annum^[6]

[11] Consists of Jersey and Guernsey

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[3] "Population growth rate - The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-29.

[4] "World Bank Population growth (annual %)". Retrieved 4 October 2014.

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Events and organizations	7 Billion Actions Church of Euthanasia International Conference on Population and Development Population Action International Population Connection Population Matters United Nations Population Fund United Nations world population conferences Voluntary Human Extinction Movement World Population Conference World Population Day World Population Foundation
Related topics	Bennett's law Green Revolution Human impact on the environment Migration Sustainability
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Lists of countries by population statistics
Global	Current population United Nations Demographics of the world
Continents/subregions	Africa Antarctica Asia Europe North America Caribbean Oceania South America
Intercontinental	Americas Arab world Commonwealth of Nations Eurasia European Union Islands Latin America West Asia
Cities/urban areas	World cities National capitals Megacities Megalopolises
Past and future	Past and future population World population estimates 1 1000 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 1939 1989 2000 2005 2010 2015 Population milestones
Population density	Current density Past and future population density Current real density based on food growing capacity
Growth indicators	Population growth rate Natural increase Net reproduction rate Number of births Number of deaths Birth rate Mortality rate Fertility rate Past fertility rate
Life expectancy	world Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America world regions past life expectancy
Other demographics	Age at childbearing Age at first marriage Age structure Dependency ratio Divorce rate Ethnic and cultural diversity level Ethnic composition Immigrant population Linguistic diversity Median age Net migration rate Number of households Religion / Irreligion Sex ratio Urban population Urbanization
Health	Antidepressant consumption Antiviral medications for pandemic influenza HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate Infant and under-five mortality rates Maternal mortality rate Obesity rate Percentage suffering from undernourishment Health expenditure by country by type of financing Suicide rate Total health expenditure per capita Total healthcare spending as % of GDP Body mass index (BMI)
Education and innovation	Bloomberg Innovation Index Education Index International Innovation Index Literacy rate Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Tertiary education attainment World Intellectual Property Indicators
Economic	Access to financial services Development aid donors Official Development Assistance received Employment rate Irrigated land area Human Development Index by country inequality-adjusted planetary pressures–adjusted HDI Human Poverty Index Imports Exports Income equality Labour force Share of income of top 1% Number of millionaires (US dollars) Number of billionaires (US dollars) Percentage living in poverty Public sector Unemployment rate Wealth inequality
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