Population growth rate refers to the rate at which the population of a given area or country is increasing over a specified period. Population growth rate is an essential demographic indicator that helps to understand the dynamics of population change and the social, economic, and environmental implications of such change.

Let’s take a look at population growth rate of all countries over the years:

Population Growth Rate by Country (%)

Country Name	Code	1990	2000	2010	2021	2022
Afghanistan	AFG	3.88	3.43	2.74	2.38	2.33
Albania	ALB	1.8	-0.64	-0.5	-0.11	-0.11
Algeria	DZA	2.56	1.35	1.78	1.82	1.77
Andorra	AND	3.86	1.91	-1.24	0.16	0.16
Angola	AGO	2.8	3.08	3.35	3.32	3.26
Antigua	ATG	-0.1	2.09	1.08	0.77	0.75
Argentina	ARG	1.43	1.11	1.03	0.66	0.64
Armenia	ARM	0.06	-0.57	-0.09	-0.2	-0.2
Australia	AUS	1.48	1.19	1.56	1.18	1.14
Austria	AUT	0.76	0.24	0.24	0.21	0.17
Azerbaijan	AZE	0.77	0.82	1.19	1.01	0.96
Bahamas	BHS	1.76	1.46	1.69	0.94	0.93
Bahrain	BHR	3.03	3.97	5.25	3.48	3.45
Bangladesh	BGD	2.47	1.95	1.13	1.01	0.97
Barbados	BRB	0.35	0.34	0.39	-0.39	-0.39
Belarus	BLR	0.19	-0.3	-0.18	-0.18	-0.18
Belgium	BEL	0.3	0.24	0.91	0.42	0.38
Belize	BLZ	2.2	3.41	2.42	1.87	1.82
Benin	BEN	3.36	3.05	2.87	2.73	2.7
Bhutan	BTN	1.17	2.84	1.74	1.12	1.07
Bolivia	BOL	1.96	1.9	1.62	1.48	1.46
Bosnia	BIH	-0.71	0.22	-0.06	-0.29	-0.29
Botswana	BWA	2.94	1.64	2	1.56	1.51
Brazil	BRA	1.74	1.51	0.97	0.7	0.68
Brunei	BRN	2.84	2.06	1.59	0.95	0.93
Bulgaria	BGR	-1.8	-0.49	-0.66	-0.53	-0.53
Burkina Faso	BFA	2.66	2.84	3.03	3.05	3.03
Burundi	BDI	2.87	2.14	3.48	3.12	3.08
Cabo Verde	CPV	2.01	2.11	0.76	1.26	1.24
Cambodia	KHM	3.22	2.23	1.54	1.41	1.36
Cameroon	CMR	2.97	2.63	2.54	2.63	2.6
Canada	CAN	1.49	0.88	1.11	0.89	0.85
Chad	TCD	3.22	3.67	3.3	3.1	3.07
Chile	CHL	1.63	1.26	1.09	0.8	0.77
China	CHN	1.47	0.79	0.48	0.35	0.31
Colombia	COL	1.91	1.46	1.1	0.9	0.88
Comoros	COM	2.97	2.55	2.44	2.56	2.54
Congo, Dem. Rep.	COD	3.49	2.66	3.23	3	2
Congo, Rep.	COG	2.66	2.52	2.88	2.49	2.52
Costa Rica	CRI	2.52	1.97	1.26	0.91	0.88
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	3.52	2.33	2.24	2.56	2.56
Croatia	HRV	0.27	-2.85	-0.26	-0.59	-0.64
Cuba	CUB	0.91	0.33	0.09	-0.06	-0.09
Curacao	CUW	-1.05	-4.08	1.27	0.56	0.53
Cyprus	CYP	2.05	1.9	1.2	0.64	0.6
Czech Republic	CZE	-0.27	-0.28	0.29	0.16	0.12
Denmark	DNK	0.16	0.33	0.44	0.23	0.21
Djibouti	DJI	5.15	1.66	1.3	1.95	1.97
Dominica	DMA	-0.44	-0.32	0.24	-0.17	-0.19
Dominican Republic	DOM	1.98	1.57	1.32	1.1	1.07
Ecuador	ECU	2.38	1.84	1.64	1.46	1.41
Egypt, Arab Rep.	EGY	2.44	1.8	1.97	1.9	1.88
El Salvador	SLV	1.3	0.62	0.28	0.33	0.29
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	3.21	3.36	3	3.13	3.14
Eritrea	ERI	1.54	3.03	2.07	2.16	2.15
Estonia	EST	0.07	1.18	-0.23	-0.18	-0.23
Ethiopia	ETH	3.44	2.89	2.61	2.4	2.38
Euro area	EMU	0.48	0.38	0.24	0.23	0.2
European Union	EUU	0.34	0.17	0.22	0.18	0.15
Faroe Islands	FRO	-0.15	1.38	-0.09	0.49	0.46
Fiji	FJI	0.55	0.58	0.95	0.89	0.86
Finland	FIN	0.44	0.21	0.46	0.15	0.12
France	FRA	0.57	0.68	0.49	0.23	0.19
French Polynesia	PYF	2.1	1.83	0.99	0.59	0.56
Gabon	GAB	2.73	2.39	2.26	2.38	2.37
Gambia, The	GMB	3.97	2.97	3.25	3.24	3.21
Georgia	GEO	-0.03	-0.77	-1.32	-0.33	-0.37
Germany	DEU	0.86	0.14	-0.15	0.11	0.07
Ghana	GHA	2.74	2.37	2.52	2.14	2.12
Gibraltar	GIB	0.27	0.43	1.06	0.75	0.7
Greece	GRC	1.06	0.41	0.13	-0.52	-0.56
Greenland	GRL	0.54	0.18	1.03	0.18	0.15
Grenada	GRD	-0.61	0.18	0.36	0.23	0.21
Guam	GUM	2.29	0.89	0.51	-0.68	-0.71
Guatemala	GTM	2.41	2.42	2.16	1.81	1.78
Guinea	GIN	4.58	1.74	2.73	2.45	2.45
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	2.24	2.13	2.31	2.34	2.74
Guyana	GUY	-0.82	0.27	0.35	-0.19	-0.17
Haiti	HTI	2.04	1.71	1.48	1.31	1.27
Honduras	HND	2.82	2.08	1.62	1.5	1.47
Hong Kong SAR, China	HKG	0.32	0.88	0.73	-0.34	-0.36
Hungary	HUN	-1.03	-0.26	-0.23	-0.22	-0.24
Iceland	ISL	0.78	1.37	-0.14	0.81	0.5
India	IND	2.07	1.77	1.37	0.99	0.96
Indonesia	IDN	1.78	1.38	1.31	1.07	1.04
Iran, Islamic Rep.	IRN	2.59	1.64	1.2	1.27	1.25
Iraq	IRQ	2.49	2.95	2.95	2.48	2.44
Ireland	IRL	0.08	1.33	0.54	1.28	1.22
Isle of Man	IMN	1.5	1.21	0.93	0.44	0.34
Israel	ISR	3.09	2.64	1.83	1.45	1.39
Italy	ITA	0.08	0.05	0.31	-0.15	-0.2
Jamaica	JAM	0.63	0.58	0.35	0.28	0.21
Japan	JPN	0.34	0.17	0.02	-0.23	-0.26
Jordan	JOR	4.54	1.61	3.93	1.02	0.98
Kazakhstan	KAZ	0.6	-0.3	1.41	1.04	1.02
Kenya	KEN	3.37	2.49	2.66	2.28	2.22
Kiribati	KIR	2.16	1.72	2.05	1.54	1.46
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	PRK	1.49	0.87	0.53	-0.31	-0.32
Korea, Rep.	KOR	0.99	0.84	0.46	0.2	0.15
Kosovo	KSV	1.9	-3.58	0.8	0.12	0.06
Kuwait	KWT	0.21	4.04	6	1.28	1.22
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ	1.92	1.19	1.19	1.45	1.41
Lao PDR	LAO	2.89	1.64	1.73	1.52	1.49
Latvia	LVA	-0.14	-0.96	-2.08	-0.77	-0.87
Lebanon	LBN	0.98	2.46	3.65	-0.56	-0.63
Lesotho	LSO	1.74	0.9	1.01	0.87	0.83
Liberia	LBR	-1.61	5.33	3.51	2.47	2.38
Libya	LBY	2.39	1.74	0.91	1.44	1.39
Liechtenstein	LIE	1.19	1.33	0.75	0.35	0.2
Lithuania	LTU	0.37	-0.7	-2.1	-0.69	-0.78
Luxembourg	LUX	1.25	1.34	1.83	1.53	1.47
Macao SAR, China	MAC	3.18	1.51	2.5	-0.5	-0.51
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	-0.16	0.63	0.17	-0.4	-0.44
Madagascar	MDG	2.99	3.11	2.81	2.7	2.66
Malawi	MWI	3.64	2.81	3.03	3.15	3.11
Malaysia	MYS	2.81	2.25	1.64	1.2	1.15
Maldives	MDV	0.67	2.12	1.93	5.2	5.09
Mali	MLI	1.9	2.85	3.17	2.92	2.86
Malta	MLT	0.98	0.53	0.49	0.16	0.13
Marshall Islands	MHL	3.19	0.16	0.2	0.3	0.24
Mauritania	MRT	2.75	3.06	2.52	2.76	2.71
Mauritius	MUS	0.71	0.98	0.24	0.09	0.06
Mexico	MEX	2.01	1.51	1.53	1.05	1
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	FSM	2.35	-0.35	-0.33	0.5	0.45
Moldova	MDA	0.41	-0.2	-0.1	-0.51	-0.54
Monaco	MCO	0.43	0.9	1.35	0.53	0.48
Mongolia	MNG	1.99	0.89	1.6	1.55	1.49
Montenegro	MNE	-0.03	-0.03	0.18	-0.52	-0.55
Morocco	MAR	1.86	1.11	1.23	1.24	1.19
Mozambique	MOZ	1.43	2.72	2.81	2.86	2.81
Myanmar	MMR	1.51	1.19	0.7	0.79	0.77
Namibia	NAM	3.93	2.16	1.9	1.85	1.81
Nauru	NRU	2.22	-0.02	-0.03	-0.29	-0.31
Nepal	NPL	2.46	1.81	1.06	1.09	1.05
Netherlands	NLD	0.69	0.71	0.51	0.29	0.26
New Caledonia	NCL	2.37	1.9	2.02	0.81	0.75
New Zealand	NZL	0.92	0.59	1.11	0.98	0.93
Nicaragua	NIC	2.18	1.55	1.25	1.45	1.4
Niger	NER	3.09	3.66	3.88	3.75	3.69
Nigeria	NGA	2.58	2.51	2.68	2.55	2.5
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	6.41	1.71	-2.6	-0.15	-0.17
Norway	NOR	0.34	0.65	1.25	0.91	0.86
Oman	OMN	3.95	0.62	6.37	3.14	3.07
Pakistan	PAK	2.9	2.26	2.09	2	1.96
Palau	PLW	2.19	1.56	0.62	-0.51	-0.54
Panama	PAN	2.1	1.95	1.7	1.49	1.44
Papua New Guinea	PNG	2.45	2.59	2.27	2.15	2.1
Paraguay	PRY	2.64	2.01	1.33	1.77	1.73
Peru	PER	2.12	1.37	1.27	1.06	1.02
Philippines	PHL	2.54	2.14	1.51	1.49	1.45
Poland	POL	0.39	-1.04	-0.29	-0.11	-0.15
Portugal	PRT	-0.22	0.7	0.05	-0.39	-0.41
Puerto Rico	PRI	0.89	0.28	-0.51	-1.12	-1.22
Qatar	QAT	2.86	3.92	10.4	1.99	1.9
Romania	ROU	0.17	-0.13	-0.59	-0.54	-0.58
Russian Federation	RUS	0.39	-0.42	0.04	-0.16	-0.18
Rwanda	RWA	0.28	5.6	2.65	2.57	2.51
Samoa	WSM	0.53	0.49	0.72	0.68	0.64
San Marino	SMR	1.28	1.18	0.85	0.3	0.25
Sao Tome and Principe	STP	1.96	1.89	2.18	2.17	2.12
Saudi Arabia	SAU	3.42	2.68	2.45	1.64	1.55
Senegal	SEN	3.09	2.49	2.94	2.74	2.69
Serbia	SRB	0.07	-0.32	-0.4	-0.47	-0.53
Seychelles	SYC	0.88	0.89	2.79	0.66	0.62
Sierra Leone	SLE	1.36	2.79	2.25	2.47	2.41
Singapore	SGP	3.89	1.73	1.77	0.76	0.69
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	SXM		-1.83	-9.82	0.95	0.9
Slovak Republic	SVK	0.44	-0.14	0.09	0.03	0.01
Slovenia	SVN	0.09	0.3	0.44	0.05	0.02
Solomon Islands	SLB	2.79	2.71	2.19	2.08	2.03
Somalia	SOM	0.57	3.26	2.38	2.67	2.6
South Africa	ZAF	2.04	2.48	1.49	0.57	0.52
South Sudan	SSD	-0.16	4.5	4.4	1.6	1.55
Spain	ESP	0.15	0.84	0.46	-0.03	-0.06
Sri Lanka	LKA	1.4	0.66	0.75	0.53	0.48
St. Kitts and Nevis	KNA	-0.05	1.34	1.22	0.69	0.63
St. Lucia	LCA	1.62	1.2	1.25	0.39	0.34
St. Martin (French part)	MAF	8.18	-3.19	1.38	1.19	1.14
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	VCT	0.4	0.02	0.06	0.08	0.03
Sudan	SDN	3.69	2.43	2.29	2.47	2.39
Suriname	SUR	2.01	1.07	1.09	0.94	0.89
Eswatini(Swaziland)	SWZ	3.41	1.47	1.66	0.92	0.86
Sweden	SWE	0.77	0.16	0.85	0.61	0.54
Switzerland	CHE	1.03	0.56	1.04	0.67	0.6
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	2.96	2.36	0.74	-1.43	-1.48
Tajikistan	TJK	2.62	1.5	2.22	2.3	2.23
Tanzania	TZA	3.17	2.55	3.17	2.78	2.71
Thailand	THA	1.37	1.15	0.22	0.3	0.28
Timor-Leste	TLS	2.74	0.73	1.71	2.28	2.27
Togo	TGO	2.75	2.64	2.71	2.52	2.51
Tonga	TON	0.22	0.51	0.51	-0.04	-0.06
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	0.68	0.25	0.49	-0.32	-0.34
Tunisia	TUN	2.43	1.02	1.02	1.08	1.05
Turkey	TUR	1.73	1.5	1.46	1.16	1.11
Turkmenistan	TKM	2.69	1.16	1.26	1.78	1.76
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	4.71	5.5	2.44	2.2	2.19
Tuvalu	TUV	0.61	0.48	0.19	0.92	0.91
Uganda	UGA	3.41	3.13	3.32	3.27	3.24
Ukraine	UKR	0.23	-1.01	-0.4	-0.6	-0.63
United Arab Emirates	ARE	5.64	5.59	7.79	1.45	1.37
United Kingdom	GBR	0.3	0.36	0.78	0.47	0.4
United States	USA	1.13	1.11	0.84	0.58	0.54
Uruguay	URY	0.68	0.36	0.35	0.24	0.23
Uzbekistan	UZB	2.26	1.38	2.82	1.35	1.32
Vanuatu	VUT	2.61	2.03	2.36	2.11	2.08
Venezuela, RB	VEN	2.41	1.89	1.52	-0.42	-0.46
Vietnam	VNM	1.9	1.34	1.05	0.97	0.95
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	VIR	0.93	0.04	-0.41	-0.05	-0.06
West Bank and Gaza	PSE		2.56	2.9	2.64	2.58
World	WLD	1.73	1.33	1.21	1.05	1.03
Yemen, Rep.	YEM	4.57	2.8	2.74	2.36	2.33
Zambia	ZMB	2.77	2.64	2.99	2.87	2.81
Zimbabwe	ZWE	2.9	1.01	1.83	1.87	1.82

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Last Updated on : April 26, 2023