demographic2025

Population growth (annual %)

Name: Population growth (annual %)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, population-housing-urbanization, population, growth, annual

Compare population growth (annual %) across 215 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•215 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

1.0%

Median: 0.9%

Countries Covered

215

with available data

Highest

United Arab Emirates

4.7%

Lowest

Saint Martin (French part)

-4.7%

Top 5 Countries

1United Arab Emirates4.7%

2Saudi Arabia4.6%

3Oman4.0%

4Qatar3.9%

5Syrian Arab Republic3.8%

By Region

Africa1.8%(9 countries)

Asia1.2%(26 countries)

Oceania1.1%(2 countries)

Other1.1%(135 countries)

North America1.0%(4 countries)

Key Findings

•215 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•United Arab Emirates has the highest published value (4.68316 %).
•Saint Martin (French part) has the lowest published value (-4.65328 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (-4.7%)High (4.7%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 1.0%)

Africa (9)

Asia (26)

Oceania (2)

Other (135)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Europe (32)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series SP.POP.GROW. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	United Arab Emirates	4.7%
2	Saudi Arabia	4.6%
3	Oman	4.0%
4	Qatar	3.9%
5	Syrian Arab Republic	3.8%
6	Chad	3.4%
7	Central African Republic	3.4%
8	Somalia	3.3%
9	Niger	3.2%
10	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.2%
11	Georgia	3.2%
12	Angola	3.0%
13	Ukraine	2.9%
14	Mali	2.9%
15	Yemen	2.9%
16	United Republic of Tanzania	2.9%
17	Mozambique	2.8%
18	Mauritania	2.8%
19	Zambia	2.8%
20	Afghanistan	2.8%
21	Uganda	2.7%
22	Cameroon	2.6%
23	Malawi	2.6%
24	Ethiopia	2.6%
25	Burundi	2.4%
26	Cote d'Ivoire	2.4%
27	Benin	2.4%
28	Madagascar	2.4%
29	Equatorial Guinea	2.4%
30	Sudan	2.4%
31	Republic of the Congo	2.4%
32	Solomon Islands	2.3%
33	State of Palestine	2.3%
34	Guinea	2.3%
35	Senegal	2.3%
36	Vanuatu	2.2%
37	Republic of The Gambia	2.2%
38	Burkina Faso	2.2%
39	Togo	2.2%
40	Rwanda	2.2%
41	Guinea-Bissau	2.2%
42	Gabon	2.1%
43	Iraq	2.1%
44	Liberia	2.1%
45	Nigeria	2.1%
46	Namibia	2.0%
47	Sierra Leone	2.0%
48	South Sudan	2.0%
49	Gibraltar	2.0%
50	Eritrea	2.0%
51	Sao Tome and Principe	2.0%
52	Kenya	1.9%
53	Malta	1.9%
54	Zimbabwe	1.9%
55	Uzbekistan	1.9%
56	Comoros	1.9%
57	Cayman Islands	1.8%
58	Ghana	1.8%
59	Tajikistan	1.8%
60	Papua New Guinea	1.7%
61	Armenia	1.7%
62	Kyrgyzstan	1.7%
63	Honduras	1.7%
64	Turkmenistan	1.6%
65	Ireland	1.6%
66	Botswana	1.6%
67	Pakistan	1.6%
68	Egypt	1.6%
69	Australia	1.5%
70	Guatemala	1.5%
71	Iceland	1.5%
72	Luxembourg	1.5%
73	Kiribati	1.5%
74	Liechtenstein	1.4%
75	Belize	1.4%
76	Bolivia	1.3%
77	Lao People's Democratic Republic	1.3%
78	Algeria	1.3%
79	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.3%
80	Nicaragua	1.3%
81	Djibouti	1.3%
82	Timor-Leste	1.3%
83	Mongolia	1.2%
84	Panama	1.2%
85	Singapore	1.2%
86	Bangladesh	1.2%
87	Kazakhstan	1.2%
88	Paraguay	1.2%
89	Israel	1.2%
90	Cambodia	1.2%
91	Malaysia	1.2%
92	Andorra	1.2%
93	South Africa	1.1%
94	Haiti	1.1%
95	Seychelles	1.1%
96	Lesotho	1.1%
97	Eswatini	1.1%
98	Libya	1.0%
99	Peru	1.0%
100	Spain	1.0%
101	Portugal	1.0%
102	Colombia	1.0%
103	Switzerland	1.0%
104	Canada	0.9%
105	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.9%
106	New Caledonia	0.9%
107	Cyprus	0.9%
108	Morocco	0.9%
109	India	0.9%
110	Suriname	0.9%
111	Ecuador	0.8%
112	Mexico	0.8%
113	Philippines	0.8%
114	Dominican Republic	0.8%
115	Indonesia	0.8%
116	Brunei Darussalam	0.8%
117	Lebanon	0.7%
118	Bahrain	0.7%
119	Aruba	0.7%
120	Guam	0.7%
121	Belgium	0.7%
122	Norway	0.7%
123	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.7%
124	Virgin Islands, British	0.7%
125	New Zealand	0.7%
126	Nauru	0.7%
127	Bhutan	0.6%
128	Myanmar	0.6%
129	Vietnam	0.6%
130	Samoa	0.6%
131	Guyana	0.6%
132	Tunisia	0.6%
133	Denmark	0.5%
134	United States of America	0.5%
135	Netherlands	0.5%
136	Chile	0.5%
137	Faroe Islands	0.5%
138	Finland	0.5%
139	Fiji	0.5%
140	Cape Verde	0.5%
141	Antigua and Barbuda	0.5%
142	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.5%
143	Costa Rica	0.4%
144	Bahamas	0.4%
145	Azerbaijan	0.4%
146	El Salvador	0.4%
147	Türkiye	0.4%
148	Venezuela	0.4%
149	San Marino	0.4%
150	Brazil	0.4%
151	Maldives	0.4%
152	Argentina	0.3%
153	Austria	0.3%
154	United Kingdom	0.3%
155	North Korea	0.3%
156	Croatia	0.3%
157	Sweden	0.3%
158	France	0.2%
159	French Polynesia	0.2%
160	Saint Lucia	0.2%
161	Curaçao	0.2%
162	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2%
163	Slovenia	0.2%
164	Greece	0.1%
165	Grenada	0.1%
166	Barbados	0.1%
167	Lithuania	0.0%
168	Greenland	-0.0%
169	Germany	-0.0%
170	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.0%
171	Isle of Man	-0.0%
172	Uruguay	-0.1%
173	Italy	-0.1%
174	Montenegro	-0.1%
175	Thailand	-0.1%
176	Jamaica	-0.1%
177	Russian Federation	-0.1%
178	Nepal	-0.1%
179	Bermuda	-0.1%
180	Bulgaria	-0.1%
181	South Korea	-0.1%
182	Slovakia	-0.2%
183	Macao	-0.2%
184	Mauritius	-0.2%
185	Romania	-0.2%
186	Czech Republic	-0.2%
187	People's Republic of China	-0.2%
188	Palau	-0.2%
189	The Republic of North Macedonia	-0.2%
190	Jordan	-0.3%
191	Hong Kong	-0.3%
192	Poland	-0.3%
193	Cuba	-0.4%
194	Tonga	-0.4%
195	Estonia	-0.4%
196	Japan	-0.5%
197	Hungary	-0.5%
198	Dominica	-0.5%
199	Belarus	-0.5%
200	Puerto Rico	-0.6%
201	Virgin Islands, U.S.	-0.6%
202	Serbia	-0.6%
203	Kuwait	-0.7%
204	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-0.7%
205	Sri Lanka	-0.7%
206	Monaco	-0.8%
207	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.8%
208	Latvia	-1.0%
209	Albania	-1.2%
210	American Samoa	-1.6%
211	Tuvalu	-1.6%
212	Northern Mariana Islands	-1.7%
213	Moldova, Republic of	-1.8%
214	Marshall Islands	-3.4%
215	Saint Martin (French part)	-4.7%

Showing 215 of 215 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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