Rankings

Population growth by country — world rankings

Ranking 169 countries with data.

Population growth

Population growth world ranking table, highest first
Rank Country Value
1 United Arab Emirates 4.7% (2025)
2 Saudi Arabia 4.6% (2025)
3 Oman 4.0% (2025)
4 Qatar 3.9% (2025)
5 Syria 3.8% (2025)
6 Chad 3.4% (2025)
7 Central African Rep. 3.4% (2025)
8 Somalia 3.3% (2025)
9 Niger 3.2% (2025)
10 Dem. Rep. Congo 3.2% (2025)
11 Georgia 3.2% (2025)
12 Angola 3.0% (2025)
13 Ukraine 2.9% (2025)
14 Mali 2.9% (2025)
15 Yemen 2.9% (2025)
16 Tanzania 2.9% (2025)
17 Mozambique 2.8% (2025)
18 Mauritania 2.8% (2025)
19 Zambia 2.8% (2025)
20 Afghanistan 2.8% (2025)
21 Uganda 2.7% (2025)
22 Cameroon 2.6% (2025)
23 Malawi 2.6% (2025)
24 Ethiopia 2.6% (2025)
25 Burundi 2.4% (2025)
26 Côte d'Ivoire 2.4% (2025)
27 Benin 2.4% (2025)
28 Madagascar 2.4% (2025)
29 Eq. Guinea 2.4% (2025)
30 Sudan 2.4% (2025)
31 Congo 2.4% (2025)
32 Solomon Is. 2.3% (2025)
33 Palestine 2.3% (2025)
34 Guinea 2.3% (2025)
35 Senegal 2.3% (2025)
36 Vanuatu 2.2% (2025)
37 Gambia 2.2% (2025)
38 Burkina Faso 2.2% (2025)
39 Togo 2.2% (2025)
40 Rwanda 2.2% (2025)
41 Guinea-Bissau 2.2% (2025)
42 Gabon 2.1% (2025)
43 Iraq 2.1% (2025)
44 Liberia 2.1% (2025)
45 Nigeria 2.1% (2025)
46 Namibia 2.0% (2025)
47 Sierra Leone 2.0% (2025)
48 S. Sudan 2.0% (2025)
49 Eritrea 2.0% (2025)
50 Kenya 1.9% (2025)
51 Zimbabwe 1.9% (2025)
52 Uzbekistan 1.9% (2025)
53 Ghana 1.8% (2025)
54 Tajikistan 1.8% (2025)
55 Papua New Guinea 1.7% (2025)
56 Armenia 1.7% (2025)
57 Kyrgyzstan 1.7% (2025)
58 Honduras 1.7% (2025)
59 Turkmenistan 1.6% (2025)
60 Ireland 1.6% (2025)
61 Botswana 1.6% (2025)
62 Pakistan 1.6% (2025)
63 Egypt 1.6% (2025)
64 Australia 1.5% (2025)
65 Guatemala 1.5% (2025)
66 Iceland 1.5% (2025)
67 Luxembourg 1.5% (2025)
68 Belize 1.4% (2025)
69 Bolivia 1.3% (2025)
70 Laos 1.3% (2025)
71 Algeria 1.3% (2025)
72 Nicaragua 1.3% (2025)
73 Djibouti 1.3% (2025)
74 Timor-Leste 1.3% (2025)
75 Mongolia 1.2% (2025)
76 Panama 1.2% (2025)
77 Bangladesh 1.2% (2025)
78 Kazakhstan 1.2% (2025)
79 Paraguay 1.2% (2025)
80 Israel 1.2% (2025)
81 Cambodia 1.2% (2025)
82 Malaysia 1.2% (2025)
83 South Africa 1.1% (2025)
84 Haiti 1.1% (2025)
85 Lesotho 1.1% (2025)
86 eSwatini 1.1% (2025)
87 Libya 1.0% (2025)
88 Peru 1.0% (2025)
89 Spain 1.0% (2025)
90 Portugal 1.0% (2025)
91 Colombia 1.0% (2025)
92 Switzerland 1.0% (2025)
93 Canada 0.9% (2025)
94 Iran 0.9% (2025)
95 New Caledonia 0.9% (2025)
96 Cyprus 0.9% (2025)
97 Morocco 0.9% (2025)
98 India 0.9% (2025)
99 Suriname 0.9% (2025)
100 Ecuador 0.8% (2025)
101 Mexico 0.8% (2025)
102 Philippines 0.8% (2025)
103 Dominican Rep. 0.8% (2025)
104 Indonesia 0.8% (2025)
105 Brunei 0.8% (2025)
106 Lebanon 0.7% (2025)
107 Belgium 0.7% (2025)
108 Norway 0.7% (2025)
109 New Zealand 0.7% (2025)
110 Bhutan 0.6% (2025)
111 Myanmar 0.6% (2025)
112 Vietnam 0.6% (2025)
113 Guyana 0.6% (2025)
114 Tunisia 0.6% (2025)
115 Denmark 0.5% (2025)
116 United States 0.5% (2025)
117 Netherlands 0.5% (2025)
118 Chile 0.5% (2025)
119 Finland 0.5% (2025)
120 Fiji 0.5% (2025)
121 Costa Rica 0.4% (2025)
122 Bahamas 0.4% (2025)
123 Azerbaijan 0.4% (2025)
124 El Salvador 0.4% (2025)
125 Turkey 0.4% (2025)
126 Venezuela 0.4% (2025)
127 Brazil 0.4% (2025)
128 Argentina 0.3% (2025)
129 Austria 0.3% (2025)
130 United Kingdom 0.3% (2025)
131 North Korea 0.3% (2025)
132 Croatia 0.3% (2025)
133 Sweden 0.3% (2025)
134 France 0.2% (2025)
135 Slovenia 0.2% (2025)
136 Greece 0.1% (2025)
137 Lithuania 0.0% (2025)
138 Greenland -0.0% (2025)
139 Germany -0.0% (2025)
140 Trinidad and Tobago -0.0% (2025)
141 Uruguay -0.1% (2025)
142 Italy -0.1% (2025)
143 Montenegro -0.1% (2025)
144 Thailand -0.1% (2025)
145 Jamaica -0.1% (2025)
146 Russia -0.1% (2025)
147 Nepal -0.1% (2025)
148 Bulgaria -0.1% (2025)
149 South Korea -0.1% (2025)
150 Slovakia -0.2% (2025)
151 Romania -0.2% (2025)
152 Czechia -0.2% (2025)
153 China -0.2% (2025)
154 Macedonia -0.2% (2025)
155 Jordan -0.3% (2025)
156 Poland -0.3% (2025)
157 Cuba -0.4% (2025)
158 Estonia -0.4% (2025)
159 Japan -0.5% (2025)
160 Hungary -0.5% (2025)
161 Belarus -0.5% (2025)
162 Puerto Rico -0.6% (2025)
163 Serbia -0.6% (2025)
164 Kuwait -0.7% (2025)
165 Sri Lanka -0.7% (2025)
166 Bosnia and Herz. -0.8% (2025)
167 Latvia -1.0% (2025)
168 Albania -1.2% (2025)
169 Moldova -1.8% (2025)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 169 countries with data is 1.1% — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).