Population growth (annual %) - Health Nutrition and Population Statistics

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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--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin.

Rank	Country	Value
Population growth (annual %) - Health Nutrition and Population Statistics (2009)
1	Qatar	9.56
2	Liberia	4.17
3	Niger	3.91
4	Belize	3.39
5	Burkina Faso	3.38
6	Uganda	3.27
7	Timor-Leste	3.16
8	Benin	3.10
9	Singapore	3.02
10	Eritrea	2.93
11	Tanzania	2.91
12	Yemen	2.85
13	Rwanda	2.81
14	Burundi	2.80
15	Malawi	2.77
16	Mayotte	2.75
17	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.71
18	Gambia	2.68
19	Afghanistan	2.66
20	Madagascar	2.65
21	West Bank and Gaza	2.65
22	Chad	2.64
23	Kenya	2.64
24	Angola	2.61
25	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	2.61
26	Senegal	2.61
27	Ethiopia	2.58
28	Equatorial Guinea	2.56
29	Iraq	2.52
30	United Arab Emirates	2.50
31	Vanuatu	2.50
32	Zambia	2.47
33	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	2.47
34	Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)	2.47
35	Guatemala	2.46
36	Syria	2.45
37	Togo	2.45
38	Sierra Leone	2.43
39	Solomon Islands	2.42
40	Kuwait	2.41
41	Comoros	2.38
42	Mali	2.37
43	Guinea	2.37
44	Jordan	2.36
45	Papua New Guinea	2.33
46	Saudi Arabia	2.33
47	Ivory Coast	2.32
48	Mauritania	2.32
49	Nigeria	2.30
50	Somalia	2.29
51	Least developed countries: UN classification	2.29
52	Mozambique	2.26
53	Marshall Islands	2.25
54	Cameroon	2.24
55	Guinea-Bissau	2.22
56	Macau	2.22
57	Sudan	2.21
58	Low income	2.18
59	Pakistan	2.14
60	Oman	2.13
61	Ghana	2.06
62	Australia	2.05
63	Arab World	2.05
64	Bahrain	2.03
65	Honduras	1.99
66	Libya	1.98
67	Namibia	1.92
68	Central African Republic	1.90
69	Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)	1.87
70	Luxembourg	1.87
71	Brunei Darussalam	1.87
72	Republic of the Congo	1.86
73	Laos	1.84
74	Gabon	1.81
75	Israel	1.80
76	Nepal	1.79
77	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	1.79
78	Egypt	1.79
79	Philippines	1.79
80	Northern Mariana Islands	1.78
81	Paraguay	1.76
82	Djibouti	1.75
83	Bolivia	1.73
84	Tajikistan	1.68
85	Cambodia	1.66
86	Malaysia	1.66
87	Uzbekistan	1.65
88	American Samoa	1.62
89	Panama	1.61
90	Andorra	1.61
91	Sao Tome and Principe	1.60
92	Venezuela	1.59
93	Haiti	1.57
94	Kiribati	1.53
95	Bhutan	1.52
96	Algeria	1.51
97	Netherlands Antilles	1.50
98	Botswana	1.48
99	South Asia	1.47
100	New Caledonia	1.46
101	Swaziland	1.45
102	High income: nonOECD	1.44
103	Maldives	1.43
104	Colombia	1.43
105	Cape Verde	1.38
106	Bangladesh	1.38
107	Dominican Republic	1.37
108	Kazakhstan	1.36
109	India	1.34
110	San Marino	1.34
111	Cayman Islands	1.34
112	Costa Rica	1.32
113	Nicaragua	1.32
114	Turkmenistan	1.31
115	Iran	1.31
116	Canada	1.28
117	Low & middle income	1.26
118	French Polynesia	1.25
119	Guam	1.23
120	Vietnam	1.23
121	Norway	1.23
122	Morocco	1.22
123	Turkey	1.21
124	Bahamas	1.19
125	Seychelles	1.16
126	Azerbaijan	1.16
127	Lower middle income	1.16
128	Indonesia	1.15
129	Peru	1.13
130	Mongolia	1.12
131	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	1.11
132	Antigua and Barbuda	1.11
133	Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)	1.10
134	Middle income	1.10
135	St. Lucia	1.10
136	Switzerland	1.09
137	New Zealand	1.09
138	Slovenia	1.08
139	South Africa	1.07
140	Ecuador	1.06
141	Tunisia	1.01
142	Mexico	1.01
143	Aruba	1.01
144	Cyprus	0.99
145	Chile	0.98
146	Argentina	0.98
147	Burma	0.92
148	Brazil	0.91
149	North America	0.91
150	Upper middle income	0.89
151	Suriname	0.89
152	Sweden	0.89
153	Spain	0.88
154	United States	0.86
155	Lesotho	0.85
156	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.82
157	Kyrgyzstan	0.82
158	Liechtenstein	0.79
159	Belgium	0.75
160	Sri Lanka	0.73
161	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	0.73
162	Malta	0.73
163	Lebanon	0.71
164	United Kingdom	0.70
165	East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)	0.69
166	Italy	0.65
167	Denmark	0.65
168	OECD members	0.64
169	Czech Republic	0.63
170	High income	0.63
171	Fiji	0.61
172	Palau	0.58
173	Thailand	0.56
174	Kosovo	0.56
175	Ireland	0.56
176	High income: OECD	0.56
177	Dominica	0.55
178	France	0.54
179	Iceland	0.52
180	Netherlands	0.52
181	Mauritius	0.51
182	China	0.51
183	Zimbabwe	0.48
184	Finland	0.47
185	El Salvador	0.47
186	Jamaica	0.46
187	Greece	0.41
188	Trinidad and Tobago	0.39
189	Tonga	0.39
190	Grenada	0.38
191	Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)	0.38
192	Euro area	0.38
193	Albania	0.38
194	Hong Kong	0.37
195	European Union	0.36
196	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	0.34
197	Austria	0.33
198	Uruguay	0.33
199	Puerto Rico	0.32
200	Bermuda	0.31
201	Monaco	0.30
202	Montenegro	0.30
203	South Korea	0.29
204	North Korea	0.29
205	Micronesia	0.28
206	Faroe Islands	0.27
207	Barbados	0.26
208	Slovakia	0.21
209	Armenia	0.19
210	Channel Islands	0.18
211	Portugal	0.09
212	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.08
213	Poland	0.06
214	Macedonia	0.06
215	Cuba	-0
216	Western Samoa	-0.01
217	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	-0.01
218	Estonia	-0.02
219	Croatia	-0.05
220	Isle of Man	-0.06
221	Russia	-0.07
222	Japan	-0.11
223	Guyana	-0.12
224	Romania	-0.15
225	Hungary	-0.16
226	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.17
227	Belarus	-0.18
228	Germany	-0.28
229	Serbia	-0.42
230	Greenland	-0.48
231	Latvia	-0.49
232	Bulgaria	-0.50
233	Ukraine	-0.54
234	Lithuania	-0.55
235	Moldova	-0.83
236	Georgia	-1.09

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