Rural population growth (annual %) - Density & urbanization - Environment - World Development Indicators

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Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population.

Rank	Country	Value
Rural population growth (annual %) - Density & urbanization - Environment - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Qatar	10.05
2	Andorra	6.20
3	Niger	3.82
4	Uganda	3.09
5	Jordan	3.04
6	Saudi Arabia	2.92
7	Burkina Faso	2.90
8	Iraq	2.82
9	Liberia	2.79
10	Burundi	2.64
11	Timor-Leste	2.62
12	Benin	2.48
13	Luxembourg	2.47
14	United Arab Emirates	2.46
15	Eritrea	2.45
16	Rwanda	2.43
17	Papua New Guinea	2.40
18	Equatorial Guinea	2.35
19	West Bank and Gaza	2.35
20	Belize	2.32
21	Comoros	2.30
22	Tanzania	2.29
23	Kenya	2.26
24	Zambia	2.24
25	Ethiopia	2.23
26	Madagascar	2.21
27	Senegal	2.19
28	Afghanistan	2.16
29	Malawi	2.16
30	Guinea-Bissau	2.09
31	Solomon Islands	2.08
32	Chad	2.07
33	Mauritania	2.06
34	Yemen	2.04
35	Sierra Leone	2.03
36	Oman	2
37	Vanuatu	1.98
38	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	1.95
39	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.80
40	Egypt	1.75
41	Bahrain	1.74
42	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.74
43	Syria	1.71
44	Central African Republic	1.64
45	Least developed countries: UN classification	1.60
46	Iceland	1.60
47	Uzbekistan	1.58
48	Tajikistan	1.58
49	Guatemala	1.57
50	Israel	1.54
51	Mali	1.54
52	Low income	1.51
53	Guinea	1.51
54	Somalia	1.50
55	Pakistan	1.49
56	Kiribati	1.41
57	High income: nonOECD	1.39
58	French Polynesia	1.32
59	Togo	1.28
60	Antigua and Barbuda	1.27
61	Nepal	1.25
62	Libya	1.21
63	Kuwait	1.20
64	Seychelles	1.19
65	Middle East & North Africa	1.16
66	Honduras	1.12
67	Aruba	1.11
68	Mozambique	1.09
69	Montenegro	1.08
70	Marshall Islands	1.05
71	Namibia	1.04
72	Swaziland	1.04
73	Switzerland	1.04
74	Ivory Coast	1.02
75	South Asia	1.01
76	St. Lucia	0.99
77	Norway	0.98
78	Guam	0.97
79	Nigeria	0.95
80	India	0.94
81	Spain	0.89
82	Liechtenstein	0.88
83	Czech Republic	0.87
84	Cambodia	0.86
85	Azerbaijan	0.85
86	Ireland	0.84
87	Gambia	0.82
88	Republic of the Congo	0.81
89	Peru	0.80
90	Northern Mariana Islands	0.76
91	Mongolia	0.76
92	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.76
93	Bangladesh	0.76
94	New Caledonia	0.74
95	Slovenia	0.74
96	Sri Lanka	0.73
97	Sudan	0.69
98	San Marino	0.69
99	Nicaragua	0.64
100	Ghana	0.61
101	Kyrgyzstan	0.57
102	Vietnam	0.57
103	Kazakhstan	0.56
104	Angola	0.56
105	Mauritius	0.54
106	South Africa	0.52
107	Canada	0.50
108	Turkmenistan	0.47
109	Morocco	0.44
110	Bolivia	0.44
111	Cameroon	0.39
112	Low & middle income	0.39
113	Armenia	0.37
114	Cyprus	0.34
115	Paraguay	0.30
116	Colombia	0.29
117	Italy	0.27
118	Sweden	0.26
119	Grenada	0.24
120	Isle of Man	0.23
121	Brunei Darussalam	0.18
122	Poland	0.17
123	Laos	0.17
124	Micronesia	0.16
125	Tonga	0.14
126	Lower middle income	0.12
127	Australia	0.10
128	Thailand	0.10
129	Middle income	0.07
130	New Zealand	0.07
131	Europe & Central Asia	0.03
132	Belgium	0.02
133	Jamaica	-0
134	Trinidad and Tobago	-0
135	Bahamas	-0.01
136	Channel Islands	-0.01
137	Russia	-0.03
138	Costa Rica	-0.06
139	Cuba	-0.08
140	Lesotho	-0.09
141	Slovakia	-0.10
142	Burma	-0.10
143	United Kingdom	-0.12
144	Greece	-0.12
145	Estonia	-0.14
146	Guyana	-0.17
147	Lebanon	-0.17
148	Bhutan	-0.18
149	Euro area	-0.18
150	Tunisia	-0.19
151	Turkey	-0.22
152	Austria	-0.23
153	Philippines	-0.27
154	High income	-0.28
155	Samoa	-0.30
156	Mexico	-0.30
157	Algeria	-0.31
158	El Salvador	-0.32
159	Iran	-0.33
160	Finland	-0.35
161	Botswana	-0.36
162	High income: OECD	-0.38
163	Upper middle income	-0.41
164	Cape Verde	-0.41
165	Suriname	-0.42
166	France	-0.42
167	Fiji	-0.45
168	Moldova	-0.45
169	Sao Tome and Principe	-0.46
170	Germany	-0.49
171	Japan	-0.53
172	Barbados	-0.54
173	Romania	-0.55
174	Latin America & Caribbean	-0.55
175	Latvia	-0.57
176	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-0.61
177	Faroe Islands	-0.65
178	Croatia	-0.65
179	Zimbabwe	-0.65
180	Maldives	-0.68
181	United States	-0.71
182	Ukraine	-0.73
183	Dominica	-0.75
184	Serbia	-0.80
185	East Asia & Pacific	-0.81
186	Albania	-0.85
187	Ecuador	-0.86
188	South Korea	-0.87
189	North Korea	-0.87
190	Lithuania	-0.88
191	Dominican Republic	-0.95
192	Haiti	-0.97
193	Uruguay	-0.99
194	China	-1.06
195	Indonesia	-1.10
196	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-1.24
197	Panama	-1.30
198	Djibouti	-1.32
199	Gabon	-1.33
200	Malaysia	-1.34
201	Georgia	-1.34
202	Denmark	-1.35
203	Chile	-1.39
204	Portugal	-1.39
205	Hungary	-1.40
206	Macedonia	-1.43
207	Argentina	-1.48
208	Bulgaria	-1.51
209	Belarus	-1.79
210	Greenland	-1.85
211	Netherlands Antilles	-1.87
212	Brazil	-2.17
213	Netherlands	-2.54
214	American Samoa	-2.69
215	Malta	-3.05
216	Venezuela	-3.33
217	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	-4.17
218	Palau	-5
219	Puerto Rico	-13.03

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