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

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