List of countries by population growth rate

Source	UN (World Population Prospects 2019)
Date	06 Apr 2020

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Niger would have highest population growth rate of 3.84% in 2020. Among top ten fastest growing countries/regions, eight are located in Africa and one each in Asia and and South America continent. These ten have growth rate above 3%. In the list of 50 countries/dependent territories having population growth rate above 2%, 46 entrants belong to Africa (38) and Asia (8) continent.

Puerto Rico would have lowest growth rate of -2.47%. Population of Wallis and Futuna Islands, Lithuania and Latvia would decline by above 1 %. Out of 30 countries and dependent territories with negative growth rate, 18 belong to Europe and 6 belong to North America.

In past five years (2015-2020), with 24%, Population of Bahrain has grown fastest followed by Falkland Islands, Niger and Equatorial Guinea having grown over 20%. Out of 31 countries which population has shrunk between 2015 and 2020, 18 are in Europe, 6 are in North America, 3 each in Asia and Oceania and one in South America.

Since 1950, population of United Arab Emirates and Qatar has grown over 10,000%. Population of United Arab Emirates has increased from 70 k in 1950 to 10 mn in 2020 while population of Qatar has increased from 25 k in 1950 to 3 mn in 2020. 14 countries has growth rate above 1,000% between 1950-2020. There are six countries/dependent territories where current population are less what was in 1950 : Niue, Niue, Tokelau, Holy See, Bulgaria and Latvia. First four are very low populated as no of people living are less than 5,000 in 2020.

Population growth rate (UN)
Country/Region	2020			2015-2020		1950-2020		Continent
Country/Region	Population	Growth (%)	Rank	Growth (%)	Rank	Growth (%)	Rank	Continent
Burundi	11,890,784	3.12	7	17.03	10	414.99	68	Africa
Comoros	869,601	2.20	47	11.86	48	445.34	58	Africa
Djibouti	988,000	1.48	77	8.10	75	1,493.52	8	Africa
Eritrea	3,546,421	1.41	81	6.09	106	331.25	97	Africa
Ethiopia	114,963,588	2.57	28	14.01	27	534.18	43	Africa
Kenya	53,771,296	2.28	45	12.31	46	784.87	20	Africa
Madagascar	27,691,018	2.68	23	14.26	25	578.11	35	Africa
Malawi	19,129,952	2.69	22	14.24	26	547.62	39	Africa
Mauritius	1,271,768	0.17	192	0.98	190	157.83	153	Africa
Mayotte	272,815	2.50	34	13.66	32	1,701.83	7	Africa
Mozambique	31,255,435	2.93	13	15.58	16	424.51	66	Africa
Réunion	895,312	0.72	141	3.70	146	260.85	121	Africa
Rwanda	12,952,218	2.58	26	13.93	29	492.46	50	Africa
Seychelles	98,347	0.62	153	3.55	148	170.74	147	Africa
Somalia	15,893,222	2.92	15	15.19	18	601.97	33	Africa
South Sudan	11,193,725	1.19	100	4.46	133	350.94	89	Africa
Uganda	45,741,007	3.32	4	19.66	6	786.76	19	Africa
United Republic of Tanzania	59,734,218	2.98	11	16.03	13	680.86	24	Africa
Zambia	18,383,955	2.93	14	15.77	15	695.69	22	Africa
Zimbabwe	14,862,924	1.48	76	7.59	83	441.09	61	Africa
Angola	32,866,272	3.27	5	17.87	8	622.65	30	Africa
Cameroon	26,545,863	2.59	25	13.94	28	516.34	47	Africa
Central African Republic	4,829,767	1.78	62	7.49	84	264.06	119	Africa
Chad	16,425,864	3.00	10	16.40	11	556.43	38	Africa
Congo	5,518,087	2.56	30	13.63	33	567.04	37	Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo	89,561,403	3.19	6	17.47	9	635.09	28	Africa
Equatorial Guinea	1,402,985	3.47	3	20.06	4	522.06	45	Africa
Gabon	2,225,734	2.45	36	14.28	24	370.26	84	Africa
Sao Tome and Principe	219,159	1.91	55	9.89	62	265.25	118	Africa
Botswana	2,351,627	2.08	50	10.89	52	470.05	56	Africa
Eswatini	1,160,164	1.05	113	5.08	121	324.96	99	Africa
Lesotho	2,142,249	0.80	135	4.04	139	204.00	136	Africa
Namibia	2,540,905	1.86	58	9.76	63	393.97	79	Africa
South Africa	59,308,690	1.28	90	7.08	89	335.18	94	Africa
Benin	12,123,200	2.73	20	14.63	22	437.56	63	Africa
Burkina Faso	20,903,273	2.86	16	15.42	17	387.89	82	Africa
Cabo Verde	555,987	1.10	106	5.95	108	212.24	132	Africa
Côte d'Ivoire	26,378,274	2.57	29	13.57	34	902.92	16	Africa
Gambia	2,416,668	2.94	12	15.86	14	692.64	23	Africa
Ghana	31,072,940	2.15	48	11.58	49	517.00	46	Africa
Guinea	13,132,795	2.83	17	14.88	20	335.88	93	Africa
Guinea-Bissau	1,968,001	2.45	35	13.29	36	267.56	116	Africa
Liberia	5,057,681	2.44	37	13.09	39	443.82	60	Africa
Mali	20,250,833	3.02	9	16.13	12	330.10	98	Africa
Mauritania	4,649,658	2.74	19	14.91	19	613.76	31	Africa
Niger	24,206,644	3.84	1	21.02	3	845.68	17	Africa
Nigeria	206,139,589	2.58	27	13.80	31	444.48	59	Africa
Saint Helena	6,077	0.30	179	3.61	147	15.84	224	Africa
Senegal	16,743,927	2.75	18	14.85	21	573.36	36	Africa
Sierra Leone	7,976,983	2.10	49	11.23	51	290.80	109	Africa
Togo	8,278,724	2.43	38	13.05	41	493.26	49	Africa
Algeria	43,851,044	1.85	59	10.38	56	394.25	78	Africa
Egypt	102,334,404	1.94	54	10.70	54	400.36	75	Africa
Libya	6,871,292	1.38	85	7.06	91	511.04	48	Africa
Morocco	36,910,560	1.20	98	6.48	100	310.76	103	Africa
Sudan	43,849,260	2.42	40	12.71	43	664.75	27	Africa
Tunisia	11,818,619	1.06	112	5.71	111	227.81	128	Africa
Western Sahara	597,339	2.55	31	13.52	35	4,239.23	3	Africa
Armenia	2,963,243	0.19	188	1.29	183	118.93	165	Asia
Azerbaijan	10,139,177	0.91	125	5.37	116	246.29	124	Asia
Bahrain	1,701,575	3.68	2	24.03	1	1,371.81	9	Asia
Cyprus	1,207,359	0.73	139	3.99	141	144.40	157	Asia
Georgia	3,989,167	-0.19	215	-0.87	214	13.10	226	Asia
Iraq	40,222,493	2.32	44	13.07	40	603.29	32	Asia
Israel	8,655,535	1.60	70	8.49	70	588.06	34	Asia
Jordan	10,203,134	1.00	116	10.11	61	2,019.82	6	Asia
Kuwait	4,270,571	1.51	74	11.34	50	2,689.44	5	Asia
Lebanon	6,825,445	-0.44	224	4.48	132	411.41	71	Asia
Oman	5,106,626	2.65	24	19.67	5	1,018.85	13	Asia
Qatar	2,881,053	1.73	64	12.29	47	11,422.83	2	Asia
Saudi Arabia	34,813,871	1.59	71	9.76	64	1,015.35	14	Asia
State of Palestine	5,101,414	2.41	41	12.63	44	447.40	57	Asia
Syrian Arab Republic	17,500,658	2.52	33	-2.76	225	412.71	69	Asia
Turkey	84,339,067	1.09	107	7.40	85	293.95	105	Asia
United Arab Emirates	9,890,402	1.23	95	6.77	95	14,112.80	1	Asia
Yemen	29,825,964	2.28	46	12.56	45	539.87	42	Asia
Kazakhstan	18,776,707	1.21	96	6.86	94	180.12	143	Asia
Kyrgyzstan	6,524,195	1.69	65	9.48	65	274.95	114	Asia
Tajikistan	9,537,645	2.32	43	12.82	42	522.76	44	Asia
Turkmenistan	6,031,200	1.50	75	8.37	72	398.04	76	Asia
Uzbekistan	33,469,203	1.48	79	8.21	73	434.31	64	Asia
Afghanistan	38,928,346	2.33	42	13.12	38	402.16	73	Asia
Bangladesh	164,689,383	1.01	115	5.40	115	334.60	95	Asia
Bhutan	771,608	1.12	105	6.01	107	336.44	92	Asia
India	1,380,004,385	0.99	117	5.33	117	266.71	117	Asia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	83,992,949	1.30	89	7.01	92	390.63	81	Asia
Maldives	540,544	1.81	61	18.82	7	633.32	29	Asia
Nepal	29,136,808	1.85	60	7.85	77	243.46	125	Asia
Pakistan	220,892,340	2.00	51	10.76	53	488.38	52	Asia
Sri Lanka	21,413,249	0.42	169	2.42	168	168.64	148	Asia
China	1,439,323,776	0.39	171	2.31	171	159.61	152	Asia
China, Hong Kong SAR	7,496,981	0.82	134	4.33	134	279.79	111	Asia
China, Macao SAR	649,335	1.39	84	7.85	78	230.48	127	Asia
China, Taiwan Province of China	23,816,775	0.18	190	1.10	187	213.28	131	Asia
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	25,778,816	0.44	165	2.36	169	144.36	158	Asia
Japan	126,476,461	-0.30	221	-1.18	218	52.75	196	Asia
Mongolia	3,278,290	1.65	67	9.33	66	320.19	102	Asia
Republic of Korea	51,269,185	0.09	197	0.88	191	166.87	149	Asia
Brunei Darussalam	437,479	0.97	119	5.44	114	811.40	18	Asia
Cambodia	16,718,965	1.41	82	7.72	80	277.17	113	Asia
Indonesia	273,523,615	1.07	109	5.86	109	293.31	107	Asia
Lao People's Democratic Republic	7,275,560	1.48	78	7.93	76	332.32	96	Asia
Malaysia	32,365,999	1.30	88	6.92	93	429.73	65	Asia
Myanmar	54,409,800	0.67	147	3.28	151	206.02	135	Asia
Philippines	109,581,078	1.35	87	7.31	87	489.76	51	Asia
Singapore	5,850,342	0.79	136	4.62	130	472.39	55	Asia
Thailand	69,799,978	0.25	182	1.58	182	237.03	126	Asia
Timor-Leste	1,318,445	1.96	52	10.21	59	217.88	129	Asia
Viet Nam	97,338,579	0.91	126	5.03	124	292.34	108	Asia
Anguilla	15,003	0.90	128	5.07	123	193.14	138	North America
Antigua and Barbuda	97,929	0.84	132	4.66	129	115.14	167	North America
Aruba	106,766	0.43	168	2.32	170	180.46	142	North America
Bahamas	393,244	0.97	120	5.09	120	397.19	77	North America
Barbados	287,375	0.12	195	0.72	193	36.20	205	North America
British Virgin Islands	30,231	0.67	148	3.70	145	306.33	104	North America
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	26,223	0.94	121	6.73	96	268.20	115	North America
Cayman Islands	65,722	1.19	99	6.48	101	924.19	15	North America
Cuba	11,326,616	-0.06	209	0.02	204	91.33	173	North America
Curaçao	164,093	0.41	170	2.66	160	63.80	186	North America
Dominica	71,986	0.25	184	1.13	186	40.87	203	North America
Dominican Republic	10,847,910	1.01	114	5.51	113	358.75	87	North America
Grenada	112,523	0.46	163	2.67	159	46.74	198	North America
Guadeloupe	400,124	0.02	203	-0.03	205	90.53	174	North America
Haiti	11,402,528	1.24	94	6.61	98	253.97	123	North America
Jamaica	2,961,167	0.44	166	2.43	167	111.07	169	North America
Martinique	375,265	-0.08	210	-0.85	213	69.04	180	North America
Montserrat	4,992	0.06	199	0.50	196	-63.07	234	North America
Puerto Rico	2,860,853	-2.47	235	-15.40	235	28.98	213	North America
Saint-Barthélemy	9,877	0.30	178	1.90	175	393.36	80	North America
Saint Kitts and Nevis	53,199	0.71	144	3.90	143	15.53	225	North America
Saint Lucia	183,627	0.46	164	2.51	163	121.81	164	North America
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,940	0.32	177	1.64	181	65.59	185	North America
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	42,876	1.15	102	7.28	88	2,760.31	4	North America
Saint-Martin (French part)	38,666	1.75	63	7.83	79	1,187.58	10	North America
Trinidad and Tobago	1,399,488	0.32	175	2.13	173	116.76	166	North America
Turks and Caicos Islands	38,717	1.38	86	7.60	82	666.52	25	North America
United States Virgin Islands	104,425	-0.15	214	-0.51	212	289.69	110	North America
Belize	397,628	1.86	57	10.17	60	476.95	53	North America
Costa Rica	5,094,118	0.92	124	5.08	122	438.66	62	North America
El Salvador	6,486,205	0.51	160	2.55	161	194.84	137	North America
Guatemala	17,915,568	1.90	56	10.23	58	475.15	54	North America
Honduras	9,904,607	1.63	68	8.69	69	540.36	41	North America
Mexico	128,932,753	1.06	110	5.81	110	361.39	86	North America
Nicaragua	6,624,554	1.21	97	6.45	102	411.55	70	North America
Panama	4,314,767	1.61	69	8.73	68	401.92	74	North America
Argentina	45,195,774	0.93	123	4.92	125	165.27	151	South America
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	11,673,021	1.39	83	7.39	86	278.77	112	South America
Brazil	212,559,417	0.72	142	3.96	142	293.81	106	South America
Chile	19,116,201	0.87	131	6.38	103	189.70	140	South America
Colombia	50,882,891	1.08	108	7.08	90	324.68	100	South America
Ecuador	17,643,054	1.55	73	8.83	67	408.42	72	South America
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	3,480	3.05	8	22.79	2	54.05	193	South America
French Guiana	298,682	2.70	21	14.44	23	1,072.59	12	South America
Guyana	786,552	0.48	161	2.49	164	93.47	172	South America
Paraguay	7,132,538	1.25	93	6.63	97	384.14	83	South America
Peru	32,971,854	1.42	80	8.21	74	323.94	101	South America
Suriname	586,632	0.90	127	4.92	126	172.85	146	South America
Uruguay	3,473,730	0.35	174	1.81	178	55.18	191	South America
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	28,435,940	-0.28	219	-5.47	231	418.72	67	South America
Australia	25,499,884	1.18	101	6.55	99	211.84	133	Oceania
New Zealand	4,822,233	0.82	133	4.50	131	152.74	154	Oceania
Fiji	896,445	0.73	140	3.20	152	210.20	134	Oceania
New Caledonia	285,498	0.97	118	5.32	118	340.41	91	Oceania
Papua New Guinea	8,947,024	1.95	53	10.35	57	346.87	90	Oceania
Solomon Islands	686,884	2.55	32	13.89	30	664.96	26	Oceania
Vanuatu	307,145	2.42	39	13.28	37	543.95	40	Oceania
Guam	168,775	0.89	129	4.28	136	182.94	141	Oceania
Kiribati	119,449	1.57	72	7.68	81	261.44	120	Oceania
Marshall Islands	59,190	0.68	146	3.05	156	355.27	88	Oceania
Micronesia (Fed. States of)	115,023	1.06	111	5.63	112	259.44	122	Oceania
Nauru	10,824	0.63	151	4.25	138	216.12	130	Oceania
Northern Mariana Islands	57,559	0.60	154	3.19	153	722.39	21	Oceania
Palau	18,094	0.48	162	2.43	166	143.17	159	Oceania
American Samoa	55,191	-0.22	216	-1.11	217	191.40	139	Oceania
Cook Islands	17,564	0.09	196	-0.13	206	16.50	223	Oceania
French Polynesia	280,908	0.58	156	2.85	157	366.11	85	Oceania
Niue	1,626	0.68	145	0.43	198	-65.16	235	Oceania
Samoa	198,414	0.67	149	2.53	162	141.68	160	Oceania
Tokelau	1,357	1.27	91	8.39	71	-13.35	233	Oceania
Tonga	105,695	1.15	103	4.88	127	123.84	163	Oceania
Tuvalu	11,792	1.25	92	6.24	104	152.34	155	Oceania
Wallis and Futuna Islands	11,239	-1.69	234	-8.37	234	60.56	187	Oceania
Belarus	9,449,323	-0.03	208	0.10	203	22.01	216	Europe
Bulgaria	6,948,445	-0.74	231	-3.49	229	-4.17	231	Europe
Czechia	10,708,981	0.18	189	1.01	189	20.29	219	Europe
Hungary	9,660,351	-0.25	218	-1.20	219	3.46	229	Europe
Poland	37,846,611	-0.11	212	-0.49	211	52.46	197	Europe
Republic of Moldova	4,033,963	-0.23	217	-0.90	215	72.32	176	Europe
Romania	19,237,691	-0.66	230	-3.45	228	18.49	221	Europe
Russian Federation	145,934,462	0.04	201	0.65	195	41.96	200	Europe
Slovakia	5,459,642	0.05	200	0.44	197	58.87	189	Europe
Ukraine	43,733,762	-0.59	227	-2.64	224	17.26	222	Europe
Channel Islands	173,863	0.93	122	5.13	119	70.06	178	Europe
Denmark	5,792,202	0.35	173	1.82	177	35.70	207	Europe
Estonia	1,326,535	0.07	198	0.85	192	20.49	218	Europe
Faroe Islands	48,863	0.38	172	1.69	180	55.11	192	Europe
Finland	5,540,720	0.15	194	1.09	188	38.23	204	Europe
Iceland	341,243	0.65	150	3.33	150	139.20	161	Europe
Ireland	4,937,786	1.13	104	6.13	105	69.53	179	Europe
Isle of Man	85,033	0.53	158	2.16	172	53.89	194	Europe
Latvia	1,886,198	-1.08	232	-5.58	232	-2.10	230	Europe
Lithuania	2,722,289	-1.35	233	-7.15	233	6.03	228	Europe
Norway	5,421,241	0.79	137	4.26	137	66.03	184	Europe
Sweden	10,099,265	0.63	152	3.42	149	44.07	199	Europe
United Kingdom	67,886,011	0.53	159	3.08	155	34.12	209	Europe
Albania	2,877,797	-0.11	211	-0.44	210	127.82	162	Europe
Andorra	77,265	0.16	193	-0.96	216	1,147.01	11	Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,280,819	-0.61	229	-4.33	230	23.28	215	Europe
Croatia	4,105,267	-0.61	228	-3.01	226	6.62	227	Europe
Gibraltar	33,691	-0.03	207	-0.13	207	52.87	195	Europe
Greece	10,423,054	-0.48	226	-2.22	223	35.92	206	Europe
Holy See	801	0.25	183	-0.25	209	-11.78	232	Europe
Italy	60,461,826	-0.15	213	-0.19	208	29.75	212	Europe
Malta	441,543	0.27	181	1.84	176	41.52	201	Europe
Montenegro	628,066	0.01	205	0.18	202	59.11	188	Europe
North Macedonia	2,083,374	0.00	206	0.19	200	66.08	183	Europe
Portugal	10,196,709	-0.29	220	-1.66	221	21.14	217	Europe
San Marino	33,931	0.21	187	1.98	174	165.48	150	Europe
Serbia	8,737,371	-0.40	223	-1.57	220	29.78	211	Europe
Slovenia	2,078,938	0.01	204	0.37	199	41.13	202	Europe
Spain	46,754,778	0.04	202	0.18	201	66.57	182	Europe
Austria	9,006,398	0.57	157	3.78	144	29.84	210	Europe
Belgium	11,589,623	0.44	167	2.67	158	34.18	208	Europe
France	65,273,511	0.22	185	1.27	184	56.03	190	Europe
Germany	83,783,942	0.32	176	2.44	165	19.75	220	Europe
Liechtenstein	38,128	0.29	180	1.76	179	177.13	144	Europe
Luxembourg	625,978	1.66	66	10.45	55	111.48	168	Europe
Monaco	39,242	0.71	143	4.04	140	96.25	171	Europe
Netherlands	17,134,872	0.22	186	1.16	185	70.63	177	Europe
Switzerland	8,654,622	0.74	138	4.31	135	85.40	175	Europe
Bermuda	62,278	-0.36	222	-2.22	222	67.14	181	North America
Canada	37,742,154	0.89	130	4.76	128	174.82	145	North America
Greenland	56,770	0.17	191	0.70	194	146.87	156	North America
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	5,794	-0.48	225	-3.32	227	26.76	214	North America
United States of America	331,002,651	0.59	155	3.16	154	108.43	170	North America
World		1.05		5.62		207.31