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This article includes some versions of the list of countries, and self-governing dependent territories by population growth
Population growth
Population growth is the change in a population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals of any species in a population using "per unit time" for measurement....

rate. A population's approximate doubling time

Doubling time

The doubling time is the period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value. It is applied to population growth, inflation, resource extraction, consumption of goods, compound interest, the volume of malignant tumours, and many other things which tend to grow over time...

is found by dividing 70 by its annual percentage population growth. For example, at a 4 percent growth rate, a country's population will double in about 18 years; at a 1 percent growth rate, it will take about 70 years. The average population growth rate for the world

World

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....

is 1.17%.

The first list is based on the estimates taken from the 2006 edition of the United Nations

United Nations

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World Population Prospects report. Figures are population growth rate estimates for the period 2005-2010 using the medium variant.

The second list is based on CIA World Factbook estimates for year 2009. Dependent territories and not fully recognized states are not ranked.

The third list is based on World Bank

World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

estimates for year 2009. 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.

2005-2010 List by the United Nations
United Nations
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2009 List by the CIA World Factbook

2009 List by the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

Rank	Country	Population growth rate (%)
1	Liberia	4.50
2	Burundi	3.90
3	Afghanistan	3.85
4	Western Sahara	3.72
5	East Timor	3.50
6	Niger	3.49
7	Eritrea	3.24
8	Uganda	3.24
9		3.22
10	Palestinian territories	3.18
11	Jordan	3.04
12	Mali	3.02
13	Benin	3.02
14	Guinea-Bissau	2.98
15	Yemen	2.97
16	Somalia	2.92
17	Burkina Faso	2.89
18	Chad	2.88
19	United Arab Emirates	2.85
20	Angola	2.78
21	Rwanda	2.76
22	Madagascar	2.66
23	Kenya	2.65
24	Togo	2.65
25	The Gambia	2.63
26	Malawi	2.57
27	Mauritania	2.53
28	Syria	2.52
29	Ethiopia	2.51
30	Tanzania	2.47
31	Guatemala	2.47
32	Senegal	2.46
33	Comoros	2.46
34	Kuwait	2.44
35	French Guiana	2.41
36	Equatorial Guinea	2.38
37	Vanuatu	2.38
38	Solomon Islands	2.33
39	Nigeria	2.27
40	Saudi Arabia	2.24
41	Cape Verde	2.23
42	Marshall Islands	2.23
43	Sudan	2.22
44	Guinea	2.16
45	Republic of the Congo	2.11
46	Qatar	2.11
47	Belize	2.08
48	Brunei	2.05
49	Sierra Leone	2.04
50	American Samoa	2.01
51	Papua New Guinea	2.00
52	Cameroon	2.00
53	Ghana	1.99
54	Oman	1.97
55	Nepal	1.97
56	Libya	1.97
57	Honduras	1.95
58	Mozambique	1.95
59	Northern Mariana Islands	1.95
60	Zambia	1.91
61	Djibouti	1.90
62	Pakistan	1.84
63	Côte d'Ivoire	1.84
64	Iraq	1.84
65	Central African Republic	1.83
66	Paraguay	1.80
67	Bahrain	1.79
68	Bolivia	1.77
69	Republic of Ireland	1.77
70	Maldives	1.76
71	Egypt	1.76
72	Cambodia	1.74
73	Laos	1.74
74	Philippines	1.72
75	Malaysia	1.69
76	Bangladesh	1.67
77	Venezuela	1.67
78	Israel	1.66
79	Panama	1.65
80	São Tomé and Príncipe	1.61
81	Haiti	1.58
82	Kiribati	1.58
83	New Caledonia	1.54
84	Tajikistan	1.51
85	Algeria	1.51
86	Cayman Islands	1.51
87	Costa Rica	1.50
88	Gabon	1.48
89	Dominican Republic	1.47
90	India	1.46
91	Uzbekistan	1.44
92	Bhutan	1.43
93	Anguilla	1.41
94	El Salvador	1.37
95	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.37
96	Iran	1.35
97	Netherlands Antilles	1.33
98	Vietnam	1.32
99	Turkmenistan	1.32
100	Namibia	1.32
101	French Polynesia	1.31
102	Nicaragua	1.31
103	Guam	1.30
104	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.27
105	Colombia	1.27
106	Réunion	1.27
107	Brazil	1.26
108	Turkey	1.26
109	Botswana	1.23
110	Saint Helena	1.23
111	Morocco	1.20
112	The Bahamas	1.20
113	Singapore	1.19
-	World World World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....	1.17
114	Indonesia	1.16
115	Antigua and Barbuda	1.16
116	Peru	1.15
117	Montserrat	1.15
118	Luxembourg	1.13
119	British Virgin Islands	1.13
120	Mexico	1.12
121	Saint Lucia	1.12
122	Kyrgyzstan	1.10
123	Tunisia	1.08
124	Ecuador	1.07
125	Cyprus	1.06
126	Lebanon	1.05
127	Australia	1.01
128	Chile	1.00
129	Argentina	1.00
130	Hong Kong	1.00
131	United States	0.97
132	Mongolia	0.96
133	Zimbabwe	0.95
134	Canada	0.90
135	New Zealand	0.90
136	Liechtenstein	0.89
137	Samoa	0.87
138	Myanmar	0.85
139	Iceland	0.84
140	San Marino	0.81
141	Mauritius	0.78
142	Spain	0.77
143	Azerbaijan	0.75
144	Kazakhstan	0.71
145	Macau	0.70
146	Guadeloupe	0.68
147	Faroe Islands	0.68
148	Thailand	0.66
149	Wallis and Futuna	0.66
150	Lesotho	0.63
151	Swaziland	0.63
152	Norway	0.62
153	Fiji	0.62
154	Greenland	0.60
155	Falkland Islands	0.59
156	Albania	0.57
157	Suriname	0.56
158	South Africa	0.55
159	Puerto Rico	0.55
160	Jamaica	0.54
161	Tonga	0.50
162	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.50
163	Sweden	0.49
164	Early Modern France	0.49
165	Seychelles	0.49
166	United Kingdom	0.48
167	People's Republic of China	0.48
168	Sri Lanka	0.47
169		0.46
170	Malta	0.43
171	Tuvalu	0.42
172	Palau	0.41
173	Switzerland	0.38
174	Portugal	0.37
175	Trinidad and Tobago	0.37
176	Austria	0.36
177	Andorra	0.36
178		0.36
179	North Korea	0.34
180	Monaco	0.33
181	South Korea	0.33
182	Barbados	0.32
183	Finland	0.29
184	Nauru	0.29
185	Uruguay	0.29
186	Martinique	0.28
187	Bermuda	0.25
188	Belgium	0.24
189	Netherlands	0.21
190	Greece	0.21
191	Denmark	0.21
192	Channel Islands Channel Islands The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...	0.19
193	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.13
194	Italy	0.13
195	Serbia	0.13
196	Gibraltar	0.08
197	Republic of Macedonia	0.08
198	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	0.07
199	Vatican City	0.05
200	Isle of Man	0.04
201	Slovakia	0.03
202	Grenada	0.02
203	Slovenia	0.01
204	Aruba	0.01
205	Pitcairn Islands	0.00
206	Cuba	-0.01
207	Japan	-0.02
208	Tokelau	-0.03
209	United States Virgin Islands	-0.03
210	Czech Republic	-0.03
211	Germany	-0.07
212	Independent State of Croatia	-0.09
213	Poland	-0.15
214	Armenia	-0.21
215	Guyana	-0.22
216	Kingdom of Montenegro	-0.27
217	Dominica	-0.29
218	Hungary	-0.29
219	Estonia	-0.35
220	Kingdom of Romania	-0.45
221	Russia	-0.51
222	Latvia	-0.52
223	Lithuania	-0.53
224	Belarus	-0.55
225	Kingdom of Bulgaria	-0.72
226	Ukraine	-0.76
227	Georgia (country)	-0.79
228	Moldova	-0.90
229	Niue	-1.85
230	Cook Islands	-2.23

Rank	Country	Population growth rate (%)
1	United Arab Emirates	3.69
2	Burundi	3.69
3	Niger	3.68
4	Kuwait	3.55
5	Gaza Strip	3.35
6	Mayotte	3.32
7		3.21
8	Ethiopia	3.21
9	Oman	3.14
10	Burkina Faso	3.1
11	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.09
12	Madagascar	3
13	Benin	2.98
14	Rwanda	2.87
15	Western Sahara	2.83
16	Somalia	2.82
17	Yemen	2.79
18	Comoros	2.77
19	Republic of the Congo	2.75
20	Togo	2.75
21	Malawi	2.75
22	Senegal	2.71
23	Equatorial Guinea	2.7
24	Uganda	2.69
25	Kenya	2.69
26	Liberia	2.67
27	Mali	2.59
28		2.59
29	Eritrea	2.58
30	Afghanistan	2.58
31	Guinea	2.57
32	Turks and Caicos Islands	2.56
33	Iraq	2.51
34	Mauritania	2.4
35	Cayman Islands	2.39
36	Solomon Islands	2.39
37	Paraguay	2.36
38	Laos	2.32
39	Anguilla	2.27
40	Kiribati	2.24
41	Cameroon	2.19
42	Jordan	2.19
43	Sierra Leone	2.18
44	West Bank	2.18
45	Libya	2.17
46	Djibouti	2.16
47	Belize	2.15
48	Sudan	2.14
49	Côte d'Ivoire	2.13
50	Angola	2.1
51	Papua New Guinea	2.09
52	Marshall Islands	2.08
53	Chad	2.07
54	Guatemala	2.07
55	Tanzania	2.04
56	Egypt	2.03
57	East Timor	2.03
58	Guinea-Bissau	2.02
59	Syria	2.01
60	Honduras	2
61	Nigeria	2
62	Macau	2
63	Philippines	1.96
64	Botswana	1.94
65	Gabon	1.93
66	Ghana	1.9
67	Tajikistan	1.88
68	Saudi Arabia	1.85
69	Haiti	1.84
70	British Virgin Islands	1.84
71	Mozambique	1.79
72	Nicaragua	1.78
73	Bolivia	1.77
74	Cambodia	1.77
75	Brunei	1.76
76	Nauru	1.75
77	Malaysia	1.72
78	Cyprus	1.69
79	Israel	1.67
80	El Salvador	1.66
81	Zambia	1.63
82	Tuvalu	1.62
83	Pakistan	1.56
84	Zimbabwe	1.53
85	Venezuela	1.51
86	Panama	1.5
87	Ecuador	1.5
88	Mongolia	1.49
89	Central African Republic	1.49
90	Dominican Republic	1.49
91	Tonga	1.48
92	Aruba	1.48
93	India	1.41
94	Vanuatu	1.4
95	Kyrgyzstan	1.4
96	French Polynesia	1.39
97	Fiji	1.38
98	Costa Rica	1.36
99	Samoa	1.35
100	Turkey	1.31
101	Swaziland	1.31
102	Antigua and Barbuda	1.3
103	Bahrain	1.29
104	Bangladesh	1.29
105	Nepal	1.28
106	Bhutan	1.27
107	Peru	1.23
108	American Samoa	1.22
109	Colombia	1.22
110	Brazil	1.2
111	Algeria	1.2
112	Australia	1.2
113	Luxembourg	1.17
114	San Marino	1.15
115	Turkmenistan	1.14
116	Vietnam	1.14
117	Indonesia	1.14
118	New Caledonia	1.14
119	Andorra	1.14
-	World World World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....	1.13
120	Mexico	1.13
121	Republic of Ireland	1.12
122	Lebanon	1.11
123	Suriname	1.1
124	Morocco	1.1
125	Argentina	1.05
126	Seychelles	1
127	Singapore	1
128	Tunisia	0.98
129	United States	0.98
130	Qatar	0.96
131	Namibia	0.95
132	New Zealand	0.94
133	Uzbekistan	0.94
134		0.93
135	Sri Lanka	0.9
136	Iran	0.88
137	Chile	0.88
138	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.85
139	Canada	0.82
140	Myanmar	0.78
141	Mauritius	0.78
142	Azerbaijan	0.76
143	Jamaica	0.76
144	Iceland	0.74
145	Netherlands Antilles	0.73
146	Liechtenstein	0.7
147	Bermuda	0.65
148	Thailand	0.63
149	Cape Verde	0.56
150	Early Modern France	0.56
151	Albania	0.55
152	Isle of Man	0.52
153	Hong Kong	0.5
154	Sweden	0.48
155	Grenada	0.47
156	People's Republic of China	0.47
157	United Kingdom	0.47
158	Uruguay	0.47
159	Saint Helena	0.45
160	Palau	0.43
161	North Korea	0.42
162	Saint Lucia	0.42
163	Netherlands	0.41
164	Malta	0.4
165	Faroe Islands	0.4
166	Monaco	0.39
167	Kazakhstan	0.39
168	Montserrat	0.39
169	Barbados	0.38
170	Wallis and Futuna	0.35
171	Norway	0.34
172	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.34
173	Puerto Rico	0.3
174	Gibraltar	0.29
175	South Africa	0.28
176	Denmark	0.28
177	Switzerland	0.28
178	Portugal	0.28
179	South Korea	0.27
180	Republic of Macedonia	0.26
181	Cuba	0.23
182	Guernsey	0.23
183		0.23
184	Jersey	0.21
185	Dominica	0.21
186	Slovakia	0.14
187	Greece	0.13
188	Lesotho	0.12
189	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	0.1
190	Finland	0.1
191	Belgium	0.09
192	Spain	0.07
193	Greenland	0.06
194	Austria	0.05
195	Falkland Islands	0.01
196	Norfolk Island	0.01
197	Holy See	0
198	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0
199	Pitcairn Islands	0
200	Christmas Island	0
201	Tokelau	-0.01
202	Svalbard	-0.02
203	United States Virgin Islands	-0.03
204	Armenia	-0.03
205	Niue	-0.03
206	Italy	-0.05
207	Poland	-0.05
208	Independent State of Croatia	-0.05
209	Germany	-0.05
210	Moldova	-0.08
211	Czech Republic	-0.09
212	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.1
213	Slovenia	-0.11
214	Kingdom of Romania	-0.15
215	Maldives	-0.17
216	Japan	-0.19
217		-0.24
218	Hungary	-0.26
219	Lithuania	-0.28
220	Georgia (country)	-0.33
221	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-0.34
222	Belarus	-0.38
223	Russia	-0.47
224	Serbia	-0.47
225	Latvia	-0.61
226	Estonia	-0.63
227	Ukraine	-0.63
228	Guyana	-0.63
229	Kingdom of Bulgaria	-0.79
230	Kingdom of Montenegro	-0.85
231	Cook Islands	-3.3
232	Northern Mariana Islands	-7.08

Rank	Country	Population growth rate (%)
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	East Timor	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		2.71
18		2.68
19	Afghanistan	2.66
20	Madagascar	2.65
21	West Bank	2.65
22	Chad	2.64
23	Kenya	2.64
24	Angola	2.61
25	Senegal	2.61
26	Ethiopia	2.58
27	Equatorial Guinea	2.56
28	Iraq	2.52
29		2.50
30		2.50
31	Zambia	2.47
32		2.46
33		2.45
34	Togo	2.45
35		2.43
36	Solomon Islands	2.42
37	Kuwait	2.41
38		2.38
39	Guinea	2.37
40	Mali	2.37
41	Jordan	2.36
42	Papua New Guinea	2.33
43		2.33
44		2.32
45	Côte d'Ivoire	2.32
46	Nigeria	2.30
47	Somalia	2.29
48	Mozambique	2.26
49	Marshall Islands	2.25
50	Cameroon	2.24
51	Macau	2.22
52	Guinea-Bissau	2.22
53	Sudan	2.21
54	Pakistan	2.14
55	Oman	2.13
56	Ghana	2.06
57	Australia	2.05
58	Bahrain	2.03
59		1.99
60	Libya	1.99
61		1.99
62		1.90
63		1.87
64		1.87
65		1.86
66		1.84
67		1.81
68	Israel	1.80
69		1.79
70		1.79
71	Egypt	1.79
72		1.78
73		1.76
74		1.75
75		1.73
76		1.68
77	Malaysia	1.66
78		1.66
79		1.65
80		1.62
81		1.61
82	Andorra	1.61
83	São Tomé and Príncipe	1.60
84	Venezuela	1.59
85	Haiti	1.57
86		1.53
87		1.52
88		1.51
89		1.50
90		1.48
91		1.46
92		1.45
93		1.43
94		1.43
95		1.38
96		1.38
97		1.37
98		1.36
99		1.34
100	India	1.34
101		1.34
102		1.32
103		1.32
104		1.31
105		1.31
106		1.28
107		1.28
108		1.23
109		1.23
110		1.23
111		1.22
112		1.21
113		1.19
114		1.16
115		1.16
-	World World World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....	1.16
116	Indonesia	1.15
117	Peru	1.13
118		1.12
119		1.11
120		1.10
121	New Zealand	1.09
122	Switzerland	1.09
123	Slovenia	1.08
124	South Africa	1.07
125	Ecuador	1.06
126	Mexico	1.01
127	Tunisia	1.01
128	Aruba	1.01
129	Cyprus	0.99
130	Chile	0.98
131	Argentina	0.98
132	Myanmar	0.92
133	Brazil	0.91
134	Suriname	0.89
135	Sweden	0.89
136		0.88
137		0.86
138		0.85
139		0.82
140		0.82
141		0.79
142		0.75
143		0.73
144		0.73
145		0.71
146		0.70
147		0.65
148		0.65
149		0.63
150		0.61
151		0.58
152		0.56
153		0.56
154		0.56
155		0.55
156		0.54
157		0.52
158		0.52
159		0.51
160	Mauritius	0.51
161	Zimbabwe	0.48
162	El Salvador	0.47
163	Finland	0.47
164	Jamaica	0.46
165	Greece	0.41
166	Trinidad and Tobago	0.39
167	Tonga	0.39
168	Albania	0.38
169	Grenada	0.38
170	Hong Kong	0.37
171	North Korea	0.37
172	Uruguay	0.33
173	Austria	0.33
174	Puerto Rico	0.32
175	Bermuda	0.31
176	Kingdom of Montenegro	0.30
177	Monaco	0.33
178	South Korea	0.29
179		0.28
180	Faroe Islands	0.27
181	Barbados	0.26
182		0.21
182	Armenia	0.19
184	Channel Islands Channel Islands The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...	0.18
185	Portugal	0.09
186		0.08
187	Poland	0.06
188	Republic of Macedonia	0.06
189	Cuba	0.00
190	Samoa	-0.01
191	United States Virgin Islands	-0.01
192	Estonia	-0.02
193	Independent State of Croatia	-0.05
194	Isle of Man	-0.06
195	Russia	-0.07
196	Japan	-0.11
197	Guyana	-0.12
198	Kingdom of Romania	-0.15
199	Hungary	-0.16
200	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.17
201	Belarus	-0.18
202	Germany	-0.28
203	Serbia	-0.42
204	Greenland
205	Latvia	-0.49
206	Kingdom of Bulgaria	-0.50
207	Ukraine	-0.54
208	Lithuania	-0.55
209	Moldova	-0.83
210	Georgia (country)	-0.83