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Top 10 Fastest-Growing Populations

The countries whose populations grew the fastest last year.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by population growth (annual %)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data

  1. United Arab Emirates

    Data year 2024

    4.7%

    No change

  2. Saudi Arabia

    Data year 2024

    4.6%

    No change

  3. Oman

    Data year 2024

    4.0%

    No change
  1. 4QatarData year 20243.9%No change
  2. 5Syrian Arab RepublicData year 20233.8%No change
  3. 6ChadData year 20243.4%No change
  4. 7Central African RepublicData year 20243.4%No change
  5. 8Somalia, Fed. Rep.Data year 20253.3%No change
  6. 9NigerData year 20243.2%No change
  7. 10Congo, Dem. Rep.Data year 20243.2%No change
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  1. 11GeorgiaData year 20233.2%No change
  2. 12AngolaData year 20253.0%No change
  3. 13UkraineData year 20242.9%No change
  4. 14MaliData year 20242.9%No change
  5. 15Yemen, Rep.Data year 20232.9%No change
  6. 16TanzaniaData year 20242.9%No change
  7. 17MozambiqueData year 20242.8%No change
  8. 18MauritaniaData year 20242.8%No change
  9. 19ZambiaData year 20242.8%No change
  10. 20AfghanistanData year 20242.8%No change
  11. 21UgandaData year 20242.7%No change
  12. 22CameroonData year 20242.6%No change
  13. 23MalawiData year 20252.6%No change
  14. 24EthiopiaData year 20242.6%No change
  15. 25BurundiData year 20232.4%No change
  16. 26Cote d'IvoireData year 20242.4%No change
  17. 27BeninData year 20232.4%No change
  18. 28MadagascarData year 20252.4%No change
  19. 29Equatorial GuineaData year 20242.4%No change
  20. 30SudanData year 20242.4%No change
  21. 31Congo, Rep.Data year 20242.4%No change
  22. 32Solomon IslandsData year 20232.3%No change
  23. 33West Bank and GazaData year 20212.3%No change
  24. 34GuineaData year 20242.3%No change
  25. 35SenegalData year 20232.3%No change
  26. 36VanuatuData year 20242.2%No change
  27. 37Gambia, TheData year 20232.2%No change
  28. 38Burkina FasoData year 20242.2%No change
  29. 39TogoData year 20232.2%No change
  30. 40RwandaData year 20232.2%No change
  31. 41Guinea-BissauData year 20242.2%No change
  32. 42GabonData year 20242.1%No change
  33. 43IraqData year 20242.1%No change
  34. 44LiberiaData year 20242.1%No change
  35. 45NigeriaData year 20242.1%No change
  36. 46NamibiaData year 20242.0%No change
  37. 47Sierra LeoneData year 20252.0%No change
  38. 48South SudanData year 20252.0%No change
  39. 49GibraltarData year 20242.0%No change
  40. 50EritreaData year 20232.0%No change

How this list is ranked

Population growth (annual %) (World Bank indicator SP.POP.GROW), latest year available for each country, from the last 3 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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