This article includes a table of countries and subnational areas by annual population growth rate.
This article includes a table of countries and subnational areas by annual population growth rate.
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods.
The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history. The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period.
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. This means that population growth in this table includes net changes from immigration and emigration. For a table of natural increase, see List of countries by rate of natural increase.
Asterisk (*) indicates "Demographics of Country or Territory" links.
| Country (or territory) | CIA [2] [3] | WB [4] 2023 | UN [5] 2005–10 | UN [5] 2010–15 | UN [5] 2015–20 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (%) | Year | |||||
| World | 1.17 | 0.9 | 1.23 | 1.19 | 1.09 | |
 Afghanistan | 2.22 | 2024 | 2.7 | 2.78 | 3.16 | 2.41 |
 Albania * | 0.16 | 2024 | -1.1 | -0.92 | -0.12 | 0.13 |
 Algeria * | 1.54 | 2024 | 1.6 | 1.63 | 1.98 | 1.67 |
 Andorra * | -0.12 | 2024 | 0.3 | 1.37 | -1.59 | -0.21 |
 Angola * | 3.33 | 2024 | 3.0 | 3.57 | 3.52 | 3.28 |
 Antigua and Barbuda * | 1.11 | 2024 | 0.6 | 1.18 | 1.08 | 1.01 |
 Argentina * | 0.79 | 2024 | 0.9 | 1.04 | 1.04 | 0.94 |
 Armenia * | -0.42 | 2024 | -0.1 | -0.71 | 0.27 | 0.15 |
 Australia * | 1.13 | 2024 | 2.4 | 1.78 | 1.46 | 1.30 |
 Austria * | 0.30 | 2024 | 1.0 | 0.38 | 0.53 | 0.24 |
 Azerbaijan * | 0.43 | 2024 | -0.3 | 1.13 | 1.26 | 0.98 |
 Bahamas * | 1.07 | 2024 | 0.6 | 1.83 | 1.39 | 1.01 |
 Bahrain * | 0.82 | 2024 | 0.9 | 6.67 | 2.01 | 4.26 |
 Bangladesh * | 0.89 | 2024 | 1.0 | 1.18 | 1.16 | 1.04 |
 Barbados * | 0.23 | 2024 | 0.1 | 0.40 | 0.33 | 0.24 |
 Belarus * | -0.42 | 2024 | -0.5 | -0.31 | 0.03 | -0.15 |
 Belgium * | 0.53 | 2024 | 1.2 | 0.73 | 0.63 | 0.58 |
 Belize * | 1.47 | 2024 | 1.4 | 2.54 | 2.22 | 2.05 |
 Benin * | 3.29 | 2024 | 2.7 | 2.84 | 2.79 | 2.73 |
 Bhutan * | 0.95 | 2024 | 0.6 | 2.05 | 1.58 | 1.18 |
 Bolivia * | 1.00 | 2024 | 1.3 | 1.67 | 1.56 | 1.47 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina * | -0.25 | 2024 | -0.7 | -0.32 | -1.03 | -0.22 |
 Botswana * | 1.34 | 2024 | 1.7 | 1.64 | 1.84 | 1.79 |
 Brazil * | 0.61 | 2024 | 0.5 | 1.03 | 0.91 | 0.63 |
 Brunei * | 1.40 | 2024 | 0.8 | 1.25 | 1.43 | 1.25 |
 Bulgaria * | -0.66 | 2024 | -0.5 | -0.74 | -0.62 | -0.67 |
 Burkina Faso * | 2.40 | 2024 | 2.5 | 3.01 | 2.98 | 2.87 |
 Myanmar * | 0.71 | 2024 | 0.7 | 0.68 | 0.88 | 0.90 |
 Burundi * | 2.81 | 2023 | 2.7 | 3.33 | 3.03 | 3.15 |
 Cape Verde * | 1.16 | 2024 | 0.9 | 1.25 | ||
 Cambodia * | 0.99 | 2024 | 1.0 | 1.51 | 1.62 | 1.49 |
 Cameroon * | 2.71 | 2024 | 2.6 | 2.73 | 2.68 | 2.56 |
 Canada * | 0.71 | 2024 | 2.9 | 1.13 | 1.02 | 0.90 |
 Central African Republic * | 1.76 | 2024 | 2.9 | 1.50 | 0.43 | 1.58 |
 Chad * | 3.01 | 2024 | 3.1 | 3.32 | 3.29 | 3.01 |
 Chile * | 0.63 | 2023 | 0.1 | 1.02 | 0.89 | 0.78 |
 China * [lower-alpha 1] | 0.18 | 2023 | -0.1 | 0.57 | 0.54 | 0.39 |
 Colombia * | 0.54 | 2023 | 0.4 | 1.18 | 0.98 | 0.81 |
 Comoros * [lower-alpha 2] | 1.34 | 2023 | 1.8 | 2.40 | 2.40 | 2.24 |
 DR Congo * | 3.13 | 2023 | 3.2 | 3.28 | 3.33 | 3.22 |
 Congo * | 2.33 | 2023 | 2.3 | 2.98 | 2.60 | 2.59 |
 Costa Rica * | 0.98 | 2023 | 0.6 | 1.35 | 1.12 | 0.96 |
 Ivory Coast * | 2.16 | 2023 | 2.5 | 2.13 | 2.49 | 2.49 |
 Croatia * | -0.47 | 2023 | -0.1 | -0.23 | -0.43 | -0.58 |
 Cuba * | -0.19 | 2023 | -0.2 | 0.09 | 0.23 | 0.06 |
 Cyprus * | 1.00 | 2023 | 0.7 | 1.59 | 0.85 | 0.78 |
 Czech Republic * | 0.00 | 2023 | 1.9 | 0.54 | 0.13 | 0.06 |
 Denmark * | 0.44 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.49 | 0.48 | 0.38 |
 Djibouti * | 1.93 | 2023 | 1.4 | 1.66 | 1.72 | 1.51 |
 Dominica * | 0.02 | 2023 | 0.4 | 0.23 | 0.48 | 0.51 |
 Dominican Republic * | 0.88 | 2023 | 0.9 | 1.38 | 1.24 | 1.07 |
 Ecuador * | 1.10 | 2023 | 1.0 | 1.67 | 1.56 | 1.42 |
 Egypt * | 1.59 | 2023 | 1.5 | 1.82 | 2.18 | 1.87 |
 El Salvador * | 0.46 | 2023 | 0.4 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.52 |
 Equatorial Guinea * | 3.36 | 2023 | 2.3 | 4.56 | 4.24 | 3.59 |
 Eritrea * | 1.08 | 2023 | 1.7 | 2.02 | 1.98 | 2.28 |
 Estonia * | -0.74 | 2023 | 1.3 | -0.35 | -0.25 | -0.23 |
 Eswatini (Swaziland) * | 0.72 | 2023 | 0.8 | 1.68 | 1.84 | 1.75 |
 Ethiopia * | 2.42 | 2023 | 2.5 | 2.67 | 2.60 | 2.43 |
 Fiji * | 0.42 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.91 | 0.74 | 0.72 |
 Finland * | 0.22 | 2023 | 0.5 | 0.40 | 0.43 | 0.36 |
 France * [lower-alpha 3] | 0.31 | 2023 | 0.3 | 0.58 | 0.45 | 0.39 |
 Gabon * | 2.39 | 2023 | 2.0 | 3.12 | 3.26 | 2.17 |
 Gambia * | 2.23 | 2023 | 2.5 | 3.17 | 3.12 | 2.93 |
 Georgia * | 0.01 | 2023 | 1.3 | -1.17 | -1.37 | -0.27 |
 Germany * | -0.12 | 2023 | 0.8 | -0.19 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
 Ghana * | 2.19 | 2023 | 1.9 | 2.58 | 2.36 | 2.16 |
 Greece * | -0.35 | 2023 | -0.6 | 0.26 | -0.40 | -0.21 |
 Grenada * | 0.29 | 2023 | 0.6 | 0.33 | 0.41 | 0.46 |
 Guatemala * | 1.54 | 2023 | 1.4 | 2.22 | 2.10 | 1.94 |
 Guinea * | 2.75 | 2023 | 2.4 | 2.18 | 2.27 | 2.57 |
 Guinea-Bissau * | 2.54 | 2023 | 2.1 | 2.39 | 2.59 | 2.44 |
 Guyana * | 0.28 | 2023 | 0.6 | -0.12 | 0.58 | 0.57 |
 Haiti * | 1.18 | 2023 | 1.2 | 1.53 | 1.38 | 1.20 |
 Honduras * | 1.16 | 2023 | 1.5 | 2.11 | 1.79 | 1.63 |
 Hungary * | -0.31 | 2023 | -0.6 | -0.32 | -0.29 | -0.34 |
 Iceland * | 0.89 | 2023 | 3.0 | 1.65 | 0.61 | 0.77 |
 India * | 0.70 | 2023 | 0.8 | 1.46 | 1.23 | 1.10 |
 Indonesia * | 0.76 | 2023 | 0.7 | 1.35 | 1.25 | 1.05 |
 Iran * | 0.93 | 2023 | 0.7 | 1.14 | 1.25 | 1.04 |
 Iraq * | 1.94 | 2023 | 2.2 | 2.60 | 3.21 | 2.78 |
 Ireland * | 0.91 | 2023 | 2.6 | 1.87 | 0.31 | 0.78 |
 Israel * | 1.43 | 2023 | 2.1 | 2.35 | 1.65 | 1.55 |
 Italy * | -0.11 | 2023 | -0.3 | 0.31 | -0.08 | -0.13 |
 Jamaica * | 0.09 | 2023 | -0.1 | 0.52 | 0.39 | 0.29 |
 Japan * | -0.41 | 2023 | -0.5 | 0.03 | -0.09 | -0.23 |
 Jordan * | 0.79 | 2023 | 0.5 | 4.57 | 4.86 | 2.17 |
 Kazakhstan * | 0.73 | 2023 | 1.3 | 1.07 | 1.58 | 1.13 |
 Kenya * | 2.09 | 2023 | 2.0 | 2.74 | 2.66 | 2.49 |
 Kiribati * | 1.02 | 2023 | 1.7 | 2.12 | 1.82 | 1.71 |
 North Korea * | 0.44 | 2023 | 0.4 | 0.34 | 0.42 | 0.47 |
 South Korea * | 0.23 | 2023 | 0.1 | 0.57 | 0.52 | 0.36 |
 Kuwait * | 1.13 | 2023 | 1.0 | 5.51 | 5.44 | 1.78 |
 Kyrgyzstan * | 0.82 | 2023 | 1.8 | 1.32 | 1.57 | 1.44 |
 Laos * | 1.30 | 2023 | 1.4 | 1.64 | 1.30 | 1.45 |
 Latvia * | -1.13 | 2023 | 0.1 | -1.22 | -1.30 | -1.03 |
 Lebanon * | 0.64 | 2023 | -2.5 | 1.68 | 5.99 | 0.57 |
 Lesotho * | 0.76 | 2023 | 1.1 | 0.91 | 1.27 | 1.31 |
 Liberia * | 2.71 | 2023 | 2.2 | 3.82 | 2.62 | 2.52 |
 Libya * | 1.54 | 2023 | 1.1 | 1.26 | 0.21 | 1.33 |
 Liechtenstein * | 0.70 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.65 | 0.76 | 0.65 |
 Lithuania * | -1.04 | 2023 | 1.4 | -1.36 | -1.27 | -0.55 |
 Luxembourg * | 1.58 | 2023 | 2.3 | 2.08 | 2.19 | 1.27 |
 Madagascar * | 2.22 | 2023 | 2.4 | 2.86 | 2.72 | 2.67 |
 Malawi * | 2.28 | 2023 | 2.5 | 3.02 | 2.95 | 2.87 |
 Malaysia * | 1.01 | 2023 | 1.1 | 1.83 | 1.78 | 1.35 |
 Maldives * | -0.17 | 2023 | -0.5 | 2.68 | 2.76 | 1.85 |
 Mali * | 2.93 | 2023 | 3.1 | 3.27 | 2.95 | 2.99 |
 Malta * | 0.59 | 2023 | 4.1 | 0.45 | 0.55 | 0.31 |
 Marshall Islands * | 1.30 | 2023 | 1.0 | -0.04 | 0.14 | 0.10 |
 Mauritania * | 1.96 | 2023 | 2.6 | 2.85 | 2.95 | 2.69 |
 Mauritius * | 0.09 | 2023 | -0.1 | 0.42 | 0.18 | 0.23 |
 Mexico * | 0.61 | 2023 | 0.7 | 1.57 | 1.41 | 1.23 |
 Micronesia * | -0.70 | 2023 | 0.9 | -0.49 | 0.16 | 0.63 |
 Moldova * | -1.14 | 2023 | -2.1 | -0.36 | -0.09 | -0.24 |
 Monaco * | 0.66 | 2023 | -0.5 | 1.86 | 0.65 | 0.51 |
 Mongolia * | 0.83 | 2023 | 1.4 | 1.42 | 1.86 | 1.50 |
 Montenegro * | -0.43 | 2023 | -0.2 | 0.26 | 0.12 | 0.04 |
 Morocco * | 0.88 | 2023 | 1.0 | 1.20 | 1.43 | 1.26 |
 Mozambique * | 2.55 | 2023 | 2.8 | 2.93 | 2.91 | 2.86 |
 Namibia * | 1.80 | 2023 | 1.4 | 1.34 | 2.20 | 2.12 |
 Nauru * | 0.42 | 2023 | 0.9 | -0.18 | 2.32 | -0.06 |
 Nepal * | 0.74 | 2023 | 1.1 | 1.05 | 1.17 | 1.09 |
 Netherlands * | 0.36 | 2023 | 1.0 | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.29 |
 New Zealand * [lower-alpha 4] | 1.06 | 2023 | 2.0 | 1.10 | 1.09 | 0.93 |
 Nicaragua * | 0.91 | 2023 | 1.4 | 1.29 | 1.17 | 1.07 |
 Niger * | 3.66 | 2023 | 3.7 | 3.75 | 3.84 | 3.81 |
 Nigeria * | 2.53 | 2023 | 2.4 | 2.64 | 2.67 | 2.58 |
 North Macedonia * | 0.11 | 2023 | -1.1 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
 Norway * | 0.79 | 2023 | 1.1 | 1.07 | 1.25 | 0.94 |
 Oman * | 1.80 | 2023 | 1.5 | 3.83 | 6.45 | 4.08 |
 Pakistan * | 1.91 | 2023 | 2.0 | 2.05 | 2.09 | 1.91 |
 Palau * | 0.39 | 2023 | 0.0 | 0.56 | 0.79 | 1.06 |
 Panama * | 1.51 | 2023 | 1.3 | 1.80 | 1.71 | 1.55 |
 Papua New Guinea * | 2.31 | 2023 | 1.8 | 2.37 | 2.16 | 2.01 |
 Paraguay * | 1.12 | 2023 | 1.2 | 1.38 | 1.34 | 1.25 |
 Peru * | 0.50 | 2023 | 0.9 | 1.24 | 1.32 | 1.20 |
 Philippines * | 1.58 | 2023 | 1.5 | 1.66 | 1.64 | 1.51 |
 Poland * | -0.28 | 2023 | -0.4 | -0.02 | -0.03 | -0.17 |
 Portugal * | -0.17 | 2023 | 1.1 | 0.16 | -0.44 | -0.39 |
 Qatar * | 0.86 | 2023 | 0.8 | 14.93 | 6.65 | 2.36 |
 Romania * | -1.01 | 2023 | 0.0 | -0.95 | -0.56 | -0.50 |
 Russia * | -0.24 | 2023 | -0.3 | -0.07 | 0.04 | 0.01 |
 Rwanda * | 1.68 | 2023 | 2.3 | 2.61 | 2.53 | 2.36 |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis * | 0.59 | 2023 | 0.2 | 1.13 | 1.08 | 0.91 |
 Saint Lucia * | 0.27 | 2023 | 0.2 | 1.06 | 0.53 | 0.45 |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines * | -0.16 | 2023 | -0.2 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.24 |
 Samoa * | 0.65 | 2023 | 1.5 | 0.69 | 0.80 | 0.65 |
 San Marino * | 0.59 | 2023 | -0.1 | 1.24 | 1.16 | 0.51 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe * | 1.45 | 2023 | 1.9 | 2.32 | 2.25 | 2.18 |
 Saudi Arabia * | 1.65 | 2023 | 1.5 | 2.75 | 2.81 | 1.90 |
 Senegal * | 2.52 | 2023 | 2.5 | 2.76 | 2.96 | 2.77 |
 Serbia * | -0.63 | 2023 | -0.7 | -0.41 | -0.40 | -0.34 |
 Seychelles * | 0.60 | 2023 | -0.1 | 0.59 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
 Sierra Leone * | 2.41 | 2023 | 2.1 | 2.65 | 2.28 | 2.12 |
 Singapore * | 0.90 | 2023 | 4.9 | 2.44 | 1.74 | 1.40 |
 Slovakia * | -0.12 | 2023 | -0.1 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0.04 |
 Slovenia * | -0.08 | 2023 | 0.4 | 0.48 | 0.29 | 0.07 |
 Solomon Islands * | 1.69 | 2023 | 2.2 | 2.32 | 2.14 | 1.94 |
 Somalia * | 2.55 | 2024 | 3.1 | 2.93 | 2.86 | 2.93 |
 South Africa * | 1.07 | 2024 | 0.9 | 1.10 | 1.39 | 1.20 |
 South Sudan * | 4.65 | 2024 | 1.6 | 4.33 | 3.32 | 2.72 |
 Spain * | 0.12 | 2024 | 1.2 | 1.21 | -0.17 | 0.03 |
 Sri Lanka * | 0.39 | 2024 | -0.7 | 0.68 | 0.50 | 0.35 |
 Sudan * | 2.55 | 2024 | 2.6 | 2.13 | 2.34 | 2.38 |
 Suriname * | 1.07 | 2024 | 0.8 | 1.06 | 1.01 | 0.87 |
 Sweden * | 0.51 | 2023 | 0.5 | 0.76 | 0.78 | 0.72 |
 Switzerland * | 0.64 | 2023 | 0.8 | 1.11 | 1.21 | 0.83 |
 Syria * | 6.39 | 2023 | 4.9 | 2.78 | -2.30 | 0.20 |
 Taiwan * | 0.03 | 2023 | 0.44 | 0.33 | 0.28 | |
 Tajikistan * | 1.36 | 2023 | 1.9 | 2.18 | 2.24 | 2.06 |
 Tanzania * | 2.75 | 2023 | 2.9 | 3.14 | 3.12 | 3.06 |
 Thailand * | 0.20 | 2023 | 0.1 | 0.54 | 0.43 | 0.22 |
 East Timor * | 2.10 | 2023 | 1.4 | 1.56 | 2.24 | 2.14 |
 Togo * | 2.45 | 2023 | 2.3 | 2.70 | 2.63 | 2.45 |
 Tonga * | -0.30 | 2023 | 0.9 | 0.60 | 0.42 | 0.86 |
 Trinidad and Tobago * | 0.12 | 2023 | 0.3 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 0.26 |
 Tunisia * | 0.63 | 2023 | 0.8 | 1.04 | 1.16 | 1.09 |
 Turkey * | 0.64 | 2023 | 0.4 | 1.26 | 1.58 | 1.37 |
 Turkmenistan * | 0.95 | 2023 | 1.3 | 1.35 | 1.80 | 1.61 |
 Tuvalu * | 0.81 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.99 | 0.87 | 0.88 |
 Uganda * | 3.22 | 2023 | 2.8 | 3.45 | 3.37 | 3.23 |
 Ukraine * | -0.52 | 2023 | -2.7 | -0.48 | -0.50 | -0.49 |
 United Arab Emirates * | 0.58 | 2023 | 0.8 | 11.82 | 2.03 | 1.39 |
 United Kingdom * | 0.49 | 2023 | 0.8 | 0.98 | 0.65 | 0.58 |
 United States * | 0.68 | 2023 | 0.5 | 0.90 | 0.72 | 0.71 |
 Uruguay * | 0.27 | 2023 | 0.0 | 0.29 | 0.34 | 0.36 |
 Uzbekistan * | 0.81 | 2023 | 2.1 | 1.52 | 1.59 | 1.41 |
 Vanuatu * | 1.59 | 2023 | 2.3 | 2.42 | 2.26 | 2.10 |
 Vatican City * | 0.00 | 2014 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.08 | |
 Venezuela * | 2.40 | 2023 | 1.9 | 1.61 | 1.41 | 1.26 |
 Vietnam * | 0.93 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.96 | 1.12 | 1.00 |
 Western Sahara * (Sahrawi) | 1.87 | 1.83 | 2.54 | |||
 Yemen * | 1.83 | 2023 | 2.2 | 2.74 | 2.62 | 2.33 |
 Zambia * | 2.86 | 2023 | 2.7 | 2.78 | 3.01 | 2.97 |
 Zimbabwe * | 1.95 | 2023 | 2.1 | 1.70 | 2.27 | 2.28 |
 Anguilla * (UK) | 1.77 | 2023 | 1.71 | 1.19 | ||
 Aruba * (Netherlands) | 1.11 | 2023 | -0.2 | 0.31 | 0.45 | |
 Bermuda * (UK) | 0.32 | 2023 | -0.2 | -0.36 | -0.62 | |
| Caribbean Netherlands | 7.49 | 3.43 | ||||
 Cayman Islands * (UK) | 1.79 | 2023 | 0.9 | 2.65 | 1.55 | |
 Channel Islands (UK) [lower-alpha 5] | 0.7 | 0.67 | 0.51 | |||
 Christmas Island * (Australia) | 1.11 | 2014 | ||||
 Cook Islands * (NZ) | -2.31 | 2023 | 0.89 | 0.53 | ||
 Curaçao * (Netherlands) | -1.4 | 2.63 | 1.26 | |||
 Faroe Islands * (Denmark) | 0.63 | 2023 | 0.3 | -0.59 | 0.33 | |
 Falkland Islands * | 0.01 | 2014 | 0.10 | -0.15 | ||
 Gibraltar * (UK) | 0.19 | 2023 | 0.1 | 1.11 | 0.94 | |
 Greenland * (Denmark) | -0.04 | 2023 | 0.4 | -0.14 | -0.13 | |
| Guadeloupe * (France) | 0.27 | 0.50 | ||||
 Guam * (US) | 0.13 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.13 | 1.27 | |
| French Guiana * | 2.78 | 2.78 | ||||
 Hong Kong * | 0.15 | 2023 | 2.6 | 0.44 | 0.83 | |
 Isle of Man * (UK) | 0.48 | 2023 | 0.2 | 0.97 | 0.80 | |
 Kosovo * | 0.62 | 2023 | -0.7 | |||
 Macau * | 0.71 | 2023 | 1.3 | 2.66 | 1.89 | |
 Martinique * (France) | -0.12 | 0.09 | ||||
| Mayotte * (France) | 3.17 | 2.79 | ||||
 Montserrat * (UK) | 0.46 | 2023 | 0.72 | 0.68 | ||
 New Caledonia * (France) | 1.17 | 2023 | -0.5 | 1.49 | 1.32 | |
 Niue * (New Zealand) | -0.03 | 2023 | -0.79 | -0.14 | ||
 Norfolk Island * (Australia) | 0.01 | 2014 | 0.01 | |||
 Northern Mariana Islands * (US) | -0.35 | 2023 | 0.5 | -3.57 | 0.44 | |
 Pitcairn Islands * (UK) | 0.00 | 2014 | ||||
 French Polynesia * | 0.70 | 2023 | 0.8 | 1.01 | 1.07 | |
 Puerto Rico * (US) | -1.29 | 2023 | -0.4 | -0.28 | -0.14 | |
| Réunion * (France) | 0.96 | 0.73 | ||||
 Saint Helena and Dependencies * (UK) | 0.11 | 2023 | -0.48 | -1.04 | ||
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon * (France) | -1.19 | 2023 | 0.05 | 0.05 | ||
 American Samoa * | -1.74 | 2023 | -0.8 | -1.21 | -0.04 | |
 Sint Maarten * (Netherlands) | 1.19 | 2023 | 0.7 | 0.36 | 3.13 | |
| Svalbard * (Norway) | -0.03 | 2019 | ||||
 Tokelau * (NZ) | -0.01 | 2019 | -1.28 | 1.93 | ||
 Turks and Caicos Islands * (UK) | 1.81 | 2023 | 0.8 | 3.17 | 2.05 | |
 British Virgin Islands * | 1.87 | 2023 | 0.7 | 3.23 | 2.02 | |
 U.S. Virgin Islands * | -0.49 | 2023 | -0.5 | -0.26 | -0.02 | |
| Wallis and Futuna * (France) | 0.23 | 2023 | -0.98 | -0.62 | ||
 West Bank * | 1.66 | 2023 | ||||
| Gaza Strip * | 1.99 | 2023 | ||||
| Palestine * | 2.4 | |||||
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In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 years more to reach 8 billion.
Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km2. Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with almost 2.8 billion in the countries of India and China combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few thousand years of recorded history. The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. Lower literacy levels are mostly attributable to poverty. Lower literacy rates are found mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Population projections are attempts to show how the human population statistics might change in the future. These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. Models of population growth take trends in human development and apply projections into the future. These models use trend-based-assumptions about how populations will respond to economic, social and technological forces to understand how they will affect fertility and mortality, and thus population growth.
Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. A projection by the PEW suggests that Muslims numbered approximately 1.9 billion followers in 2020. Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread, Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world, mostly because Muslims have more children than other major religious groups. Most Muslims are either of two denominations: Sunni or Shia. Islam is the majority religion in several subregions: Central Asia, Western Asia, North Africa, West Africa, the Sahel, and the Middle East. The diverse Asia-Pacific region contains the highest number of Muslims in the world, surpassing the combined Middle East and North Africa.
The demographics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region show a highly populated, culturally diverse region spanning three continents. As of 2022, the population was around 493 million. The class, cultural, ethnic, governmental, linguistic and religious make-up of the region is highly variable.
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