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Population Growth Rate, 1954

1954, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The population growth rate is how fast a country's population changed in a year, in per cent, counting births, deaths and migration together. A negative figure means the population shrank.

Population Growth Rate, 1954 covers 222 countries. Andorra is highest, at 9.790; Isle of Man is lowest, at -1.205. The middle country reads 2.078. Against 1953, 221 values changed (150 up, 71 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Growth Rate · Data for 1954

HighestAndorra

9.790

LowestIsle of Man

-1.205

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Population Growth Rate, 1954, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Population Growth Rate, 1954: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
AndorraANDSouthern Europe9.790
JordanJORWestern Asia6.992
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia6.256
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia5.807
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean5.398
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia5.308
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia4.512
VenezuelaVENSouth America4.011
IsraelISRWestern Asia3.995
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.979
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia3.697
Costa RicaCRICentral America3.574
Saint MartinMAFCaribbean3.565
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia3.563
RwandaRWAEastern Africa3.429
BahrainBHRWestern Asia3.270
QatarQATWestern Asia3.241
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean3.217
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean3.215
South KoreaKOREastern Asia3.215
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa3.191
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.190
GuyanaGUYSouth America3.188
GhanaGHAWestern Africa3.156
BahamasBHSCaribbean3.140

02In 1954

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Andorra9.790
  2. Jordan6.992
  3. Brunei6.256
  4. United Arab Emirates5.807
  5. Sint Maarten5.398

Lowest

  1. Isle of Man-1.205
  2. Macau-1.070
  3. Montserrat-0.589
  4. Ireland-0.498
  5. Monaco-0.310

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.078. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031953 → 1954

Since 1953

What changed between 1953 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 150 · 71rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1954.

  • 218 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 3.215. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1954). Population Growth Rate, 1954 [data set], describing 1954. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-growth/1954

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