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Population Growth Rate, 1988

1988, 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, 1988 covers 222 countries. Saint Martin is highest, at 11.330; South Sudan is lowest, at -4.591. The middle country reads 1.979. Against 1987, 220 values changed (80 up, 140 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Growth Rate · Data for 1988

HighestSaint Martin

11.330

LowestSouth Sudan

-4.591

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Saint MartinMAFCaribbean11.330
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean7.266
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia7.254
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia6.415
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa6.265
OmanOMNWestern Asia5.515
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa5.286
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia5.088
MalawiMWIEastern Africa4.890
JordanJORWestern Asia4.687
AndorraANDSouthern Europe4.177
GambiaGMBWestern Africa4.137
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4.017
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa3.877
PalestinePSEWestern Asia3.867
YemenYEMWestern Asia3.852
AnguillaAIACaribbean3.842
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean3.833
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa3.830
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia3.818
MacauMACEastern Asia3.789
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa3.779
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean3.654
BahrainBHRWestern Asia3.602
American SamoaASMPolynesia3.577

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Saint Martin11.330
  2. Sint Maarten7.266
  3. Northern Mariana Islands7.254
  4. United Arab Emirates6.415
  5. Djibouti6.265

Lowest

  1. South Sudan-4.591
  2. Somalia-2.765
  3. Gibraltar-0.956
  4. Niue-0.906
  5. Saint Kitts and Nevis-0.714

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.979. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 220values changed, of 222 in both
  • 80 · 140rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

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 1988.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.891. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (1988). Population Growth Rate, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-growth/1988

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