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Population Growth Rate, 1998

1998, 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, 1998 covers 222 countries. Northern Mariana Islands is highest, at 7.601; Kosovo is lowest, at -12.688. The middle country reads 1.393. Against 1997, 221 values changed (70 up, 151 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Growth Rate · Data for 1998

HighestNorthern Mariana Islands

7.601

LowestKosovo

-12.688

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia7.601
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia7.387
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa6.419
QatarQATWestern Asia5.459
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean4.294
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa4.172
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa3.924
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia3.796
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa3.744
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa3.716
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia3.682
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean3.681
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa3.533
BelizeBLZCentral America3.505
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.480
NigerNERWestern Africa3.443
ChadTCDMiddle Africa3.430
UgandaUGAEastern Africa3.320
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.294
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa3.275
ArubaABWCaribbean3.209
IraqIRQWestern Asia3.202
PalestinePSEWestern Asia3.132
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa3.128
YemenYEMWestern Asia3.125

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Northern Mariana Islands7.601
  2. United Arab Emirates7.387
  3. Liberia6.419
  4. Qatar5.459
  5. Turks and Caicos Islands4.294

Lowest

  1. Kosovo-12.688
  2. Montserrat-10.499
  3. Cook Islands-3.314
  4. Niue-2.673
  5. Kazakhstan-2.571

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.393. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 70 · 151rose · 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 1998.

  • 215 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.724. 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 (1998). Population Growth Rate, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-growth/1998

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