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Population Growth Rate, 2020

2020, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Population Growth Rate, 2020 covers 222 countries. Somalia is highest, at 3.835; Saint Martin is lowest, at -8.487. The middle country reads 0.843. Against 2019, 221 values changed (79 up, 142 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Growth Rate · Data for 2020

HighestSomalia

3.835

LowestSaint Martin

-8.487

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa3.835
ChadTCDMiddle Africa3.355
NigerNERWestern Africa3.289
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa3.287
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia3.272
UgandaUGAEastern Africa3.241
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.173
MaliMLIWestern Africa3.077
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa3.023
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa3.009
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.989
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa2.900
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.858
SyriaSYRWestern Asia2.837
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia2.836
BurundiBDIEastern Africa2.786
YemenYEMWestern Asia2.735
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa2.724
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2.696
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean2.637
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa2.630
BeninBENWestern Africa2.629
SudanSDNNorthern Africa2.629
MalawiMWIEastern Africa2.621
SenegalSENWestern Africa2.590

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Somalia3.835
  2. Chad3.355
  3. Niger3.289
  4. DR Congo3.287
  5. Afghanistan3.272

Lowest

  1. Saint Martin-8.487
  2. Cook Islands-3.177
  3. Marshall Islands-3.065
  4. Kuwait-2.921
  5. Singapore-2.193

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.843. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 79 · 142rose · 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 2020.

  • 215 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.629. 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 (2020). Population Growth Rate, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-growth/2020

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07Questions

Population Growth Rate, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population growth in Population Growth Rate, 2020?

Somalia, at 3.835, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Population Growth Rate, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Population Growth Rate, 2020 cover?

222.

Where can I download Population Growth Rate, 2020?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Population Growth Rate, 2020 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Population Growth Rate, 2023.

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