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Population Growth Rate, 2021

2021, 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, 2021 covers 222 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 5.111; Anguilla is lowest, at -5.701. The middle country reads 0.822. Against 2020, 221 values changed (56 up, 165 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Growth Rate · Data for 2021

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

5.111

LowestAnguilla

-5.701

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia5.111
ChadTCDMiddle Africa3.530
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa3.485
NigerNERWestern Africa3.220
UgandaUGAEastern Africa3.195
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa3.191
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.190
MaliMLIWestern Africa3.044
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa2.980
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.927
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa2.899
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa2.874
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.774
SudanSDNNorthern Africa2.758
YemenYEMWestern Asia2.753
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia2.680
BurundiBDIEastern Africa2.664
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa2.623
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2.615
SyriaSYRWestern Asia2.597
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa2.596
MalawiMWIEastern Africa2.568
BeninBENWestern Africa2.556
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa2.492
SenegalSENWestern Africa2.489

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United Arab Emirates5.111
  2. Chad3.530
  3. Somalia3.485
  4. Niger3.220
  5. Uganda3.195

Lowest

  1. Anguilla-5.701
  2. Marshall Islands-3.312
  3. Saint Martin-3.184
  4. Cook Islands-2.799
  5. Tuvalu-2.227

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.822. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 56 · 165rose · 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 2021.

  • 218 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.921. 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 (2021). Population Growth Rate, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-growth/2021

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