People > Projected population growth: Countries Compared

Author: Ian Graham, Staff Editor

Population growth is like a snowball rolling down a snow-covered hill. As the snowball rolls, more snow sticks to it and it gets heavier and gains more momentum. The heavier it becomes, the more rapidly it grows.

Imagine a fictional country with a population of one million people and apply the 2003 population growth rate of Qatar, which was 2.87 percent.

The population would increase by 28,700 the first year. The second year, assuming the growth rate stayed the same, the population would grow by 29,524 people. The third year it would increase by 30,371.

After five years, the population would have grown by 151,988 people, or about 15 percent. After 10 years, the population would be 1,327,063. Thatâ€™s almost a 33 percent increase.

The yearly increase after 10 years, in real terms, would have increased 29 percent, from 28,700 the first year to 37,024 in the tenth year.

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DEFINITION: Percentage change in projected population between 2000 and 2050
Units: Percent Change in Population
Units: A threshold of 0 was applied. All countries with growth rates of 0 or below received the same score.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Chad	282.01%	2050
2	Uganda	250.65%	2050
3	Democratic Republic of the Congo	245.47%	2050
4	Somalia	240.5%	2050
5	Mali	230.27%	2050
6	Oman	218.02%	2050
7	Liberia	209.98%	2050
8	Mauritania	207.91%	2050
9	The Gambia	195.18%	2050
10	Sierra Leone	188.69%	2050
11	Madagascar	185.91%	2050
12	Saudi Arabia	185.38%	2050
13	Kuwait	180.75%	2050
14	Burkina Faso	179.53%	2050
15	Niger	174.81%	2050
16	Benin	173.96%	2050
17	Guinea-Bissau	166.78%	2050
18	Ethiopia	164.22%	2050
19	Burundi	158.47%	2050
20	Paraguay	155.25%	2050
21	Tanzania	143.65%	2050
22	Guatemala	142.58%	2050
23	Angola	140.89%	2050
24	Nigeria	139.73%	2050
25	Pakistan	138.11%	2050
26	Guinea	137.86%	2050
27	Senegal	135.1%	2050
28	Jordan	128.48%	2050
29	Iraq	127.14%	2050
30	Bhutan	127%	2050
31	Papua New Guinea	123.71%	2050
32	Nicaragua	122.22%	2050
33	Cameroon	119.34%	2050
34	Cote d'Ivoire	117.82%	2050
35	Nepal	110.78%	2050
36	Malawi	110.28%	2050
37	Zambia	107.67%	2050
38	Libya	106.39%	2050
39	Syria	105.86%	2050
40	Bolivia	100.01%	2050
41	Sudan	99.91%	2050
42	Malaysia	93.99%	2050
43	El Salvador	93%	2050
44	Ecuador	92.04%	2050
45	Togo	88.65%	2050
46	Honduras	81.17%	2050
47	Central African Republic	78.05%	2050
48	Dominica	73.91%	2050
49	Laos	71.76%	2050
50	Haiti	70.17%	2050
51	Philippines	67.36%	2050
52	Algeria	66.22%	2050
53	Colombia	66.03%	2050
54	Morocco	66%	2050
55	Israel	64.39%	2050
56	Egypt	64.26%	2050
57	Venezuela	63.33%	2050
58	Peru	62.05%	2050
59	Mongolia	61.02%	2050
60	Uzbekistan	60.94%	2050
61	Ghana	60.62%	2050
62	India	57.6%	2050
63	Bangladesh	56.24%	2050
64	United Arab Emirates	53.6%	2050
65	Kyrgyzstan	51.85%	2050
66	Iran	51.52%	2050
67	Albania	51.18%	2050
68	Costa Rica	51%	2050
69	Mexico	50.34%	2050
70	Vietnam	48.87%	2050
71	Gabon	48.57%	2050
72	Jamaica	48.04%	2050
73	Indonesia	47.88%	2050
74	Panama	47.54%	2050
75	Turkey	46.68%	2050
76	Tunisia	46.46%	2050
77	Argentina	45.49%	2050
78	United States	45.31%	2050
79	Brazil	43.94%	2050
80	Burma	43.37%	2050
81	Azerbaijan	41.75%	2050
82	Tajikistan	39.75%	2050
83	Cambodia	38.3%	2050
84	Namibia	37.1%	2050
85	Lebanon	35.38%	2050
86	Uruguay	33.92%	2050
87	Turkmenistan	29.16%	2050
88	Australia	28.9%	2050
89	New Zealand	28.54%	2050
90	Kenya	25.65%	2050
91	Chile	25.6%	2050
92	Rwanda	21.78%	2050
93	North Korea	20.12%	2050
94	Sri Lanka	18.94%	2050
95	Mozambique	18.42%	2050
96	Canada	18.05%	2050
97	Ireland	17.94%	2050
98	Iceland	17.54%	2050
99	Denmark	16.5%	2050
100	Norway	15.46%	2050
101	Thailand	15.21%	2050
102	Netherlands	12.2%	2050
103	France	9.99%	2050
104	China	7.52%	2050
105	Sweden	7.37%	2050
106	United Kingdom	6.87%	2050
107	Trinidad and Tobago	5.84%	2050
108	South Korea	4.78%	2050
109	Republic of Macedonia	3.38%	2050
110	Switzerland	1.8%	2050
111	Austria	0.79%	2050
112	Armenia	-0.29%	2050
113	Moldova	-0.47%	2050
114	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.65%	2050
115	Belgium	-2.7%	2050
116	Cuba	-2.83%	2050
117	Kazakhstan	-5.45%	2050
118	Finland	-7.83%	2050
119	Czech Republic	-8.88%	2050
120	Greece	-11.47%	2050
121	Russia	-11.57%	2050
122	Poland	-12.25%	2050
123	Slovakia	-13.03%	2050
124	Romania	-14.02%	2050
125	Germany	-14.48%	2050
126	Belarus	-14.53%	2050
127	Slovenia	-14.94%	2050
128	Lithuania	-15.61%	2050
129	Croatia	-16.01%	2050
130	Portugal	-18.32%	2050
131	Zimbabwe	-18.37%	2050
132	Hungary	-19.49%	2050
133	Italy	-20.39%	2050
134	Japan	-20.95%	2050
135	Ukraine	-21.84%	2050
136	Spain	-22.71%	2050
137	Latvia	-25.1%	2050
138	South Africa	-25.35%	2050
139	Botswana	-26.42%	2050
140	Bulgaria	-34.8%	2050
141	Estonia	-35.95%	2050

Citation

"Countries Compared by People > Projected population growth. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. Retrieved from http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/People/Projected-population-growth

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