Population growth

What

Each country is coloured by its 2024 population growth rate in the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant, in percent per year. The scale runs from about −1.7 to 3.4 and is centered at zero. Of the countries drawn, 60 have a negative rate. Rates above 3 percent in this table include Angola (3.0), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (3.2), Niger (3.3), the Central African Republic (3.4) and Somalia (3.4).

Why on this shelf

A large population can change slowly. In this table China’s 2024 rate is −0.2 percent, while several smaller countries are above 3 percent. The plate is the rate, not the number of people.

How to read it

Blue is a falling population, the pale middle is near zero, and red is growth. The bar is percent per year. The rate combines births, deaths and migration. It is not fertility alone.

Caveats

The ends of the scale are the 2nd and 98th percentiles of the countries drawn, so a few faster and slower areas share the end colours. The same small areas missing from the population plate are missing here. This is not a map of the year a population reached its peak.

Sources

• UN DESA, World Population Prospects
• UN DESA: World Population Prospects 2024
• UN DESA: WPP 2024 demographic indicators, medium variant

License

UN DESA Population Division, World Population Prospects 2024, demographic indicators, medium variant, 2024 population growth rate. Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:50m, public domain.

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