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Population growth and distribution

Last update: Dec 2007

Country or area	Annual population	Urban population	Sex ratio of
	growth rate	Urban population	international migrants
	2000-2005	2005	2005
	%	%	women/100 men	Source
Afghanistan	4.6	23	81	IMP
Albania	0.4	45	103	CZS
Algeria	1.5	63	82	CZS
American Samoa	2.3	91	96	POB
Andorra	0.4	91	103	CZS
Angola	2.8	53	96	POB
Anguilla	1.7	100	117	POB
Antigua and Barbuda	1.3	39	123	POB
Argentina	1.0	90	115	POB
Armenia	-0.4	64	143	POB
Aruba	1.5	47	130	POB
Australia¹	1.1	88	107	POB
Austria	0.2	66	108	POB
Azerbaijan	0.6	52	137	POB
Bahamas	1.4	90	94	POB
Bahrain	1.6	97	45	CZS
Bangladesh	1.9	25	16	POB
Barbados	0.3	53	150	POB
Belarus	-0.6	72	137	POB
Belgium	0.2	97	96	CZS
Belize	2.1	48	102	POB
Benin	3.2	40	85	CZS
Bermuda	0.4	100	107	POB
Bhutan	2.2	11	81	IMP
Bolivia	2.0	64	93	POB
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.3	46	103	IMP
Botswana	0.1	57	80	CZS
Brazil	1.4	84	86	POB
British Virgin Islands	1.4	61	95	POB
Brunei Darussalam	2.3	74	88	POB
Bulgaria	-0.7	70	138	POB
Burkina Faso	3.2	18	105	POB
Burundi	3.0	10	116	POB
Cambodia	2.0	20	105	CZS
Cameroon	1.9	55	81	POB
Canada	1.0	80	108	POB
Cape Verde	2.4	57	102	POB
Cayman Islands	2.5	100	96	POB
Central African Republic	1.3	38	87	CZS
Chad	3.4	25	86	POB
Channel Islands²	0.4	31	121	POB
Chile	1.1	88	110	POB
China³	0.6	40	96	IMP
China, Hong Kong SAR⁴	1.2	100	118	POB
China, Macao SAR⁵	0.7	100	123	POB
Colombia	1.6	73	100	POB
Comoros⁶	2.6	37	111	POB
Congo	3.0	60	99	POB
Cook Islands	-1.0	70	80	POB
Costa Rica	1.9	62	99	POB
Côte d'Ivoire	1.6	45	82	CZS, POB
Croatia	0.2	56	112	POB
Cuba	0.3	76	36	POB
Cyprus	1.2	69	142	POB
Czech Republic	-0.1	74	116	POB
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	0.6	62	117	IMP
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.8	32	86	POB, CZS
Denmark	0.3	86	103	POB
Djibouti	2.1	86	87	IMP
Dominica	0.3	73	86	POB
Dominican Republic	1.5	67	64	POB
Ecuador	1.4	63	98	POB
Egypt	1.9	43	88	POB
El Salvador	1.8	60	122	POB
Equatorial Guinea	2.3	39	89	CZS
Eritrea	4.3	19	87	IMP
Estonia	-0.6	69	147	POB
Ethiopia	2.4	16	87	POB
Faeroe Islands	0.6	39	78	POB
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0.5	90	68	POB
Fiji	0.9	51	92	POB
Finland⁷	0.3	61	104	POB
France	0.4	77	107	POB
French Guiana	2.6	76	105	POB
French Polynesia	1.7	52	71	POB
Gabon	1.7	84	75	CZS
Gambia	2.8	54	95	POB
Georgia	-1.1	52	60	POB
Germany	0.1	75	94	CZS
Ghana	2.1	48	125	POB
Gibraltar	0.2	100	105	POB
Greece	0.3	59	125	CZS
Greenland	0.3	83	37	POB
Grenada	0.3	31	114	POB
Guadeloupe	0.9	100	113	POB
Guam	1.8	94	87	POB
Guatemala	2.4	47	138	POB
Guinea	2.2	33	112	CZS
Guinea-Bissau	3.0	30	100	POB
Guyana	0.2	28	91	POB
Haiti	1.4	39	161	POB
Honduras	2.3	46	95	POB
Hungary	-0.3	66	110	POB
Iceland	0.9	93	116	POB
India	1.6	29	90	POB
Indonesia	1.3	48	85	CZS
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	0.9	67	66	POB
Iraq	2.8	67	45	CZS
Ireland	1.7	60	100	POB
Isle of Man	-0.1	52	85	POB
Israel	2.0	92	127	POB
Italy	0.1	68	126	POB
Jamaica	0.5	53	111	POB
Japan	0.2	66	117	CZS
Jordan	2.7	82	96	CZS
Kazakhstan	-0.3	57	137	POB
Kenya	2.2	21	92	POB
Kiribati	2.1	47	95	POB
Kuwait	3.7	98	45	CZS
Kyrgyzstan	1.2	36	139	POB
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2.3	21	93	CZS
Latvia	-0.6	68	137	POB
Lebanon	1.0	87	135	POB
Lesotho	0.1	19	101	CZS
Liberia	1.4	58	82	POB
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2.0	85	55	CZS
Liechtenstein	1.0	15	106	CZS
Lithuania	-0.4	67	130	POB
Luxembourg	1.3	83	100	CZS
Madagascar	2.8	27	62	CZS
Malawi	2.3	17	107	POB
Malaysia	1.9	67	71	POB
Maldives	2.5	30	81	IMP
Mali	3.0	30	93	CZS
Malta	0.5	95	129	CZS
Marshall Islands	3.5	67	70	POB
Martinique	0.5	98	121	POB
Mauritania	3.0	40	73	CZS
Mauritius⁸	1.0	42	172	POB
Mexico	1.3	76	93	POB
Micronesia (Federated States of)	0.6	22	54	POB
Monaco	1.1	100	101	POB
Mongolia	1.2	57	117	CZS
Montenegro⁹	-0.1	52	132	POB
Montserrat	2.8	14	86	POB
Morocco	1.5	59	103	CZS
Mozambique	2.0	35	109	POB
Myanmar	1.1	31	86	CZS
Namibia	1.4	35	89	POB
Nauru	2.2	100	82	CZS
Nepal	2.1	16	224	POB
Netherlands	0.5	80	119	POB
Netherlands Antilles	0.8	70	129	POB
New Caledonia	1.9	64	80	POB
New Zealand	1.1	86	111	POB
Nicaragua	2.0	59	103	POB
Niger	3.4	17	109	POB
Nigeria	2.2	48	93	CZS
Niue	-2.2	37	112	POB
Northern Mariana Islands	2.9	94	76	POB
Norway¹⁰	0.5	77	104	POB
Occupied Palestinian Territory	3.2	72	77	POB
Oman	1.0	71	26	CZS
Pakistan	2.0	35	81	POB
Palau	0.7	70	58	POB
Panama	1.8	71	101	POB
Papua New Guinea	2.1	13	72	CZS
Paraguay	2.4	58	92	POB
Peru	1.5	73	108	POB
Philippines	1.8	63	96	CZS
Pitcairn	-0.3	…	50	IMP
Poland	-0.1	62	150	POB
Portugal	0.5	58	109	POB
Puerto Rico	0.6	98	106	POB
Qatar	5.9	95	35	CZS
Republic of Korea	0.4	81	115	POB
Republic of Moldova	-0.3	47	137	POB
Réunion	1.6	92	96	POB
Romania	-0.4	54	103	POB
Russian Federation	-0.5	73	137	POB
Rwanda	2.4	19	89	POB
Saint Helena¹¹	-0.1	39	106	POB
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.1	32	99	POB
Saint Lucia	0.8	28	107	POB
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-0.1	46	93	POB
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon	0.5	89	107	POB
Samoa	0.8	22	92	POB
San Marino	0.9	97	115	POB
São Tomé and Príncipe	2.3	58	88	CZS
Saudi Arabia	2.7	81	43	CZS
Senegal	2.4	42	67	POB
Serbia¹²	-0.1	52	132	POB
Seychelles	0.9	53	67	POB
Sierra Leone	4.1	41	74	CZS
Singapore	1.5	100	101	POB
Slovakia	0.0	56	127	POB
Slovenia	0.0	51	84	POB
Solomon Islands	2.6	17	72	POB
Somalia	3.2	35	87	IMP
South Africa	0.8	59	71	POB
Spain	1.1	77	90	POB
Sri Lanka	0.9	15	115	CZS
Sudan	1.9	41	93	POB
Suriname	0.7	74	90	CZS
Swaziland	0.2	24	89	POB
Sweden	0.4	84	109	POB
Switzerland	0.2	75	99	POB
Syrian Arab Republic	2.5	51	96	CZS
Tajikistan	1.1	25	137	POB
Thailand	0.2	69	132	CZS
TFYR of Macedonia¹³	5.4	32	140	POB
Timor-Leste (Democratic Republic of)	0.9	26	91	IMP
Togo	2.7	40	101	POB
Tokelau	-0.3	…	123	POB
Tonga	0.4	24	86	POB
Trinidad and Tobago	0.3	12	116	POB
Tunisia	1.1	65	95	CZS
Turkey	1.4	67	111	POB
Turkmenistan	1.4	46	137	POB
Turks and Caicos Islands	6.1	44	90	POB
Tuvalu	0.5	48	128	CZS
Uganda	3.4	13	98	POB
Ukraine	-1.1	68	137	POB
United Arab Emirates	6.5	77	39	CZS
United Kingdom¹⁴	0.3	90	119	POB
United Republic of Tanzania	2.0	24	109	POB
United States of America	1.0	81	101	POB
United States Virgin Islands	0.2	94	136	POB
Uruguay	0.7	92	118	POB
Uzbekistan	1.5	37	137	POB
Vanuatu	2.0	23	87	POB
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	1.8	93	100	POB
Viet Nam	1.4	26	86	CZS
Wallis and Futuna Islands	0.7	…	98	POB
Western Sahara	2.6	92	76	IMP
Yemen	3.1	27	47	CZS
Zambia	1.7	35	102	POB

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Sources:

Annual population growth rate
Period estimates for 2000-2005 published in United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2005), World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision. CD-ROM Edition - Comprehensive Dataset (United Nations publications, Sales No. E.05.XIII.11).

Percent urban population
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2006), World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision. CD-ROM Edition – Data in digital form (POP/DB/WUP/Rev. 2005).

Sex ratio of international migrants
Calculated by the United Nations Statistics Division based on data published in United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2006), Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision. CD-ROM Edition – Data in digital form (POP/DB/MIG/Rev. 2005).

CZS

Indicates that the estimate of the migrant stock was derived from data classified by citizenship, thus, it represents the foreign population.

POB

Indicates that the estimate of the migrant stock was derived from data classified by place of birth, thus, it represents the foreign-born.

IMP

Indicates that there were no data on either the foreign or the foreign-born population for the country or area concerned. Therefore, the estimate is an imputed value.

Footnotes:

...	Not available.

1	Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island.

2	Including the islands of Guernsey and Jersey.

3	For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China.

4	As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

5	As of 20 December 1999, Macao became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

6	Including the island of Mayotte.

7	Including Åland Islands.

8	Including Agalega, Rodrigues and Saint Brandon.

9	Including Serbia.

10	Including Savalbard and Jan Mayen islands.

11	Including Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

12	Including Montenegro.

13	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

14	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Technical notes:

Estimates and projections of the annual population growth rate and of the urban and rural populations are made by the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat and published every two years. These estimates and projections are based on national census or survey data that have been evaluated and, whenever necessary, adjusted for deficiencies and inconsistencies.

The annual population growth rate refers to the rate at which the population is increasing or decreasing (negative sign) in a given year, expressed as a percentage of the base population. The rate is an average for the five-year period 2000-2005.

The percentage of the total population in urban areas refers to the population as of 1 July of the given year.

The urban-rural classification of population in internationally published statistics follows the national census definition, which differs from one country or area to another. National definitions are usually based on criteria that may include any of the following: size of population in a locality, population density, distance between built-up areas, predominant type of economic activity, legal or administrative boundaries and urban characteristics, such as specific services and facilities.

The sex ratio among international migrants refers to the estimated number of female international migrants per 100 male international migrants. The ratio is based on the estimates of the international migrant stock by sex produced by the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat using a variety of sources. As far as possible, estimates of the international migrant stock are based on the foreign-born population captured in censuses through questions on place of birth. However, in some countries information on place of birth is not captured in the national census. In such instances, citizenship information, where available, is used for the identification of international migrants. In countries where population statistics are routinely derived from population registers or registers of foreigners, data on the stock of foreign-born persons or on the number of foreigners, are obtained from those registers.

(Source: United Nations Statistics Division)