Lao PDR - Population Growth 2024
1.36%
−0.03pp from 2023
Lao PDR's population growth was 1.36% in 2024, decreased +0.03pp from 1.39% in 2023. This was the 139th highest globally.
Global Ranking - 2024▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Kosovo | -5.39% | -8.9% |
| 2nd | St. Martin (French part) | -5.17% | -7.5% |
| 3rd | Marshall Islands | -3.35% | -5.7% |
| 4th | Moldova | -2.28% | 19.7% |
| 5th | Northern Mariana Islands | -1.93% | 5.6% |
| 6th | Tuvalu | -1.75% | 1.7% |
| 7th | American Samoa | -1.60% | 6.4% |
| 8th | Albania | -1.54% | 0.0% |
| 9th | Latvia | -0.94% | -507.9% |
| 10th | Monaco | -0.84% | -1,405.0% |
| 11th | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | -0.70% | 1.5% |
| 12th | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -0.66% | -6.2% |
| 13th | Serbia | -0.56% | 10.5% |
| 14th | Sri Lanka | -0.55% | 15.5% |
| 15th | Virgin Islands (US) | -0.52% | -9.4% |
| 16th | Belarus | -0.50% | 7.8% |
| 17th | Dominica | -0.46% | 3.0% |
| 18th | Japan | -0.44% | 10.6% |
| 19th | Georgia | -0.43% | -635.2% |
| 20th | Tonga | -0.40% | 4.8% |
| 21st | Cuba | -0.36% | -1.0% |
| 22nd | Poland | -0.35% | 4.3% |
| 23rd | Hungary | -0.31% | -134.2% |
| 24th | Mauritius | -0.23% | 79.2% |
| 25th | Russian Federation | -0.20% | 28.7% |
| 26th | North Macedonia | -0.19% | 11.1% |
| 27th | Palau | -0.18% | -0.2% |
| 28th | Hong Kong SAR, China | -0.16% | -106.2% |
| 29th | Nepal | -0.15% | -109.4% |
| 30th | China | -0.12% | -18.6% |
| 31st | Bermuda | -0.10% | -21.7% |
| 32nd | Slovak Republic | -0.09% | 6.7% |
| 33rd | Bulgaria | -0.08% | 72.0% |
| 34th | Italy | -0.05% | -7.1% |
| 35th | Greenland | -0.05% | -114.2% |
| 36th | Romania | -0.05% | -173.7% |
| 37th | Thailand | -0.05% | -4.7% |
| 38th | Uruguay | -0.04% | 47.2% |
| 39th | Jamaica | -0.02% | -195.2% |
| 40th | Greece | -0.02% | 92.5% |
| 41st | Puerto Rico (US) | -0.02% | 97.0% |
| 42nd | Isle of Man | -0.01% | -115.1% |
| 43rd | Montenegro | 0.00% | 93.5% |
| 44th | Barbados | 0.05% | 627.6% |
| 45th | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.06% | -51.8% |
| 46th | Korea | 0.07% | -4.1% |
| 47th | Grenada | 0.11% | -25.1% |
| 48th | Estonia | 0.15% | -90.5% |
| 49th | Croatia | 0.17% | 60.8% |
| 50th | St. Kitts and Nevis | 0.18% | 73.2% |
| 51st | Iceland | 0.22% | -77.1% |
| 52nd | Türkiye | 0.23% | -44.5% |
| 53rd | French Polynesia | 0.24% | -7.1% |
| 54th | St. Lucia | 0.26% | -9.2% |
| 55th | Channel Islands | 0.26% | -8.9% |
| 56th | France | 0.26% | -4.8% |
| 57th | Germany | 0.27% | 109.1% |
| 58th | European Union | 0.30% | -21.8% |
| 59th | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | 0.30% | -10.1% |
| 60th | Sweden | 0.31% | -33.7% |
| 61st | Slovenia | 0.33% | -17.5% |
| 62nd | Ukraine | 0.34% | 104.0% |
| 63rd | Maldives | 0.34% | -4.7% |
| 64th | San Marino | 0.34% | 11.1% |
| 65th | Argentina | 0.35% | 20.5% |
| 66th | Czechia | 0.38% | -78.9% |
| 67th | Brazil | 0.41% | 2.4% |
| 68th | El Salvador | 0.45% | -3.0% |
| 69th | Bahamas, The | 0.46% | -3.6% |
| 70th | Micronesia, Federated States of | 0.47% | 2.2% |
| 71st | Costa Rica | 0.48% | 2.1% |
| 72nd | Azerbaijan | 0.48% | 299.3% |
| 73rd | Cabo Verde | 0.49% | -2.2% |
| 74th | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.49% | -4.7% |
| 75th | Faroe Islands | 0.49% | -47.2% |
| 76th | Fiji | 0.50% | -2.3% |
| 77th | Denmark | 0.50% | -32.0% |
| 78th | Austria | 0.50% | -49.0% |
| 79th | Chile | 0.54% | -0.4% |
| 80th | Lebanon | 0.56% | 11.4% |
| 81st | Guyana | 0.57% | -0.2% |
| 82nd | Lithuania | 0.58% | -58.6% |
| 83rd | Aruba | 0.59% | 1,193.8% |
| 84th | Nauru | 0.60% | -3.3% |
| 85th | Samoa | 0.62% | -3.9% |
| 86th | Tunisia | 0.63% | -6.1% |
| 87th | Viet Nam | 0.63% | -6.0% |
| 88th | Finland | 0.64% | 28.7% |
| 89th | Netherlands | 0.65% | -34.5% |
| 90th | Bhutan | 0.65% | -6.7% |
| 91st | Belgium | 0.67% | -21.7% |
| 92nd | Myanmar | 0.67% | -3.5% |
| 93rd | Turks and Caicos Islands | 0.73% | -4.7% |
| 94th | Bahrain | 0.73% | -78.3% |
| 95th | Guam | 0.76% | -4.9% |
| 96th | Sudan | 0.81% | -39.1% |
| 97th | Indonesia | 0.81% | -3.4% |
| 98th | Brunei Darussalam | 0.82% | 4.6% |
| 99th | Philippines | 0.83% | 1.9% |
| 100th | Curaçao | 0.85% | -2.3% |
| 101st | Dominican Republic | 0.85% | -5.0% |
| 102nd | Mexico | 0.86% | -1.3% |
| 103rd | Ecuador | 0.86% | -1.4% |
| 104th | Suriname | 0.88% | -4.0% |
| 105th | India | 0.89% | 0.8% |
| 106th | Kuwait | 0.90% | -83.9% |
| 107th | Norway | 0.95% | -16.6% |
| 108th | New Caledonia | 0.95% | -0.2% |
| 109th | Morocco | 0.97% | -4.8% |
| 110th | United States | 0.98% | 17.4% |
| 111th | Cyprus | 0.98% | -3.2% |
| 112th | Jordan | 0.99% | -38.7% |
| 113th | Eswatini | 1.00% | 5.2% |
| 114th | Spain | 1.02% | -13.3% |
| 115th | Libya | 1.03% | -8.9% |
| 116th | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1.05% | -12.6% |
| 117th | United Kingdom | 1.07% | -18.3% |
| 118th | Colombia | 1.07% | -4.1% |
| 119th | Peru | 1.09% | -0.5% |
| 120th | Portugal | 1.10% | -20.0% |
| 121st | Lesotho | 1.12% | 1.2% |
| 122nd | Haiti | 1.15% | -0.1% |
| 123rd | Timor-Leste | 1.17% | 7.9% |
| 124th | Macao SAR, China | 1.20% | 442.8% |
| 125th | Bangladesh | 1.21% | -0.6% |
| 126th | Malaysia | 1.22% | -1.1% |
| 127th | Cambodia | 1.23% | -4.5% |
| 128th | Paraguay | 1.23% | 0.3% |
| 129th | British Virgin Islands | 1.24% | -28.1% |
| 130th | Mongolia | 1.25% | -9.1% |
| 131st | South Africa | 1.25% | -5.9% |
| 132nd | Israel | 1.27% | -57.9% |
| 133rd | Panama | 1.27% | -3.3% |
| 134th | Kazakhstan | 1.28% | -12.4% |
| 135th | Switzerland | 1.31% | 3.2% |
| 136th | Seychelles | 1.31% | 1,596.5% |
| 137th | Andorra | 1.33% | -7.3% |
| 138th | Nicaragua | 1.35% | -1.8% |
| 139th | Lao PDR | 1.36% | -2.4% |
| 140th | Djibouti | 1.36% | -1.8% |
| 141st | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 1.37% | -0.1% |
| 142nd | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 1.40% | -2.9% |
| 143rd | Algeria | 1.40% | -6.7% |
| 144th | Belize | 1.44% | -30.0% |
| 145th | Kiribati | 1.49% | -5.0% |
| 146th | Liechtenstein | 1.50% | 69.1% |
| 147th | Pakistan | 1.51% | -2.5% |
| 148th | Guatemala | 1.54% | 0.1% |
| 149th | Ireland | 1.57% | -16.1% |
| 150th | Luxembourg | 1.58% | -22.0% |
| 151st | Botswana | 1.64% | -0.3% |
| 152nd | New Zealand | 1.67% | -27.5% |
| 153rd | Honduras | 1.68% | -1.8% |
| 154th | Kyrgyz Republic | 1.71% | -3.6% |
| 155th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | 1.73% | 2.7% |
| 156th | Turkmenistan | 1.75% | -4.8% |
| 157th | Zimbabwe | 1.78% | 6.2% |
| 158th | Papua New Guinea | 1.78% | -1.6% |
| 159th | Eritrea | 1.86% | 5.1% |
| 160th | Ghana | 1.88% | -1.8% |
| 161st | Comoros | 1.89% | -1.6% |
| 162nd | Tajikistan | 1.92% | -5.0% |
| 163rd | Cayman Islands | 1.92% | -3.8% |
| 164th | Kenya | 1.96% | -1.3% |
| 165th | Uzbekistan | 1.97% | -2.5% |
| 166th | Australia | 1.99% | -18.1% |
| 167th | Singapore | 1.99% | -58.9% |
| 168th | São Tomé and Principe | 2.00% | 0.1% |
| 169th | Nigeria | 2.08% | -0.7% |
| 170th | Sierra Leone | 2.12% | -3.3% |
| 171st | Iraq | 2.12% | -5.6% |
| 172nd | Rwanda | 2.14% | -2.6% |
| 173rd | Gabon | 2.16% | -1.9% |
| 174th | Liberia | 2.16% | -2.1% |
| 175th | Guinea-Bissau | 2.21% | -1.8% |
| 176th | Gibraltar | 2.21% | -2.7% |
| 177th | Namibia | 2.24% | -10.9% |
| 178th | Togo | 2.24% | -3.9% |
| 179th | Burkina Faso | 2.25% | -1.0% |
| 180th | Vanuatu | 2.27% | -2.2% |
| 181st | Gambia, The | 2.28% | -1.0% |
| 182nd | Armenia | 2.31% | 1,497.2% |
| 183rd | Senegal | 2.32% | -2.8% |
| 184th | West Bank and Gaza | 2.36% | -1.4% |
| 185th | Solomon Islands | 2.37% | -1.0% |
| 186th | Guinea | 2.40% | -2.7% |
| 187th | Congo, Republic of | 2.40% | -0.9% |
| 188th | Equatorial Guinea | 2.40% | -0.2% |
| 189th | Madagascar | 2.44% | -1.1% |
| 190th | Côte d'Ivoire | 2.44% | -2.7% |
| 191st | Benin | 2.46% | -2.4% |
| 192nd | Malawi | 2.58% | 0.2% |
| 193rd | Burundi | 2.58% | -5.3% |
| 194th | Cameroon | 2.61% | -1.1% |
| 195th | Uganda | 2.75% | -1.7% |
| 196th | Zambia | 2.81% | 0.6% |
| 197th | Afghanistan | 2.84% | 32.8% |
| 198th | Malta | 2.87% | -28.1% |
| 199th | Tanzania | 2.87% | -1.0% |
| 200th | Mauritania | 2.88% | -2.8% |
| 201st | Mozambique | 2.92% | -1.1% |
| 202nd | Mali | 2.94% | -1.1% |
| 203rd | Canada | 2.96% | 2.0% |
| 204th | Yemen, Republic of | 2.98% | -0.9% |
| 205th | Angola | 3.04% | -1.2% |
| 206th | Congo, Democratic Republic of | 3.24% | -0.5% |
| 207th | Niger | 3.28% | -0.4% |
| 208th | Central African Republic | 3.40% | 220.6% |
| 209th | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 3.48% | 13.1% |
| 210th | South Sudan | 3.93% | -4.4% |
| 211th | Syrian Arab Republic | 4.47% | -9.2% |
| 212th | Oman | 4.50% | -31.1% |
| 213th | Saudi Arabia | 4.63% | -0.2% |
| 214th | United Arab Emirates | 4.68% | 17.8% |
| 215th | Chad | 4.95% | 8.2% |
| 216th | Qatar | 7.32% | 15,053.1% |
FAQ
What was Lao PDR's population growth in 2024?▾
Lao PDR's population growth in 2024 was 1.36%. This ranked 139th globally.
How did Lao PDR's population growth change in 2024?▾
Lao PDR's population growth decreased by 2.4% in 2024 compared to 2023.
Which country had the highest population growth in 2024?▾
Qatar had the highest population growth in 2024 at 7.32%.
What is the population growth of Lao PDR in 2024?▾
The population growth of Lao PDR in 2024 was 1.36%. This ranked 139th globally.
How does 2024 compare to 2023 for Lao PDR's population growth?▾
Lao PDR's population growth went from 1.39% in 2023 to 1.36% in 2024, a 2.4% decrease.
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