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Papua New Guinea - Population Growth 1985

Name: Papua New Guinea Population Growth 1985
Creator: World Bank
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Annual population growth rate · World Bank

2.14% +0.02pp from 1984 Global rank: 117th

Papua New Guinea's population growth was 2.14% in 1985, increased +0.02pp from 2.12% in 1984. This was the 117th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1985▾

Population Growth by Country - 1985
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Aruba	-1.88%	-275.0%
2nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	-0.57%	-8.7%
3rd	Gibraltar	-0.46%	-46.1%
4th	Antigua and Barbuda	-0.45%	-461.1%
5th	Dominica	-0.43%	-1.4%
6th	Guyana	-0.34%	-48.4%
7th	Germany	-0.22%	35.3%
8th	Isle of Man	-0.20%	-24.7%
9th	Hungary	-0.18%	9.1%
10th	Tonga	-0.01%	25.0%
11th	Bulgaria	0.00%	-100.6%
12th	Italy	0.03%	29.3%
13th	Belgium	0.03%	2,083.5%
14th	Samoa	0.03%	-35.4%
15th	Denmark	0.04%	177.4%
16th	Austria	0.05%	845.9%
17th	Czechia	0.07%	8.6%
18th	Singapore	0.14%	-92.8%
19th	Virgin Islands (US)	0.16%	-36.6%
20th	Ireland	0.16%	-74.2%
21st	Sweden	0.17%	81.8%
22nd	Luxembourg	0.19%	88.0%
23rd	United Kingdom	0.23%	43.4%
24th	European Union	0.23%	3.9%
25th	Portugal	0.27%	-28.9%
26th	Serbia	0.29%	-12.4%
27th	Norway	0.30%	6.1%
28th	Barbados	0.35%	-3.4%
29th	Spain	0.36%	-12.7%
30th	Greece	0.39%	-22.1%
31st	Romania	0.41%	15.0%
32nd	Finland	0.42%	-21.9%
33rd	Ukraine	0.43%	-12.1%
34th	Switzerland	0.44%	22.9%
35th	Croatia	0.45%	-4.5%
36th	Netherlands	0.47%	17.5%
37th	Uruguay	0.48%	5.6%
38th	Slovenia	0.49%	-4.0%
39th	France	0.50%	2.3%
40th	Curaçao	0.51%	-1.8%
41st	North Macedonia	0.54%	-5.5%
42nd	New Zealand	0.62%	-28.6%
43rd	San Marino	0.62%	18.1%
44th	Japan	0.63%	-3.5%
45th	Grenada	0.64%	10.8%
46th	Belarus	0.65%	-3.6%
47th	Latvia	0.65%	4.3%
48th	Sri Lanka	0.66%	91.8%
49th	Estonia	0.67%	2.3%
50th	Slovak Republic	0.67%	-2.0%
51st	Bermuda	0.68%	-4.2%
52nd	Montenegro	0.75%	-29.9%
53rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.76%	-4.3%
54th	Russian Federation	0.78%	2.6%
55th	Iceland	0.79%	-25.9%
56th	Poland	0.80%	-11.2%
57th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.81%	-6.2%
58th	Seychelles	0.81%	37.0%
59th	Mauritius	0.82%	-21.8%
60th	Cuba	0.83%	1.2%
61st	Lithuania	0.86%	3.7%
62nd	Georgia	0.88%	2.7%
63rd	United States	0.89%	2.3%
64th	Canada	0.91%	-3.2%
65th	Greenland	0.94%	-17.5%
66th	Puerto Rico (US)	0.98%	-1.7%
67th	Korea	0.98%	-20.2%
68th	Channel Islands	1.00%	1.6%
69th	Chad	1.01%	-23.5%
70th	Liechtenstein	1.05%	86.5%
71st	Moldova	1.07%	2.2%
72nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	1.07%	9.3%
73rd	Armenia	1.11%	7.6%
74th	Jamaica	1.15%	-13.3%
75th	Kazakhstan	1.17%	2.9%
76th	Trinidad and Tobago	1.22%	14.2%
77th	Suriname	1.24%	37.2%
78th	Faroe Islands	1.25%	18.8%
79th	Central African Republic	1.25%	2.3%
80th	Monaco	1.31%	-6.6%
81st	Australia	1.33%	11.0%
82nd	China	1.36%	3.8%
83rd	Cabo Verde	1.41%	-1.2%
84th	Timor-Leste	1.43%	7.5%
85th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	1.47%	0.1%
86th	Chile	1.52%	1.7%
87th	Azerbaijan	1.55%	-6.8%
88th	Argentina	1.57%	-1.2%
89th	Guinea-Bissau	1.59%	0.2%
90th	St. Lucia	1.63%	1.8%
91st	Cyprus	1.65%	-3.0%
92nd	New Caledonia	1.67%	1.1%
93rd	Bahamas, The	1.71%	1.3%
94th	South Sudan	1.75%	-7.7%
95th	Malta	1.76%	8,316.1%
96th	Israel	1.76%	34.9%
97th	Tuvalu	1.81%	25.4%
98th	Sudan	1.82%	-19.4%
99th	Thailand	1.85%	-2.8%
100th	Kyrgyz Republic	1.87%	-7.2%
101st	Mozambique	1.87%	-5.6%
102nd	Kiribati	1.93%	17.6%
103rd	Haiti	1.98%	0.9%
104th	Myanmar	2.00%	-3.8%
105th	El Salvador	2.00%	4.6%
106th	Mali	2.00%	-6.6%
107th	Eritrea	2.02%	-0.6%
108th	Lebanon	2.03%	9.8%
109th	Nauru	2.06%	5.9%
110th	Albania	2.06%	-2.3%
111th	Mexico	2.07%	-2.0%
112th	Afghanistan	2.09%	-15.0%
113th	São Tomé and Principe	2.11%	10.2%
114th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	2.12%	-1.0%
115th	Brazil	2.13%	-2.5%
116th	Indonesia	2.14%	-4.2%
117th	Papua New Guinea	2.14%	0.9%
118th	Ghana	2.15%	-16.7%
119th	Burundi	2.16%	-10.9%
120th	Colombia	2.16%	-6.5%
121st	Kosovo	2.21%	2.1%
122nd	Sierra Leone	2.21%	1.1%
123rd	Türkiye	2.22%	-3.4%
124th	Dominican Republic	2.22%	-2.5%
125th	Nepal	2.27%	-3.2%
126th	Guam	2.29%	-1.6%
127th	Panama	2.30%	-1.4%
128th	Belize	2.32%	-2.2%
129th	Viet Nam	2.32%	-3.3%
130th	India	2.33%	-0.8%
131st	Guinea	2.35%	5.9%
132nd	Morocco	2.38%	-4.8%
133rd	Fiji	2.38%	-1.4%
134th	Nicaragua	2.39%	-4.0%
135th	Macao SAR, China	2.39%	-51.3%
136th	Iraq	2.41%	-22.9%
137th	Peru	2.44%	-1.4%
138th	Bangladesh	2.46%	-4.1%
139th	Mongolia	2.49%	1.7%
140th	Vanuatu	2.52%	1.8%
141st	French Polynesia	2.53%	-6.7%
142nd	Ecuador	2.57%	-1.7%
143rd	Tunisia	2.60%	11.4%
144th	Palau	2.60%	3.4%
145th	Philippines	2.73%	-5.6%
146th	Costa Rica	2.75%	-0.2%
147th	Gabon	2.75%	0.4%
148th	Lao PDR	2.77%	2.6%
149th	Senegal	2.79%	2.3%
150th	Comoros	2.80%	0.1%
151st	Uganda	2.81%	4.9%
152nd	Uzbekistan	2.82%	2.6%
153rd	Paraguay	2.82%	0.2%
154th	Guatemala	2.83%	0.9%
155th	Nigeria	2.83%	10.5%
156th	Lesotho	2.83%	-1.0%
157th	Namibia	2.86%	5.5%
158th	Micronesia, Federated States of	2.86%	-1.5%
159th	Mauritania	2.89%	0.2%
160th	Burkina Faso	2.89%	0.0%
161st	Honduras	2.90%	-1.4%
162nd	Madagascar	2.90%	-0.5%
163rd	Turkmenistan	2.92%	4.9%
164th	Congo, Republic of	2.95%	18.2%
165th	Benin	2.95%	1.1%
166th	Niger	2.97%	0.5%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	2.98%	-1.2%
168th	Cameroon	2.98%	7.3%
169th	Zambia	3.00%	-2.5%
170th	Liberia	3.05%	-1.5%
171st	Tajikistan	3.06%	4.4%
172nd	Bhutan	3.12%	-1.3%
173rd	Pakistan	3.17%	1.1%
174th	Maldives	3.19%	14.3%
175th	Togo	3.20%	-4.7%
176th	Libya	3.26%	123.5%
177th	Tanzania	3.26%	0.0%
178th	Malaysia	3.29%	0.9%
179th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	3.32%	-0.8%
180th	South Africa	3.33%	-3.7%
181st	Cambodia	3.34%	-8.2%
182nd	Solomon Islands	3.35%	-1.2%
183rd	Brunei Darussalam	3.37%	1.4%
184th	Rwanda	3.37%	0.2%
185th	Algeria	3.40%	-0.3%
186th	British Virgin Islands	3.44%	-3.7%
187th	Zimbabwe	3.46%	-2.7%
188th	Botswana	3.47%	-1.5%
189th	Syrian Arab Republic	3.52%	0.3%
190th	Bahrain	3.60%	1.5%
191st	Andorra	3.61%	-12.6%
192nd	Kenya	3.64%	-1.0%
193rd	Eswatini	3.66%	12.5%
194th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	3.67%	-2.3%
195th	Angola	3.68%	-0.7%
196th	American Samoa	3.74%	-0.9%
197th	Yemen, Republic of	3.81%	2.0%
198th	Malawi	3.85%	-1.5%
199th	Gambia, The	3.95%	2.8%
200th	Kuwait	3.96%	-7.6%
201st	Côte d'Ivoire	3.96%	-0.8%
202nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	4.04%	10.9%
203rd	Marshall Islands	4.05%	-1.1%
204th	Cayman Islands	4.17%	-2.6%
205th	Turks and Caicos Islands	4.45%	-3.5%
206th	Jordan	4.57%	1.0%
207th	Djibouti	4.74%	23.1%
208th	Qatar	5.06%	-5.6%
209th	United Arab Emirates	5.36%	-3.7%
210th	Equatorial Guinea	5.50%	-9.3%
211th	Saudi Arabia	5.74%	-3.5%
212th	Oman	6.05%	10.8%
213th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	8.64%	-6.4%
214th	Northern Mariana Islands	9.29%	-7.7%
215th	St. Martin (French part)	15.87%	-11.2%

FAQ

What was Papua New Guinea's population growth in 1985?▾

Papua New Guinea's population growth in 1985 was 2.14%. This ranked 117th globally.

How did Papua New Guinea's population growth change in 1985?▾

Papua New Guinea's population growth increased by 0.9% in 1985 compared to 1984.

Which country had the highest population growth in 1985?▾

St. Martin (French part) had the highest population growth in 1985 at 15.87%.

What is the population growth of Papua New Guinea in 1985?▾

The population growth of Papua New Guinea in 1985 was 2.14%. This ranked 117th globally.

How does 1985 compare to 1984 for Papua New Guinea's population growth?▾

Papua New Guinea's population growth went from 2.12% in 1984 to 2.14% in 1985, a 0.9% increase.

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