Population Growth - Ranking 2005
In 2005, Trinidad and Tobago (-3.86%), Northern Mariana Islands (-2.51%), and Lithuania (-1.63%) ranked highest in population growth among all countries. Bahrain ranked lowest at 7.60%.
Data & analysis
- Oman — 8.51
- United Arab Emirates — 6.76
- Qatar — 5.82
- Chad — 5.32
- Singapore — 5.23
The 2025 World Bank data on annual population growth reveals a sharp global divergence, with the top of the ranking dominated by small, resource-rich economies. Oman leads at 8.5098 percent, followed by the United Arab Emirates at 6.7592 percent and Qatar at 5.8175 percent; these Gulf states share a reliance on expatriate labor migration to fuel rapid demographic expansion, a pattern also visible in Singapore at 5.2283 percent. At the bottom, Kosovo’s severe contraction of -6.9969 percent and Ukraine’s -5.1324 percent reflect structural emigration and conflict-driven population loss, compounded by low fertility rates in post-Soviet and Balkan states. The extreme negative growth in St. Martin (French part) at -3.6827 percent further underscores how small island economies are vulnerable to outmigration. Future shifts in this leaderboard will likely depend on changes in global labor mobility policies or regional stability, which could alter migration flows and birth rates across these disparate economies.
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY % |
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