1988 Rate of Natural Increase

Country population rate of natural increase (RNI) and rank for world countries for the year 1988

Rank	Country	Rate of Natural Increase	Population
1.5	Marshall Islands	3.588	43,446
1.5	Togo	3.588	3,407,600
3	Maldives	3.565	200,075
4	Uganda	3.492	15,559,122
5	Angola	3.419	10,424,709
6	Senegal	3.343	6,912,268
7	Eswatini	3.339	815,127
8	Belize	3.329	186,984
9	Solomon Islands	3.277	300,890
10	Cambodia	3.219	8,796,548
11	Kenya	3.216	21,875,798
12	Guatemala	3.21	8,150,276
13	Congo Kinshasa	3.206	36,669,267
14	The Gambia	3.198	877,596
15	Cameroon	3.194	11,118,682
16	Mali	3.183	8,138,605
17	Rwanda	3.182	6,692,714
18	Malawi	3.167	8,079,332
19	Iraq	3.128	17,073,634
20	Benin	3.107	4,517,201
21	Nicaragua	3.1	3,403,564
22	Côte d'Ivoire	3.099	10,653,216
23	Cabo Verde	3.057	330,500
24	Liberia	3.044	2,382,311
25	Burundi	3.031	5,156,268
26	Papua New Guinea	3.03	3,786,148
27	Djibouti	3.01	414,997
28	Madagascar	2.977	10,941,840
29	Niger	2.974	7,393,947
30	Zimbabwe	2.947	9,523,317
31	Zambia	2.938	7,214,352
32	Afghanistan	2.935	13,168,732
33	Paraguay	2.922	3,963,437
34	Somalia	2.899	6,918,288
35	Samoa	2.886	161,516
36	Tonga	2.875	95,702
37	Kiribati	2.866	67,493
38	Congo Brazzaville	2.859	2,097,286
39	Iran	2.849	53,835,124
40	Tanzania	2.841	23,520,361
41	Ghana	2.831	14,052,097
42	Ethiopia	2.818	44,576,402
43	Sao Tome and Principe	2.814	110,939
44	Comoros	2.812	410,924
45	Algeria	2.798	23,917,674
46	Eritrea	2.781	2,890,943
47	Pakistan	2.776	110,446,491
48	Bhutan	2.755	610,858
49	Namibia	2.748	1,323,014
50	Botswana	2.71	1,183,187
51	Central African Republic	2.692	2,896,799
52	Equatorial Guinea	2.644	351,560
53	Nepal	2.564	17,713,762
54	Nigeria	2.559	92,331,569
55	Mauritania	2.532	1,848,504
56	Philippines	2.528	58,639,099
57	Bangladesh	2.502	101,386,934
58	Malaysia	2.5	17,142,702
59	French Polynesia	2.486	191,158
60	Tuvalu	2.468	8,755
61	Kuwait	2.466	1,966,721
62	Brunei	2.453	238,878
63	Kosovo	2.443	1,790,565
64	Qatar	2.436	401,964
65.5	Haiti	2.419	6,458,500
65.5	Costa Rica	2.419	2,874,123
67	Mozambique	2.406	13,744,669
68	Lesotho	2.393	1,641,096
69	Sierra Leone	2.389	4,080,785
70	Mexico	2.386	81,540,513
71	Guinea-Bissau	2.376	950,432
72	Dominican Republic	2.35	6,763,135
73	South Africa	2.339	36,806,860
74	Morocco	2.273	23,526,173
75	Bahrain	2.263	471,975
76	Saint Martin	2.256	24,873
77	Peru	2.247	24,018,405
78	Guinea	2.214	5,397,044
79	Colombia	2.209	32,768,734
80	Panama	2.155	2,310,564
81	Fiji	2.146	726,376
82	Guyana	2.067	768,009
83	Saint Lucia	2.037	135,495
84	Jamaica	2	2,422,363
85	Turkey	1.994	54,356,391
86	Grenada	1.986	94,286
87	Lebanon	1.951	3,336,549
88	New Caledonia	1.898	161,942
89	Brazil	1.895	144,963,227
90	Suriname	1.88	411,262
91	Indonesia	1.814	175,334,750
92	Chile	1.757	12,554,615
93	Burma	1.715	38,819,808
94	Dominica	1.698	71,338
95	Seychelles	1.646	69,195
96	Israel	1.61	4,264,029
97	Trinidad and Tobago	1.577	1,200,006
98	Sri Lanka	1.526	16,480,228
99	The Bahamas	1.444	237,769
100	Argentina	1.401	32,099,320
101	Mauritius	1.338	1,044,942
102	Saint Barthelemy	1.298	4,623
103	Aruba	1.285	59,499
104	Anguilla	1.189	7,820
105	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.136	42,188
106	Cyprus	1.132	713,026
107	Cuba	1.093	10,381,681
108	New Zealand	0.897	3,361,313
109	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.875	6,281
110	Uruguay	0.823	3,057,630
111	Australia	0.78	16,183,270
112	Gibraltar	0.763	30,024
113	Barbados	0.69	260,097
114	Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	0.683	6,588
115	Serbia	0.122	7,768,887

Data from US Census International Database