2018 Rate of Natural Increase

The population rate of natural increase (birth rate minus death rate) for all world countries for the year 2018.

**2018 Top 10 Countries Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)**
Rank	Country	RNI
1	Angola	3.47
2	Mali	3.37
3	Malawi	3.31
4	Uganda	3.25
5	Chad	3.25
6	Burundi	3.23
7	Niger	3.21
8	Liberia	3.05
9	Zambia	2.91
10	Guinea-Bissau	2.88

Please see also 2020, 2017, and 2019.

**2018 Countries Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)**
Rank	Country	RNI
11	Ethiopia	2.85
12	Burkina Faso	2.82
13	Tanzania	2.78
14	Guinea	2.75
15	Sudan	2.75
16	Gaza Strip	2.74
17	Timor-Leste	2.71
18	Benin	2.68
19	Somalia	2.64
20	Mozambique	2.64
21	Iraq	2.62
22	Togo	2.61
23	Sierra Leone	2.58
24	Nigeria	2.56
25	Cameroon	2.56
26	Senegal	2.5
27	Sao Tome and Principe	2.48
28	Madagascar	2.46
29	Congo (Brazzaville)	2.45
30	Afghanistan	2.43
31	Egypt	2.43
32	Zimbabwe	2.41
33	Equatorial Guinea	2.41
34	Rwanda	2.35
35	Ghana	2.34
36	Congo (Kinshasa)	2.34
37	West Bank	2.25
38	Mauritania	2.22
39	Eritrea	2.2
40	Cote d'Ivoire	2.17
41	The Gambia	2.17
42	Yemen	2.17
43	Central African Republic	2.11
44	Western Sahara	2.1
45	Solomon Islands	2.06
46	Oman	2.04
47	Gabon	2.03
48	Jordan	2.02
49	Marshall Islands	1.96
50	Guatemala	1.96
51	Vanuatu	1.95
52	Namibia	1.91
53	Belize	1.86
54	Comoros	1.81
55	South Sudan	1.76
56	Philippines	1.74
57	Nauru	1.73
58	Algeria	1.72
59	Tonga	1.69
60	Tajikistan	1.69
61	Honduras	1.67
62	Syria	1.67
63	Papua New Guinea	1.67
64	Kuwait	1.66
65	Kenya	1.59
66	Laos	1.59
67	Djibouti	1.58
68	Federated States of Micronesia	1.54
69	Pakistan	1.53
70	Bolivia	1.52
71	Tuvalu	1.52
72	Kyrgyzstan	1.52
73	Cambodia	1.51
74	Haiti	1.51
75	Swaziland	1.5
76	Samoa	1.49
77	Kiribati	1.4
78	Cabo Verde	1.38
79	Malaysia	1.37
80	Libya	1.35
81	Nepal	1.34
82	Guam	1.34
83	Venezuela	1.32
84	Bangladesh	1.32
85	Brunei	1.32
86	American Samoa	1.31
87	Turkmenistan	1.28
88	Israel	1.27
89	Mexico	1.27
90	Panama	1.26
91	Morocco	1.25
92	Dominican Republic	1.25
93	Ecuador	1.25
94	Nicaragua	1.24
95	Botswana	1.22
96	Saudi Arabia	1.22
97	Maldives	1.21
98	Iran	1.21
99	Fiji	1.2
100	Mongolia	1.19
101	Paraguay	1.18
102	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.16
103	India	1.15
104	Peru	1.15
105	Uzbekistan	1.12
106	Tunisia	1.11
107	South Africa	1.06
108	Bhutan	1.05
109	Costa Rica	1.05
110	Burma	1.04
111	Colombia	1.03
112	Saint Martin	1.03
113	Bahrain	1.03
114	El Salvador	1.02
115	Northern Mariana Islands	1.0
116	Antigua and Barbuda	0.99
117	Suriname	0.94
118	Indonesia	0.94
119	Turkey	0.94
120	Kazakhstan	0.94
121	French Polynesia	0.92
122	Vietnam	0.92
123	New Caledonia	0.91
124	Kosovo	0.91
125	Lebanon	0.9
126	Lesotho	0.9
127	Argentina	0.9
128	Jamaica	0.89
129	Sri Lanka	0.85
130	Azerbaijan	0.83
131	United Arab Emirates	0.81
132	Guyana	0.8
133	Qatar	0.8
134	The Bahamas	0.79
135	Anguilla	0.77
136	Sint Maarten	0.77
137	Wallis and Futuna	0.76
138	Brazil	0.72
139	Chile	0.72
140	Ireland	0.71
141	Iceland	0.71
142	Dominica	0.7
143	Grenada	0.7
144	Seychelles	0.64
145	Albania	0.62
146	Cayman Islands	0.61
147	British Virgin Islands	0.59
148	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.58
149	Faroe Islands	0.58
150	Mauritius	0.57
151	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.56
152	New Zealand	0.56
153	Greenland	0.55
154	Gibraltar	0.54
155	Saint Lucia	0.53
156	North Korea	0.53
157	Curacao	0.52
158	Singapore	0.52
159	Cook Islands	0.51
160	Jersey	0.47
161	Australia	0.47
162	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.45
163	Cyprus	0.44
164	Montserrat	0.43
165	Luxembourg	0.43
166	Norway	0.42
167	China	0.42
168	United States	0.41
169	Aruba	0.38
170	Macau	0.38
171	Uruguay	0.36
172	Trinidad and Tobago	0.34
173	Armenia	0.32
174	Palau	0.31
175	Barbados	0.29
176	Thailand	0.28
177	Liechtenstein	0.28
178	Sweden	0.28
179	France	0.27
180	United Kingdom	0.26
181	Bermuda	0.26
182	Switzerland	0.21
183	Malta	0.21
184	South Korea	0.2
185	Netherlands	0.19
186	Cuba	0.18
187	Denmark	0.16
188	Belgium	0.15
189	Montenegro	0.15
190	Canada	0.14
191	Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	0.14
192	Hong Kong	0.12
193	Macedonia	0.12
194	Georgia	0.12
195	Saint Barthelemy	0.11
196	Guernsey	0.08
197	Isle of Man	0.07
198	Taiwan	0.06
199	Finland	0.06
200	Andorra	-0.01
201	Austria	-0.01
202	Spain	-0.02
203	San Marino	-0.02
204	Slovakia	-0.04
205	Slovenia	-0.07
206	Puerto Rico	-0.1
207	Poland	-0.12
208	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.13
209	Moldova	-0.13
210	Czechia	-0.14
211	Italy	-0.2
212	Japan	-0.24
213	Portugal	-0.24
214	Russia	-0.28
215	Estonia	-0.29
216	Greece	-0.31
217	Belarus	-0.31
218	Germany	-0.32
219	Romania	-0.33
220	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	-0.33
221	Monaco	-0.36
222	Croatia	-0.36
223	Hungary	-0.39
224	Ukraine	-0.42
225	Serbia	-0.47
226	Lithuania	-0.49
227	Latvia	-0.5
228	Bulgaria	-0.6

Celebrating world population 2018 with a cubist stylized photo of Earth from space, North America and South America with clouds.

China had the highest population the world's countries for 2018, 1,384,688,986 people. India was ranked second with 1.3 billion inhabitants. Next on the list is the United States of America, Indonesia, and Brazil. Russia and Japan are the two countries with declining populations. Both are projected to fall out of the top ten rankings within ten years.

Data is from US Census - International Database.

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