Population growth by country, 2025, OECD (38 countries)

The exponential rate of growth of midyear population from the previous year to this year.

38 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Ireland (1.63%). Lowest: Latvia (-0.99%). The median is 0.46%.

Unit: annual % change Source: World Bank Trend, map and download

Members since Costa Rica joined on 25 May 2021. About this group

Highest 10

  1. 1. Ireland 1.63%
  2. 2. Australia 1.53%
  3. 3. Iceland 1.51%
  4. 4. Luxembourg 1.46%
  5. 5. Israel 1.20%
  6. 6. Spain 1.03%
  7. 7. Portugal 1.03%
  8. 8. Colombia 1.01%
  9. 9. Switzerland 0.96%
  10. 10. Canada 0.94%

Lowest 10

  1. 38. Latvia -0.99%
  2. 37. Hungary -0.50%
  3. 36. Japan -0.49%
  4. 35. Estonia -0.43%
  5. 34. Poland -0.34%
  6. 33. Czechia -0.17%
  7. 32. Slovakia -0.15%
  8. 31. South Korea -0.13%
  9. 30. Italy -0.06%
  10. 29. Germany -0.03%

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

Full ranking

Population growth by country, 2025, OECD (38 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Ireland 1.63% 2025
2 Australia 1.53% 2025
3 Iceland 1.51% 2025
4 Luxembourg 1.46% 2025
5 Israel 1.20% 2025
6 Spain 1.03% 2025
7 Portugal 1.03% 2025
8 Colombia 1.01% 2025
9 Switzerland 0.96% 2025
10 Canada 0.94% 2025
11 Mexico 0.83% 2025
12 Belgium 0.70% 2025
13 Norway 0.69% 2025
14 New Zealand 0.65% 2025
15 Denmark 0.54% 2025
16 United States 0.52% 2025
17 Netherlands 0.52% 2025
18 Chile 0.48% 2025
19 Finland 0.47% 2025
20 Costa Rica 0.45% 2025
21 Türkiye 0.42% 2025
22 Austria 0.33% 2025
23 United Kingdom 0.30% 2025
24 Sweden 0.25% 2025
25 France 0.25% 2025
26 Slovenia 0.17% 2025
27 Greece 0.08% 2025
28 Lithuania 0.02% 2025
29 Germany -0.03% 2025
30 Italy -0.06% 2025
31 South Korea -0.13% 2025
32 Slovakia -0.15% 2025
33 Czechia -0.17% 2025
34 Poland -0.34% 2025
35 Estonia -0.43% 2025
36 Japan -0.49% 2025
37 Hungary -0.50% 2025
38 Latvia -0.99% 2025

Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.

How this ranking works

Every country is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.

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