Countries With Declining Population 2023

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Interactive Map Introduction Population Growth Rate by Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Faroe Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay People's Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Macedonia Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America United States Virgin Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Introduction

Depopulation, or a population decline, is when there is a reduction in the number of persons living in a particular country. This may be due to, among other things, an aging population, low birth/fertility rates, and high death rates from war or disease. Either way, a declining population can be detrimental to a country’s prosperity over time, despite the fact it would have additional resources, by creating an employment shortage and fewer people paying for public services.

Countries have chosen various means to cure a declining population. Two of the most popular methods are to adopt policies that encourage citizens to build families and to welcome immigrants into the country. Examples of the former include tax credits and social benefits when a couple has children (these benefits may increase exponentially as a couple has more children); the latter includes eliminating red tape in the immigration process and increasing the total number of visa and green card holders.

Learn more about countries with a declining population in the map and charts.

#	Country	Population Growth Rate	Population Density
1	Syria	4.33%	126.49 per km²
2	Niger	3.75%	21.48 per km²
3	Equatorial Guinea	3.29%	61.13 per km²
4	Angola	3.2%	29.43 per km²
5	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.1%	45.11 per km²
6	Burundi	3.02%	515.52 per km²
7	Uganda	2.98%	242.28 per km²
8	Mali	2.94%	19.09 per km²
9	Chad	2.93%	14.52 per km²
10	Tanzania	2.91%	76.13 per km²
11	Somalia	2.89%	28.92 per km²
12	Zambia	2.88%	27.67 per km²
13	The Gambia	2.87%	274.03 per km²
14	Mozambique	2.86%	43.11 per km²
15	Burkina Faso	2.8%	84.98 per km²
16	Guinea	2.74%	57.75 per km²
17	Bahrain	2.71%	1,892.37 per km²
18	Benin	2.67%	121.61 per km²
19	Malawi	2.67%	222.02 per km²
20	Senegal	2.67%	92.26 per km²
21	Mauritania	2.66%	4.72 per km²
22	Madagascar	2.62%	52.12 per km²
23	Ivory Coast	2.53%	90.8 per km²
24	Cameroon	2.52%	60.6 per km²
25	Nigeria	2.52%	245.73 per km²
26	Ethiopia	2.5%	112.11 per km²
27	Republic of the Congo	2.49%	17.88 per km²
28	Rwanda	2.47%	571.33 per km²
29	Palestine	2.46%	892.23 per km²
30	Solomon Islands	2.46%	26.45 per km²
31	Liberia	2.39%	56.25 per km²
32	Sudan	2.39%	25.75 per km²
33	Guinea-Bissau	2.38%	76.49 per km²
34	Togo	2.38%	166.46 per km²
35	Gabon	2.36%	9.46 per km²
36	Iraq	2.35%	104.82 per km²
37	Vanuatu	2.35%	27.44 per km²
38	Afghanistan	2.3%	64.76 per km²
39	Oman	2.26%	15.01 per km²
40	Kenya	2.23%	96.81 per km²
41	Tajikistan	2.2%	73.09 per km²
42	Yemen	2.2%	65.25 per km²
43	Comoros	2.15%	457.86 per km²
44	Ghana	2.1%	149.97 per km²
45	Sierra Leone	2.04%	121.79 per km²
46	Uzbekistan	1.98%	79.8 per km²
47	Pakistan	1.93%	311.96 per km²
48	Botswana	1.92%	4.72 per km²
49	East Timor	1.91%	91.5 per km²
50	Papua New Guinea	1.9%	22.81 per km²
51	São Tomé and Príncipe	1.9%
52	Egypt	1.86%	113.23 per km²
53	Central African Republic	1.85%	9.22 per km²
54	Nepal	1.83%	215.53 per km²
55	Belize	1.82%	18.01 per km²
56	Namibia	1.81%	3.16 per km²
57	Algeria	1.73%	19.15 per km²
58	Kyrgyzstan	1.72%	35.12 per km²
59	Qatar	1.7%	236.41 per km²
60	South Sudan	1.66%	17.55 per km²
61	Israel	1.6%	423.96 per km²
62	Honduras	1.59%	94.68 per km²
63	Iceland	1.58%	3.72 per km²
64	Mongolia	1.54%	2.21 per km²
65	Panama	1.54%	60.23 per km²
66	Zimbabwe	1.53%	43.08 per km²
67	Saudi Arabia	1.5%	17.19 per km²
68	Saint Martin	1.49%	641.54 per km²
69	Guatemala	1.48%	168.83 per km²
70	Djibouti	1.43%	49.03 per km²
71	Turkmenistan	1.43%	13.87 per km²
72	Laos	1.42%	33.08 per km²
73	Ecuador	1.38%	73.24 per km²
74	Macau	1.38%	21,402.71 per km²
75	Bolivia	1.36%	11.44 per km²
76	Luxembourg	1.36%	254.33 per km²
77	Cambodia	1.35%	95.99 per km²
78	Kuwait	1.35%	241.87 per km²
79	Philippines	1.33%	393.53 per km²
80	Kazakhstan	1.31%	7.26 per km²
81	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.3%	48.59 per km²
82	Libya	1.26%	3.91 per km²
83	Malaysia	1.26%	104.42 per km²
84	Sint Maarten	1.26%	1,300.65 per km²
85	Iran	1.23%	54.96 per km²
86	South Africa	1.23%	49.8 per km²
87	Haiti	1.21%	425.43 per km²
88	Paraguay	1.21%	17.27 per km²
89	Cayman Islands	1.18%	288.79 per km²
90	Morocco	1.17%	84.79 per km²
91	Nicaragua	1.17%	58.55 per km²
92	Peru	1.17%	26.84 per km²
93	Sri Lanka	1.08%	353.92 per km²
94	Bhutan	1.07%	20.65 per km²
95	Federated States of Micronesia	1.07%	164.61 per km²
96	Eswatini	1.05%	70.4 per km²
97	Indonesia	1.03%	147.82 per km²
98	Mexico	1.03%	66.08 per km²
99	United Arab Emirates	1.01%	134 per km²
100	Tunisia	0.99%	80.19 per km²
101	Bangladesh	0.98%	1,328.68 per km²
102	Dominican Republic	0.97%	234.59 per km²
103	India	0.97%	480.5 per km²
104	Argentina	0.95%	16.73 per km²
105	Venezuela	0.94%	32.69 per km²
106	The Bahamas	0.93%	41.22 per km²
107	Brunei	0.92%	85.87 per km²
108	Costa Rica	0.88%	102.08 per km²
109	Suriname	0.88%	4 per km²
110	Ireland	0.85%	73.41 per km²
111	Vietnam	0.85%	315.41 per km²
112	Guam	0.83%	320.28 per km²
113	Turkey	0.83%	109.52 per km²
114	Antigua and Barbuda	0.81%	214.31 per km²
115	Lesotho	0.78%	76.76 per km²
116	Colombia	0.75%	46.94 per km²
117	Seychelles	0.75%	234.04 per km²
118	Myanmar	0.73%	83.62 per km²
119	Fiji	0.72%	51.25 per km²
120	Marshall Islands	0.71%	233.31 per km²
121	Switzerland	0.71%	222.61 per km²
122	Monaco	0.7%	18,148.5 per km²
123	Cyprus	0.68%	136.38 per km²
124	Brazil	0.67%	25.89 per km²
125	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.66%	183.67 per km²
126	Jordan	0.64%	127.68 per km²
127	New Zealand	0.63%	19.86 per km²
128	British Virgin Islands	0.61%	210.25 per km²
129	Northern Mariana Islands	0.61%	108.25 per km²
130	Sweden	0.6%	26.06 per km²
131	Maldives	0.57%	1,736.74 per km²
132	Canada	0.55%	4.33 per km²
133	Netherlands	0.53%	523.26 per km²
134	Norway	0.53%	15.03 per km²
135	Azerbaijan	0.51%	125.99 per km²
136	Chile	0.5%	26.4 per km²
137	El Salvador	0.5%	307.19 per km²
138	Guyana	0.48%	4.13 per km²
139	Palau	0.45%	39.26 per km²
140	Austria	0.44%	108.57 per km²
141	Grenada	0.44%	371.13 per km²
142	Isle of Man	0.44%	148.61 per km²
143	Denmark	0.43%	147.77 per km²
144	North Korea	0.42%	217.26 per km²
145	Saint Lucia	0.42%	295.49 per km²
146	Jamaica	0.41%	260.9 per km²
147	Aruba	0.4%	590.43 per km²
148	Belgium	0.38%	385.94 per km²
149	Faroe Islands	0.38%	39 per km²
150	United Kingdom	0.37%	279.99 per km²
151	Nauru	0.36%	639 per km²
152	Uruguay	0.33%	19.56 per km²
153	Liechtenstein	0.31%	247.4 per km²
154	Malta	0.3%	1,672.08 per km²
155	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.29%	265.89 per km²
156	Trinidad and Tobago	0.28%	299.21 per km²
157	Dominica	0.25%	97.39 per km²
158	New Caledonia	0.24%	16.03 per km²
159	Finland	0.22%	18.25 per km²
160	Slovenia	0.22%	105.27 per km²
161	Thailand	0.22%	140.54 per km²
162	San Marino	0.21%	560.7 per km²
163	Australia	0.18%	3.44 per km²
164	France	0.18%	118.26 per km²
165	Armenia	0.17%	97.58 per km²
166	Andorra	0.12%	170.4 per km²
167	Barbados	0.12%	655.8 per km²
168	United States of America	0.12%	37.17 per km²
169	People's Republic of China	0.09%	151.27 per km²
170	Czech Republic	0.05%	135.95 per km²
171	Mauritius	0.03%	640.67 per km²
172	Lithuania	0.02%	43.41 per km²
173	Portugal	0.02%	111.87 per km²
174	Eritrea	0%	30.97 per km²
175	Estonia	-0.02%	30.94 per km²
176	Bermuda	-0.04%	1,186.46 per km²
177	Germany	-0.04%	238.4 per km²
178	Cuba	-0.08%	107.85 per km²
179	Spain	-0.08%	95.12 per km²
180	Montenegro	-0.18%	46.58 per km²
181	South Korea	-0.18%	530.57 per km²
182	Slovakia	-0.21%	118.18 per km²
183	Poland	-0.31%	134.02 per km²
184	Greece	-0.34%	80.23 per km²
185	Republic of Macedonia	-0.36%	82.7 per km²
186	Georgia	-0.38%	53.65 per km²
187	United States Virgin Islands	-0.4%	284.58 per km²
188	Hungary	-0.41%	111.29 per km²
189	Belarus	-0.42%	46.79 per km²
190	Russia	-0.44%	8.82 per km²
191	Japan	-0.46%	338.26 per km²
192	Bulgaria	-0.5%	61.6 per km²
193	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.53%	62.71 per km²
194	Puerto Rico	-0.55%	367.57 per km²
195	Italy	-0.65%	199.08 per km²
196	Ukraine	-0.72%	63.42 per km²
197	Romania	-0.74%	86.46 per km²
198	Serbia	-0.8%	81.74 per km²
199	Lebanon	-0.83%	523.36 per km²
200	Hong Kong	-0.91%	7,134.87 per km²
201	Latvia	-0.91%	29.41 per km²
202	Albania	-0.93%	103.37 per km²
203	Curaçao	-1.68%	432.61 per km²
204	Moldova	-1.79%	104.48 per km²
205	Croatia	-3.74%	71.63 per km²
206	Singapore	-4.17%	8,377.05 per km²

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Population Growth Rate

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