Countries in Asia by population growth

Countries in Asia by population growth, World Bank, 2025

#	Country	% a year	Region
1	United Arab Emirates	+4.68	Western Asia
2	Saudi Arabia	+4.63	Western Asia
3	Oman	+3.96	Western Asia
4	Qatar	+3.92	Western Asia
5	Syria	+3.77	Western Asia
6	Georgia	+3.18	Western Asia
7	Yemen	+2.89	Western Asia
8	Afghanistan	+2.77	Southern Asia
9	Iraq	+2.10	Western Asia
10	Uzbekistan	+1.88	Central Asia
11	Tajikistan	+1.83	Central Asia
12	Armenia	+1.74	Western Asia
13	Kyrgyzstan	+1.66	Central Asia
14	Turkmenistan	+1.65	Central Asia
15	Pakistan	+1.56	Southern Asia
16	Laos	+1.32	South-Eastern Asia
17	Timor-Leste	+1.27	South-Eastern Asia
18	Mongolia	+1.25	Eastern Asia
=19	Bangladesh	+1.22	Southern Asia
=19	Singapore	+1.22	South-Eastern Asia
21	Kazakhstan	+1.21	Central Asia
22	Israel	+1.20	Western Asia
23	Cambodia	+1.18	South-Eastern Asia
24	Malaysia	+1.17	South-Eastern Asia
25	Iran	+0.92	Southern Asia
26	Cyprus	+0.91	Western Asia
27	India	+0.89	Southern Asia
28	Philippines	+0.81	South-Eastern Asia
=29	Brunei	+0.78	South-Eastern Asia
=29	Indonesia	+0.78	South-Eastern Asia
31	Lebanon	+0.75	Western Asia
32	Bahrain	+0.73	Western Asia
33	Bhutan	+0.65	Southern Asia
34	Myanmar	+0.64	South-Eastern Asia
35	Vietnam	+0.60	South-Eastern Asia
36	Azerbaijan	+0.43	Western Asia
37	Turkey	+0.42	Western Asia
38	Maldives	+0.35	Southern Asia
39	North Korea	+0.27	Eastern Asia
40	Thailand	−0.07	South-Eastern Asia
41	Nepal	−0.11	Southern Asia
42	South Korea	−0.13	Eastern Asia
43	China	−0.17	Eastern Asia
44	Jordan	−0.28	Western Asia
45	Japan	−0.49	Eastern Asia
46	Kuwait	−0.65	Western Asia
47	Sri Lanka	−0.73	Southern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	% a year	Status
Palestine	+2.33	Status disputed
Macao	−0.16	Territory of China
Hong Kong	−0.34	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest population growth?

The United Arab Emirates has the highest population growth in Asia: +4.68% a year (2025). Next come Saudi Arabia (+4.63% a year) and Oman (+3.96% a year).

Which country in Asia has the lowest population growth?

Sri Lanka, with −0.73% a year (2025).

What is the typical population growth of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is +1.17% a year: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

How much the population grew or shrank over the year, in per cent: births minus deaths, plus people arriving minus people leaving. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.