Human Population Growth

List of Countries by Population Growth

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Annual population growth rates today are above 1% in most of the world's countries. Globally population growth is 0.85%. Ultimately 40 of the world's 236 countries have rates above 2.00% and 92 have rates above 1.00%. 150 of 236 countries have rates in excess of 0.50%. Surprisingly, many of these countries have very low life expectancies as well, and the higher a country's growth rate, the more disease, death, and war there tends to be in the country. (ranks shown out of 227 countries) The following are the 20 highest annual population growth rates among the world's countries as way of illustration:

Pop. Growth Rank	Country	Pop. Growth Rate	Life Expect. Rank	Life Expect. (years)
1	South Sudan	4.65%	220	60.3
2	Niger	3.66%	218	60.9
3	Angola	3.33%	214	62.9
4	Benin	3.29%	213	63.0
5	Equatorial Guinea	3.23%	210	63.9
6	Uganda	3.18%	182	69.7
7	D.R. of the Congo	3.11%	215	62.6
8	Chad	3.01%	222	60.0
9	Mali	2.90%	211	63.2
10	Zambia	2.83%	199	66.9
11	Burundi	2.81%	192	68.1
12	Guinea	2.74%	206	64.6
13	Tanzania	2.72%	171	70.8
14	Cameroon	2.71%	209	64.2
15	Cameroon	2.55%	225	56.5
16	Sudan	2.55%	194	67.8
17T	Mozambique	2.54%	224	58.3
17T	Guinea-Bissau	2.54%	207	64.5
19	Nigeria	2.52%	216	62.2
20	Senegal	2.46%	172	70.6

Developed Countries Contrast

By contrast, some of the most developed countries have much lower population growth. For this ranking, countries well-known and/or with a high Human Development Index (HDI) were prioritized.

Pop. Growth Rank	Country	Pop. Growth Rate	Life Expect. Rank	Life Expect. (years)
131	United States	0.67%	49	80.9
154	United Kingdom	0.45%	33	82.2
221	Russia	-0.49%	164	72.3
172	China	0.23%	75	78.7
125	Canada	0.71%	5	84.2
155	Denmark	0.44%	35	82.1
218	Japan	-0.43%	4	85.2
59	Israel	1.58%	16	83.1
206	Germany	-0.12%	38	81.9
177	France	0.2%	25	82.6
182	Spain	0.12%	18	83.0
201	Italy	-0.08%	19	83.0
142	Norway	0.59%	22	82.9
107	Iceland	0.85%	8	84.0
117	Switzerland	0.75%	9	83.9
149	Sweden	0.51%	21	82.9
81	Australia	1.13%	13	83.5
160	Netherlands	0.39%	39	81.9
215	Greece	-0.35%	40	81.9
148	Belgium	0.53%	30	82.3

Years to Reach 7 Billion Population

At a 1% growth rate (which most countries in the world have) one goes from 8 people (the survivors of Noah's Ark - Genesis 7:13) to 7 billion in just 2,071 years. Human population growth rates seen today are a strong evidence that the Bible is correct that human civilization is young.

Year	2.00% Growth Rate	1.00% Growth Rate	0.50% Growth Rate	0.20% Growth Rate	0.10% Growth Rate	0.05% Growth Rate
Year 1	8	8	8	8	8	8
Year 500	156,522	1,147	96	22	13	10
Year 1,000	3,123,644,327	166,013	1,167	59	22	13
Year 2,000	1.244 x 10 ^ 18	3,479,494,693	171,020	434	59	22
Year 5000	7.859 x 10 ^ 43	3.204 x 10 ^ 22	538,558,280,604	174,112	1,183	97
Years To Reach 7 Billion Population	1,041	2,071	4,130	6,849	13,690	41,191

Even as seen above, if population growth rates were less than 1/10th as fast as they are today's (0.1% as opposed to 1.07%) the human population should only be 13,690 years old. Even if population growth rates were less than 1/20th as fast as they are today's (0.05% as opposed to 1.07%) the human population should only 41,191 years old. Evolutionists cannot begin to use the principle "the present is the key to the past" to claim human population is millions of years old. Human population growth rates clearly indicate a young Earth, and are part of a broader pattern of microevolutionary rates that are too rapid for an old Earth.