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Ten Countries/Areas With Fastest & Slowest Rates Of Natural Increase,

1995-2000

 

Rate Of Natural Increase (per cent). World average 1.33%

Fastest Rate Of Natural Increase

%

 

Slowest Rate Of Natural Increase

%


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


Gaza Strip

Yemen

Somalia

Niger

Dem. Rep. of the Congo

Solomon Islands

Oman

Mali

Afghanistan

Nicaragua


4.25

3.73

3.38

3.18

3.15

3.14

3.12

3.10

3.07

3.03

 


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


Latvia

Bulgaria

Estonia

Ukraine

Russian Federation

Hungary

Belarus

Romania

Czech Republic

Lithuania


-0.52

-0.47

-0.47

-0.43

-0.42

-0.38

-0.34

-0.23

-0.22

-0.16

Countries or areas with 150,000 persons or more in 1995.

 

Table 22: Published in: Population Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat,
The World at Six Billion. (ESA/P/WP.154), 12 October 1999.

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