Samoa vs Sri Lanka: Population growth rate

Samoa
0.6%
in 2023
Sri Lanka
0.6%
in 2023
Samoa rank
136th
Sri Lanka rank
139th

Population growth rate over time

  • Samoa
  • Sri Lanka
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How they compare

Samoa currently reports 0.6% against 0.6% in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Sri Lanka's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Samoa ahead.

Globally, Samoa ranks 136th and Sri Lanka ranks 139th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Population growth rate
Unit
%
Source
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
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The annual rate at which the population is growing, expressed as a percentage.