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Growth by country
According to United Nations population statistics, the world population grew by 30%, or 1.6 billion people, between 1990 and 2010. As persons the increase was among highest in India 350 million and China 196 million. Population growth was among highest in the United Arab Emirates (315%) and Qatar (271%).
Rank-Country-Population 2010-Population 1990-Growth (%) 1990-2010 World 6,895,889,000 5,306,425,000 30.0% 1 China 1,341,335,000 1,145,195,000 17.1% 2 India 1,224,614,000 873,785,000 40.2% 3 United States 310,384,000 253,339,000 22.5% 4 Indonesia 239,871,000 184,346,000 30.1% 5 Brazil 194,946,000 149,650,000 30.3% 6 Pakistan 173,593,000 111,845,000 55.3% 7 Nigeria 158,423,000 97,552,000 62.4% 8 Bangladesh 148,692,000 105,256,000 41.3% 9 Russia 142,958,000 148,244,000 -3.6% 10 Japan 128,057,000 122,251,000 4.7%
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