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Base geometry: BlankMap-World.svg (Wikimedia Commons, released into the Public Domain). Nations extracted and coordinate-optimized for LiveWorldStats. ID: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (Palestine "ps" as a distinct region).

Fastest growing

  1. 1 The Democratic Republic of Congo +3.2%
  2. 2 Chad +3.14%
  3. 3 Uganda +3.05%
  4. 4 Tanzania +2.9%
  5. 5 Afghanistan +2.88%

Shrinking / slowest

  1. 1 Ukraine -0.94%
  2. 2 Japan -0.69%
  3. 3 Russia -0.57%
  4. 4 Italy -0.51%
  5. 5 Moldova -0.47%

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