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The Middle East population tripled from 1970 to 2010, with Egypt having the highest population at 77.5 million. The UAE has the highest growth rate at 3.69%. The Middle East has more people than the US and Canada combined, and Turkey has the largest economy.
The population of the Middle East nearly tripled between 1970 and 2010, with an estimated 2010 population of about 350 million. There is some disagreement as to whether Egypt is part of the “Middle East”. (The CIA World Factbook does not include Egypt.) But, if it is, Egypt has the highest population of the Middle Eastern countries at 77,545,232 people and a growth rate of 2.03%. The Middle Eastern country with the highest population growth rate is the United Arab Emirates, with a growth rate of 3.69% – also the highest in the world, tied to Burundi – closely followed by Kuwait with 3.55%.
More Middle East Facts:
The average population growth rate for the world as a whole is 1.13%. In 2010, the estimated world population is 6.8 billion.
There are more people in the Middle East than in the United States and Canada combined, 342,704,563.
Turkey has the largest economy in terms of gross domestic product, at about $795 billion United States Dollars (USD), followed by Saudi Arabia, at about $468 billion.
