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Upper middle income
Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

Within the “Upper middle income” group, Maldives leads Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in 2023 at 1,765, while Mongolia sits at the lower end of the current snapshot with 2. This format is well suited to long-tail regional and income-group queries.

Group leaders

0.04418831.3 K1.8 KMaldivesMaldives: 1,7651.8 KMauritiusMauritius: 625625PhilippinesPhilippines: 385385Sri LankaSri Lanka: 356356GrenadaGrenada: 344344TuvaluTuvalu: 327327Viet NamViet Nam: 320320El SalvadorEl Salvador: 305305St. LuciaSt. Lucia: 294294JamaicaJamaica: 262262St. Vincent and the GrenadinesSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 260260Dominican RepublicDominican Republic: 235235

Country table

#CountryValue
1 Maldives 1,765
2 Mauritius 625
3 Philippines 385
4 Sri Lanka 356
5 Grenada 344
6 Tuvalu 327
7 Viet Nam 320
8 El Salvador 305
9 St. Lucia 294
10 Jamaica 262
11 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 260
12 Dominican Republic 235
13 Marshall Islands 216
14 Guatemala 169
15 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 161
16 China 150
17 Indonesia 149
18 Tonga 145
19 Thailand 140
20 Cabo Verde 130
21 Jordan 129
22 Azerbaijan 123
23 Turkiye 111
24 Malaysia 107
25 Cuba 106
26 Armenia 105
27 Iraq 104
28 Dominica 89
29 Albania 88
30 Moldova 85
31 Serbia 79
32 Samoa 78
33 North Macedonia 72
34 Ecuador 72
35 Mexico 67
36 Equatorial Guinea 66
37 Ukraine 65
38 Georgia 65
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 62
40 Iran, Islamic Rep. 56
41 South Africa 52
42 Fiji 51
43 Colombia 47
44 Montenegro 46
45 Belarus 45
46 Peru 26
47 Brazil 25
48 Algeria 19
49 Belize 18
50 Paraguay 17

Analytical takeaways

  • Inside the Upper middle income group for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in 2023, Maldives leads with a gap of 1,140 to the next country.
  • The peer set on this page covers 58 countries, and the lower end of the current distribution sits with Mongolia at 2.
  • This page bridges the global ranking context with a more relevant regional or income-based comparison layer.