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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
51 Argentina 17
52 Turkmenistan 16
53 Gabon 10
54 Kazakhstan 8
55 Botswana 4
56 Libya 4
57 Suriname 4
58 Mongolia 2

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.