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

For 2023, Population density (people per sq. km of land area) is led by Macao SAR, China at 20,570. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Countries ranked 215
Snapshot year 2023
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0.05.1 K10 K15 K21 KMacao SAR, ChinaMacao SAR, China: 20,57021 KMonacoMonaco: 18,69319 KSingaporeSingapore: 8,2428.2 KHong Kong SAR, ChinaHong Kong SAR, China: 7,1777.2 KGibraltarGibraltar: 3,8473.8 KBahrainBahrain: 1,9712.0 KMaldivesMaldives: 1,7651.8 KMaltaMalta: 1,7271.7 KBangladeshBangladesh: 1,3191.3 KSint Maarten (Dutch part)Sint Maarten (Dutch part): 1,2571.3 KBermudaBermuda: 1,1981.2 KWest Bank and GazaWest Bank and Gaza: 857857
Rank Country Value
101 Hungary 105
102 Iraq 104
103 Costa Rica 100
104 Cambodia 99
105 Northern Mariana Islands 98
106 Cote d'Ivoire 98
107 Spain 97
108 Kenya 95
109 Honduras 95
110 Senegal 94
111 Timor-Leste 93
112 Dominica 89
113 Albania 88
114 Brunei Darussalam 87
115 Moldova 85
116 Morocco 85
117 Burkina Faso 84
118 Myanmar 83
119 Romania 83
120 French Polynesia 81
121 Uzbekistan 81
122 Greece 81
123 Serbia 79
124 Tunisia 79
125 Samoa 78
126 Ireland 77
127 Guinea-Bissau 77
128 Lesotho 76
129 Tanzania 75
130 Tajikistan 75
131 Yemen, Rep. 75
132 North Macedonia 72
133 Ecuador 72
134 Eswatini 72
135 Croatia 69
136 Mexico 67
137 Equatorial Guinea 66
138 Ukraine 65
139 Georgia 65
140 Afghanistan 64
141 Bosnia and Herzegovina 62
142 Panama 60
143 Cameroon 60
144 Bulgaria 59
145 Guinea 59
146 Liberia 57
147 Nicaragua 57
148 Iran, Islamic Rep. 56
149 Madagascar 54
150 South Africa 52
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Macao SAR, China sits at the top of the Population density (people per sq. km of land area) distribution in 2023 at 20,570, with a lead of 1,877 over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Kenya at 95, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Greenland (0), and the page currently covers 215 countries.