El Salvador vs Haiti: Number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre

El Salvador
227.19 people per square kilometre
in 2023
Haiti
229.92 people per square kilometre
in 2023
El Salvador rank
35th
Haiti rank
34th

Number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre over time

  • El Salvador
  • Haiti
050100150200250196119922023

How they compare

Haiti currently reports 229.92 people per square kilometre against 227.19 people per square kilometre in El Salvador, a difference of 2.73 people per square kilometre.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was El Salvador ahead.

El Salvador ranks 35th and Haiti ranks 34th of 215 countries.

El Salvador has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade El Salvador Haiti Difference Ahead
1960s 59.93 people per square kilometre 26.45 people per square kilometre 33.49 people per square kilometre El Salvador
1970s 79.66 people per square kilometre 37.37 people per square kilometre 42.29 people per square kilometre El Salvador
1980s 107.15 people per square kilometre 48.07 people per square kilometre 59.08 people per square kilometre El Salvador
1990s 143.8 people per square kilometre 80.73 people per square kilometre 63.08 people per square kilometre El Salvador
2000s 175.4 people per square kilometre 136.84 people per square kilometre 38.56 people per square kilometre El Salvador
2010s 205.64 people per square kilometre 186.31 people per square kilometre 19.33 people per square kilometre El Salvador
2020s 223.56 people per square kilometre 222.29 people per square kilometre 1.26 people per square kilometre El Salvador

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre, El Salvador or Haiti?
Haiti, at 229.92 people per square kilometre against 227.19 people per square kilometre in El Salvador as of 2023.
What is the difference in number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre between El Salvador and Haiti?
2.73 people per square kilometre, with Haiti ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Haiti?
63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
How do El Salvador and Haiti rank globally for number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre?
El Salvador ranks 35th and Haiti ranks 34th of 215 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Statizoid (derived), published as Number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

El Salvador vs Haiti: Number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://population.statizoid.com/compare/number-of-people-living-in-urban-and-rural-areas-per-square-kilometre/el-salvador/haiti/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://population.statizoid.com/compare/number-of-people-living-in-urban-and-rural-areas-per-square-kilometre/el-salvador/haiti/">El Salvador vs Haiti: Number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Number of people living in urban and rural areas, per square kilometre
Unit
people per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
215 places, 12,288 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

Number of people living in urban and rural areas divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.