Population regions with projections, per square kilometre by country
Population regions with projections 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.
Countries reporting
215
Highest
21,634 units per square kilometre
Macau, China
Lowest
0.1363 units per square kilometre
Greenland
Median
95.88 units per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
12,288
What the numbers show
Population regions with projections, per square kilometre is currently reported for 215 countries. The highest value is 21,634 units per square kilometre in Macau, China; the lowest is 0.1363 units per square kilometre in Greenland.
The median across all reporting countries is 95.88 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 457.85 units per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 182 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 48.1%), and the largest decrease in Saint Martin (French part) (down 26.4%).
Population regions with projections, per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macau, China | 21,634 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 2 | Monaco | 18,704 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 3 | Singapore | 8,063 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 4 | Hong Kong, China | 7,088 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 5 | Gibraltar | 3,849 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.7% | rising |
| 6 | Bahrain | 1,962 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Maldives | 1,765 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.4% | rising |
| 8 | Malta | 1,666 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.4% | rising |
| 9 | Bangladesh | 1,319 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 10 | Sint Maarten | 1,258 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.2% | rising |
| 11 | Bermuda | 1,199 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 12 | Palestine, State of | 897.79 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Barbados | 656.62 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 14 | Mauritius | 637.75 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 15 | Aruba | 599.7 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 16 | Naoero | 595 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.9% | rising |
| 17 | Rwanda | 565.65 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.8% | rising |
| 18 | Lebanon | 564.37 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 19 | San Marino | 562.68 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 20 | Saint Martin (French part) | 550.9 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.4% | falling |
| 21 | Netherlands | 537.35 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 22 | Burundi | 533.08 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.1% | rising |
| 23 | Republic of Korea | 530.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 24 | India | 483.68 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 25 | Comoros | 456.95 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 26 | Israel | 427.74 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 27 | Haiti | 422.26 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.8% | rising |
| 28 | Curaçao | 417.65 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 29 | Philippines | 385.32 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.6% | rising |
| 30 | Belgium | 384.11 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 31 | Sri Lanka | 371.35 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 32 | Puerto Rico | 365.5 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 33 | Grenada | 344.39 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 34 | Japan | 341.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 35 | Tuvalu | 327.9 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.8% | rising |
| 36 | Pakistan | 321.07 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 37 | Viet Nam | 320.18 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.6% | rising |
| 38 | Guam | 308.37 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 39 | El Salvador | 304.52 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 40 | Cayman Islands | 304.4 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.5% | volatile |
| 41 | Saint Lucia | 293.92 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 42 | Trinidad and Tobago | 292.97 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 43 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 283.9 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 44 | Seychelles | 278.18 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.3% | rising |
| 45 | Kuwait | 271.54 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.9% | volatile |
| 46 | Gambia | 266.59 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.2% | volatile |
| 47 | Jamaica | 262.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 48 | British Virgin Islands | 260.06 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.0% | rising |
| 49 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 259.82 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.3% | rising |
| 50 | Qatar | 259.28 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.1% | volatile |
| 51 | Luxembourg | 258.35 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.4% | rising |
| 52 | Nigeria | 250.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.9% | rising |
| 53 | Liechtenstein | 247.64 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 54 | United States Virgin Islands | 244.89 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.9% | rising |
| 55 | Uganda | 242.65 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.7% | volatile |
| 56 | Germany | 241.96 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 57 | Sao Tome and Principe | 240.5 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 58 | American Samoa | 237.72 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.0% | rising |
| 59 | Dominican Republic | 235.1 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 60 | Switzerland | 224.52 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 61 | Malawi | 223.85 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.6% | rising |
| 62 | Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | 219.4 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 63 | Marshall Islands | 215.83 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.4% | falling |
| 64 | Antigua and Barbuda | 212.12 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 65 | Nepal | 207.15 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 66 | Italy | 201.2 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 67 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 179.94 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 68 | Andorra | 172.06 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 69 | Guatemala | 169.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 70 | Kiribati | 163.63 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 71 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 160.92 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 72 | China | 151.53 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 73 | Togo | 151.2 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.0% | rising |
| 74 | United Arab Emirates | 149.85 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.9% | volatile |
| 75 | Denmark | 148.7 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 76 | Indonesia | 148.58 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 77 | Ghana | 148.5 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 78 | Isle of Man | 147.69 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 79 | Cyprus | 145.56 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 80 | Tonga | 145.3 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.3% | rising |
| 81 | Thailand | 140.35 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 82 | Czechia | 140.08 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 83 | Cape Verde | 129.61 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 84 | Jordan | 128.83 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 43.1% | volatile |
| 85 | Syrian Arab Republic | 128.49 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 86 | Poland | 126.56 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 87 | Benin | 125.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.8% | volatile |
| 88 | Azerbaijan | 124.84 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.6% | rising |
| 89 | France | 123.28 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 90 | Sierra Leone | 117.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.0% | rising |
| 91 | Egypt | 115.06 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 92 | Slovakia | 114.77 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.0% | flat |
| 93 | Ethiopia | 114.04 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.7% | rising |
| 94 | Portugal | 113.86 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 95 | Türkiye | 113.39 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 96 | Austria | 110.64 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 97 | Malaysia | 106.91 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 98 | Cuba | 106.17 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 99 | Hungary | 106.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.8% | falling |
| 100 | Slovenia | 105.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 101 | Armenia | 104.38 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 102 | Iraq | 103.83 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.8% | volatile |
| 103 | Albania | 102.61 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 104 | Costa Rica | 99.99 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 105 | Cambodia | 98.71 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 106 | Northern Mariana Islands | 98.19 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.4% | falling |
| 107 | Côte d'Ivoire | 98.01 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.2% | volatile |
| 108 | Spain | 95.88 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 109 | Kenya | 95.27 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.5% | volatile |
| 110 | Honduras | 95.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 111 | Senegal | 93.89 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.8% | rising |
| 112 | Republic of Moldova | 93.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 113 | Timor-Leste | 93.09 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 114 | Dominica | 88.71 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.6% | flat |
| 115 | Brunei Darussalam | 87.09 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 116 | Morocco | 84.5 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 117 | Burkina Faso | 84.16 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.1% | rising |
| 118 | Romania | 83.09 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.7% | flat |
| 119 | Myanmar | 82.94 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 120 | French Polynesia | 80.99 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 121 | Uzbekistan | 80.91 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 122 | Serbia | 80.55 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.2% | falling |
| 123 | Greece | 79.46 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 124 | Tunisia | 78.53 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 125 | Samoa | 77.94 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 126 | Guinea-Bissau | 76.58 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 127 | Lesotho | 76.14 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 128 | Ireland | 75.43 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 129 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 75.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.4% | volatile |
| 130 | Tajikistan | 74.86 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.5% | rising |
| 131 | Yemen | 74.61 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.4% | volatile |
| 132 | North Macedonia | 72.63 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 133 | Ecuador | 72.4 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 134 | Eswatini | 71.54 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 135 | Croatia | 69.62 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 136 | Mexico | 66.74 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 137 | Equatorial Guinea | 65.87 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.2% | volatile |
| 138 | Ukraine | 65.12 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.2% | falling |
| 139 | Afghanistan | 63.56 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.1% | volatile |
| 140 | Bulgaria | 62.6 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 141 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 62.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.8% | falling |
| 142 | Panama | 60.11 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.8% | rising |
| 143 | Cameroon | 60.02 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.6% | rising |
| 144 | Guinea | 58.63 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.7% | rising |
| 145 | Liberia | 57.03 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.9% | rising |
| 146 | Nicaragua | 56.7 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 147 | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 55.85 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 148 | Georgia | 54.79 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.0% | falling |
| 149 | Madagascar | 53.62 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.4% | volatile |
| 150 | South Africa | 52.11 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 151 | Fiji | 50.58 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 152 | Djibouti | 49.74 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.1% | volatile |
| 153 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 48.65 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.3% | volatile |
| 154 | Colombia | 47.16 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 155 | Montenegro | 47.1 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 156 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 46.66 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.6% | volatile |
| 157 | Lithuania | 45.59 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 158 | Belarus | 44.91 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 159 | Mozambique | 42.77 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.3% | rising |
| 160 | Zimbabwe | 42.24 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 161 | Faroe Islands | 39.95 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.5% | rising |
| 162 | Bahamas | 39.91 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 163 | Palau | 38.59 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 164 | United States of America | 37.55 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 165 | Kyrgyzstan | 36.88 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.0% | rising |
| 166 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 33.21 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 167 | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 32.09 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 168 | Estonia | 32 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.5% | falling |
| 169 | Latvia | 30.25 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 170 | Angola | 29.48 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.5% | volatile |
| 171 | Somalia | 29.26 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.7% | volatile |
| 172 | Eritrea | 28.64 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 173 | Solomon Islands | 28.58 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.5% | rising |
| 174 | Zambia | 27.88 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.6% | volatile |
| 175 | Sudan | 26.79 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.4% | rising |
| 176 | Chile | 26.46 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 177 | Peru | 26.44 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 178 | Vanuatu | 26.29 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.9% | rising |
| 179 | Sweden | 25.91 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 180 | Brazil | 25.26 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 181 | Papua New Guinea | 22.94 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 182 | Niger | 20.65 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.3% | volatile |
| 183 | Bhutan | 20.62 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 184 | New Zealand | 19.65 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 185 | Mali | 19.48 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.1% | rising |
| 186 | Algeria | 19.38 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 187 | Uruguay | 19.36 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 188 | Finland | 18.43 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 189 | South Sudan | 18.17 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.8% | flat |
| 190 | Congo | 18.11 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.3% | volatile |
| 191 | Belize | 18.02 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 192 | Paraguay | 17.28 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 193 | Argentina | 16.64 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 194 | Oman | 16.31 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.7% | volatile |
| 195 | New Caledonia | 15.86 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 196 | Turkmenistan | 15.67 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.0% | rising |
| 197 | Saudi Arabia | 15.47 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.7% | volatile |
| 198 | Chad | 15.34 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.1% | volatile |
| 199 | Norway | 15.15 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 200 | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 11.3 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 201 | Gabon | 9.64 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.9% | rising |
| 202 | Russian Federation | 8.88 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 203 | Central African Republic | 8.27 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 204 | Kazakhstan | 7.53 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 205 | Mauritania | 4.87 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.5% | volatile |
| 206 | Canada | 4.47 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 207 | Botswana | 4.38 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 208 | Libya | 4.15 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 209 | Suriname | 3.92 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 210 | Guyana | 3.91 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 211 | Iceland | 3.84 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 212 | Namibia | 3.6 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.5% | rising |
| 213 | Australia | 3.44 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 214 | Mongolia | 2.2 units per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 215 | Greenland | 0.1363 units per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.0% | rising |
How this figure is calculated
Population regions with projections 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.
Population regions with projections ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Population regions with projections Our World in Data
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Population regions with projections 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.