Countries by population density

Name: Countries by population density, 2014
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Macao had the highest population density of 215 countries in 2014, at 20,518.2 inhabitants per km². Greenland had the lowest, at 0.1 inhabitants per km². The median was 87.2 inhabitants per km² and the figure for the World was 56.6 inhabitants per km². Source: the World Bank.

Highest20,518.2Macao

Lowest0.1Greenland

Median87.2215 countries

World56.6History

Top 40 countries, 2014

CSV Chart (SVG)

inhabitants per km². Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2014 inhabitants per km²	Change on 2013
1	Macao	20,518.2	+5%
2	Monaco	17,823.4	+1.9%
3	Singapore	7,721.2	+1%
4	Hong Kong	6,885.2	+0.7%
5	Gibraltar	3,281.3	+1.3%
6	Bahrain	1,705	+4.8%
7	Maldives	1,378.7	+3.4%
8	Malta	1,354.6	+2%
9	Bangladesh	1,213.5	+0.9%
10	Bermuda	1,176.5	-0.1%
11	Sint Maarten	1,078.6	+2.3%
12	Saint Martin	749	+0.1%
13	Palestine	693.3	+2.4%
14	Barbados	647.3	+0.2%
15	Mauritius	630.6	+0.2%
16	Lebanon	620.4	+10.5%
17	Aruba	593.4	+1.1%
18	San Marino	544.3	-1.2%
19	Nauru	537.1	+2.1%
20	South Korea	520.9	+0.6%
21	Netherlands	500.6	+0.4%
22	Rwanda	460.7	+2.4%
23	India	441.4	+1.3%
24	Burundi	420.6	+3.5%
25	Puerto Rico	404.2	-1.3%
26	Comoros	382.3	+2.2%
27	Israel	379.7	+1.9%
28	Haiti	376.4	+1.5%
29	Belgium	369.5	+0.4%
30	Tuvalu	366.1	-0.2%
31	Curaçao	351.1	+1.4%
32	Japan	349.2	-0.1%
33	Philippines	348	+1.7%
34	Grenada	335.7	+0.6%
35	Sri Lanka	331.3	+0.9%
36	U.S. Virgin Islands	308.2	-0.1%
37	Guam	306.5	-0.3%
38	El Salvador	297.4	+0.4%
39	Vietnam	292.6	+1.1%
40	Saint Lucia	285.5	+0.4%
41	Pakistan	277.9	+1.5%
42	Marshall Islands	276.6	-1.7%
43	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	275.7	-0.6%
44	American Samoa	267.3	-1%
45	United Kingdom	267.1	+0.7%
46	Trinidad and Tobago	262.3	+0.4%
47	Jamaica	258	+0.4%
48	Cayman Islands	250.7	+2.6%
49	Liechtenstein	232.8	+0.7%
50	Germany	232.1	+0.4%
51	British Virgin Islands	219.7	+4%
52	Luxembourg	216.1	+2.4%
53	Gambia	213.9	+2.9%
54	Dominican Republic	213.5	+1.2%
55	North Korea	211.4	+0.5%
56	Switzerland	207.3	+1.2%
57	Kuwait	205.7	+4.5%
58	São Tomé and Príncipe	205	+1.9%
59	Nigeria	204.1	+2.7%
60	Italy	204	0%
61	Antigua and Barbuda	201.7	+0.8%
62	Seychelles	198.6	+1.6%
63	Nepal	193	+0.3%
64	Qatar	187.3	+13.5%
65	Uganda	181.5	+3%
66	Saint Kitts and Nevis	181.1	0%
67	Malawi	176.3	+2.8%
68	Andorra	156.9	-1.9%
69	Micronesia	154.9	+0.3%
70	Tonga	148.1	-0.4%
71	Isle of Man	147.2	-0.3%
72	Guatemala	146.3	+1.9%
73	China	146.1	+0.6%
74	Kiribati	142.4	+1.3%
75	Denmark	141.1	+0.5%
76	Indonesia	137.9	+1.2%
77	Thailand	137.4	+0.5%
78	Czechia	136.3	+0.1%
79	Cyprus	130.1	+1.5%
80	Togo	127.6	+2%
81	Cape Verde	127.1	0%
82	Poland	124.1	-0.1%
83	Ghana	123.2	+2.4%
84	France	123	+0.5%
85	Azerbaijan	115.3	+1.3%
86	Portugal	113.5	-0.5%
87	United Arab Emirates	113.5	+4.8%
88	Northern Mariana Islands	113.4	-1.1%
89	Slovakia	112.7	+0.1%
90	Syria	110.4	-6.4%
91	Cuba	108.5	+0.1%
92	Hungary	107.7	-1.2%
93	Armenia	105.9	-0.3%
94	Austria	103.6	+0.8%
95	Slovenia	102.4	+0.1%
96	Albania	101.2	-1.5%
97	Türkiye	100.3	+1.4%
98	Moldova	99.5	-0.1%
99	Jordan	99	+10%
100	Egypt	98	+2.3%
101	Benin	97.8	+3%
102	Sierra Leone	95.3	+2.4%
103	Dominica	93.8	+0.9%
104	Malaysia	93.4	+1.7%
105	Costa Rica	93.4	+1.1%
106	Spain	92.9	-0.3%
107	Ethiopia	90.1	+2.7%
108	Cambodia	87.2	+1.5%
109	Romania	86.5	-0.4%
110	Greece	84.5	-0.7%
111	Iraq	84.2	+3.6%
112	Serbia	81.5	-0.5%
113	Honduras	81	+2%
114	Kenya	80.9	+2.4%
115	French Polynesia	79.6	+0.6%
116	Timor-Leste	79.5	+2%
117	Ukraine	79.4	-0.3%
118	Brunei	79.1	+1.3%
119	Myanmar	77.6	+0.8%
120	Côte d’Ivoire	77.1	+2.5%
121	Morocco	76.6	+1.2%
122	North Macedonia	76	-0.3%
123	Croatia	75.1	-0.8%
124	Senegal	73.5	+3.2%
125	Tunisia	72.6	+1.2%
126	Samoa	70.7	+0.9%
127	Bosnia and Herzegovina	69.6	-1.3%
128	Uzbekistan	69.4	+1.7%
129	Lesotho	68.5	+1.1%
130	Ireland	67.6	+0.7%
131	Burkina Faso	66.6	+3%
132	Eswatini	66.1	+0.6%
133	Bulgaria	65.2	-1.2%
134	Georgia	65.1	0%
135	Ecuador	64.6	+1.4%
136	Guinea-Bissau	61.9	+2.7%
137	Mexico	61.6	+1.2%
138	Tajikistan	60.7	+3.4%
139	Yemen	57.3	+3.1%
140	Tanzania	56.8	+3.1%
141	Panama	52.5	+2%
142	Nicaragua	50.4	+1.4%
143	Afghanistan	50.3	+3.7%
144	Fiji	50.2	+0.1%
145	Iran	50	+1.4%
146	Equatorial Guinea	49.9	+4%
147	Liberia	47.4	+2.1%
148	Lithuania	46.9	-0.8%
149	Guinea	46.7	+2.5%
150	Cameroon	46.7	+3.1%
151	Belarus	46.6	0%
152	Montenegro	46.4	+0.2%
153	South Africa	45.8	+1.7%
154	Djibouti	43.3	+1.8%
155	Madagascar	42.6	+2.7%
156	Colombia	42	+0.9%
157	Palau	38.5	+0.4%
158	Bahamas	38.2	+0.9%
159	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.9	+4.2%
160	Zimbabwe	36.7	+1.4%
161	United States	34.9	+0.8%
162	Faroe Islands	34.7	+0.4%
163	Democratic Republic of the Congo	34.6	+3.4%
164	Venezuela	34.3	+1.1%
165	Mozambique	32.8	+2.9%
166	Latvia	32	-0.9%
167	Kyrgyzstan	30.8	+2.2%
168	Estonia	30.2	-0.3%
169	Laos	29	+1.4%
170	Eritrea	25.6	+0.7%
171	Chile	24.1	+1.3%
172	Brazil	23.9	+0.8%
173	Sweden	23.8	+1%
174	Peru	23.5	+1%
175	Solomon Islands	22	+3.7%
176	Angola	21.8	+3.8%
177	Zambia	21.4	+3.2%
178	Vanuatu	21.3	+2.3%
179	Somalia	21.3	+3.7%
180	Sudan	20.8	+2.7%
181	Bhutan	19.2	+1.1%
182	Uruguay	19.2	+0.3%
183	Papua New Guinea	18.8	+2.7%
184	Finland	18	+0.4%
185	South Sudan	17.8	+0.6%
186	New Zealand	17.2	+1.7%
187	Algeria	16.5	+2.1%
188	Argentina	15.7	+1%
189	New Caledonia	15.4	+1.6%
190	Belize	15.3	+2.1%
191	Paraguay	15.3	+1.5%
192	Niger	15.2	+3.8%
193	Mali	14.8	+3.2%
194	Republic of the Congo	14.6	+2.4%
195	Norway	14.1	+1.1%
196	Saudi Arabia	13.2	+2.5%
197	Oman	12.9	+4.4%
198	Turkmenistan	12.9	+2.3%
199	Chad	11.3	+3.6%
200	Bolivia	10	+1.6%
201	Russia	8.8	+0.3%
202	Gabon	7.7	+3.4%
203	Central African Republic	7.4	-0.4%
204	Kazakhstan	6.6	+1.5%
205	Canada	4	+1%
206	Botswana	3.8	+1.5%
207	Guyana	3.8	+0.6%
208	Mauritania	3.7	+3.1%
209	Libya	3.7	+1.9%
210	Suriname	3.6	+1.1%
211	Iceland	3.3	+1.1%
212	Australia	3.1	+1.5%
213	Namibia	2.8	+2.6%
214	Mongolia	1.9	+2.2%
215	Greenland	0.1	-0.3%

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About this ranking

Resident population divided by land area in km². World Bank figures use mid-year population and land area excluding inland water.

United States: Census Bureau population estimates for 1 July divided by land area (water excluded) from the latest Census Gazetteer files. US tables often give people per square mile; multiply persons per km² by 2.59 to compare.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Population density, people per km² of land area (EN.POP.DNST). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest population density?

Macao, with 20,518.2 inhabitants per km² in 2014, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest population density?

Greenland, with 0.1 inhabitants per km² in 2014.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Population density, people per km² of land area (EN.POP.DNST). Retrieved 2026-10-09.