Countries by population density

Name: Countries by population density, 2015
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Macao had the highest population density of 215 countries in 2015, at 21,148 inhabitants per km². Greenland had the lowest, at 0.1 inhabitants per km². The median was 88.5 inhabitants per km² and the figure for the World was 57.3 inhabitants per km². Source: the World Bank.

Highest21,148Macao

Lowest0.1Greenland

Median88.5215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2015

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 inhabitants per km²	Change on 2014
1	Macao	21,148	+3.1%
2	Monaco	18,133.7	+1.7%
3	Singapore	7,813.4	+1.2%
4	Hong Kong	6,944.1	+0.9%
5	Gibraltar	3,319.3	+1.2%
6	Bahrain	1,761.3	+3.3%
7	Maldives	1,427.2	+3.5%
8	Malta	1,388.2	+2.5%
9	Bangladesh	1,224.4	+0.9%
10	Bermuda	1,175.3	-0.1%
11	Sint Maarten	1,102.1	+2.2%
12	Saint Martin	747.4	-0.2%
13	Palestine	709.3	+2.3%
14	Barbados	648.8	+0.2%
15	Lebanon	632.7	+2%
16	Mauritius	631.4	+0.1%
17	Aruba	599.5	+1%
18	San Marino	548.3	+0.7%
19	Nauru	547.7	+2%
20	South Korea	523.5	+0.5%
21	Netherlands	503.1	+0.5%
22	Rwanda	471.8	+2.4%
23	India	446.7	+1.2%
24	Burundi	430.2	+2.3%
25	Puerto Rico	398.6	-1.4%
26	Comoros	390.5	+2.1%
27	Israel	387.3	+2%
28	Haiti	381.8	+1.4%
29	Belgium	371.7	+0.6%
30	Tuvalu	365.4	-0.2%
31	Curaçao	355.8	+1.3%
32	Philippines	353.2	+1.5%
33	Japan	348.8	-0.1%
34	Sri Lanka	338.8	+2.3%
35	Grenada	337.3	+0.5%
36	U.S. Virgin Islands	307.7	-0.2%
37	Guam	305.4	-0.4%
38	El Salvador	298.4	+0.3%
39	Vietnam	296.2	+1.2%
40	Saint Lucia	286.7	+0.4%
41	Pakistan	281.9	+1.4%
42	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	274.3	-0.5%
43	Marshall Islands	271.1	-2%
44	United Kingdom	269	+0.7%
45	American Samoa	264.4	-1.1%
46	Trinidad and Tobago	263.1	+0.3%
47	Jamaica	258.8	+0.3%
48	Cayman Islands	256.8	+2.5%
49	Liechtenstein	234.3	+0.7%
50	Germany	234.2	+0.9%
51	British Virgin Islands	230	+4.7%
52	Luxembourg	221.3	+2.4%
53	Gambia	219.8	+2.8%
54	Dominican Republic	216	+1.2%
55	Kuwait	215.2	+4.6%
56	North Korea	212.4	+0.5%
57	Switzerland	209.6	+1.1%
58	Nigeria	209.4	+2.6%
59	São Tomé and Príncipe	208.6	+1.8%
60	Qatar	204.1	+9%
61	Italy	203.7	-0.2%
62	Antigua and Barbuda	203.2	+0.7%
63	Seychelles	203.1	+2.3%
64	Nepal	194.1	+0.5%
65	Uganda	187.2	+3.1%
66	Malawi	181.2	+2.8%
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	181.1	-0%
68	Micronesia	155.3	+0.3%
69	Andorra	153.6	-2.1%
70	Guatemala	149	+1.8%
71	Tonga	147.4	-0.5%
72	China	147	+0.6%
73	Isle of Man	146.7	-0.4%
74	Kiribati	144.2	+1.3%
75	Denmark	142.1	+0.7%
76	Indonesia	139.4	+1.1%
77	Thailand	138.1	+0.5%
78	Czechia	136.6	+0.2%
79	Cyprus	132	+1.5%
80	Togo	130	+1.9%
81	Cape Verde	127.1	0%
82	Ghana	126.1	+2.3%
83	Poland	124.1	-0.1%
84	France	123.5	+0.4%
85	United Arab Emirates	119.8	+5.5%
86	Azerbaijan	116.7	+1.2%
87	Portugal	113.1	-0.4%
88	Slovakia	112.8	+0.1%
89	Northern Mariana Islands	112	-1.3%
90	Cuba	108.3	-0.2%
91	Jordan	107.5	+8.6%
92	Hungary	107.4	-0.4%
93	Syria	105.8	-4.2%
94	Armenia	105.5	-0.3%
95	Austria	104.7	+1.1%
96	Slovenia	102.4	+0.1%
97	Türkiye	101.6	+1.3%
98	Benin	100.8	+3%
99	Egypt	100.1	+2.1%
100	Albania	99.7	-1.5%
101	Moldova	98.8	-0.8%
102	Sierra Leone	97.5	+2.3%
103	Malaysia	95.1	+1.7%
104	Costa Rica	94.4	+1.1%
105	Dominica	93.9	+0.1%
106	Spain	92.9	0%
107	Ethiopia	92.5	+2.7%
108	Cambodia	88.5	+1.5%
109	Iraq	86.5	+2.8%
110	Romania	86.1	-0.5%
111	Greece	83.9	-0.7%
112	Honduras	82.6	+1.9%
113	Kenya	82.5	+1.9%
114	Serbia	81.1	-0.5%
115	Timor-Leste	81	+2%
116	Brunei	80.1	+1.3%
117	French Polynesia	80.1	+0.5%
118	Côte d’Ivoire	79.4	+2.9%
119	Ukraine	79	-0.4%
120	Myanmar	78.2	+0.8%
121	Morocco	77.5	+1.2%
122	North Macedonia	75.8	-0.3%
123	Senegal	75.8	+3.1%
124	Croatia	74.2	-1.2%
125	Tunisia	73.4	+1.1%
126	Samoa	71.3	+0.9%
127	Uzbekistan	69.8	+0.6%
128	Lesotho	69.3	+1.2%
129	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.7	-1.3%
130	Burkina Faso	68.6	+3%
131	Ireland	68.3	+0.9%
132	Eswatini	66.4	+0.6%
133	Ecuador	65.5	+1.4%
134	Georgia	65.2	+0.2%
135	Bulgaria	64.3	-1.3%
136	Guinea-Bissau	63.5	+2.6%
137	Mexico	62.3	+1.1%
138	Tajikistan	62.3	+2.6%
139	Yemen	59	+3.1%
140	Tanzania	58.7	+3.3%
141	Panama	53.4	+1.7%
142	Afghanistan	51.9	+3.2%
143	Equatorial Guinea	51.8	+3.9%
144	Nicaragua	51.1	+1.4%
145	Iran	50.7	+1.4%
146	Fiji	50.3	+0.1%
147	Liberia	48.4	+2.1%
148	Cameroon	48.2	+3.2%
149	Guinea	47.9	+2.6%
150	South Africa	46.8	+2%
151	Belarus	46.6	+0.1%
152	Lithuania	46.5	-0.9%
153	Montenegro	46.4	+0.1%
154	Djibouti	44	+1.8%
155	Madagascar	43.7	+2.7%
156	Colombia	42.3	+0.9%
157	Palau	38.6	+0.3%
158	Turks and Caicos Islands	38.5	+4.4%
159	Bahamas	38.5	+0.8%
160	Zimbabwe	37.2	+1.3%
161	Democratic Republic of the Congo	35.7	+3.4%
162	United States	35.2	+0.8%
163	Faroe Islands	35	+1%
164	Venezuela	34.7	+1.1%
165	Mozambique	33.8	+2.9%
166	Latvia	31.8	-0.8%
167	Kyrgyzstan	31.5	+2.3%
168	Estonia	30.3	+0.1%
169	Laos	29.5	+1.5%
170	Eritrea	25.7	+0.3%
171	Chile	24.3	+1%
172	Brazil	24.1	+0.8%
173	Sweden	24.1	+1.1%
174	Peru	23.8	+1.1%
175	Solomon Islands	22.8	+3.6%
176	Angola	22.6	+3.7%
177	Zambia	22.1	+3.2%
178	Somalia	22	+3.5%
179	Vanuatu	21.8	+2.3%
180	Sudan	21.4	+3.1%
181	Bhutan	19.4	+1%
182	Papua New Guinea	19.3	+2.6%
183	Uruguay	19.2	+0.3%
184	Finland	18	+0.3%
185	South Sudan	17.6	-1.1%
186	New Zealand	17.5	+2.1%
187	Algeria	16.8	+2.1%
188	Argentina	15.9	+1.1%
189	Niger	15.7	+3.8%
190	Belize	15.6	+2.1%
191	Paraguay	15.5	+1.5%
192	New Caledonia	15.5	+0.7%
193	Mali	15.2	+3.2%
194	Republic of the Congo	14.9	+2.4%
195	Norway	14.2	+1%
196	Saudi Arabia	13.9	+5.3%
197	Oman	13.5	+4.6%
198	Turkmenistan	13.2	+2.3%
199	Chad	11.6	+3.2%
200	Bolivia	10.2	+1.5%
201	Russia	8.8	+0.3%
202	Gabon	7.9	+3.2%
203	Central African Republic	7.4	+0.1%
204	Kazakhstan	6.7	+1.5%
205	Canada	4	+0.8%
206	Botswana	3.9	+1.4%
207	Guyana	3.9	+0.6%
208	Mauritania	3.8	+3.1%
209	Libya	3.7	+1.6%
210	Suriname	3.6	+1.1%
211	Iceland	3.3	+1%
212	Australia	3.1	+1.4%
213	Namibia	2.9	+2.7%
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 21,148 inhabitants per km² in 2015, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest population density?

Greenland, with 0.1 inhabitants per km² in 2015.

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.