Countries by population density

Name: Countries by population density, 2018
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Macao had the highest population density of 215 countries in 2018, at 20,027.4 inhabitants per km². Greenland had the lowest, at 0.1 inhabitants per km². The median was 92.2 inhabitants per km² and the figure for the World was 59.2 inhabitants per km². Source: the World Bank.

Highest20,027.4Macao

Lowest0.1Greenland

Median92.2215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2018

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 inhabitants per km²	Change on 2017
1	Macao	20,027.4	-4.9%
2	Monaco	18,822.9	+1.3%
3	Singapore	7,903.9	+0.2%
4	Hong Kong	7,097.7	+0.8%
5	Gibraltar	3,485.4	+1.8%
6	Bahrain	1,932	+0.4%
7	Maldives	1,577	+3.2%
8	Malta	1,512.2	+3.6%
9	Bangladesh	1,256.2	+0.8%
10	Bermuda	1,182.1	+0.4%
11	Sint Maarten	1,168	+1.8%
12	Palestine	759	+2.6%
13	Saint Martin	720.2	-2.2%
14	Barbados	652.8	+0.2%
15	Mauritius	632.8	+0.1%
16	Aruba	605	+0.2%
17	Lebanon	585	-2.9%
18	San Marino	575.4	+2.1%
19	Nauru	573.9	+1.4%
20	South Korea	529	+0.4%
21	Netherlands	511.8	+0.6%
22	Rwanda	506.2	+2.3%
23	India	462.4	+1.1%
24	Burundi	461.8	+3.1%
25	Comoros	414.6	+2%
26	Israel	410.5	+1.9%
27	Haiti	397.8	+1.3%
28	Belgium	374.7	-0.1%
29	Puerto Rico	371	-3.5%
30	Philippines	367.1	+1.2%
31	Curaçao	358.9	-0.5%
32	Tuvalu	358.4	-1.1%
33	Sri Lanka	350.3	+1.1%
34	Japan	347.9	-0.1%
35	Grenada	340.3	+0.2%
36	Vietnam	307	+1.1%
37	U.S. Virgin Islands	305.7	-0.3%
38	Guam	301.3	-0.5%
39	El Salvador	300.2	+0.1%
40	Pakistan	294.4	+1.6%
41	Saint Lucia	290.2	+0.4%
42	Cayman Islands	274.8	+2.2%
43	United Kingdom	274	+0.5%
44	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	269	-0.7%
45	Trinidad and Tobago	264.9	+0.2%
46	Jamaica	260.4	+0.2%
47	American Samoa	254.5	-1.3%
48	Marshall Islands	251.6	-2.7%
49	Kuwait	242.6	+4.1%
50	Liechtenstein	239	+0.7%
51	Germany	237.3	+0.3%
52	Gambia	237.1	+2.5%
53	Luxembourg	236.1	+1.9%
54	British Virgin Islands	231	+6%
55	Nigeria	225	+2.3%
56	Qatar	224.6	+1.4%
57	Dominican Republic	223.2	+1.1%
58	São Tomé and Príncipe	218.9	+1.6%
59	Switzerland	215.5	+0.7%
60	North Korea	215.4	+0.4%
61	Seychelles	210.4	+1%
62	Uganda	207.3	+3.5%
63	Antigua and Barbuda	206.7	+0.5%
64	Italy	202.5	-0.2%
65	Malawi	196.5	+2.7%
66	Nepal	195.9	+0.2%
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	180.8	-0.1%
68	Andorra	159.9	+1.9%
69	Guatemala	157.2	+1.7%
70	Micronesia	157	+0.4%
71	Kiribati	150.7	+1.5%
72	China	149.4	+0.5%
73	Isle of Man	147	+0.2%
74	Tonga	146.6	+0.2%
75	Denmark	144.8	+0.5%
76	Indonesia	143.8	+1%
77	Thailand	139.7	+0.3%
78	Czechia	137.7	+0.3%
79	Cyprus	137.5	+1.3%
80	Togo	137.1	+1.8%
81	Ghana	134.6	+2.1%
82	United Arab Emirates	131.6	+1.3%
83	Cape Verde	127.4	+0.1%
84	France	124.6	+0.4%
85	Poland	124	0%
86	Azerbaijan	120.3	+0.9%
87	Jordan	117.8	+2.2%
88	Slovakia	113.3	+0.1%
89	Portugal	112.3	-0.2%
90	Benin	109.8	+2.9%
91	Cuba	108.2	-0.2%
92	Austria	107.1	+0.5%
93	Northern Mariana Islands	106.7	-1.8%
94	Syria	106.6	+1.8%
95	Hungary	106.4	-0.2%
96	Egypt	106.2	+1.9%
97	Türkiye	105.8	+1.4%
98	Sierra Leone	104.7	+2.4%
99	Armenia	104.3	-0.3%
100	Slovenia	103	+0.4%
101	Ethiopia	100.3	+2.7%
102	Malaysia	100.2	+1.7%
103	Costa Rica	97.1	+0.9%
104	Albania	95.2	-1.5%
105	Moldova	94.3	-1.7%
106	Spain	93.6	+0.4%
107	Iraq	92.8	+2.4%
108	Cambodia	92.2	+1.3%
109	Dominica	90.9	-0.5%
110	Honduras	87.3	+1.8%
111	Kenya	87	+1.7%
112	Côte d’Ivoire	86.4	+2.7%
113	Timor-Leste	85.8	+1.9%
114	Romania	84.6	-0.6%
115	Greece	83.3	-0.2%
116	Brunei	83.1	+1.2%
117	Senegal	82.7	+2.8%
118	French Polynesia	80.6	-0.1%
119	Morocco	80.3	+1.1%
120	Myanmar	80.1	+0.7%
121	Serbia	79.8	-0.5%
122	Ukraine	78	-0.5%
123	Tunisia	75.7	+1%
124	North Macedonia	74.9	-0.5%
125	Burkina Faso	74.7	+2.7%
126	Samoa	74.7	+1.1%
127	Uzbekistan	73.5	+1.7%
128	Lesotho	71.9	+1.2%
129	Croatia	71.3	-1.3%
130	Ireland	71.1	+1.5%
131	Ecuador	68.6	+1.7%
132	Guinea-Bissau	68.4	+2.4%
133	Eswatini	68	+0.9%
134	Tajikistan	67.1	+2.4%
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	66.2	-1.2%
136	Georgia	65.2	-0%
137	Tanzania	64.8	+3.2%
138	Yemen	64.6	+3%
139	Mexico	64.1	+1%
140	Bulgaria	61.8	-1.4%
141	Equatorial Guinea	57.6	+3.5%
142	Afghanistan	56.3	+3%
143	Panama	56.2	+1.6%
144	Nicaragua	53.2	+1.3%
145	Iran	53.1	+1.3%
146	Cameroon	52.5	+2.8%
147	Guinea	51.7	+2.6%
148	Liberia	51.3	+2%
149	Fiji	50.2	-0.2%
150	South Africa	48.3	+1.7%
151	Madagascar	47.3	+2.6%
152	Montenegro	46.6	+0.1%
153	Belarus	46.5	-0.2%
154	Djibouti	46.2	+1.6%
155	Lithuania	45	-0.8%
156	Colombia	44.2	+1.9%
157	Turks and Caicos Islands	43.7	+4.1%
158	Democratic Republic of the Congo	39.7	+3.4%
159	Bahamas	39.2	+0.6%
160	Zimbabwe	38.9	+1.5%
161	Palau	38.7	0%
162	Mozambique	36.9	+3%
163	Faroe Islands	36.5	+1.6%
164	United States	35.9	+0.6%
165	Venezuela	33.8	-2.5%
166	Kyrgyzstan	33.6	+2.2%
167	Latvia	31	-0.8%
168	Estonia	30.9	+0.3%
169	Laos	30.9	+1.6%
170	Eritrea	26.4	+1.4%
171	Chile	25.5	+1.8%
172	Solomon Islands	25.3	+3.4%
173	Angola	25.1	+3.5%
174	Sweden	25	+1.2%
175	Peru	24.9	+1.8%
176	Brazil	24.7	+0.7%
177	Somalia	24.6	+3.6%
178	Zambia	24.2	+3.1%
179	Sudan	23.7	+3.5%
180	Vanuatu	23.4	+2.4%
181	Papua New Guinea	20.7	+2.4%
182	Bhutan	19.9	+0.7%
183	Uruguay	19.4	+0.2%
184	New Zealand	18.6	+1.8%
185	Finland	18.1	+0.1%
186	Algeria	17.8	+2%
187	Niger	17.5	+3.5%
188	Mali	16.8	+3.2%
189	Belize	16.7	+1.9%
190	Argentina	16.3	+0.8%
191	Paraguay	16.2	+1.4%
192	Republic of the Congo	16.1	+2.5%
193	South Sudan	16	-1.3%
194	New Caledonia	15.5	-0%
195	Oman	14.9	+1.3%
196	Norway	14.5	+0.7%
197	Turkmenistan	14.2	+2.3%
198	Saudi Arabia	14	-2.5%
199	Chad	12.8	+3.4%
200	Bolivia	10.6	+1.4%
201	Russia	8.9	+0.1%
202	Gabon	8.6	+2.6%
203	Central African Republic	7.8	+1.8%
204	Kazakhstan	7	+1.5%
205	Mauritania	4.2	+3%
206	Canada	4.1	+1.4%
207	Botswana	4.1	+1.4%
208	Guyana	4	+3%
209	Libya	3.9	+1.6%
210	Suriname	3.7	+1%
211	Iceland	3.5	+2.1%
212	Australia	3.2	+1.5%
213	Namibia	3.1	+2.8%
214	Mongolia	2.1	+1.9%
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 20,027.4 inhabitants per km² in 2018, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest population density?

Greenland, with 0.1 inhabitants per km² in 2018.

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.