Countries by population density

Name: Countries by population density, 2019
Creator: World Bank
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Macao had the highest population density of 215 countries in 2019, at 20,425.5 inhabitants per km². Greenland had the lowest, at 0.1 inhabitants per km². The median was 92.8 inhabitants per km² and the figure for the World was 59.8 inhabitants per km². Source: the World Bank.

Highest20,425.5Macao

Lowest0.1Greenland

Median92.8215 countries

World59.8History

Top 40 countries, 2019

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2019 inhabitants per km²	Change on 2018
1	Macao	20,425.5	+2%
2	Monaco	19,054.5	+1.2%
3	Singapore	7,973.7	+0.9%
4	Hong Kong	7,150.4	+0.7%
5	Gibraltar	3,549.4	+1.8%
6	Bahrain	1,902.3	-1.5%
7	Maldives	1,625.8	+3.1%
8	Malta	1,574.7	+4.1%
9	Bangladesh	1,266.9	+0.9%
10	Sint Maarten	1,187.8	+1.7%
11	Bermuda	1,187.2	+0.4%
12	Palestine	778.3	+2.5%
13	Saint Martin	685.3	-4.8%
14	Barbados	654	+0.2%
15	Mauritius	633	0%
16	Aruba	606.7	+0.3%
17	Nauru	579.4	+1%
18	San Marino	577.7	+0.4%
19	Lebanon	566.4	-3.2%
20	South Korea	530.4	+0.3%
21	Rwanda	517.9	+2.3%
22	Netherlands	515.1	+0.7%
23	Burundi	477.2	+3.3%
24	India	467.2	+1%
25	Comoros	422.7	+1.9%
26	Israel	418.4	+1.9%
27	Haiti	402.9	+1.3%
28	Belgium	376.8	+0.5%
29	Puerto Rico	372.3	+0.4%
30	Philippines	371.6	+1.2%
31	Curaçao	354.6	-1.2%
32	Tuvalu	352.7	-1.6%
33	Sri Lanka	352.4	+0.6%
34	Japan	347.4	-0.1%
35	Grenada	341.1	+0.3%
36	Vietnam	310	+1%
37	U.S. Virgin Islands	304.8	-0.3%
38	El Salvador	300.3	0%
39	Guam	299.6	-0.5%
40	Pakistan	299.4	+1.7%
41	Saint Lucia	291.2	+0.4%
42	Cayman Islands	280.5	+2.1%
43	United Kingdom	275.4	+0.5%
44	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	267.1	-0.7%
45	Trinidad and Tobago	265.9	+0.4%
46	Jamaica	260.7	+0.1%
47	American Samoa	251	-1.4%
48	Kuwait	249.3	+2.7%
49	Marshall Islands	244.5	-2.8%
50	Gambia	242.8	+2.4%
51	British Virgin Islands	242.6	+5%
52	Liechtenstein	241	+0.8%
53	Luxembourg	240.8	+2%
54	Germany	237.8	+0.2%
55	Nigeria	230	+2.2%
56	Qatar	229.6	+2.2%
57	Dominican Republic	226	+1.3%
58	São Tomé and Príncipe	222.3	+1.5%
59	Switzerland	217	+0.7%
60	North Korea	216.2	+0.4%
61	Uganda	214.4	+3.4%
62	Seychelles	212.2	+0.9%
63	Antigua and Barbuda	207.6	+0.5%
64	Italy	202	-0.2%
65	Malawi	201.8	+2.7%
66	Nepal	198.2	+1.2%
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	180.6	-0.1%
68	Andorra	162.7	+1.7%
69	Guatemala	159.6	+1.5%
70	Micronesia	157.5	+0.3%
71	Kiribati	153	+1.5%
72	China	149.9	+0.4%
73	Isle of Man	147.3	+0.2%
74	Tonga	146.8	+0.1%
75	Denmark	145.4	+0.4%
76	Indonesia	145.1	+0.9%
77	Togo	140.1	+2.2%
78	Thailand	140	+0.2%
79	Cyprus	139.3	+1.3%
80	Czechia	138.2	+0.4%
81	Ghana	137.4	+2%
82	United Arab Emirates	133	+1.1%
83	Cape Verde	127.6	+0.1%
84	France	125	+0.3%
85	Poland	124	-0%
86	Azerbaijan	121.3	+0.9%
87	Jordan	120.2	+2%
88	Slovakia	113.4	+0.1%
89	Benin	112.9	+2.8%
90	Portugal	112.3	0%
91	Syria	110.8	+4%
92	Egypt	108	+1.8%
93	Cuba	107.9	-0.2%
94	Austria	107.6	+0.4%
95	Türkiye	107.3	+1.4%
96	Sierra Leone	107.1	+2.3%
97	Hungary	106.2	-0.1%
98	Northern Mariana Islands	104.6	-1.9%
99	Armenia	104.1	-0.2%
100	Slovenia	103.7	+0.7%
101	Ethiopia	103.1	+2.7%
102	Malaysia	101.8	+1.6%
103	Costa Rica	97.9	+0.8%
104	Iraq	94.9	+2.3%
105	Spain	94.3	+0.7%
106	Albania	93.7	-1.5%
107	Cambodia	93.4	+1.3%
108	Moldova	92.8	-1.6%
109	Dominica	90.5	-0.4%
110	Honduras	88.9	+1.8%
111	Côte d’Ivoire	88.7	+2.7%
112	Kenya	88.4	+1.6%
113	Timor-Leste	87.5	+2%
114	Senegal	84.9	+2.8%
115	Romania	84.2	-0.5%
116	Brunei	84	+1.1%
117	Greece	83.2	-0.1%
118	Morocco	81.1	+1%
119	Myanmar	80.7	+0.7%
120	French Polynesia	80.4	-0.3%
121	Serbia	79.4	-0.5%
122	Ukraine	77.6	-0.6%
123	Burkina Faso	76.6	+2.6%
124	Tunisia	76.4	+0.9%
125	Samoa	75.5	+1.1%
126	Uzbekistan	74.8	+1.8%
127	North Macedonia	74.4	-0.7%
128	Lesotho	72.8	+1.2%
129	Ireland	72.2	+1.6%
130	Croatia	70.6	-1%
131	Guinea-Bissau	70	+2.4%
132	Ecuador	69.8	+1.7%
133	Tajikistan	68.7	+2.4%
134	Eswatini	68.6	+0.9%
135	Tanzania	66.8	+3%
136	Yemen	66.5	+3%
137	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65.3	-1.2%
138	Georgia	65.1	-0.2%
139	Mexico	64.7	+1%
140	Bulgaria	60.9	-1.4%
141	Equatorial Guinea	59.5	+3.3%
142	Afghanistan	58	+3%
143	Panama	57.1	+1.6%
144	Cameroon	54	+2.8%
145	Nicaragua	53.9	+1.3%
146	Iran	53.7	+1.1%
147	Guinea	53	+2.6%
148	Liberia	52.4	+2%
149	Fiji	50.1	-0.2%
150	South Africa	49.1	+1.7%
151	Madagascar	48.5	+2.6%
152	Djibouti	47	+1.6%
153	Montenegro	46.6	+0.1%
154	Belarus	46.4	-0.2%
155	Turks and Caicos Islands	45.4	+3.9%
156	Colombia	45	+1.8%
157	Lithuania	44.9	-0.3%
158	Democratic Republic of the Congo	41	+3.2%
159	Zimbabwe	39.5	+1.6%
160	Bahamas	39.4	+0.5%
161	Palau	38.7	-0.1%
162	Mozambique	38	+3%
163	Faroe Islands	37.1	+1.6%
164	United States	36.1	+0.5%
165	Kyrgyzstan	34.4	+2.3%
166	Venezuela	32.8	-2.9%
167	Laos	31.4	+1.5%
168	Estonia	31	+0.4%
169	Latvia	30.8	-0.7%
170	Eritrea	26.8	+1.5%
171	Solomon Islands	26	+2.7%
172	Angola	26	+3.4%
173	Chile	25.8	+1.5%
174	Somalia	25.6	+3.7%
175	Peru	25.4	+1.7%
176	Sweden	25.2	+1%
177	Zambia	24.9	+3%
178	Brazil	24.8	+0.7%
179	Sudan	24.4	+3%
180	Vanuatu	24	+2.4%
181	Papua New Guinea	21.2	+2.3%
182	Bhutan	20.1	+0.7%
183	Uruguay	19.4	+0.1%
184	New Zealand	18.9	+1.4%
185	Algeria	18.2	+1.9%
186	Finland	18.2	+0.1%
187	Niger	18.1	+3.4%
188	Mali	17.3	+3.1%
189	Belize	16.9	+1.5%
190	South Sudan	16.5	+3%
191	Republic of the Congo	16.4	+2.4%
192	Argentina	16.4	+0.7%
193	Paraguay	16.4	+1.4%
194	New Caledonia	15.5	0%
195	Oman	14.8	-0.1%
196	Norway	14.6	+0.7%
197	Turkmenistan	14.5	+2.2%
198	Saudi Arabia	14	-0.4%
199	Chad	13.3	+3.3%
200	Bolivia	10.8	+1.4%
201	Russia	8.9	0%
202	Gabon	8.8	+2.5%
203	Central African Republic	7.9	+1.4%
204	Kazakhstan	7.1	+1.5%
205	Mauritania	4.3	+3%
206	Canada	4.2	+1.5%
207	Botswana	4.1	+1.4%
208	Guyana	4.1	+2%
209	Libya	4	+1.5%
210	Suriname	3.8	+1%
211	Iceland	3.6	+2.2%
212	Australia	3.3	+1.5%
213	Namibia	3.2	+2.8%
214	Mongolia	2.1	+1.9%
215	Greenland	0.1	+0.4%

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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 20,425.5 inhabitants per km² in 2019, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest population density?

Greenland, with 0.1 inhabitants per km² in 2019.

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.