Countries by population density

Name: Countries by population density, 2020
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Macao had the highest population density of 215 countries in 2020, at 20,832.8 inhabitants per km². Greenland had the lowest, at 0.1 inhabitants per km². The median was 91.7 inhabitants per km² and the figure for the World was 60.4 inhabitants per km². Source: the World Bank.

Highest20,832.8Macao

Lowest0.1Greenland

Median91.7215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2020

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2020 inhabitants per km²	Change on 2019
1	Macao	20,832.8	+2%
2	Monaco	19,025	-0.2%
3	Singapore	7,926.7	-0.6%
4	Hong Kong	7,124.8	-0.4%
5	Gibraltar	3,617.3	+1.9%
6	Bahrain	1,875.4	-1.4%
7	Maldives	1,673.7	+2.9%
8	Malta	1,610.9	+2.3%
9	Bangladesh	1,277.5	+0.8%
10	Sint Maarten	1,206.1	+1.5%
11	Bermuda	1,192.3	+0.4%
12	Palestine	797.9	+2.5%
13	Barbados	655.1	+0.2%
14	Saint Martin	635.7	-7.2%
15	Mauritius	633	0%
16	Aruba	603.3	-0.6%
17	Nauru	582.2	+0.5%
18	San Marino	579.5	+0.3%
19	Lebanon	557.4	-1.6%
20	South Korea	531.1	+0.1%
21	Rwanda	529.6	+2.3%
22	Netherlands	518	+0.6%
23	Burundi	491.3	+3%
24	India	471.8	+1%
25	Comoros	431	+2%
26	Israel	425.8	+1.8%
27	Haiti	408	+1.2%
28	Belgium	378.4	+0.4%
29	Philippines	375.9	+1.2%
30	Puerto Rico	370	-0.6%
31	Sri Lanka	354.3	+0.5%
32	Curaçao	350.2	-1.2%
33	Tuvalu	346.6	-1.7%
34	Japan	346.4	-0.3%
35	Grenada	342.2	+0.3%
36	Vietnam	312.9	+0.9%
37	Pakistan	304.8	+1.8%
38	U.S. Virgin Islands	303.7	-0.4%
39	El Salvador	300.9	+0.2%
40	Guam	300.3	+0.2%
41	Saint Lucia	292.2	+0.3%
42	Cayman Islands	286.2	+2%
43	United Kingdom	275.9	+0.2%
44	Trinidad and Tobago	266.4	+0.2%
45	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	265.5	-0.6%
46	Jamaica	261.4	+0.3%
47	American Samoa	248.8	-0.9%
48	Gambia	248.6	+2.4%
49	British Virgin Islands	247.6	+2%
50	Kuwait	246.9	-0.9%
51	Luxembourg	244.9	+1.7%
52	Qatar	243.2	+5.9%
53	Liechtenstein	243.1	+0.9%
54	Germany	238	+0.1%
55	Marshall Islands	237.3	-3%
56	Nigeria	235	+2.2%
57	Dominican Republic	228.4	+1%
58	São Tomé and Príncipe	226.5	+1.9%
59	Uganda	221.7	+3.4%
60	Switzerland	218.6	+0.7%
61	North Korea	217.1	+0.4%
62	Seychelles	214	+0.9%
63	Antigua and Barbuda	208.7	+0.5%
64	Malawi	207.2	+2.7%
65	Nepal	202.1	+1.9%
66	Italy	201	-0.5%
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	180.3	-0.2%
68	Andorra	164.6	+1.2%
69	Guatemala	162	+1.5%
70	Micronesia	158.5	+0.6%
71	Kiribati	155.7	+1.8%
72	China	150.3	+0.2%
73	Isle of Man	147.5	+0.1%
74	Tonga	146.8	0%
75	Indonesia	146.4	+0.9%
76	Denmark	145.8	+0.3%
77	Togo	143.2	+2.2%
78	Cyprus	140.9	+1.2%
79	Thailand	140.2	+0.2%
80	Ghana	140.1	+2%
81	Czechia	138.6	+0.3%
82	United Arab Emirates	132.4	-0.5%
83	Cape Verde	127.7	+0.1%
84	France	125.4	+0.3%
85	Poland	122.5	-1.2%
86	Jordan	122.4	+1.8%
87	Azerbaijan	122.1	+0.7%
88	Benin	115.9	+2.7%
89	Syria	114.6	+3.4%
90	Slovakia	113.5	+0.1%
91	Portugal	112.4	+0.1%
92	Egypt	109.8	+1.6%
93	Sierra Leone	109.6	+2.3%
94	Türkiye	108.3	+1%
95	Austria	108.1	+0.4%
96	Cuba	107.7	-0.2%
97	Hungary	106	-0.3%
98	Ethiopia	105.9	+2.8%
99	Armenia	105	+0.9%
100	Slovenia	104.4	+0.7%
101	Northern Mariana Islands	103.3	-1.2%
102	Malaysia	103.1	+1.3%
103	Costa Rica	98.6	+0.7%
104	Iraq	97	+2.2%
105	Spain	94.8	+0.5%
106	Cambodia	94.8	+1.5%
107	Albania	92.3	-1.5%
108	Moldova	91.7	-1.1%
109	Côte d’Ivoire	90.9	+2.6%
110	Honduras	90.4	+1.8%
111	Dominica	90.1	-0.5%
112	Kenya	89.9	+1.6%
113	Timor-Leste	89.2	+1.9%
114	Senegal	87.2	+2.7%
115	Brunei	84.9	+1.1%
116	Romania	83.7	-0.5%
117	Greece	83	-0.2%
118	Morocco	82	+1%
119	Myanmar	81.2	+0.7%
120	French Polynesia	80.4	+0.1%
121	Serbia	78.8	-0.8%
122	Burkina Faso	78.5	+2.5%
123	Ukraine	77.1	-0.6%
124	Tunisia	77.1	+0.8%
125	Samoa	76.2	+1%
126	Uzbekistan	76.2	+1.9%
127	Lesotho	73.6	+1.2%
128	North Macedonia	73.6	-1.1%
129	Ireland	73.2	+1.3%
130	Guinea-Bissau	71.6	+2.3%
131	Ecuador	70.6	+1.2%
132	Tajikistan	70.2	+2.3%
133	Croatia	69.9	-0.9%
134	Eswatini	69.3	+1.1%
135	Tanzania	69	+3.2%
136	Yemen	68.4	+2.9%
137	Mexico	65.2	+0.8%
138	Georgia	65.1	+0.1%
139	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.4	-1.4%
140	Equatorial Guinea	61.2	+2.8%
141	Bulgaria	60.3	-1%
142	Afghanistan	59.9	+3.2%
143	Panama	57.9	+1.4%
144	Cameroon	55.4	+2.8%
145	Nicaragua	54.6	+1.3%
146	Guinea	54.4	+2.6%
147	Iran	54.1	+0.8%
148	Liberia	53.5	+2.1%
149	Fiji	50.1	0%
150	South Africa	49.9	+1.6%
151	Madagascar	49.8	+2.6%
152	Djibouti	47.7	+1.5%
153	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.7	+2.8%
154	Montenegro	46.6	-0%
155	Belarus	46.2	-0.4%
156	Colombia	45.6	+1.4%
157	Lithuania	44.9	-0%
158	Democratic Republic of the Congo	42.3	+3.3%
159	Zimbabwe	40.1	+1.7%
160	Bahamas	39.5	+0.3%
161	Mozambique	39.1	+3%
162	Palau	38.8	+0.2%
163	Faroe Islands	38.5	+3.7%
164	United States	36.2	+0.4%
165	Kyrgyzstan	35.1	+2.1%
166	Venezuela	32.2	-1.7%
167	Laos	31.8	+1.5%
168	Estonia	31.1	+0.2%
169	Latvia	30.5	-0.7%
170	Eritrea	27.2	+1.6%
171	Angola	26.8	+3.3%
172	Solomon Islands	26.6	+2.2%
173	Somalia	26.5	+3.9%
174	Chile	26.1	+0.9%
175	Peru	25.7	+1.2%
176	Zambia	25.6	+2.9%
177	Sweden	25.4	+0.7%
178	Sudan	25	+2.7%
179	Brazil	25	+0.6%
180	Vanuatu	24.5	+2.4%
181	Papua New Guinea	21.7	+2.2%
182	Bhutan	20.2	+0.7%
183	Uruguay	19.4	+0.1%
184	New Zealand	19.3	+2.1%
185	Niger	18.7	+3.4%
186	Algeria	18.5	+1.7%
187	Finland	18.2	+0.1%
188	Mali	17.8	+3.1%
189	Belize	17.1	+1.3%
190	South Sudan	16.9	+2.6%
191	Republic of the Congo	16.8	+2.4%
192	Paraguay	16.6	+1.4%
193	Argentina	16.5	+0.5%
194	New Caledonia	15.5	+0.2%
195	Turkmenistan	14.8	+2.1%
196	Norway	14.8	+0.8%
197	Saudi Arabia	14.7	+5%
198	Oman	14.6	-1.5%
199	Chad	13.7	+3.2%
200	Bolivia	10.9	+1.2%
201	Gabon	9	+2.4%
202	Russia	8.9	-0.1%
203	Central African Republic	8.1	+1.7%
204	Kazakhstan	7.2	+1.4%
205	Mauritania	4.5	+3%
206	Canada	4.2	+1.1%
207	Botswana	4.2	+1.4%
208	Libya	4	+1.4%
209	Guyana	3.8	-6.8%
210	Suriname	3.8	+1.1%
211	Iceland	3.6	+1.6%
212	Australia	3.3	+1.2%
213	Namibia	3.3	+3%
214	Mongolia	2.1	+1.8%
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 20,832.8 inhabitants per km² in 2020, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest population density?

Greenland, with 0.1 inhabitants per km² in 2020.

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.