Countries by population density

Name: Countries by population density, 2021
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Macao had the highest population density of 215 countries in 2021, at 20,681.8 inhabitants per km². Greenland had the lowest, at 0.1 inhabitants per km². The median was 92 inhabitants per km² and the figure for the World was 61 inhabitants per km². Source: the World Bank.

Highest20,681.8Macao

Lowest0.1Greenland

Median92215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2021

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 inhabitants per km²	Change on 2020
1	Macao	20,681.8	-0.7%
2	Monaco	18,487	-2.8%
3	Singapore	7,596.6	-4.2%
4	Hong Kong	7,060.1	-0.9%
5	Gibraltar	3,685.8	+1.9%
6	Bahrain	1,904.3	+1.5%
7	Maldives	1,720.5	+2.8%
8	Malta	1,644.1	+2.1%
9	Bangladesh	1,288	+0.8%
10	Sint Maarten	1,222.7	+1.4%
11	Bermuda	1,197.2	+0.4%
12	Palestine	817.1	+2.4%
13	Barbados	656.2	+0.2%
14	Mauritius	633.2	0%
15	Saint Martin	599.2	-5.7%
16	Aruba	598.3	-0.8%
17	Nauru	585.5	+0.6%
18	San Marino	570.9	-1.5%
19	Rwanda	561.8	+6.1%
20	Lebanon	559	+0.3%
21	South Korea	530.4	-0.1%
22	Netherlands	520.7	+0.5%
23	Burundi	504.9	+2.8%
24	India	475.7	+0.8%
25	Comoros	439.6	+2%
26	Israel	433.1	+1.7%
27	Haiti	412.7	+1.2%
28	Belgium	379.9	+0.4%
29	Philippines	379.3	+0.9%
30	Puerto Rico	367.8	-0.6%
31	Sri Lanka	358.2	+1.1%
32	Curaçao	346.7	-1%
33	Japan	344.8	-0.5%
34	Grenada	343.2	+0.3%
35	Tuvalu	339.8	-2%
36	Vietnam	315.7	+0.9%
37	Pakistan	310.7	+1.9%
38	Guam	303.2	+1%
39	U.S. Virgin Islands	302.5	-0.4%
40	El Salvador	301.9	+0.3%
41	Saint Lucia	292.7	+0.2%
42	Cayman Islands	292.1	+2.1%
43	United Kingdom	276.8	+0.4%
44	Trinidad and Tobago	266.6	+0.1%
45	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	263.7	-0.7%
46	Jamaica	262	+0.2%
47	Gambia	254.5	+2.4%
48	British Virgin Islands	252.1	+1.8%
49	Luxembourg	248.6	+1.5%
50	American Samoa	246.1	-1.1%
51	Liechtenstein	244.9	+0.7%
52	Kuwait	244.7	-0.9%
53	Nigeria	239.9	+2.1%
54	Germany	238.1	0%
55	São Tomé and Príncipe	231.2	+2.1%
56	Dominican Republic	230.8	+1%
57	Marshall Islands	229.8	-3.1%
58	Uganda	229	+3.3%
59	Switzerland	220.3	+0.8%
60	Qatar	218	-10.4%
61	North Korea	217.9	+0.4%
62	Seychelles	215.8	+0.8%
63	Malawi	212.6	+2.6%
64	Antigua and Barbuda	209.9	+0.5%
65	Nepal	205.6	+1.8%
66	Italy	200	-0.5%
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	179.9	-0.2%
68	Andorra	166.7	+1.3%
69	Guatemala	164.2	+1.4%
70	Micronesia	159.5	+0.6%
71	Kiribati	158.5	+1.8%
72	China	150.4	+0.1%
73	Isle of Man	147.6	0%
74	Tonga	146.5	-0.2%
75	Denmark	146.4	+0.4%
76	Indonesia	146.2	-0.1%
77	Togo	145.9	+1.9%
78	Ghana	142.9	+2%
79	Cyprus	142.6	+1.2%
80	Thailand	140.4	+0.1%
81	Czechia	136.1	-1.8%
82	United Arab Emirates	134.8	+1.9%
83	Cape Verde	128.2	+0.4%
84	France	125.9	+0.4%
85	Jordan	124.6	+1.9%
86	Azerbaijan	122.7	+0.4%
87	Poland	120.8	-1.4%
88	Benin	119	+2.6%
89	Syria	117.8	+2.8%
90	Slovakia	113.3	-0.2%
91	Portugal	113.1	+0.6%
92	Sierra Leone	112.1	+2.3%
93	Egypt	111.5	+1.5%
94	Türkiye	109.3	+0.9%
95	Ethiopia	108.8	+2.7%
96	Austria	108.5	+0.4%
97	Cuba	107.1	-0.5%
98	Hungary	105.5	-0.4%
99	Armenia	105.1	0%
100	Slovenia	104.7	+0.3%
101	Malaysia	104.3	+1.2%
102	Northern Mariana Islands	102.1	-1.2%
103	Costa Rica	100.1	+1.5%
104	Iraq	99.2	+2.3%
105	Cambodia	96.2	+1.5%
106	Spain	94.9	+0.1%
107	Côte d’Ivoire	93.2	+2.5%
108	Honduras	92	+1.7%
109	Kenya	91.6	+1.9%
110	Albania	90.9	-1.5%
111	Timor-Leste	90.8	+1.8%
112	Moldova	90.4	-1.5%
113	Dominica	89.6	-0.5%
114	Senegal	89.4	+2.6%
115	Brunei	85.7	+1%
116	Romania	83.1	-0.7%
117	Morocco	82.8	+1%
118	Greece	82	-1.2%
119	Myanmar	81.8	+0.7%
120	French Polynesia	80.6	+0.2%
121	Burkina Faso	80.4	+2.4%
122	Serbia	78	-0.9%
123	Uzbekistan	77.7	+2%
124	Tunisia	77.6	+0.6%
125	Samoa	76.9	+0.9%
126	Ukraine	76.5	-0.9%
127	Lesotho	74.5	+1.2%
128	Ireland	74.2	+1.4%
129	Guinea-Bissau	73.2	+2.3%
130	North Macedonia	72.8	-1%
131	Tajikistan	71.8	+2.2%
132	Ecuador	71.2	+0.8%
133	Tanzania	71.1	+3%
134	Yemen	70.3	+2.8%
135	Eswatini	70.2	+1.2%
136	Croatia	69.3	-0.9%
137	Mexico	65.7	+0.7%
138	Georgia	64.9	-0.4%
139	Bosnia and Herzegovina	63.4	-1.7%
140	Equatorial Guinea	62.7	+2.5%
141	Afghanistan	61.3	+2.4%
142	Bulgaria	59.9	-0.7%
143	Panama	58.6	+1.2%
144	Cameroon	56.9	+2.7%
145	Guinea	55.8	+2.5%
146	Nicaragua	55.2	+1.2%
147	Liberia	54.6	+2.1%
148	Iran	54.5	+0.8%
149	Madagascar	51	+2.5%
150	South Africa	50.7	+1.6%
151	Fiji	50.2	+0.2%
152	Djibouti	48.4	+1.5%
153	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.6	+1.9%
154	Montenegro	46.5	-0.2%
155	Colombia	46.1	+1.1%
156	Belarus	45.8	-0.8%
157	Lithuania	44.9	-0.1%
158	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43.7	+3.3%
159	Zimbabwe	40.8	+1.7%
160	Mozambique	40.3	+3%
161	Bahamas	39.6	+0.1%
162	Faroe Islands	38.9	+1.1%
163	Palau	38.7	-0.1%
164	United States	36.3	+0.2%
165	Kyrgyzstan	35.7	+1.9%
166	Laos	32.3	+1.5%
167	Venezuela	32	-0.7%
168	Estonia	31.1	+0.1%
169	Latvia	30.3	-0.8%
170	Eritrea	27.7	+1.8%
171	Angola	27.7	+3.2%
172	Somalia	27.5	+3.7%
173	Solomon Islands	27.2	+2.4%
174	Zambia	26.4	+2.9%
175	Chile	26.2	+0.4%
176	Peru	25.9	+1%
177	Sudan	25.7	+2.7%
178	Sweden	25.6	+0.6%
179	Vanuatu	25.1	+2.3%
180	Brazil	25.1	+0.4%
181	Papua New Guinea	22.1	+2%
182	Bhutan	20.3	+0.7%
183	Uruguay	19.4	-0.1%
184	Niger	19.3	+3.3%
185	New Zealand	19.3	+0.2%
186	Algeria	18.8	+1.6%
187	Mali	18.3	+3.1%
188	Finland	18.2	+0.2%
189	Belize	17.3	+1.2%
190	Republic of the Congo	17.3	+2.4%
191	South Sudan	17.2	+1.6%
192	Paraguay	16.8	+1.2%
193	Argentina	16.6	+0.3%
194	New Caledonia	15.4	-1.2%
195	Turkmenistan	15.1	+2%
196	Norway	14.8	+0.5%
197	Oman	14.5	-0.5%
198	Saudi Arabia	14.3	-2.4%
199	Chad	14.2	+3.5%
200	Bolivia	11	+0.6%
201	Gabon	9.2	+2.3%
202	Russia	8.8	-0.3%
203	Central African Republic	8.2	+1.7%
204	Kazakhstan	7.3	+1.3%
205	Mauritania	4.6	+2.9%
206	Canada	4.4	+2.6%
207	Botswana	4.2	+1.5%
208	Libya	4.1	+1.3%
209	Guyana	3.9	+1%
210	Suriname	3.8	+0.9%
211	Iceland	3.7	+1.7%
212	Namibia	3.4	+3%
213	Australia	3.3	+0.1%
214	Mongolia	2.2	+1.7%
215	Greenland	0.1	+0.5%

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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 20,681.8 inhabitants per km² in 2021, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest population density?

Greenland, with 0.1 inhabitants per km² in 2021.

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.