Arab World - Population density

Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Arab World was 33.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.34 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.91 in 1961.

Definition: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1961 6.91
1962 7.10
1963 7.29
1964 7.50
1965 7.71
1966 7.93
1967 8.16
1968 8.39
1969 8.63
1970 8.88
1971 9.12
1972 9.38
1973 9.64
1974 9.91
1975 10.21
1976 10.53
1977 10.87
1978 11.24
1979 11.61
1980 11.99
1981 12.37
1982 12.76
1983 13.16
1984 13.56
1985 13.97
1986 14.39
1987 14.81
1988 15.23
1989 15.66
1990 16.23
1991 16.68
1992 16.98
1993 17.44
1994 17.89
1995 18.45
1996 18.88
1997 19.31
1998 19.73
1999 20.15
2000 20.58
2001 21.03
2002 21.48
2003 21.95
2004 22.44
2005 22.96
2006 23.51
2007 24.08
2008 24.67
2009 25.28
2010 25.88
2011 27.76
2012 28.39
2013 29.02
2014 29.65
2015 30.27
2016 30.89
2017 31.49
2018 32.09
2019 32.71
2020 33.34

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization