Burkina Faso - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Burkina Faso was 76.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.40 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17.89 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 17.89
1962 18.13
1963 18.38
1964 18.64
1965 18.91
1966 19.21
1967 19.53
1968 19.86
1969 20.21
1970 20.56
1971 20.92
1972 21.29
1973 21.68
1974 22.08
1975 22.49
1976 22.93
1977 23.39
1978 23.87
1979 24.38
1980 24.94
1981 25.53
1982 26.16
1983 26.83
1984 27.53
1985 28.25
1986 28.99
1987 29.75
1988 30.54
1989 31.36
1990 32.20
1991 33.08
1992 33.98
1993 34.91
1994 35.88
1995 36.88
1996 37.91
1997 38.98
1998 40.09
1999 41.24
2000 42.43
2001 43.66
2002 44.93
2003 46.25
2004 47.63
2005 49.06
2006 50.55
2007 52.09
2008 53.69
2009 55.34
2010 57.04
2011 58.78
2012 60.57
2013 62.40
2014 64.28
2015 66.19
2016 68.15
2017 70.15
2018 72.19
2019 74.27
2020 76.40

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization