Eritrea - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Eritrea was 35.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.11 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.23 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 10.23
1962 10.50
1963 10.78
1964 11.07
1965 11.37
1966 11.67
1967 11.98
1968 12.30
1969 12.63
1970 12.98
1971 13.34
1972 13.71
1973 14.10
1974 14.49
1975 14.91
1976 15.33
1977 15.76
1978 16.21
1979 16.67
1980 17.16
1981 17.67
1982 18.19
1983 18.72
1984 19.27
1985 19.84
1986 20.44
1987 21.06
1988 21.64
1989 22.09
1990 22.36
1991 22.44
1992 22.35
1993 22.16
1994 21.96
1995 21.82
1996 21.75
1997 21.73
1998 21.85
1999 22.15
2000 22.70
2001 23.51
2002 24.56
2003 25.75
2004 26.93
2005 27.99
2006 28.89
2007 29.67
2008 30.32
2009 30.89
2010 31.39
2011 31.82
2012 32.18
2013 32.49
2014 32.79
2015 33.10
2016 33.43
2017 33.79
2018 34.19
2019 34.62
2020 35.11

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization