Latvia - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Latvia was 36.01 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.88 in 1989 and a minimum value of 34.61 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 34.61
1962 35.08
1963 35.55
1964 36.03
1965 36.44
1966 36.71
1967 37.00
1968 37.36
1969 37.68
1970 37.93
1971 38.21
1972 38.52
1973 38.85
1974 39.19
1975 39.49
1976 39.73
1977 39.96
1978 40.17
1979 40.30
1980 40.39
1981 40.51
1982 40.70
1983 40.94
1984 41.20
1985 41.47
1986 41.81
1987 42.23
1988 42.67
1989 42.88
1990 42.82
1991 42.62
1992 42.04
1993 41.22
1994 40.53
1995 39.96
1996 39.51
1997 39.12
1998 38.75
1999 38.44
2000 38.16
2001 37.87
2002 37.60
2003 37.39
2004 37.19
2005 36.99
2006 36.79
2007 36.60
2008 36.44
2009 36.26
2010 36.01

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization