Papua New Guinea - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Papua New Guinea was 19.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.76 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.07 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 5.07
1962 5.17
1963 5.27
1964 5.38
1965 5.49
1966 5.61
1967 5.73
1968 5.87
1969 6.00
1970 6.15
1971 6.29
1972 6.44
1973 6.60
1974 6.76
1975 6.93
1976 7.11
1977 7.29
1978 7.48
1979 7.68
1980 7.89
1981 8.10
1982 8.32
1983 8.55
1984 8.78
1985 9.01
1986 9.24
1987 9.48
1988 9.71
1989 9.95
1990 10.19
1991 10.43
1992 10.68
1993 10.93
1994 11.19
1995 11.45
1996 11.73
1997 12.03
1998 12.33
1999 12.62
2000 12.91
2001 13.19
2002 13.47
2003 13.74
2004 14.03
2005 14.34
2006 14.68
2007 15.03
2008 15.40
2009 15.78
2010 16.14
2011 16.50
2012 16.85
2013 17.20
2014 17.55
2015 17.90
2016 18.27
2017 18.63
2018 19.00
2019 19.38
2020 19.76

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization