Somalia - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Somalia was 25.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.33 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.49 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.

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Year Value
1961 4.49
1962 4.58
1963 4.68
1964 4.78
1965 4.89
1966 5.01
1967 5.15
1968 5.28
1969 5.40
1970 5.49
1971 5.54
1972 5.55
1973 5.60
1974 5.79
1975 6.19
1976 6.82
1977 7.65
1978 8.57
1979 9.39
1980 10.01
1981 10.38
1982 10.53
1983 10.55
1984 10.54
1985 10.60
1986 10.74
1987 10.94
1988 11.17
1989 11.37
1990 11.52
1991 11.60
1992 11.63
1993 11.66
1994 11.75
1995 11.94
1996 12.25
1997 12.65
1998 13.13
1999 13.63
2000 14.14
2001 14.64
2002 15.15
2003 15.65
2004 16.15
2005 16.65
2006 17.16
2007 17.66
2008 18.17
2009 18.68
2010 19.20
2011 19.73
2012 20.27
2013 20.82
2014 21.40
2015 21.99
2016 22.61
2017 23.26
2018 23.92
2019 24.62
2020 25.33

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization