South Africa - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in South Africa was 48.89 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.89 in 2020 and a minimum value of 14.45 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 14.45
1962 14.81
1963 15.19
1964 15.58
1965 15.98
1966 16.39
1967 16.82
1968 17.26
1969 17.72
1970 18.19
1971 18.68
1972 19.19
1973 19.71
1974 20.24
1975 20.77
1976 21.30
1977 21.83
1978 22.37
1979 22.94
1980 23.54
1981 24.18
1982 24.85
1983 25.55
1984 26.25
1985 26.94
1986 27.61
1987 28.27
1988 28.94
1989 29.62
1990 30.34
1991 31.09
1992 31.88
1993 32.67
1994 33.44
1995 34.16
1996 34.82
1997 35.44
1998 36.01
1999 36.55
2000 37.07
2001 37.57
2002 38.04
2003 38.51
2004 38.98
2005 39.47
2006 39.97
2007 40.49
2008 41.04
2009 41.61
2010 42.22
2011 42.87
2012 43.55
2013 44.26
2014 44.96
2015 45.66
2016 46.33
2017 47.00
2018 47.64
2019 48.27
2020 48.89

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization