European Union - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in European Union was 111.88 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 111.88 in 2020 and a minimum value of 89.96 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 89.96
1962 90.76
1963 91.59
1964 92.42
1965 93.21
1966 93.97
1967 94.69
1968 95.36
1969 96.01
1970 96.54
1971 97.05
1972 97.70
1973 98.34
1974 98.94
1975 99.54
1976 100.08
1977 100.57
1978 101.03
1979 101.47
1980 101.93
1981 102.35
1982 102.69
1983 102.96
1984 103.20
1985 103.45
1986 103.73
1987 104.04
1988 104.38
1989 104.76
1990 105.11
1991 105.42
1992 105.73
1993 106.07
1994 106.33
1995 106.54
1996 106.71
1997 106.87
1998 107.01
1999 107.19
2000 107.34
2001 107.49
2002 107.77
2003 108.14
2004 108.55
2005 108.95
2006 109.32
2007 109.69
2008 110.06
2009 110.29
2010 110.41
2011 110.22
2012 110.53
2013 110.76
2014 111.00
2015 111.26
2016 111.48
2017 111.66
2018 111.74
2019 111.81
2020 111.88

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization