France - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in France was 123.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 123.06 in 2020 and a minimum value of 86.27 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 86.27
1962 87.49
1963 88.72
1964 89.91
1965 90.98
1966 91.92
1967 92.73
1968 93.46
1969 94.17
1970 94.89
1971 95.64
1972 96.41
1973 97.17
1974 97.87
1975 98.49
1976 99.02
1977 99.47
1978 99.88
1979 100.29
1980 100.74
1981 101.23
1982 101.76
1983 102.31
1984 102.89
1985 103.47
1986 104.05
1987 104.65
1988 105.24
1989 105.81
1990 106.35
1991 106.94
1992 107.48
1993 107.94
1994 108.35
1995 108.74
1996 109.12
1997 109.51
1998 109.92
1999 110.48
2000 111.24
2001 112.05
2002 112.87
2003 113.61
2004 114.52
2005 115.38
2006 116.19
2007 116.91
2008 117.57
2009 118.17
2010 118.76
2011 119.34
2012 119.91
2013 120.53
2014 121.11
2015 121.54
2016 121.86
2017 122.21
2018 122.55
2019 122.82
2020 123.06

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization