Greenland - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Greenland was 0.137 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.164 in 1996 and a minimum value of 0.099 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 0.099
1962 0.102
1963 0.107
1964 0.110
1965 0.115
1966 0.119
1967 0.123
1968 0.127
1969 0.131
1970 0.136
1971 0.138
1972 0.141
1973 0.143
1974 0.145
1975 0.145
1976 0.145
1977 0.145
1978 0.144
1979 0.145
1980 0.147
1981 0.149
1982 0.151
1983 0.152
1984 0.154
1985 0.156
1986 0.157
1987 0.158
1988 0.160
1989 0.162
1990 0.163
1991 0.162
1992 0.162
1993 0.162
1994 0.162
1995 0.163
1996 0.164
1997 0.136
1998 0.137
1999 0.137
2000 0.137
2001 0.137
2002 0.138
2003 0.138
2004 0.139
2005 0.139
2006 0.138
2007 0.138
2008 0.137
2009 0.137
2010 0.139
2011 0.139
2012 0.138
2013 0.138
2014 0.137
2015 0.137
2016 0.137
2017 0.137
2018 0.136
2019 0.137
2020 0.137

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization