IBRD only - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in IBRD only was 68.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.41 in 2020 and a minimum value of 27.30 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 27.30
1962 27.78
1963 28.42
1964 29.06
1965 29.72
1966 30.42
1967 31.12
1968 31.84
1969 32.58
1970 33.35
1971 34.13
1972 34.91
1973 35.68
1974 36.43
1975 37.16
1976 37.88
1977 38.58
1978 39.29
1979 40.01
1980 40.74
1981 41.49
1982 42.28
1983 43.09
1984 43.88
1985 44.68
1986 45.51
1987 46.36
1988 47.22
1989 48.05
1990 48.87
1991 49.66
1992 50.43
1993 51.18
1994 51.92
1995 52.65
1996 53.37
1997 54.08
1998 54.80
1999 55.47
2000 56.15
2001 56.79
2002 57.42
2003 58.05
2004 58.67
2005 59.29
2006 59.91
2007 60.51
2008 61.12
2009 61.74
2010 62.35
2011 62.98
2012 63.65
2013 64.31
2014 64.96
2015 65.59
2016 66.16
2017 66.78
2018 67.36
2019 67.91
2020 68.41

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization