Kenya - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Kenya was 94.48 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.48 in 2020 and a minimum value of 14.72 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 14.72
1962 15.19
1963 15.69
1964 16.20
1965 16.74
1966 17.31
1967 17.90
1968 18.52
1969 19.17
1970 19.86
1971 20.58
1972 21.34
1973 22.14
1974 22.98
1975 23.85
1976 24.77
1977 25.72
1978 26.72
1979 27.76
1980 28.85
1981 29.98
1982 31.16
1983 32.39
1984 33.64
1985 34.92
1986 36.23
1987 37.57
1988 38.92
1989 40.30
1990 41.68
1991 43.09
1992 44.50
1993 45.92
1994 47.35
1995 48.79
1996 50.23
1997 51.68
1998 53.15
1999 54.64
2000 56.16
2001 57.72
2002 59.30
2003 60.93
2004 62.61
2005 64.35
2006 66.15
2007 68.01
2008 69.92
2009 71.87
2010 73.85
2011 75.87
2012 77.91
2013 79.98
2014 82.05
2015 84.12
2016 86.19
2017 88.24
2018 90.30
2019 92.37
2020 94.48

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization