Latvia - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Latvia was 30.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.88 in 1989 and a minimum value of 30.61 in 2020.

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 34.61
1962 35.08
1963 35.55
1964 36.03
1965 36.43
1966 36.71
1967 37.00
1968 37.36
1969 37.67
1970 37.93
1971 38.21
1972 38.52
1973 38.84
1974 39.19
1975 39.49
1976 39.73
1977 39.96
1978 40.16
1979 40.29
1980 40.38
1981 40.51
1982 40.70
1983 40.94
1984 41.19
1985 41.46
1986 41.80
1987 42.23
1988 42.66
1989 42.88
1990 42.82
1991 42.62
1992 42.03
1993 41.21
1994 40.53
1995 39.96
1996 39.51
1997 39.12
1998 38.75
1999 38.43
2000 38.07
2001 37.58
2002 37.14
2003 36.79
2004 36.39
2005 36.00
2006 35.67
2007 35.38
2008 35.01
2009 34.44
2010 33.70
2011 33.11
2012 32.72
2013 32.36
2014 32.09
2015 31.83
2016 31.54
2017 31.27
2018 31.04
2019 30.82
2020 30.61

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization