Lesotho - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Lesotho was 70.56 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.56 in 2020 and a minimum value of 28.09 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 28.09
1962 28.63
1963 29.19
1964 29.77
1965 30.38
1966 31.02
1967 31.70
1968 32.40
1969 33.13
1970 33.89
1971 34.67
1972 35.48
1973 36.33
1974 37.24
1975 38.23
1976 39.31
1977 40.47
1978 41.67
1979 42.91
1980 44.15
1981 45.38
1982 46.62
1983 47.85
1984 49.07
1985 50.27
1986 51.44
1987 52.58
1988 53.72
1989 54.89
1990 56.12
1991 57.40
1992 58.71
1993 60.02
1994 61.31
1995 62.54
1996 63.71
1997 64.82
1998 65.79
1999 66.53
2000 66.96
2001 67.05
2002 66.86
2003 66.48
2004 66.07
2005 65.75
2006 65.54
2007 65.45
2008 65.45
2009 65.55
2010 65.73
2011 66.00
2012 66.37
2013 66.82
2014 67.31
2015 67.82
2016 68.35
2017 68.89
2018 69.44
2019 70.00
2020 70.56

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization