Madagascar - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Madagascar was 47.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.60 in 2020 and a minimum value of 8.98 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 8.98
1962 9.20
1963 9.43
1964 9.67
1965 9.92
1966 10.18
1967 10.44
1968 10.72
1969 11.01
1970 11.31
1971 11.62
1972 11.95
1973 12.28
1974 12.63
1975 12.99
1976 13.37
1977 13.75
1978 14.15
1979 14.56
1980 14.99
1981 15.43
1982 15.88
1983 16.34
1984 16.82
1985 17.30
1986 17.80
1987 18.31
1988 18.83
1989 19.38
1990 19.94
1991 20.54
1992 21.15
1993 21.80
1994 22.47
1995 23.17
1996 23.91
1997 24.67
1998 25.46
1999 26.28
2000 27.11
2001 27.96
2002 28.83
2003 29.71
2004 30.61
2005 31.53
2006 32.47
2007 33.42
2008 34.39
2009 35.37
2010 36.37
2011 37.37
2012 38.41
2013 39.47
2014 40.55
2015 41.65
2016 42.79
2017 43.95
2018 45.14
2019 46.35
2020 47.60

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization