Nicaragua - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Nicaragua was 55.05 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 55.05 in 2020 and a minimum value of 15.21 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 15.21
1962 15.68
1963 16.17
1964 16.67
1965 17.19
1966 17.72
1967 18.26
1968 18.82
1969 19.40
1970 20.00
1971 20.62
1972 21.26
1973 21.93
1974 22.61
1975 23.32
1976 24.06
1977 24.81
1978 25.58
1979 26.35
1980 27.14
1981 27.92
1982 28.71
1983 29.50
1984 30.27
1985 31.03
1986 31.77
1987 32.49
1988 33.20
1989 33.93
1990 34.68
1991 35.46
1992 36.27
1993 37.08
1994 37.88
1995 38.66
1996 39.40
1997 40.12
1998 40.81
1999 41.47
2000 42.12
2001 42.76
2002 43.37
2003 43.98
2004 44.58
2005 45.19
2006 45.82
2007 46.45
2008 47.10
2009 47.74
2010 48.40
2011 49.05
2012 49.71
2013 50.38
2014 51.04
2015 51.71
2016 52.38
2017 53.06
2018 53.73
2019 54.39
2020 55.05

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization