Niger - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Niger was 19.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.11 in 2020 and a minimum value of 2.75 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 2.75
1962 2.83
1963 2.92
1964 3.00
1965 3.09
1966 3.18
1967 3.27
1968 3.37
1969 3.46
1970 3.56
1971 3.66
1972 3.76
1973 3.87
1974 3.98
1975 4.09
1976 4.21
1977 4.34
1978 4.46
1979 4.59
1980 4.73
1981 4.87
1982 5.01
1983 5.15
1984 5.30
1985 5.46
1986 5.62
1987 5.79
1988 5.96
1989 6.14
1990 6.34
1991 6.54
1992 6.76
1993 6.99
1994 7.24
1995 7.49
1996 7.76
1997 8.04
1998 8.33
1999 8.63
2000 8.95
2001 9.28
2002 9.62
2003 9.98
2004 10.36
2005 10.76
2006 11.17
2007 11.59
2008 12.04
2009 12.51
2010 13.00
2011 13.51
2012 14.05
2013 14.61
2014 15.19
2015 15.79
2016 16.41
2017 17.05
2018 17.72
2019 18.40
2020 19.11

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization