North America - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in North America was 20.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.41 in 2020 and a minimum value of 11.15 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 11.15
1962 11.32
1963 11.49
1964 11.66
1965 11.81
1966 11.95
1967 12.09
1968 12.22
1969 12.35
1970 12.49
1971 12.67
1972 12.81
1973 12.94
1974 13.06
1975 13.20
1976 13.33
1977 13.46
1978 13.61
1979 13.76
1980 13.89
1981 14.03
1982 14.17
1983 14.30
1984 14.43
1985 14.56
1986 14.69
1987 14.83
1988 14.97
1989 15.13
1990 15.30
1991 15.51
1992 15.72
1993 15.93
1994 16.12
1995 16.31
1996 16.50
1997 16.70
1998 16.89
1999 17.08
2000 17.26
2001 17.43
2002 17.60
2003 17.75
2004 17.92
2005 18.08
2006 18.26
2007 18.44
2008 18.63
2009 18.80
2010 18.96
2011 19.10
2012 19.25
2013 19.39
2014 19.54
2015 19.68
2016 19.83
2017 19.97
2018 20.09
2019 20.21
2020 20.41

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization