Puerto Rico - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Puerto Rico was 369.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 431.44 in 2004 and a minimum value of 270.54 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 270.54
1962 276.25
1963 282.36
1964 287.94
1965 292.45
1966 295.94
1967 298.27
1968 300.12
1969 302.61
1970 306.43
1971 311.41
1972 317.62
1973 324.55
1974 331.38
1975 337.54
1976 343.16
1977 348.22
1978 352.81
1979 357.17
1980 361.44
1981 365.56
1982 369.50
1983 373.30
1984 377.02
1985 380.72
1986 384.39
1987 388.03
1988 391.65
1989 395.23
1990 398.76
1991 401.59
1992 404.19
1993 407.61
1994 411.41
1995 415.23
1996 419.92
1997 423.84
1998 426.28
1999 428.42
2000 429.61
2001 430.53
2002 431.08
2003 431.35
2004 431.44
2005 430.82
2006 429.00
2007 426.49
2008 424.00
2009 421.69
2010 419.56
2011 414.74
2012 409.75
2013 405.08
2014 398.52
2015 391.57
2016 384.07
2017 374.89
2018 360.02
2019 360.06
2020 369.96

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization