São Tomé and Principe - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in São Tomé and Principe was 228.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 228.29 in 2020 and a minimum value of 66.91 in 1963.

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 67.29
1962 67.16
1963 66.91
1964 66.96
1965 67.59
1966 68.93
1967 70.87
1968 73.19
1969 75.52
1970 77.68
1971 79.53
1972 81.18
1973 82.77
1974 84.53
1975 86.60
1976 89.04
1977 91.77
1978 94.63
1979 97.35
1980 99.78
1981 101.84
1982 103.62
1983 105.28
1984 107.11
1985 109.30
1986 111.91
1987 114.85
1988 118.01
1989 121.16
1990 124.18
1991 127.03
1992 129.76
1993 132.36
1994 134.82
1995 137.17
1996 139.37
1997 141.49
1998 143.60
1999 145.80
2000 148.19
2001 150.79
2002 153.59
2003 156.67
2004 160.14
2005 164.03
2006 168.41
2007 173.23
2008 178.25
2009 183.21
2010 187.89
2011 192.21
2012 196.24
2013 200.08
2014 203.88
2015 207.75
2016 211.69
2017 215.71
2018 219.83
2019 224.01
2020 228.29

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization