Samoa - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Samoa was 70.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.11 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.62 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 39.62
1962 40.91
1963 42.24
1964 43.59
1965 44.90
1966 46.17
1967 47.41
1968 48.58
1969 49.64
1970 50.58
1971 51.38
1972 52.05
1973 52.60
1974 53.07
1975 53.48
1976 53.84
1977 54.14
1978 54.41
1979 54.68
1980 54.95
1981 55.27
1982 55.61
1983 55.95
1984 56.27
1985 56.54
1986 56.73
1987 56.88
1988 57.02
1989 57.22
1990 57.53
1991 57.95
1992 58.48
1993 59.05
1994 59.61
1995 60.09
1996 60.48
1997 60.80
1998 61.07
1999 61.34
2000 61.64
2001 61.98
2002 62.34
2003 62.71
2004 63.11
2005 63.51
2006 63.91
2007 64.33
2008 64.76
2009 65.21
2010 65.70
2011 66.24
2012 66.82
2013 67.39
2014 67.92
2015 68.38
2016 68.74
2017 69.03
2018 69.30
2019 69.64
2020 70.11

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization