Senegal - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Senegal was 86.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.97 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17.12 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 17.12
1962 17.59
1963 18.08
1964 18.60
1965 19.13
1966 19.68
1967 20.25
1968 20.85
1969 21.47
1970 22.11
1971 22.79
1972 23.49
1973 24.21
1974 24.92
1975 25.61
1976 26.27
1977 26.91
1978 27.56
1979 28.25
1980 29.00
1981 29.82
1982 30.70
1983 31.63
1984 32.60
1985 33.61
1986 34.65
1987 35.71
1988 36.81
1989 37.93
1990 39.09
1991 40.28
1992 41.50
1993 42.73
1994 43.95
1995 45.14
1996 46.29
1997 47.43
1998 48.55
1999 49.70
2000 50.89
2001 52.13
2002 53.41
2003 54.75
2004 56.15
2005 57.60
2006 59.12
2007 60.70
2008 62.35
2009 64.07
2010 65.85
2011 67.70
2012 69.61
2013 71.59
2014 73.62
2015 75.72
2016 77.88
2017 80.09
2018 82.35
2019 84.64
2020 86.97

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization