South Africa - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in South Africa was 46.09 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.09 in 2016 and a minimum value of 14.71 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	14.71
1962	15.10
1963	15.51
1964	15.92
1965	16.33
1966	16.75
1967	17.18
1968	17.62
1969	18.07
1970	18.55
1971	19.05
1972	19.57
1973	20.10
1974	20.64
1975	21.18
1976	21.72
1977	22.27
1978	22.81
1979	23.38
1980	23.97
1981	24.59
1982	25.23
1983	25.89
1984	26.55
1985	27.19
1986	27.81
1987	28.41
1988	29.01
1989	29.65
1990	30.33
1991	31.07
1992	31.86
1993	32.66
1994	33.43
1995	34.15
1996	34.80
1997	35.38
1998	35.93
1999	36.46
2000	37.01
2001	37.35
2002	37.80
2003	38.26
2004	38.75
2005	39.24
2006	39.76
2007	40.30
2008	40.85
2009	41.43
2010	42.02
2011	42.64
2012	43.28
2013	43.95
2014	44.64
2015	45.35
2016	46.09

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization