United States - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in United States was 36.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.24 in 2020 and a minimum value of 20.06 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 20.06
1962 20.37
1963 20.66
1964 20.95
1965 21.21
1966 21.46
1967 21.70
1968 21.91
1969 22.13
1970 22.39
1971 22.67
1972 22.92
1973 23.14
1974 23.35
1975 23.58
1976 23.81
1977 24.05
1978 24.30
1979 24.57
1980 24.81
1981 25.05
1982 25.29
1983 25.53
1984 25.75
1985 25.98
1986 26.22
1987 26.45
1988 26.70
1989 26.95
1990 27.25
1991 27.62
1992 28.01
1993 28.38
1994 28.73
1995 29.07
1996 29.41
1997 29.77
1998 30.12
1999 30.47
2000 30.80
2001 31.10
2002 31.39
2003 31.66
2004 31.96
2005 32.25
2006 32.57
2007 32.88
2008 33.24
2009 33.54
2010 33.82
2011 34.06
2012 34.31
2013 34.55
2014 34.81
2015 35.06
2016 35.32
2017 35.54
2018 35.73
2019 35.89
2020 36.24

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization