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Population density

Population density world ranking table, highest first

Rank	Country	Value
1	Bangladesh	1,191/km² (2025)
2	Palestine	899/km² (2025)
3	Lebanon	560/km² (2025)
4	Rwanda	553/km² (2025)
5	Burundi	517/km² (2025)
6	South Korea	515/km² (2025)
7	Israel	459/km² (2025)
8	India	445/km² (2025)
9	Netherlands	435/km² (2025)
10	Haiti	429/km² (2025)
11	Philippines	389/km² (2025)
12	Belgium	389/km² (2025)
13	Puerto Rico	359/km² (2025)
14	Sri Lanka	332/km² (2025)
15	Japan	326/km² (2025)
16	Pakistan	321/km² (2025)
17	Vietnam	307/km² (2025)
18	El Salvador	303/km² (2025)
19	United Kingdom	285/km² (2025)
20	Kuwait	273/km² (2025)
21	Trinidad and Tobago	267/km² (2025)
22	Luxembourg	265/km² (2025)
23	Qatar	259/km² (2025)
24	Jamaica	258/km² (2025)
25	Nigeria	257/km² (2025)
26	Gambia	250/km² (2025)
27	Germany	233/km² (2025)
28	North Korea	220/km² (2025)
29	Switzerland	220/km² (2025)
30	Uganda	213/km² (2025)
31	Nepal	201/km² (2025)
32	Italy	195/km² (2025)
33	Malawi	188/km² (2025)
34	Guatemala	172/km² (2025)
35	Togo	151/km² (2025)
36	Indonesia	149/km² (2025)
37	Cyprus	148/km² (2025)
38	China	147/km² (2025)
39	Ghana	147/km² (2025)
40	Denmark	140/km² (2025)
41	Thailand	140/km² (2025)
42	Syria	138/km² (2025)
43	Czechia	138/km² (2025)
44	Benin	129/km² (2025)
45	Jordan	129/km² (2025)
46	Sierra Leone	122/km² (2025)
47	Ethiopia	119/km² (2025)
48	Azerbaijan	118/km² (2025)
49	Egypt	118/km² (2025)
50	Portugal	117/km² (2025)
51	United Arab Emirates	117/km² (2025)
52	Poland	116/km² (2025)
53	France	113/km² (2025)
54	Slovakia	110/km² (2025)
55	Austria	110/km² (2025)
56	Turkey	109/km² (2025)
57	Malaysia	109/km² (2025)
58	Iraq	108/km² (2025)
59	Slovenia	104/km² (2025)
60	Armenia	104/km² (2025)
61	Hungary	102/km² (2025)
62	Côte d'Ivoire	101/km² (2025)
63	Costa Rica	101/km² (2025)
64	Cuba	99.5/km² (2025)
65	Cambodia	98.6/km² (2025)
66	Honduras	97.8/km² (2025)
67	Spain	97.5/km² (2025)
68	Kenya	97.2/km² (2025)
69	Senegal	96.2/km² (2025)
70	Timor-Leste	95.4/km² (2025)
71	Burkina Faso	87.8/km² (2025)
72	Morocco	86.1/km² (2025)
73	Uzbekistan	82.5/km² (2025)
74	Albania	81.7/km² (2025)
75	Myanmar	81.1/km² (2025)
76	Brunei	80.8/km² (2025)
77	Romania	79.8/km² (2025)
78	Yemen	79.1/km² (2025)
79	Greece	78.9/km² (2025)
80	Dominican Rep.	78.5/km² (2025)
81	Ireland	78.0/km² (2025)
82	Lesotho	77.8/km² (2025)
83	Serbia	77.1/km² (2025)
84	Tajikistan	76.3/km² (2025)
85	Tunisia	75.5/km² (2025)
86	Tanzania	74.5/km² (2025)
87	eSwatini	72.4/km² (2025)
88	Ecuador	71.3/km² (2025)
89	Macedonia	70.8/km² (2025)
90	Moldova	69.7/km² (2025)
91	Eq. Guinea	69.1/km² (2025)
92	Mexico	67.4/km² (2025)
93	Afghanistan	67.2/km² (2025)
94	Ukraine	64.6/km² (2025)
95	Cameroon	62.8/km² (2025)
96	Guinea-Bissau	62.3/km² (2025)
97	Guinea	61.4/km² (2025)
98	Bosnia and Herz.	61.3/km² (2025)
99	Panama	60.7/km² (2025)
100	Bulgaria	58.0/km² (2025)
101	Georgia	56.5/km² (2025)
102	Madagascar	55.7/km² (2025)
103	Nicaragua	53.8/km² (2025)
104	South Africa	53.1/km² (2025)
105	Iran	53.0/km² (2025)
106	Liberia	51.5/km² (2025)
107	Fiji	51.1/km² (2025)
108	Djibouti	51.0/km² (2025)
109	Dem. Rep. Congo	48.1/km² (2025)
110	Colombia	46.8/km² (2025)
111	Montenegro	44.9/km² (2025)
112	Mozambique	44.6/km² (2025)
113	Lithuania	44.2/km² (2025)
114	Croatia	44.0/km² (2025)
115	Belarus	43.8/km² (2025)
116	Zimbabwe	43.4/km² (2025)
117	Kyrgyzstan	36.7/km² (2025)
118	United States	34.8/km² (2025)
119	Laos	33.2/km² (2025)
120	Angola	31.3/km² (2025)
121	Venezuela	31.3/km² (2025)
122	Somalia	30.8/km² (2025)
123	Estonia	30.1/km² (2025)
124	Eritrea	29.6/km² (2025)
125	Zambia	29.1/km² (2025)
126	Bahamas	29.0/km² (2025)
127	Solomon Is.	29.0/km² (2025)
128	Latvia	28.6/km² (2025)
129	Sudan	27.5/km² (2025)
130	Vanuatu	27.5/km² (2025)
131	Peru	26.9/km² (2025)
132	Chile	26.2/km² (2025)
133	Brazil	25.0/km² (2025)
134	Papua New Guinea	23.3/km² (2025)
135	Niger	22.0/km² (2025)
136	Bhutan	20.8/km² (2025)
137	Mali	20.3/km² (2025)
138	Sweden	20.0/km² (2025)
139	Algeria	19.9/km² (2025)
140	New Zealand	19.9/km² (2025)
141	Uruguay	19.2/km² (2025)
142	Congo	19.0/km² (2025)
143	S. Sudan	18.8/km² (2025)
144	Belize	18.4/km² (2025)
145	Oman	17.8/km² (2025)
146	Paraguay	17.2/km² (2025)
147	Saudi Arabia	17.2/km² (2025)
148	Finland	16.7/km² (2025)
149	Argentina	16.5/km² (2025)
150	Chad	16.4/km² (2025)
151	New Caledonia	15.9/km² (2025)
152	Turkmenistan	15.5/km² (2025)
153	Bolivia	11.5/km² (2025)
154	Gabon	9.7/km² (2025)
155	Norway	9.0/km² (2025)
156	Central African Rep.	8.8/km² (2025)
157	Russia	8.4/km² (2025)
158	Kazakhstan	7.6/km² (2025)
159	Mauritania	5.2/km² (2025)
160	Botswana	4.4/km² (2025)
161	Libya	4.2/km² (2025)
162	Suriname	3.9/km² (2025)
163	Guyana	3.9/km² (2025)
164	Iceland	3.8/km² (2025)
165	Namibia	3.8/km² (2025)
166	Australia	3.6/km² (2025)
167	Canada	2.7/km² (2025)
168	Mongolia	2.3/km² (2025)
169	Greenland	0.1/km² (2025)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 169 countries with data is 75.5/km² — shown for context, not a world average.

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