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

About the source table

Publisher

World Bank, World Development Indicators

Original producer

Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates

Code

EN.POP.DNST

Last update by provider

8 October 2026

Last checked here

9 November 2026

Licence (series metadata)

CC BY-4.0

Source note

FAO population estimates, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); World Bank population estimates, World Bank (WB), publisher: World Bank (WB)

Definition published with the series

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.